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POPSOnline Images - Facebook & copyright I am teaching a unit on images and their use for the classroom. I found this really interesting post about how Facebook hijacks your rights to your images without people really knowing it. Now, I really hate Facebook.
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POPSTeacher Librarians - School Librarians - we are not obsolete! Rob Darrow (California Dreamin' Blog) posted this. How exciting is this news? And now story time: In grad school during orientation week, one of our esteemed professors asked, "Is there anyone interested in school librarianship?" The crickets started chirping. Throughout my entire 2 years, the only thing I heard about school librarianship was that it was an obsolete job and that you would be the first person given the pink slip when the budget needed to be shifted. However, from the looks of it, it is becoming more and more in demand. I pretty much fell into my job. I never thought about working at a school, let a lone working with teenagers. But here I am and it is the most interesting and challenging job I have ever had. It's great to see that certain states see the importance of this position and how it is an asset to a good education program.
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POPSTeaching Jeff Corwin Spanish... I think this is a pretty great example of how to incorporate different tech tools in the classroom. Learning.now blog posted it so I thought I would share. It's humourous but definitely puts learning Spanish out there and teaches these kids about how to use these tools and have an online presence. Great job Mr. Craft & your sixth graders!
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POPS"People who tend to protest books don't read" I am a big fan of Rick Riordan's books and I started reading his blog. But with the upcoming release of the Golden Compass movie and reading a lot of list-serv and articles on how people should boycott the movie and also because of banned books week that passed a few months ago and because I'm a librarian, I thought Riordan summed it up nicely. Ten years after the fact & now people are boycotting it?