Most kids don’t exactly leap to use a reference database. But now Gale is leveraging students’ penchant for Google to quell their common objection that databases are hard to use.
The True Cost of Free Internet Services | Next Big Thing
By on October 21, 2014
We must be willing to pay for Internet products that enhance learning.
SLJ Reviews Information Literacy Courseware ResearchReady
By on May 8, 2013
What is ResearchReady? The new information literacy courseware is “just about everything we try and teach condensed into a single convenient, Web-based and tablet-friendly can,” according to SLJ columnist Jeff Hastings.
Sarah Ludwig’s Picks: Top Tech Tools
By on April 27, 2012
“What are your go-to applications?” SLJ recently posed the question to Sarah Ludwig, tech coordinator at Hamden Hall School in Connecticut, and the subject of our April 2012 cover story.
Librarian Serves up ‘Appy Hour’
By on December 9, 2011
District librarian Kathy Kaldenberg didn’t stir any gimlets or martinis. But her recent “Appy Hour” did serve up a taste of applications that enable note taking, formatting citations, and streaming news—all an effort to get local educators to infuse 21st-century tools into teaching and learning.
