information literacy
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Reaching out through the library
Our secondary school is one of 11 in our school board and one of 4 with a full-time teacher-librarian. Other than guidelines from our provincial school library association (OSLA) there are very few mandates for library. The community of Orangeville is about 30 000 people and while initially agricultural, it is now a commuter town…
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Reflection: on entering the library
E contacted me today thinking about career changes, or sidesteps moving from classroom teaching to some of those rarer positions in schools like teacher-librarianship, and asked what are the differences between being a classroom teacher and being a librarian. Moving into my fourth year in the library, I had a lot to say. Here’s my…
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TakingITGlobal (website)
Resource title: TakingITGlobal Author: TakingITGlobal Bibliographic entry TakingITGlobal (Ed.). (2012). [Http://www.tigweb.org/]. Retrieved November 30, 2012, from TakingITGlobal website: http://www.tigweb.org/ Description Using the “philosophy of Ken Wilber, which posits that there are 4 areas (quadrants) where progressive development can occur: Interior Individual, Exterior Individual, Interior Collective, and Exterior Collective” http://www.tigweb.org/about/why/change.html Reaction The causes sound very noble but the…
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Canadian Student Research Centre
Resource title: Canadian Student Research Centre Author: EBSCOhost Bibliographic entry Ebsco Industries. (2012). Canadian Student Research Centre. Description This database is designed for students to access media and book sources through a search. It is has many features to assist with search terms including a visual search, sorting results and lexile. Reaction This is the…
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Canadian Encyclopedia (online reference source)
Book title: The Canadian Encyclopedia Author: Historica-Dominion Bibliographic entry Historica-Dominion (Ed.). (2012). The Canadian encyclopedia. Retrieved from The Canadian Encyclopedia database. Description Organized by key people and events in Canadian history, the encyclopedia has fact-based articles searchable by keyword. It also recommends articles for browsing and links to a live bilingual blog that highlights different topics within…
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Bats: Furry fliers of the night by Mary Kay Carson (book app)
Book title: Bats: Furry fliers of the night Author: Mary Kay Carson Bibliographic entry Carson, M. K. (2012). Bats: Furry fliers of the night. Bookerella. Description This book app or bapp is a brand-new hybrid non-fiction book mixed with an ipad app. It is broken into seven chapters starting with descriptions of bats and their habitats…
threadbare beauty 