literacy
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Redefining reading and the role of the teacher-librarian in the age of online text
Here’s the inaugural issue of the new ISTE SIG LIT Journal, Literacy Special Interest JOURNAL and a reprint of my original paper. http://issuu.com/literacyspecialinterest/docs/literacy_special_interest_journal_v
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Using gaming and graphics to grab students
So many of the changes in our library, representing the new Ontario School Library Association’s document Together for Learning, are fundamentally shifting how we see popular culture’s role in education. The document recognizes the need for social networking and meeting the students where they are whether interested in graphic novels, anime or gaming. I allow gaming…
book reviews, books, Canadian, children’s literature, collection development, gaming, graphic novels, Jonathan Seyfried, literacy, literacy promotion, non-fiction, ontario school library association, school librarian, school library, secondary school library, teacher-librarian, together for learning -
Open-closed-exit-stop
I remember distinctly my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Phillips, standing over me saying “Are you reading?” I was reading, of course. Things are fuzzy now but I know the book involved some kind of abbreviated fairy tale with a well and wishes. Then we had the principal, Mr. Henderson come down and I read a few…
threadbare beauty 