What a great session from the AASL! While many librarians may be aware of the AASL’s annual listing of the best websites for teaching and learning, this session delved into each website giving information about the site, age levels, the standards the site addresses, and even showed short video clips about each site and its application. It was a fun way to learn about new resources, and I plan to experiment with a lot of these and hope to use them in my elementary school library curriculum next year. To check out the AASL’s best websites, here is the list… https://standards.aasl.org/project/bw18/ Past recommended websites can be found at: http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/websites And now, I am signing off to build my own code using Pencil Code!!! This post addresses the following ALSC Core Competencies: II. Reference and User Services and IV. Knowledge, Curation, and Management of Materials.
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Gimme a C (for Collaboration!): How Our Standards Relate and Interconnect
This past November, I saw a post on our North Carolina State Library blog about the new Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries. After reading, I was curious to see how they compared to our North Carolina School Library Media Coordinator Standards. Similar to other states, our NC SLMC standards are based on guidelines from AASL, ISTE, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, ALA/AASL Standards for Initial Preparation of School Librarians and other state standards. After reading this document and noticing that it is geared towards those serving ages birth to 14, I decided to also check out YALSA’s Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth* since I am in a high school setting. I wanted to see if there were areas where we overlapped that might be used to promote more collaboration between school and public librarians. I noticed that we had similar standards although some of our elements may come under…