Plagiarism

Even though the concept of plagiarism comes into our library department curriculum in the earliest stages of teaching research skills, the fact remains that we still need to deal with it in a manner that will catch the student's attention. I just ran across a good graphic representation that can be used in educational settings, from Acadia University. The link to it is here: http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Free Apple iBook - The Beatles Yellow Submarine

Yellow Submarine is a free digital book available from the iTunes store. It's based on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Beatles tunes. You'll need a Wi-Fi connection to load onto your iPad -- it's too large for 3G downloading. There are video clips within the book that provide sidebars for the action.

Google Currents, a free app for your iPad, iPod Touch, or Android tablet, is giving Flipbook some competition. 

The Library Grants Center

The Library Grants Center, http://salempress.com/Store/grants/grants.htm, is a free Web tool from Salem Press that pulls together listings of library grants on both the national and the state levels. There's also a comprehensive "Solving the Puzzle" page with information to help you navigate the maze and find newsletters and blogs that announce new grants. 

Find the Library Grants Center on Facebook and "Like it" to get updates on new grant listings.

WebJunction

Pennsylvania librarians may register at WebJunction Pennsylvania, a service provided by Access Pennsylvania, to register for free library trainings for which Act 48 continuing education credits are available.  The URL is http://pa.webjunction.org/.  I've just finished two of their self-paced courses, "Leadership Essentials 2: Communicating Vision" and "Directors ASK! (LibraryU)", each of which granted 1 hour of Act 48 credit.  My next selection will be "Copyright Issues in the Classroom and School Library (LEAD)".

Our district hosted a training session in LibGuides recently, so our librarians and others in neighboring areas could obtain a free year's subscription the the PA LibGuides curation pages for public and school librarians. My cohort librarian and I have made a CASD Faculty LibGuide page at http://palibraries.libguides.com/content.php?pid=270348&sid=2230234, where we organize resources for classes coming to our high school library for library instruction. I am also working on a private LibGuides site to arrange lesson plans for the Technology Integration Into the Classroom course I'll be teaching next semester for Wilson College's M.Ed program, focusing on Web 2.0 tools for education.

I've been exploring the Web. 2.0 tools listed in Bloom's Revised Digital Taxonomy: http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm and teaching the use of them to new teachers in our district: http://www.chambersburg.k12.pa.us/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=2528&