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Six exciting titles use well-known works of childrens literature as a springboard for learning! Activities, booktalks, and recommended book titles help students connect reading for pleasure with reading for information. Includes relevant McREL, Information Power II, and NETS standards.

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This volume offers ready-made, standards-based, academically sound lessons and activities based on Coretta Scott King Award winning books.

Teaching Literacy Skills to Adolescents Using Coretta Scott King Award Winners has everything teachers need to create lessons in core subjects using the very best of young-adult literature.

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Help children learn coping skills through literature! This book answers the often repeated question: Is there a childrens book I can read in my classroom to give children insight into significant life events

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A valuable professional reference for school librarians, administrators, teachers, and anyone seeking the skills and intellectual background to nurture a culture of lifelong learning and assume the lead in taking the library media center to the next level.

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Unleash new possibilities for reading promotion and readers' advisory with these technological tools that can help you to catch the interest of young readers and direct them toward positive reading experiences.

Gone are the days of browsing library bookshelvestodays readers live much of their lives on their devices.

(Hardback)

Environmental issues present technical communicators with some of their greatest challenges, above all, how to make the highly specialized and inscrutably difficult technical information generated by environmental scientists and engineers usable in public decision making.

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Environmental issues present technical communicators with some of their greatest challenges, above all, how to make the highly specialized and inscrutably difficult technical information generated by environmental scientists and engineers usable in public decision making.

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

Focusing on one of the most fundamental areas of librarianship, Gorman and a host of distinguished contributors examine the current state of the field of technical services and offer their views on its future.

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With the growing interest in real-world (nonacademic) writing, critics are suggesting that the composition skills taught in schools may have little to do with the written communication skills students later need in their careers.

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West's research examines how information technologies are on a path of creating efficiency, productivity, profitability, surveillance, and control.

Human-machine interface technologies are merging more and more with physical bodies.

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Nature and Cyberspace examines how nature metaphors are used to refer to online experiences. It investigates the sources and history of usage, asking how early developers decided on words like 'home', 'navigate' and 'log on'. It goes on to explore how these terms are usedin personal and corporate spheres in the web 2.0 environment.

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This book chronicles the attitudes of librarians toward technological innovations that took place between 1860 and 1960. This monograph records the attempts of a few librarians to integrate a number of technological innovations into the library environment and to project their possible future applications.

(Paperback, 5th Revised edition)

This fifth edition of a well-known and respected book provides the latest information on a variety of educational technology topics (with a new chapter featuring PDAs) and demonstrates how technologies can best be applied in educational settings.

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Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic development.

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Librarians are affected by technology in every aspect of their jobs, yet they often have little understanding of the technologies underlying the systems they use every day. Librarians are affected by technology in every aspect of their jobs, yet they often have little understanding of the technologies underlying the systems they use every day.

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The world of the school librarian has changed significantly over the past ten years with the proliferation of technology into all phases of education; this book attempts to address these issues.

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Stay current, meet educational standards, and keep your students coming back again and again by incorporating the latest technologies into your school library.

Both theoretical and practical, this book will provide you with a strong introduction to a variety of technologies that will serve youand your patronswell.

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Projects in this book are ideally suited for use by library media specialists and classroom teachers in grades K-8, and can also be adapted for use with high school students. The projects can be used to show learning outcomes for almost any subject, while totally engaging students in fun, academically beneficial, and standards-based projects.

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These easy-to-use technology projects require very basic hardware and software, while engaging students in Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning and National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). Lessons include clear, concise instructions for technology projects created in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel programs.

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