See the Declaration of Independence. Learn about the drafting and signing of it. Find out how July 4 has been celebrated since 1776. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings announced the award of 29 grants totaling $3.5 million to 25 colleges and universities to help strengthen science and engineering education. The grants are made under the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program. More: continued here

A jumble of thoughts as I ease into the day, starting with a phrase that occurred to me walking the dog last night…I’d just picked up an email from Stephen relating to wikimindmap, which I’d rehashed to display an OpenLearn Unit navigation in mindmap format .Stephen commented that a tension arises when displaying a link [...]

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Information Literacy and Instruction Librarian (St. Norbert College, Wisconsin) (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) More: continued here

La revue COnTEXTES (fondée en 2005) a rejoint le portail revues.org”COnTEXTES. Revue de sociologie de la littérature rassemble des chercheurs adoptant une approche sociale du littéraire, toutes époques et toutes littératures confondues. Bien plus qu’un découpage d’objets communs, c’est donc davantage une convergence de regards qui fonde la cohérence de COnTEXTES, dont la démarche consiste [...]

OK, I am off to China tomorrow to conduct an information literacy related study in Beijing. I am excited but also nervous. Here is a preliminary write up of what I will be doing for those interested. I am hopeful for a 2008 publication data of my findings. I should be back in the USA [...]

While it’s fresh in my mind I’ll blog the session that I chaired this morning at the i3 conference here in Aberdeen. Agneta Lantz and Christina Brage presented Information Literacy: from theory to practical implications. I’ll deal with that first, and the other paper in the next blog entry. Agneta began by describing the context [...]

I’ll continue blog the session that I chaired this morning at the i3 conference. Hesham Azmi talked about Critical appraisal of information literacy programs: an evidence based approach to assess an Information and Research Skills course in Qatar University. QU is the largest, and only state supported, university in Qatar. They have 9000 students, mostly [...]

Appena rilasciati dalla ISTE gli standard per eudcare la Next Generation. Curiosi di dare un’occhiata?Ecco qui il testo: (pdf) http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/NETS_Refresh_Forum/NETS_for_Students_2007.pdf 6 i punti chiave: 1. Creativity and Innovation2. Communication and Collaboration3. Research and Information Fluency4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving & Decision-Making5. Digital Citizenship6. Technology Operations and ConceptsCosa ne pensate?[Via: Deep Thinking] (Source: biblioragazzi) More: continued here