Hello, As Creative Commons materials become more and more common, know how to properly use and cite them is becoming more important. Now everyone however knows how to do this. Thankfully the people over at Creative Commons Australia have put together a very clear 9-page PDF showing exactly how and when and where you need to cite
Hello, Here's an interesting info graphic about where the young and educated chose to move to. Originally I found this info graphic on Good Magazine. http://s3.amazonaws.com/awesome.good.is/infographics/images/000/000/230/original/1360016918?1360016326 Julian
Very interesting and scary video about how much of your life is not really private at all... http://youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I Thanks to Maureen Baron for passing this along. Julian
For a little insight into the realities of attempting to change “the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit,”… take a look at This article from the Canadian Press via The Huffington Post , which thankfully gives us some Canadian examples to learn from. Please note that the spelling of "wikipidia" was by the news
Hello, The 2013 Congres des Milieux Documentaries du Quebec, also known in English as Conference of the Library and Information Community of Quebec (CLIC), is currently looking for people who would be willing to present at this year’s conference, being held in Montreal on November 25-27. If you are interested, they are accepting proposals until April 5th. Julian
In my ongoing series of finding and posting examples of why teaching students to not plagiarize or on why doing proper research is important... I present to you a CBC article about the recent resignation of the education minister in Germany after news broke out that his Ph. D had plagiarized from other works... Take
Thanks to Raphaella Dixon of the LBPSB for brining this to my attention. As you may be aware, the copyright law in Canada was amended this past November. Here is a link to an easy-to-read guide published for educators by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC). Written in a question and answer format,
Hello, This blog post was originally done by Buffy Hamilton back in April, but I thought it warranted a spot here to serve as an overview and, I feel, as inspiration for giving it our all. At the very least, read her last paragraph. http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/do-i-really-have-to-leave-the-school-library-to-do-the-work-of-a-school-librarian/ Julian
This actually all happened a few months ago, but it still merits posting. I personally like real world examples to show teachers and students as to why it is important to have good research skills. The case in point envolves the BBC accidentally showing an image from the popular HALO video game series as
Hello all, I was wondering what would you suggest I read this summer... help! Julian
