Renewable energy, life science careers, computers and health, space food and space suits, prehistoric sea monsters, Mark Twain, politics in antebellum America, and creative writingare topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings announced new guidance to help schools balance students’ privacy rights with school safety concerns. More: continued here

Efforts in K-12 education ← Older revision Revision as of 15:03, 28 October 2007 Line 125: Line 125: Information literacy efforts are not being limited to the library field, but are also being employed by regional educational consortia. Information literacy efforts are not being limited to the library field, but are also being employed by [...]

There is a call for chapters for a book: Issues in Information and Media Literacy, a volume of case studies and academic papers to be published by the Informing Science Institute. For more information go to http://infoliteracy.ispress.org/Authors may submit a short proposal (1000 words max) for clarification of whether their submission will fit the book. [...]

Once again the beautiful city of Monterey, California welcomes  the popular Internet Librarian Conference.  The welcoming remarks inform us that it will be here again for at least the next four years – this drew enthusiastic applause from the audience of about 1,400.  Who can blame them, an annual pilgrimage to such a lovely place would be [...]

Larson, J. and Marsh, J. (2005) Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching. London: Sage.(Source: UKLA – United Kingdom Literacy Association)”[...] we provide an overview of the concept of critical literacy and outline how it can inform classroom practice. This is no simple task, because there is no singular, normative version of [...]

Some last conference musings (would like to hear your thoughts);Blogging — I tried something new this year, brought my laptop, took notes on it during the session and posted right after the session. One plus, I feel that the blog had more detail about the session. One minus, I am not sure the “reflection” piece [...]

I am embarrassed to say that I have not been properly aware of the activities of the Critical Literacies Project based at my own university.There is interesting material on the site (http://www.ukla.org/projects/critical_literacy.php ), including a chapter which outlines and reflects on the nature of critical literacy. The focus on Friere’s work reminded me of Susie [...]

The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference 2008 will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 17-20, 2008. A doctoral workshop will be held in conjunction with the conference on September 16, 2008. Conference paper submission deadline (complete papers) is February 1, 2008. Doctoral workshop paper submission deadline is March 1, 2008. For more information [...]

" This article presents the results of a summer 2006 survey of students about to begin their first year of law school. In total, 740 students from seven different law schools responded to the sur… (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) More: continued here