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ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids

ALSC has added 20 recommended websites to its online resource containing hundreds of links to outstanding sites for children. Great Web Sites for Kids features links to websites of interest to children 14 years of age and younger, organized into diverse subject headings, from astronomy and space to zoos and aquariums, from games and entertainment to geography and maps....

23 Things Kansas

Does Jing make your heart sing? Do you depend upon the cloud? Think wikis are wild? ... and RSS is really super sweet? Or, does it seem like this message is written in a foreign language? Whether you are an online tools techno-pro or techno-newbie, 23 Things Kansas just might be the learning opportunity you're looking for.

23 Things Kansas is a fun way to learn about and practice with online tools for community, sharing and productivity. It is open to and free for anyone in the Kansas library community (library staff, trustees, etc). The program will officially launch January 11, 2010, but you can register now: http://www.23thingskansas.org/participants/participant-registration-form/.

Learn more about the program by visiting the 23 Things Kansas website:
http://www.23thingskansas.org/

If you have any questions please contact Cindi Hickey at
chickey@kslib.info or me (Brenda Hough) at bhough@nekls.org.

Thank you!
Brenda

Brenda Hough
Continuing Education Consultant
Northeast Kansas Library System
http://www.nekls.org

Watch For It

The upgrade of Blue Skyways -

January 29 kickoff of Kansas Reads 2010 . . . Dreams From My Father -

Read Your Way to Kansas 150 in 2011 -

Research Database Webinar Archives - 

23 Things Kansas - online learning program intended to introduce library staff to various social networking tools

K12 Online Conference

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• K12 Online Continues.... 

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Teen Tech Week 2010

Registration opens for YALSA’s Teen Tech Week
YALSA launched its Teen Tech Week 2010 website, opening registration and offering resources, including activity ideas, presentations, and publicity tools, for the annual celebration of nonprint resources. Teen Tech Week is March 7–13, with a theme of Learn Create Share @ your library, encouraging teens to take advantage of the many technologies available to them, free of charge, at their libraries....

Milestones for Improving Learning and Education Guide

21st-century skills MILE Guide released
The Partnership for 21st-Century Skills released the Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (MILE) Guide, a hands-on tool designed to help districts and schools evaluate their integration of 21st-century skills into current and future practice, November 6 during the AASL conference. The guide includes a self-assessment tool that provides three benchmarks—early stage, transitional stage, and 21st century—for how far along schools and districts are in terms of student knowledge and skills....
AL Inside Scoop, Nov. 7; eSchool News, Nov. 9

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He Might Be Joking

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