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ISTE Standards for Students Technology Standards for all students.  Draft of New ISTE Standards
Computer Science Standards - Adopted by RI 5/15/18
CS4RI - Computer Science 4 Rhode Island website.
American Association of School Librarians 
Standards for the 21st Century Learner
Librarians for Technology
Share your favorite tech sites.  Fill out the form online and become a contributing member.
AskRI free PR materials.
Library Research Service - School Libraries Impact Studies.
How to add eBooks to your Follett catalog. Start at Search Setup from the Catalog tab as shown in the video below. 
ISTE Standards for Teachers - Make sure you are up on the International Technology Standards.
Diigo  
Add students into a classroom account.  Bookmark, add highlights and sticky notes to websites.  Share within your group.  Great for website evaluation, discussion and sharing.
Books For Kids 
Want to keep up with what is new in children's books?  Try reading this former librarian's blog.  She has over 32 years of experience matching books and readers.
RILINK page Library Guides   
ILL info here. Directions for Multiple Copy Requests.

WorldBook ebooks - RILINK Instructions for adding WB ebooks to your Destiny catalog.
Commonsense Media - Digital Citizenship lessons
OLIS - Office of Library Information Services. Home page.
Web Junction 
An online community for librarians at the National level.
School Librarians of Rhode Island 
Formerly Rhode Island Educational Media Association.  Mission is to provide leadership and support for school library media professionals and support staff in the development, promotion, improvement, and evaluation of school library media, computer, and instructional technology programs in ALL Rhode Island schools.
LiveBinders 
Common Core and LMSs
WebTools4u2use  
"A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media programs, and share ideas & success stories."
PBS Video Streaming 
Encourage your faculty to sign up for free online videos and interactives with an educator account at PBS.
One Search Setup    
Here's a podcast to walk you through the setup steps for the Destiny feature, One Search.
Library of Congress 
Digital copies of maps, sound recordings, primary sources.
CommonSenseMedia.org 
Interactive literacy and Internet safety assessments.
Some great blogs by and for librarians.
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