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School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections
School Libraries Head for the Edge Rants Recommendations and Reflections Author:Doug Johnson School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections collects Doug JohnsonÕs wildly popular ÒHead for the EdgeÓ column for Library Media Connection. In one convenient volume, it brings together the best of JohnsonÕs writing?topical, timely, technical, and theoretical?on the world of school media and the most ... more »effective ways libraries can use technology to serve teachers and students.School Libraries Head for the Edge ranges 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 whatÕs new for tomorrow.« less