What is OELMA?
The Ohio Educational Library Media Association is Ohio's preeminent professional association for highly effective school librarians and libraries.
The mission of the Ohio Educational Library Media Association is to meet the needs of Ohio’s learners as we advocate for and provide professional development to school librarians.
Sue Subel
Sue is the Library Media Specialist for Kenston High School and the Immediate Past President of OELMA.
This is a post from Paige Yaeger's blog, "Librarydoor". She has some very interesting blogs, this one is very relevant so I thought I would pass along! The post is comprised of handouts she provided at an AASL webinar.
http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2012/06/common-core-carp-diem.html...
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This is an interesting article about the common core and students ability to write research papers. Seems that the Northwest Local Schools are creating a new course called the Fifth Core to get students researching and writing papers. Good news! The bad news, however, there is no mention of a school...
Tags: common core standards, research, writing
If you use Turnitin.com at your school, you probably received an email about "Plagiarism Education Week". The following link describes the webcasts that are available this week and also has links to some excellent infographics. The first webcast was today, Monday, April 22nd.
http://turnitin.com/en_us/resources/plagiarism-education-week?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoluqzPZKXonjHpfsX57%2BkkXqCg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YcCScd0dvycMRAVFZl5nQVIG%2FKUeIlH9%2BY%3D#monday...
Tags: infographics, plagiarism, Turnitin.com, webcasts
A great new infographic has been created by a sophomore in high school, thanks to ALA/AASL member Connie Williams in California.
Check it out: http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/advocacy/AASL_infographic.pdf
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I have been following the many discussions about MOOCs (massive open online courses) in the university setting. I am following this because I feel it may have implications at the high school level. In particular, is the problem with offering library services to students taking the online courses. At Duke, enrolled...
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