This book includes simple but powerful ideas and instructions for integrating technology into presentations, and using booktalks to launch learning across the curriculum. For Grades 6 - 12. (Adapted from back cover).

This book includes simple but powerful ideas and instructions for integrating technology into presentations, and using booktalks to launch learning across the curriculum. For Grades 6 - 12. (Adapted from back cover).

Unleash new possibilities for reading promotion and readers' advisory with these technological tools that can help you to catch the interest of young readers and direct them toward positive reading experiences. Gone are the days of browsing library bookshelves—today's readers live much of their lives on their devices. Learn how to meet these young readers in their online activities by using technological tools that support independent reading and reading choices. This book shows you how to use not only more traditional social media such as Facebook and blogs but also video, audio and print applications, databases, and more. You'll learn how to use new apps such as Moovly, Koma Koma, and Booksnaps; well-known media including Twitter, Skype, Flickr, and Goodreads; and Soundcloud, Smore, Flipgrid, and ebook clubs for reading promotion and readers' advisory. For each of these technologies, you'll find a brief description of the platform, its content and applications, notes about the platform and its cost, how to use it for book promotion, and step-by-step instructions for promotional activities. Screenshots and drawings illustrate the instructions.

This book tells two, intertwined stories. Both stories begin in the 1980's, during the golden age of computer mainframes, and take the reader through time to the current era of iPhones and Alexa. One story takes you behind the scenes of how business software was made during the author's 25-year career as a Tech Consultant. The author is not a computer programmer,and the reader doesn't need to be tech savvy to understand and appreciate this book. During the author's career, she participated in software teams as a Technical Writer, a Business Analyst, a Project Manager, and a User Interface Designer. She tells us why these roles are part of what she calls the "Cleanup Crew." In her time on the Cleanup Crew, she had responsibility for making the software understandable and pleasing to its target users. She explains why the Cleanup Crew almost always failed at this task, leaving users, over and over, with software that was hard to use. She takes us inside the Tech software teams and introduces us to the Lords of Tech. That's when she reveals the details of what went so wrong with the software development process that gave business users software they struggled to use. She explains why the inside workings of Tech teams always put users last, and why no one on the project team suffered for it. Interwoven with this account is her personal story. She tells us how she fell into the Tech world by chance, after starting her professional life as a university professor. We learn how she became a committed technophile, yet abandoned her success as a Technical Writer to build a new career in User Experience (UX) Design. Through it all, she shows us why Tech will always be an exciting field of endeavor whose potential is unlimited.

This book presents a curricular framework for students grades 6–12 that school librarians and teachers can use collaboratively to enhance reading skill development, promote literature appreciation, and motivate young people to incorporate reading into their lives, beyond the required schoolwork. Supporting Reading Grades 6–12: A Guideaddresses head-on the disturbing trend of declining leisure reading among students and demonstrates how school librarians can contribute to the development of lifelong reading habits as well as improve students' motivation and test scores. The book provides a comprehensive framework for achieving this: the READS curriculum, which stands for Read as a personal activity; Explore characteristics, history, and awards of creative works; Analyze structure and aesthetic features of creative works; Develop a literary-based product; and Score reading progress. Each of these five components is explained thoroughly, describing how school librarians can encourage students to read as individuals, in groups, and as school communities; support classroom teachers' instruction; and connect students to today's constantly evolving technologies. Used in combination with an inquiry/information-skills model, the READS curriculum enables school librarians to deliver a dynamic, balanced library program that addresses AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.

The new third edition of Communicating Professionally is completely revised with new sections outlining the opportunities offered by contemporary communication media.