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  • Social Networking Guru danah boyd
    By Debra Lau Whelan - 03/25/2009
    When danah boyd talks, people listen. The academic, blogger, and rock star of social networking research has just completed her PhD dissertation, “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics." SLJ caught up with her to talk about the way American teens socialize on sites like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga, and YouTube.  More

  • Twitter, Texting Enhance Writing Skills, Says Expert
    Lauren Barack - 12/14/2009
    If renowned author Ernest Hemingway could write a full story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”), then teachers and librarians should actually encourage their students to use Twitter and text messages as part of their literacy lessons. So says Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who believes the constraints built into Twitter could help students learn to be more inventive in their schoolwork. More
  • Winter Wonderland Lessons
    Gail Junion-Metz - 12/09/2009
    It’s difficult to keep kids focused on school right before the holidays, what with all the parties, TV specials, and anticipation of presents. “Winter Wonderland,” just updated for 2010, is the perfect site to help kids focus on learning. 
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  • Gates Foundation Boosts Library Broadband Efforts
    By Norman Oder - 12/02/2009
    As demand for library Internet access continues to grow, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced two plans to help libraries improve broadband connections: one involves state broadband improvement plans; the other offers help with getting federal broadband stimulus funds. More
  • Winter Whimsy
    Gail Junion-Metz - 12/02/2009
    Winter Bells is engaging, kid-appropriate, visually stunning, and has wonderful original music. The premise of this charming online game is simple: use your mouse to make the rabbit jump and land on top of bells as they fall from the sky like big snowflakes. More
  • An Open Source Tool for Every Task
    By Steve Hargadon - 12/01/2009
    For the last several years, I’ve organized sessions on open source software (OSS) at ed-tech conferences. But this year was markedly different, with an awareness of these tools among educators that I’d never seen—a result, perhaps, of restrictive school budgets (there are no licensing fees with OSS). More
  • School Librarians Lead in Social Networking
    Lauren Barack - 12/01/2009
    Media specialists are more likely to join social networking sites than teachers and principals—and they’re more likely to adopt a variety of content-sharing tools for personal, professional, and classroom use, says a new report. “A Survey of K–12 Educators on Social Networking and Content-Sharing Tools” (bit. More
  • Fun and Games: National Gaming Day
    Kathy Ishizuka - 12/01/2009
    National Gaming Day (NGD) drew players of all ages to the library last month, though judging from the Twitter stream, organizers enjoyed themselves, too. “We had a pretty good turnout at our local library. VERY fun!” tweeted Michael Sanchez, who volunteers at the Lake Wales (FL) Public Library. More
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Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road

GALLOWAY, Priscilla, with Dawn Hunter. Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road. 164p. maps. photos. reprods. further reading. index. Web sites. CIP. Annick, dist. by Firefly. Dec. 2009. Tr $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55451-198-3; pap. $14.95. ISBN 978-1-55451-197-6. LC C2009-902473-X.  

Gr 6-8–The monk Xuanzang, the conqueror Genghis Khan, and the merchant Marco Polo each traveled the Silk Road, years apart.

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