Max has some work to do and he needs your help. Max is ordinary student who has procrastinated his research paper until the last day but before he can get started on his paper his needs to help his fellow students and the library. Help Max organize a shelving cart of books by subject and [...]

John Crawford writes “I am pleased to announce that the Scottish Information Literacy Project has secured funding from Eduserv to pilot the draft National Information Literacy Framework Scotland with our Project partners. As part of the funding Eduserv would like there to be an emphasis on looking at the impact which the Framework is having [...]

Secretary Spellings announced the award of $100 million in Magnet School grants to 41 school districts in 17 states. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings’ statement regarding the signing of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings has announced an award of $2.45 million to the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in conjunction with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, to provide reliable and valid measures for assessing student learning at the postsecondary level. More: continued [...]

SEDA is the Staff and Educational Development Association (for educational developers in the UK tertiary sector). They produce a number of (reasonably priced, printed) publications, the latest of which was published in July:Bostock, S. (2007) e-Teaching: Engaging Learners Through Technology. (SEDA Paper 119) SEDA.They also run events, for example a session tied into the above [...]

Oxford Brookes University is providing its regular offering of online short courses in the learning and teaching field e.g.Assessment: lightening the load, while increasing the learning 10 October – 19 November 2007 Dealing with student plagiarism 13 February – 14 March 2008Engaging learning with social software 7 November – 7 December 2007Evaluating e-learning 23 April [...]

Information Literacy and Library Instruction Coordinator (Cameron University, Oklahoma) (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) More: continued here

Sometimes, Calliope is just around the corner. Here is a poem I wrote for my grade 2 class this coming week. I will be using the poem for our lesson on the basic parts of a book. I am a bookI am a bookAnd I have many partsA cover to keep me cleanA spine so [...]

Man, the last week or so has just been crazy, but I think things are slowing down for me again. I was at the dentist this morning for a filling, so the whole left side of my face and tongue feels like it’s about the size of New Hampshire. Fortunately, I don’t have any reason [...]