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ISTE Advocacy for Education: Opportunities in Denver!

The Daring Librarian

Advocacy in Education is so important.now more than ever. The following is from Hilary Goldmann, ISTE’s Director of Government Affairs : "Once again we have a dynamic line-up of advocacy activities at ISTE2010!! ETAN Booth - Raffle prize is an interactive white board donated by SMART, Technologies. . Wanna know how?

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Letters for Libraries: Advocacy & Action!

The Daring Librarian

Many of the other grants ask for the ability to provide longer library hours, summer hours, parental use of libraries, family literacy events, professional development on collaboration for librarians, and addition of books or technology for libraries in rural areas or impoverished areas. Your grassroots efforts are critically important.

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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

NeverEndingSearch

The Philadephia Inquirer reported a response to the rally from district spokesperson Megan Lello: the district provides classroom libraries and other media and technology to support the literacy aim that has been a hallmark of Superintendent William R. ’s administration: making sure all children read on grade level by age 8.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

website evolution.

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Live Thursday, February 2nd - Panel on Personal Learning Profiles

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there were blogs, wikis, Twitter or Facebook. New and veteran teachers are overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks plus being asked to teach and integrate technology. Her dream has been to create an online place that was safe and secure with all the tools and resources all in one place.

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EduBlog Awards 2010 Nominations

The Daring Librarian

Best Resource sharing blog: Richard Byrne - Free Technology for Teachers - Always a great source for new information & resources! I was torn to put this under lifetime achievement but the fact that Doug is an admin position in a real school district shows just how amazing it is to have his thoughts, beliefs, and advocacy on our side!

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A letter of support

NeverEndingSearch

School librarians scout and evaluate emerging technologies and introduce them to the entire learning culture, often leading a school’s professional development efforts. We lead in building a school’s reading culture, acknowledging whatever containers stories may take.