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1. Information Literacy Resources
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By: Stacy Nockowitz, on 2/6/2013
Blog: Some Novel Ideas (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Technology, Thoughts on Education, Add a tag

ETech Ohio 2013: Information Literacy-Crucial Skills for Students Right in Your Classroom


All the Information in the Known Universe: A kid-friendly research tuttorial. (Elementary/Middle)
http://www.kyvl.org/kids/portal.html

Baltimore City Public School Interactive Research Tutorial (Secondary)
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchguide_sec/index.html

Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level- Article from Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/elementary-research-mary-beth-hertz

How to be a Wenhound from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/webhound/index.html

SweetSearch: http://www.sweetsearch.com/
SweetSearch4Me: http://4me.sweetsearch.com/ (A Search Engine for Emerging Learners)

Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/

Awesome Library: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com

SweetSearch’s Ten Syeps to Better Research: http://www.sweetsearch.com/TenSteps

Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia
http://bit.ly/dw5wyR

 

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2. It's A Book!
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By: Stacy Nockowitz, on 10/10/2010
Blog: Some Novel Ideas (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  printed word, books, reading, Technology, Lane Smith, Meditations, Thoughts on Education, It's A Book, Add a tag

We should be celebrating the printed word more loudly and more often nowadays.  As educators we are all painfully aware of how the electronic word has infringed upon the territory of books, and some of us still hold out hope that the book will endure.  Now that I'm a librarian, I see that plenty of kids still want to hold that bound volume in their hands and take in the fully sensual experience of reading in that form.  

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