T.H.E. Journal

Although loaded with advertising, this is a good source of information on current products and trends in educational technology: T.H.E. Journal
Jude

a common model for technology integration

I believe our three schools have developped a model comparable to this one, it works well, with some room for improvement, of course:
http://www.21centuryconnections.com/node/452
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Mandating Technology Use in the classroom

A sensible, fact-based argument for mandating classroom technology integration:
http://21centuryconnections.com/node/469

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school libraries censorship exhibit

The Long Island Coalition against censorship is offering a very affordable exhibit on this topic for the 2009 Banned Books Week (sept 7-Oct 4). Check the details on their website. Jude

Grant Opportunities

One of the functions of this blog is to help teachers becoming aware of grant opportunities. the K. Schrock and the Big Deal grants pages have good collections of grant opportunities. Jude

crush course on the web 2.0

This slide show by Kathy Schrock is an excellent, educator-oriented, intro to the web 2.0. Basically, everything a software-based computer does, can be done online in a more collaborative and creative way. A definite eye-opener for teachers:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kathyschrock/SheddingLightOnWeb20?authkey=kZBm6h9FDp4

Jude

21st century media centers

This article was found on the Alan November website. About the leadership role of media centers in the integration of technology at school as well as home. Definitely stimulating: Designing Libraries, Learning for a Lifetime
Jude

Interlibrary Loans for teachers (ILL)

Teachers: when you need a book which is not in our local collection, you can either ask us to borrow it for you via Interlibrary Loan services (usually it takes about a week for the book to be delivered), or you can explore the Public Access catalog of the NH libraries that participates into this service. It's especially convenient if you want to expand your search beyond one title. For instance, this allows you to see everything available on a topic or by an author.

posting Office Documents

It looks like all blogging sites offer the option to post Office documents, but it's not a simple drag-and-drop process. Docs need to be embedded, and it looks like this takes several steps. If you've done this before, let me know, by adding a comment to this post. Jude

First post for librarians

A question for my fellow librarians: do you have a selection policy, and how old is it? Do you see any reason why it should be posted on your library website?

First post about Information Technology

Teachers can use this blog to ask questions and reply to them. For instance, a teacher can ask here how to open word 2007 documents when using Word 2003. Then whoever can help, either an Action Tesam member or any reader of this post, can add a comment, explaining how to do this.
Jude

first post

This is my first post. At this point, my question is, is Blogspot a good plaform for our Action Team? It's simple and clean, while providing a certain versatility which might be all we need. The only thing I wonder is, how to organise posts, in case we would have hundreds of them. The simplest way to go is to decide on labels: Technology, Library Media, and Cross-disciplinary. As it is too long to type, we could shorten to Tech, Lib, CD. Let me know what you think.
Jude