Available at no cost, SAS Curriculum Pathways provides interactive, standards-based resources featuring hundreds of interactive tools, inquiries, web lessons and audio tutorials in every core subject for traditional, virtual and home schools.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 03 Dec 2013
Through the partnership, Follett provides students with expanded online access to top research databases such as MasterFILE Premier and Academic Search Premier.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 26 Nov 2013
A nod and a Cool Link to Victor Rivero's Edtech Digest for noting this cool tool—Epson's free iProjection App.
News/Cool Links
- Posted 25 Nov 2013
The Streaming Video service is a way to instantly borrow from your library and watch videos anytime, anywhere, on any computer, tablet or mobile device with an internet connection.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 20 Nov 2013
Discoveryed has expanded content partnerships with some of the world's most respected producers, including MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, BBC Worldwide, and Rand McNally. These new partnerships add custom-built news programs, documentary films, and other dynamic digital resources that use current, real-time, global events to bring instruction to life.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 15 Nov 2013
The series is designed to connect classroom learning to exciting careers that students aspire to. "Math@Work: Math Meets Fashion" takes three students on a tour of designer Diane von Furstenberg's New York City studio to learn about the mathematical thinking and problem solving required in this career.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 14 Nov 2013
eBook History Collection includes more than 9,000 titles from leading publishers. Titles encompass a variety of world history subjects designed to assist students and scholars with history research.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 14 Nov 2013
The SIIA Innovation Incubator Program identifies and supports entrepreneurs in their development and distribution of innovative learning technologies. The program has provided support for dozens of successful products and companies in their efforts to improve education through the use of software, digital content, and related technologies.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 13 Nov 2013
The in-library ebook kiosks enable readers to browse ebooks, audiobooks and other media on a touchscreen monitor in libraries or any location where libraries want to introduce readers to their ebook catalog.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 12 Nov 2013
The new tool quickly and accurately assesses students, and automatically places them in the most appropriate content library and starting point in the online program.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 08 Nov 2013
Overdrive has added new features to its digital school library solution, including a fully-updated user interface providing a more informative, user-friendly experience. New features include enhanced metadata, robust search tools, filters and improved title detail pages and menus to make finding a title easier.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 07 Nov 2013
World's Worst Pet, the new addition to the award-winning i-Ready blended learning program, builds Tier Two vocabulary through an engaging, game-based learning environment.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 06 Nov 2013
Features
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Victor offers up some excellent views on the current state and trajectory of social media in K-12 education. And he then connects you with a half dozen currently hot spaces, places, and tools you can use to leverage the concept.
Editorial/Features
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue
By
Victor Rivero
This issue focuses on social media in K-12, and this previously published article from the folks at Schoolwires so closely fit what we editors were looking for that we sought, and received, permission to republish it and expand its distribution.
Yes, it's a mobile world. And educators see great potential with mobile technologies in transforming education. But few schools allow students to use family-owned mobile devices in the classroom.
Editorial/Features
Posted 03 Sep 2013
- Sep/Oct 2013 Issue
By
Victor Rivero
Tim Springer (HERO, Inc.), Don Orth (director of technology at Hillbrook School), and Chris Petrick (Bretford Manufacturing) discuss what it takes to create a mobile world for an academic setting, the issues and challenges, advice on managing the process, and the purposes behind it all.
Editorial/Features
Posted 01 Sep 2013
- Sep/Oct 2013 Issue
By
Victor Rivero
Columns
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According to Stephen, we know that the world of work we're preparing our learners for is emerging as a quite different paradigm than the one we prepared for. What can we do now to prepare our lessons and school environments to build on a vision of a positive future?
Column/The Pipeline
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue
By
Stephen Abram
Mary Alice considers the state of media centers and the mindset of media specialists as the calendar year closes … where they've been, where they are, and, hopefully, where they are headed.
Column/The New Media Center
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue
By
Mary Alice Anderson
David Jonassen's book Computers in the Classroom: Mindtools for Critical Thinking espoused a philosophy of educational;technology that has had a major effect on Mary Ann's thinking and also on the direction of the M.L.S. program at her university.
Column/Belltones
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue
By
Mary Ann Bell
As more mobile devices enter our schools, libraries have to be responsive, in the tools we use and also in the design and functionality of our physical spaces. We need to examine how our policies support what students need, rather than act as obstacles.
Column/Idea Watch
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue
By
Carolyn Foote
Column/Editor’s Notes
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue
By
David Hoffman
For Stephen, the "basic" web presence today for schools is ideally managed by school library staff but also led by a team that involves and seeks input from IT, curriculum leaders, teachers, and students. Check out his list showing the foundation of a good web presence for school libraries.
Column/The Pipeline
Posted 01 Sep 2013
- Sep/Oct 2013 Issue
By
Stephen Abram
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