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Digital video is hot. It's now one of the most popular learning tools in middle-school classrooms--and among the simplest technologies to use. It is also a natural for project-based learning, [...]

Although attendance is expected to be down at the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference in Toronto, the financial repercussions resulting from the fear of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) [...]

It's a promising development when the nation's largest educational technology conference recognizes the importance of library media specialists as technology leaders. And this summer's National Educational Computing Conference (NECC)--June 29 [...]

When you subscribe to several online discussion groups on similar topics--in my case, serving young people in public and school libraries--you see the same topics popping up over and over […]

TOY DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS ARE HARD AT WORK, creating the next generation of electronic learning devices for kids. What will they look like? Nobody's really sure, but we know at [...]

'Those of us using Linux in schools have a motto,' says Paul Nelson, technology director of the small Riverdale school district in Oregon. 'It works. It's free. Duh.' Nelson is [...]

Scissors in hand, Bryan Collier explains how he creates his collages. 'I can look at objects, pictures, and images and see something else,' says the 2002 Caldecott Honor--winning illustrator, snipping [...]

H. W. Wilson's Library Catalogs are familiar to almost every librarian who wants to know what should be in a good school or public library collection for young people. Now [...]

New and exciting video technologies are beginning to appear that will change the way schools handle video programming in the future. And surprisingly, DVDs will probably make up only a [...]

When President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, he sent educators and software companies scrambling. Why? The law, which requires that every child be able [...]

The Baltimore County (MD) School District has always evaluated and ordered its textbooks the old-fashioned way--on paper. In fact, there s so much paperwork that textbook orders take weeks or […]

Because I spend a lot of time evaluating web sites by K-12 schools and public libraries, I've noticed a few things about the lists of links for children and teens [...]

If you've ever searched for newspaper articles that are more than 20 years old, you've probably wrestled with a microfilm or microfiche reader. These cumbersome devices were often indispensable for [...]

Kickapoo High School's library in Springfield, MO, was featured in its city's newspaper in July after a reporter learned that it had lost 187 books, worth about $2,000, to theft [...]

Last year, the Monroe (CT) School District began laboring over what many districts are now wringing their hands about: curriculum mapping. Using comprehensive, easy-to-understand tables, curriculum mapping lays out what [...]

Librarians often turn to the web for ready-reference materials, particularly when the question involves computers, celebrities, or current news. Kids in school depend on the Internet as the major--and in […]

With the impact of September 11 still palpable, librarians are grappling with new legislation that has given law enforcement expanded capabilities to combat terrorism, while trying to preserve patrons' once […]

Thin clients may be the perfect solution for many schools' evergrowing computing needs. Small, inexpensive alternatives to their more temperamental and costly cousins--full-fledged computers--thin clients offer schools and libraries more […]

JOHN BAILEY looks less like the Bush administration's educational technology czar and more like a college football player--big, broad-shouldered, and surprisingly young. Only 29, he's worked in education since 1995, [...]

When we think of the Internet, we often think of web sites first--of online ticket sales and banking and auctions. And despite a recently released study reporting that Americans are [...]

Joyce Valenza, librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, PA, knows how high school students do research projects, sometimes with unfortunate results. 'They just use the Internet,' she says. [...]

As sure as the sun rises, children will forget to bring their library cards to the library. Is there a way to avoid long lines, embarrassed kids, and staff frustration [...]

Past generations of school librarians could teach research skills fairly simply. Most libraries housed many print resources, library catalogs on cards with their author, title, and subject headings, encyclopedias, and [...]

Widespread concerns about air travel did not prevent the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) biennial conference from having its most successful turnout ever. The conference, held in Indianapolis November [...]

The past year in educational technology has been a busy one. Several education-oriented dot-coms collapsed in 2001 when the economy teetered, and the terrorist attacks of September 11 have only [...]

Many librarians, as they watch children mob the public-access PCs in their libraries, worry that fewer children will be reading great books as we move through the 21st century. But [...]

Many school and public librarians know it's true, but now there is data to back it up. A new study found 71 percent of teens used the Internet as the [...]

The 53 Web servers that deliver catalog and circulation information to the Fort Wayne (IN) Community Schools had to be shut down September 21, leaving the district's students and teachers [...]

Many children's publishers offer games and activities related to their books on their Web sites to promote them. But no other major children's publisher goes as far as Winslow Press [...]

STEWART, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums. illus. by Diana Sudyka. 148p. (The Mysterious Benedict Society Series). CIP. Little, [...]

DELANEY, Joseph. The Spook's Bestiary: A Guide to Creatures of the Dark. illus, by Julek Heller. 222p. (The Last Apprentice Series). CIP. Greenwillow. 2011. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-0-06-208114-8; ebook $9.99. [...]

GRIFFITHS, Andy. Killer Koalas from Outer Space: and Lots of Other Very Bad Stuff That Will Make Your Brain Explode. illus. by Terry Denton. 172p. Feiwel & Friends. Oct. 2011. [...]

SHREVE, Steve. Stan and the Toilet Monster. illus. by author. 160p. CIP. Marshall Cavendish. Oct. 2011. Tr $12.99. ISBN 978-0-7614-5977-4; ebook $12.99. ISBN 978-0-7614-6086-2. LC 2011001233. Gr 3-5--Stan is a [...]

ALTBACKER, EJ. Shark Wars. Bk. 1. 256p. Penguin/Razorbill. 2011. Tr $12.99. ISBN 978-1-59514-376-1. LC number unavailable. Gr 4-7--Gray is a young reef shark growing up in Coral Shiver, one of [...]

CARMAN, Patrick. Shantorian. Bk. 2. 170p. (Trackers Series). Web sites. Scholastic. 2011. Tr $14.99. ISBN 978-0-545-16501-3. LC number unavailable. Gr 5-9--In Trackers (Scholastic, 2010), Adam, Finn, Lewis, and Emily found [...]

MACAULEY, Michael. The Inheritance Almanac: An A-to-Z Guide to the World of Eragon. with Mark Cotta Vaz. 216p. illus. photos, appendix. Knopf/Borzoi. 2010. Tr $18.99. ISBN 978-0-375-86493-3; PLB $21.99. ISBN [...]

MCELLIGOTT, Matthew & Larry Tuxbury. Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! illus. by Matthew McElligott. 121p. CIP. Putnam. 2010. Tr $12.99. ISBN 978-0-39925229-7. LC 2009027516. Gr 4-6--Benjamin Franklin never died. Instead, a secret [...]

KLOEPFER, John. The Zombie Chasers. Bk. 1. illus, by Steve Wolfhard. 205p. CIP. HarperCollins/Harper. 2010. Tr $15.99. ISBN 978-0-06-185304-3. LC 2010004602. Gr 5-7--Seventh-grader Zack Clarke's suburban Phoenix neighborhood seems normal-until [...]

CHATTERTON, Martin. The Brain Full of Holes. 256p. Peachtree. 2010. Tr $16.95. ISBN 978-1-56145-527-0. LC 2009024510. Gr 5-8--Sheldon McGlone, the adolescent hero of The Brain Finds a Leg (Peachtree, 2009), [...]

VAN EEKHOUT, Greg. Kid vs. Squid. 196p. CIR Bloomsbury. 2010. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-1-59990-489-4. LC 2009036040. Gr 4-6--Thatcher is reluctantly sent to spend the summer between sixth and seventh grades [...]

OLANDER, Johan. A Field Guide to Aliens: Intergalactic Worrywarts, Bubblonauts, Silver-SIurpers, and Other Extraterrestrials. illus, by author. 61p. photos. CIP. Marshall Cavendish. 2010. RTE $16.99. ISBN 978-0-7614-5594-3. LC 2009005936. Gr [...]

STEER, Dugald, A., ed. Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology. illus. by D. Carrel, et al. 182p. charts, diags. maps. photos, index. CIP. Candlewick. 2009. Tr $19.99. ISBN 978-0-7636-46233. LC 2009016525. [...]

FALCONE, L. M. The Midnight Curse. 208p. CIP. Kids Can. 2010. Tr $16.95. ISBN 978-1-55453-358-9; pap. $8.95. ISBN 978-1-55453-359-6. LC number unavailable. Gr 4-6--Fraternal twins Lacey and Charlie live with [...]

PAOLINI, Christopher. Eragon's Guide to Alagaesia. illus, by Fred Gambino, et al. unpaged. Knopf. 2009. Tr $24.99. ISBN 978-0-375-85823-9. LC number unavailable. Gr 5-9--Designed in the style of such books [...]

SINDEN, David, Matthew Morgan, & Guy Macdonald. Sea Monsters and Other Delicacies. Bk. 2. ISBN 978-1-4169-8650-8. LC 2008939726. --. Werewolf Versus Dragon. Bk. 1. ISBN 978-1-4169-8649-2. LC 2008939727. ea vol: [...]

DUNKLE, Clare B. The Walls Have Eyes. 225p. CIP. S & S/Atheneum/Ginee Seo Bks. 2009. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-1-4169-5379-1. LC 2008038298. Gr 5-8--In The Sky Inside (S & S, 2008), [...]