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Free Booktrack Education Tool: Engage Students with a Soundtrack to Stories
Global technology company Booktrack has released a dedicated education platform, Booktrack Classroom, which gives students free access to hundreds of soundtracked ebooks suitable for curriculum text...
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New Digital Product: Capstone Unveils Database Module PebbleGo Next and...
On April 10, at the Texas Library Association conference, Capstone, a children’s books and digital products publisher, announced PebbleGo Next,™ its newest database module for grades 3-6 that will...
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Gale Launches ‘Interlink’ Document-Level Hyperlink Technology
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced the launch of InterLink, a new technology that should connect current articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals with contextual reference content...
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Capstone’s Pebble Go Is Now Mobile
Capstone’s Pebble Go has recently gone mobile with its just-released beta version. Image courtesy of Capstone. Capstone, a leading publisher of children’s books and digital products and services, has...
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Libraries Must Accommodate Self-Directed Student Activities | Pivot Points
Recently, I had a chance to do several learning walks in our 1:1 schools, during which small groups of educators observe teachers teaching. This has become increasingly common in the Vancouver Public...
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McGraw-Hill Forges Partnership with Follett to Offer EBook Content to K-12...
On June 24, McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global publisher of education and professional content, announced a partnership with Follett to further expand availability of its ebook titles to K-12...
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What’s Your Online Persona?
For librarians, the Internet used to be the Wild West. Now that it’s ubiquitous, we’ve ceased to be explorers and are homesteaders. There are lots of personalities involved. Who you are and what you’ve...
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Authors John Green and James Patterson Stuck in Midst of Ongoing Battle of...
In the ongoing battle between Amazon and Hachette Book Group over renegotiating the contract for book sales and profit share, the two sides have yet to have come to agreement. Amazon has been publicly...
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Curators, Lurkers Top SLJ Online Persona Quiz
The results of SLJ‘s Participatory Online Persona (POP) Survey are in! Self-identified Curators dominated, with 37.5 percent of responding librarians labeling themselves as such. At the other end of...
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Ebooks Enhance Development of the Whole Child | Up for Debate
Marianne Martens Pete is sitting at his desk when his teacher says, ‘Come on, Pete down that hall to a room with books on every wall.’ Where is Pete going? The library! Does it matter whether Pete the...
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The Book Is Far Superior to the Ebook for Early Literacy | Up for Debate
I agree with Annie Murphy Paul’s July article in School Library Journal, “Eight Reasons Why Print Trumps Digital for Reading,” and here are some additional points she did not include: Support for...
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The New News-O-Matic | Touch and Go
What do kids make of the snippets of world news they hear, see on the news, or read as headlines passing by newsstands? While educators agree that producing informed global citizens is an important...
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Capstone Launches PebbleGo Next
Capstone, a leading publisher of children’s books and digital products and services, announced the launch of PebbleGo Next, its newest line of database modules that features content connected to grades...
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How Denise Sumida Won the SLJ Buzz Award for Her Library
‘‘She doesn’t fly to school in an invisible jet or don a red, blue and gold leotard, but Pearl Harbor Elementary School’s librarian Denise Sumida is definitely Wonder Woman.” Photo by David Murphey...
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Kids and Apps: A New Parent’s Guide from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Screen from “Family Time with Apps” (Joan Ganz Cooney Center) illus. by Marybeth Nelson. Many parents have concerns about digital media’s educational value for children and wonder about best...
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“Stephen Hawking’s Snaphots of the Universe”|On the iPad
Interior screen from ‘Stephen Hawking’s Snapshots of the Universe” (Random) Hawking While still not a household word, since the November 2014 release of film The Theory of Everything, the name Stephen...
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OH School Librarian Gets E-Kiosk to Access Public Library’s Digital Collection
OLMS seventh grader Anna Pohlman visits the digital kiosk. If Ohio middle school librarian Mary Burkey gives a booktalk, and she only has three copies of the title that her students snatch up, then her...
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Findaway Debuts Playaway Launchpad
Findaway has launched Playaway Launchpad, a preloaded learning tablet. Image courtesy of Findaway Findaway, a provider of digital technology solutions, has introduced Playaway Launchpad, the first ever...
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Follett Forges Ebook Partnership with Carolina Biological Supply
Follett has announced an ebook partnership with Carolina Biological Supply, a provider of science lab materials and science and math curricula that has supported biology and chemistry teachers for more...
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The New Immigrants NYC 1880-1924 | Touch and Go
The promise of the today’s Internet and software is the ability to mine some of the best available resources—wherever they may be. That promise has seen fruition in New York City’s Department of...
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