NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The post Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond) appeared first on NeverEndingSearch. Valenza, J.K. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. .

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 19, 2021

The post SLIDE: data, interactive tools, and an equity wake-up call (Part 1) appeared first on NeverEndingSearch. Kachel and Keith Curry Lance on the IMLS project, “SLIDE: School Librarian Investigation: Decline or Evolution?” IFLA CPDDL Blog.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The post Launching Real “Reading Progress”: A Game Changer from Microsoft Education appeared first on NeverEndingSearch.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

The post The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2) appeared first on NeverEndingSearch. Press Release: Most Vulnerable Students Impacted by Declining Numbers of School Librarians.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 30, 2013

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

NeverEndingSearch ( School Library Journal). Every child deserves a robust school library program led by a professional, credentialed school librarian. Sincerely, Joyce Kasman Valenza, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Teaching, Rutgers University, SC&I. skype: joycevalenza. twitter: @joycevalenza.

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The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Joyce Valenza, in her SLJ NeverEndingSearch Blog, writes that we need to share out loud! " Pointing to Effective Practice, Join the Wiki! One of the big issues in our field is that we do not have a clear way to point to effective practice. What does our best stuff look like?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2016

Joyce writes the NeverendingSearch Blog for School Library Journal and contributes to several other library and edtech publications. Joyce has worked in special, public, and school libraries. She recently published the Social Media Curation, a Library Technology Report for ALA.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 25, 2010

I''m going to shamelessly steal from my guru & friend Joyce Valenza''s NeverendingSearch blog here.cause YAY ! and"Yippee! We are about to launch our monthly online get-togethers. Try to save the first Monday of each month for live, web-based chat.

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

From Joyce Valenza, on the NeverEndingSearch Blog: New Book Video Trailer Awards! "On On September 27th, School Library Journal will ask readers to vote for the best video trailers that promote books and encourage reading.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 4, 2016

Joyce writes the NeverendingSearch Blog for School Library Journal and contributes to several other library and edtech publications. Joyce has worked in special, public, and school libraries. She recently published the Social Media Curation, a Library Technology Report for ALA.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

Joyce writes the NeverendingSearch Blog for School Library Journal and contributes to several other library and edtech publications. Joyce has worked in special, public, and school libraries. She recently published the Social Media Curation, a Library Technology Report for ALA.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 9, 2020

Just published: a fabulously useful tool for back-to-school professional learning and professional development. With the excitement of a tech-tools smackdown, it promises to have far longer legs and far stickier value. Epic eBook of Web Tools & Apps.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Whether or not we are planning for a virtual experience in September, it is clear that we need to translate our practice. We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2020

Over the summer, I’ve been picking up a few little tools to add to my existing kit for enhancing online teaching and learning. Here are a couple of my current faves. What’s nice about these and so many other recent tools we are introducing in schools is that they present real-life functionality.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 30, 2020

Captions are important. Why caption? They are especially important with so many of us reaching our learning community remotely. As we gear up for a September filled with unknowns, it might be a good idea to develop some agile strategies for addressing and enhancing our flipped or hybrid options. Captions make video more accessible for everyone.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 15, 2020

Many of us will find ourselves isolated during this unprecedented time. Like many of our librarian colleagues, I’ve been curating. Here’s a Wakelet list of free learning resources and tools to enjoy with kids and as a family, while were are at home.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 9, 2020

It begins like this: There’s a new word you might have heard. You might hear people talking about it or you might hear it on the news. This word is the reason that you’re not going to school. It is the reason you can’t go outside very often or visit your friends. It might be the reason why the grown-up or grown-ups who look after you are at home.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

I am currently working on a research project with partners from the University of Florida and OCLC. Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 4, 2019

My friend Jennifer LaGarde ( @jenniferlagarde ) recently introduced me, and our Young Adults Reading and Literacy students at Rutgers, to the idea of Book Bentos. Highly visual, creative and interactive the book bento strategy invites book lovers to create, hyperlink and share book titles in an artfully arranged interactive collage.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 22, 2020

Someday, our children’s grandchildren will ask them, “What was it like during the Pandemic of 2020?” ” As they live through history, our students are now, intentionally or unintentionally, creating pieces of our historical record. We might be able to encourage and guide those efforts.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In what felt like a very different, and very inspiring kind of binge-watching, I just experienced all 12 episodes of the new Netflix series, Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices. It was indeed a celebration. The series features prominent Black authors, artists and celebrities reading children’s books that highlight the Black experience.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

ISTE both thrills and overwhelms me. However carefully I plan my choices, each year I am plagued by FOMO. This year, with the help of ISTE Librarians Network President Nikki Robertson, I asked our colleagues who attended the Network Breakfast to help us all out by sharing their biggest takeaways.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 17, 2019

On behalf of my library/educator colleagues, thank you, John Green. Thank you, John, for offering us a new tool in introducing media literacy and credibility awareness with our learning communities. Thank you for lending your honest voice and passion to this mission.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 29, 2019

“When problems occur in history, we send you back in time to make sure history happens the way it is supposed to,” says Professor Wolf of Britannica’s new Guardians of History.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 9, 2018

I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about the high school/college transition these days and the differences we see among members of the freshman class. Such thinking leads naturally to a consideration of more profound issues of social justice and equity, issues supported by our Common Beliefs and standards.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 25, 2019

Is it time to welcome a new genre to our children’s and young adult collections? Kirsten Cappy thinks so. The co-founder and director of I’m Your Neighbor , leads a project highlighting the lives of New Arrivals and New Americans through the sharing of children’s literature.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 23, 2019

Looking for a little old timey computer nostalgia with a dose of espionage and a taste of geographical flavor? Well, gumshoe, you are ready for your next assignment from the ACME detective agency. This time Carmen Sandiego is sneaking around the world via Google Earth.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 24, 2020

Archive.org/NEL. In response to the coronavirus crisis, Internet Archive announced today that it will suspend waitlists for the more than 1.4 million books in its lending library.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 25, 2020

Jason Reynolds, our current Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature , chose the platform, GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story. His two-year term is devoted to listening and empowering students to share their own personal stories.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2020

AASL just released the very helpful School Librarian Role in Pandemic Learning Conditions. AASL School Librarian Role in Pandemic Learning Conditions. Part of a larger group of Pandemic Resources for School Librarians , this much-needed tool supports us in framing some of our thorniest upcoming challenges as professional opportunities.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s March, so I suppose it makes sense to talk basketball. And I thought it might be just the right time to reimagine a post I wrote several years back. I confess that my knowledge of the game is limited to my experience watching my son Matt from the bleachers. Here’s what I do understand. Matty always played point guard.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 13, 2020

Like many of my educator colleagues, I’ll confess to having been a webinar junkie under quarantine. Like many of my edtech colleagues across the world, a couple of weeks back I attended Wakelet Community Week. I was already sold on the free, flexible collaborative platform.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 18, 2019

Imagine an instructional partner who could act as: a lifeline for students and parents for whom English is not a first language a friendly support system for your emerging readers and your students with learning differences a coach who presents the availability of individual reading environment choices and encourages independence a collaborator who (..)

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 6, 2019

Curation is one of our Shared Foundations. It is also identified as a leadership area on the Future Ready Librarians Framework. But what does it look like when the school librarian really dives into digital curation?

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 17, 2020

Creative Commons recently released a new Chrome extension (also available for Mozilla and Opera ) that makes it easier than ever to discover Creative Commons-licensed images on the fly, using the updated CC Search released last year. So, as I write this post, I do not have to leave WordPress or any tab on which I am currently working.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Every 45 seconds of every minute of the 2018/2019 school year, a new educator signed up for Flipgrid. During the past school year, kids shared 24 billion seconds of Flipgrid video. The student voice and video discussion tool is currently used in 180 countries by millions of students, educators, and families.

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