This compilation of media and technology guru Doug Johnson'sLibrary Media Connectioncolumns offers his unique perspective on the role of the library media specialist in today's world.
School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflectionscollects Doug Johnson's wildly popular Head for the Edge column forLibrary Media Connection. In one convenient volume, it brings together the best of Johnson's writingtopical, timely, technical, and theoreticalon the world of school media and the most effective ways libraries can use technology to serve teachers and students.
School Libraries Head for the Edgeranges across the breadth of its critically important subject, with chapters on libraries and education in transition, professional skills and development, building student research and technology skills, technology in the libraries and in education, and bringing an ethical, values-based sensibility to the use of media in school libraries. Throughout, Johnson tells it like it is, with cutting-edge coverage of the latest trends in library media and technology and incisive commentary on everything from the ramifications of Web 2.0 to what's new for tomorrow.
Doug Johnson, is the author of the popular Head for the Edge column that appears in each issue of
Library Media Connection, is director of media and technology at I.S.D. Mankato Public Schools, MN. He is the author of Linworth's
The Indispensable Librarian: Surviving (and Thriving) In School Media Centers.
With some fresh and innovative ideas, Doug Johnson comes to readers with no shortage of creative advice for readers.School Libraries Head for the Edgeis a must for any school library who wants to be the best resource for their students they can. Midwest Book Review
Chapters end with quotes, questions, and self-evaluative reflection that readers will be inspired to mirror. For all practitioners.
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