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Essay Links & Bibliography

Brentwood School
Brentwood School Library

Noodle Tools

Links from the Essay

Mission Statement, Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, CA

Wildwood School, The Library Blog

Katie Day, the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) Teacher-Librarian at United World College of SE Asia in Singapore

Fiona Collins, Librarian at Shanghai Rego International School, asks students to add resources to their unit’s home page. 

Online Book Discussions

Barbara Jansen, Chair of Instructional Technology and Upper School Librarian at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Austin (TX), 9th grade history project on the Indian Caste System
Student Generated Questions
Islam Project
Caste Project

2.0 Resources mentioned in the essay

Animoto
Animoto for Education
Delicious 
Diigo 
Diigo Educator  
Facebook 
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
Glogster EDU  
GoogleEarth 
issuu 
LibGuides 
LibraryThing
Moodle 
Myspace 
MyStudiyo 
Netvibes 
Ning 
NoodleTools 
Pageflakes 
Second Life 
Twitter
VoiceThread 
Wikidot 
Wordle 
The English Companion Ning
Making Curriculum Pop Ning
Independent School Educators Network
21st Century Teacher-Librarians Ning

http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html

Bibliography

Abilock, Debbie. “Information Literacy Building Blocks of Research: Overview of Design, Process and Outcomes.” 21st Century Literacies. NoodleTools, 13 July 2007. Web. 10 Oct. 2009

American Library Association. “Standards for the 21st Century Learner.” ALA. American Lib. Assn., 2007. Web. 24 Sept. 2009

Baron, Naomi S. “Are Digital Media Changing Language?” Educational Leadership Mar. 2009: 42-46. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.

Bomar, Shannon. “The Grammatically Correct Wiki.” Knowledge Quest 37.4 (2009): 51. Web. 24 Sept. 2009

Boyd, Danah. “Some Thoughts on Technophilia.” Apophenia: Making Connections Where None Previously Existed. N.p., 20 Aug. 2009. Web. 2 Oct. 2009.

“Code of Ethics of the American Library Association.” ALA. American Lib. Assn., 22 Jan. 2008. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.

Cohen, Laura. “Social Scholarship on the Rise.” Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. U at Albany Libraries, SUNY, 5 Apr. 2007. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.

Collen, Lauren. “The Digital and Traditional Storytimes Research Project: Using Digitized Picture Books for Preschool Group Storytimes.” Children and Libraries 4.3 (2006): 8-18. Web. 1 Oct. 2009.

Crider, Lissa. “About the Library.” Lick Wilmerding Library. Lick Wilmerding High School, n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.

Evidence on the Impact of Technology on Learning and Educational Outcomes. N. pag. Becta. Becta, 13 July 2009. Web. 31 Oct. 2009. (pdf)

Fogg, B. J., et al. How Do People Evaluate a Web Site’s Credibility? Results from a Large Study. N. pag. Consumer Reports WebWatch. Consumer Union, 11 Nov. 2002. Web. 24 Sept. 2009. (pdf)

Ito, Mizuko, et al. Final Report: Conclusion. N. pag. Digital Youth Research. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, [2009]. Web. 31 Oct. 2009.

Ito, Mizuko, et al. Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project. N. pag. Digital Youth Research. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Nov. 2008. Web. 31 Oct. 2009. (pdf)

Kimber, Kay, and Claire Wyatt-Smith. “Using and Creating Knowledge with New Technologies; A Case for Students-as-Designers.” Learning, Media, & Technology 31.1 (2006): 19-34. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 25 Nov. 2009.

Lempke, Cheryl, Ed Coughlin, and Daren Reifsneider. Technology in Schools: What the Research Says: An Update. N. pag. Cisco. Cisco Systems, 2009. Web. 31 Oct. 2009. (pdf)

Lenhart, Amanda, et al. Writing, Technology and Teens. N. pag. Pew Internet. Pew Internet & American Life Project, 24 Apr. 2008. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.

Loucks-Horsley, Susan. “The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals.” The National Academies. National Acad. of Sciences, 1996. Web. 24 Sept. 2009

McGuire, Hugh. Interview by Sean Cranbury. The Future of Publishing. Open Book: Toronto, 11 Sept. 2009. Web. 1 Oct. 2009.

Miller, Paul. “Web 2.0: Building the New Library.” Ariadne 45 (2005): n. pag. Web. 4 Oct. 2009.

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Montiel-Overall, Patricia. “Toward a Theory of Collaboration for Teachers and Librarians.” School Library Media Research 8 (Apr. 2008): n. pag. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.

Perez, Sarah. “Whoops! Students ’Going Google’ Gets to Read Each Others’ Emails.” ReadWriteWeb. Richard MacManus, 18 Sept. 2009. Web. 25 Sept. 2009.

Schrage, Michael. “The Relationship Revolution.” Merrill Lynch Forum. ManyWorlds, 2001. Web. 4 Oct. 2009.

Stein, Jared. “Defining ‘Creepy Treehouse.’” Flexnology. Learningfield.org, 9 Apr. 2008. Web. 2 Oct. 2009.

“Using and Creating Knowledge with New Technologies: A Case for Students-as-Designers.” Learning, Media and Technology 31.1 (2006): 19-34. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 23 Nov. 2009.

Beyond the Book

Library Thing
Brentwood School
St. Mary’s School
Ethical Culture Club
Harvard-Westlake School

Harvard-Westlake School Library

Shelfari
University School of Missouri, Library recommendations for:
5th grade
6th grade
7th grade
8th grade
7th grade students' Shelfari

Browning School (NYC) uses GoodReads and these blogs
Recent Reviews
What are we Reading Now?

Bobbi L. Newman, Lightning Rounds: Lightning rounds – speakers get 5 minutes to show us something cool, useful, fun, helpful, interesting.  Ideas were put in a box when we arrived.

libraryh3lp, an integrated IM/web-chat system designed specifically for libraries.
Amy Shelton, Eric Sessoms, Pam Sessoms

Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Make Libraries Better

Example of bad indexing from Herman Sutter of St. Agnes Academy in Houston. 

A New Chapter? A Launch Of The Bookless Library, January 15 2013 discussion of a soon-to-open bookless library in Bexas County, Texas.

Purchase the Book

Sea Changes in Technology Services and Learning

by Debbie Abilock
Consultant & Editor-in-Chief, KnowledgeQuest
and Elisabeth Abarbanel
Brentwood School, Los Angeles CA


Elisabeth Abarbanel is in her 15th year as Librarian for the middle and upper schools at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, California. She has worked at two other Los Angeles independent schools, and as a public librarian in both adult and children's reference. Elisabeth's blog is Archipelagoblog.

 

Study Time at Brentwood Academy

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Debbie Abilock is Editor-in-chief of Knowledge Quest, the journal of the American Association of School Librarians and co-founder of NoodleTools, Inc., which designs Web-based tools to support students’ academic research.   She received an American Memory Fellowship, Time Magazine’s Grand Prize for innovative online curriculum, and is a Library Journal Mover & Shaker.  She has conducted workshops and given presentations throughout the United States and Europe and works with schools and nonprofits on inquiry teaching and learning based on her experience as a teaching-librarian, director of a unified library/technology department, curriculum coordinator, and school administrator.

ESSAY ABSTRACT

Inspired by participatory tools which engage students in using technology for educational purposes, independent school librarians are experimenting with user-focused services and curricular projects that support comprehensive learning and literacy.  Their vision of an independent school library is a dynamic intellectual commons that defines the school’s learning community by integrating the physical place and its resources with responsive online services and content management systems.  The authors examine over 20 high-quality curricular examples and library services, drawing conclusions about effective instruction with technology and suggesting strategies by which independent school librarians can support each other and focus their efforts.    

Characteristics of a 2.0 Independent School Librarian
Flexible – willing and able to adapt to change in curricula, services and tools.
Brave – willing to put new ideas to the test, and sometimes learn from failing
Involved – willing to publicize new ideas with the community in collaboration with others, and to take your library curriculum outside of the library and into classrooms
Friendly and collaborative – able to work with faculty and the technology department  to get the job done and able to work with students in an open dialog.
Creative – willing to create content for the website/wiki/video/podcast, and assist in helping others to do so also.
Visionary – be able to sort through the tools and ideas and create a vision for your library at your school in your school curriculum.

The Hype Cycle
Gartner Research. “Research Methodologies: Hype Cycles.” Gartner. Gartner, 2009. Web. 25 Sept. 2009.

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