Sentences with phrase «school library world»

In the article «Climbing to Excellence: Defining Characteristics of Successful Learning Commons,» authors David V. Loertscher and Carol Koechlin, (gurus of the school library world for you non-librarians out there!)

I am in the school library world at a high school.

In the article «Climbing to Excellence: Defining Characteristics of Successful Learning Commons,» authors David V. Loertscher and Carol Koechlin, (gurus of the school library world for you non-librarians out there!)

Colleen brings a passionate, artistic energy to the school library world.

Not exact matches

(Poets & Quants)-- While most of his MBA classmates at Stanford Graduate School of Business rushed off to lucrative internships with some of the world's most prestigious firms this past summer, Matt Ivester holed up in the school's liSchool of Business rushed off to lucrative internships with some of the world's most prestigious firms this past summer, Matt Ivester holed up in the school's lischool's library.

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

After a quick lunch in the school cafeteria, I would head over to the library for thirty minutes before class to pore over the school library's set of Great Books of the Western World.

That's why in discussion with the school authority we decided to refurbish the library to provide a conducive place for learning and to preserve the books which we hope will send a signal to continuing students that all they need to do better than us in conquering the world can be found in books and in the library.

Now in the 21st century, the university is a world - class institute consisting of over 30,000 students and staff, 11 undergraduate schools, 16 graduate schools, 5 research institutes, 4 libraries, 2 hospitals, and 24 collaborative - use facilities dispersed over the Suita, Toyonaka, and Minoh campuses.

Established in 1964, NSU now includes 16 colleges, the 215,000 - square - foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK - 12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development with specialists in Autism, the world - class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, which is Florida's largest public library.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

This administration has been a world leader in connecting our schools, classrooms, and libraries to vast Internet information resources, putting modern computers in the hands of teachers and students, and making technology an integral part of lifelong learning.

The school library is an ideal environment to engage in conversations about digital citizenship, the impact of a student's digital footprint, ethical use of information and social responsibility in an always - connected world.

Pupils in Year 5 showed him around the school library and asked him about the world of politics, ahead of a forthcoming visit they have to the Houses of Parliament.

Those strolling past the library at Jamaica High School can view the plaques honoring the school's alumni who gave their lives for their country during World WSchool can view the plaques honoring the school's alumni who gave their lives for their country during World Wschool's alumni who gave their lives for their country during World War II.

Mark has sent a copy of his book, The Foolish King, to every school that has signed up to the Delancey UK Schools» Chess Challenge for them to house in their school library for children to read and explore the world of chess.

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Schools, nurseries and libraries can benefit from the launch of a completely free downloadable Roald Dahl DAY party pack, thanks to a collaboration between YPO, the UK's largest public sector buying organisation, and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate responsible for publishing the world's number one storyteller.

«It's tough to run an elementary school library without a good collection of children's literature,» she told Education World.

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«I was an early adopter of using telecommunications in school libraries,» she told Education World.

Encyclopedia Britannica Ends Print Edition In a move that highlights the emerging dominance of digital publishing, a hallmark of school libraries around the world is ending its print editions forever.

We have implemented an immersive experience in «Real World Problem Solving» - such as designing a new «21st century learning space» for the school library or studying agricultural sustainability in order to develop a local permaculture garden.

As one example, consider the popularity of Khan Academy, whose library of practice activities and videos are accessed each month by over 10 million users around the world and in many schools across the United States.

Schools and libraries that receive federal money for Internet connections have a tentative April 16 deadline to draw up Internet safety policies that include installing technology to block minors from obtaining or viewing pornographic images on the World Wide Web.

Through this new partnership with School Improvement Network, The Thoughtful Classroom's Teaching Effectiveness Framework is aligned with PD 360, the deepest, most diverse library of online professional development in the world.

Cohen and Rosenzweig (2006) noted that this availability of historical materials had the potential to change social studies instruction, writing that literally anybody, from «high school student... to senior historian» has unprecedented access to social studies materials, not only from libraries around the world, but instantaneously (p. 4).

Our web - based resource library and website archives aspire to be the most complete repository of secondary education small schools research in the world.

Designing learning environments to support participatory learning: Teacher - librarian Anna Crosland of Georges Vanier Elementary School in British Columbia creates a physical learning environment where students use technology for learning and collaborate to share that learning with the world through the library learning commons» virtual space.

We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren't already gone, as in California); to be increasing class sizes to 40 or 50 in Los Angeles and Detroit.

For over a decade Sean acted, directed and designed sets for the Interact Story Theatre, a professional theatre company that has served more than 4,000 schools, museums, libraries, and festivals around the world.

The Universal Service Fund for Schools and Libraries, known to most of the education world as the «E-rate,» has quickly become one of the most popular avenues for school districts to supplement their budgets.

Model school library standards were approved Thursday by the California State Board of Education, creating new benchmarks for K - 12 resource management in a world dominated by electronic communication.

As part of an ongoing desire to share with the world how school libraries can contribute to educational teams and what they can do to help students succeed, we started asking different people in education, (including administrators, consultants, and of course school librarians and library technicians) about why school libraries -LSB-...]

The school is bursting with innovation — housing its library in a double decker London bus, broadcasting a weekly radio show and developing a system of learning that sees children working independently assessing their own learning and publishing to a world - wide audience.

In a world where so many are getting their news from Facebook and twitter how will your children compete in college or life against the students I am currently teaching that has a well funded library with alibrarian in every school?

Few CPS schools provide world language classes and 160 CPS elementary schools do not even have libraries.

An autopsy reveals the cause of death: «They didn't really plan and create a makerspace that's authentic to their community,» said Laura Fleming, library media specialist at New Milford High in New Jersey, and author of Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School.

As we address this challenge, educators across Canada and around the world are re-imagining the potential of the library to be a true learning commons: the physical and virtual collaborative hub within a whole - school approach to participatory learning.

The World eBook Fair also includes millions of eBooks that are usually only available to World Public Library members, yearly rate of $ 8.95, and whose eBooks are are yours to keep or share with friends, family, libraries, schools, etc., as long as you would like to do so.

The existence of Slide Rule also has implications for the school and library worlds.

«From OverDrive's world headquarters in northeast Ohio to the 50 countries in which our library and school partners reside, we will continue to connect readers with books and institutions by supporting all users and all popular devices, while promoting open industry standard formats and best practices.

Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]

OverDrive is the world's largest supplier of digital content to public and school libraries, but that content isn't only ebooks.

More than 20,000 libraries and schools around the world in 32 countries are participating in Big Library Read.

The software has become very popular among book - lovers, schools, clubs and business libraries all over the world and every day we receive a dozen of new feature and support requests.

H. W. Wilson products have become familiar to generations of library patrons as standard tools in college, public, school, and special libraries around the world.

We are dedicated to a «world enlightened by reading» by delivering the industry's largest catalog of eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media to a growing network of 38,000 libraries and schools in 70 countries.

CourseSmart, the world's largest provider of digital educational titles, has signed an agreement with solutions provider Naseej to bring a library of titles from over fifty educational publishers to the schools that it serves in the Arab nations.

Together with OverDrive and Aquafadas, we want the best possible reading experiences for schools, libraries, institutions, corporations and consumers, enabling readers to buy or borrow digital content anywhere in the world.»