Well-known and loved for his column, "Head for the Edge", in THE BOOK REPORT and LIBRARY TALK, Doug Johnson has become a motivator, philosopher, and entertainer for teachers and media specialists all over the country. Johnson defines and clarifies the role of the school library media specialist in a technologically enhanced school, providing relevant examples and useful advice on a variety of topics. In his wise and entertaining style, he cuts to the heart of each issue as he offers practical methods for leveraging technology's popularity and effectiveness to build stronger programs and cultivate professional networks and friendships.

The Indispensable Librarian : Surviving (And Thriving) in School Media Centers in the Information Age

Politics & Social Sciences

Johnson, Douglas A.

Social Sciences

Linworth

Make the most of your bar-exam preparation to pass the bar exam on your first try. Read and follow this comprehensive guide to bar-preparation plans and programs, and bar-exam content, skills, and conditions. The books fifteen chapters give law students and graduates who are preparing to take the bar exam the most-current and best information on planning and preparing to take and pass the bar exam on the first try. Chapters address everything from the exam's content to how to address specific forms of multiple-choice and essay questions. One chapter addresses the special challenges of the Multistate Bar Examination's and Multistate Essay Examination's specific subjects. Another chapter addresses how to craft a bar-preparation schedule. Another chapter explains how to locate and use specific instructional resources. Another chapter addresses specific conditions for the exam including how to manage exam time. Early chapters address attitude, health, and relationships, and late chapters address behavior keys and how to handle bar-exam results. The guide is comprehensive in its treatment of all common and many uncommon bar-exam issues. The book's authors are a law professor and dean recognized in the Harvard University Press book What the Best Law Teachers Do as among the nation’s leading law professors, and an international consultant and university research psychologist in performance management, fluency training, and instructional design.

Preparing for the Bar Exam: A Comprehensive Guide to Plans, Programs, Content, Conditions, and Skills

Miller, Nelson P.

Legal Education

Crown Management, LLC

Make Creativity The Center Of The Curriculum! In our fast-changing world, the ability to think independently and innovatively is no longer a "nice extra"―it’s a survival skill. This book delivers surefire strategies for equipping learners across all grades and subjects with the motivation and critical thinking skills to thrive in our high-tech future. Content includes: <ul>
<li>Why "one right answer" instruction paradigms discourage critical thinking and risk-taking</li> <li>Why merely using the latest technology class does not equate to teaching creatively</li> <li>Projects and prompts that ask the question "So what does this mean in the classroom today?"</li> </ul>

Teaching Outside the Lines: Developing Creativity in Every Learner

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

Doug Johnson has created an instant workshop, laid out with objectives, rationale, assessment forms and evaluation tools. Just create a few activities and you are ready to go. Bulleted lists make the book easy to use. This book is of value to anyone, including media specialists, who plan or deliver staff development in schools with teachers or administrators. It also can serve as a college textbook for pre-service teachers in educational technology, administration, and Internet classes.• Receive a clear list of technology skills and staff development plans that will help school librarians and others plan, administer, and evaluate in-services in technology for school staff• Provides a plan for increasing and evaluating the technology proficiency of school staffs• Provides clear descriptions of specific technology skills and a framework for technology staff development• Gives step-by-step instructions for creating a staff development model for advanced computer users and administrators

Indispensable Teacher's Guide to Computer Skills, The

Computers & Technology

Software

Young computer users face ethical decisions every day. Make sure they know right from wrong.|When students start using computers and networks, they start operating in a new, virtual world. Suddenly, behavioral lines blur: is it OK to download text from a website right into a term paper? What should you say about computer chat rooms or copying software programs? This new thoughtful and carefully written book helps youâe"and your studentsâe"understand todayâeTMs information technology ethics, from downloading explicit pictures to guessing passwords to respect for privacy, property, and the law.||âe¢ Help students explore the ethics of digital technology|âe¢ Includes the Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics with key moral imperatives for students of all ages

Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: An Ethics Guide for Parents, Teachers, Librarians, and Others Who Care About Computer-Using Young People

Networking & Cloud Computing

This readable and practical book examines the changes in school libraries brought by the digital revolution―and describes how new and experienced librarians can take advantage of them.
Both a book of practical solutions to today's budgetary and staffing problems in school libraries as well as an advocacy book, The Indispensable Librarian: Surviving and Thriving in School Libraries in the Information Age, Second Edition provides a practice-based overview of all management topics that also supplies real-world scenarios, step-by-step instructions, and pragmatic solutions to specific problems.
In this follow-up to his original book, Doug Johnson offers more practical methods and sage advice for leveraging technology's popularity and effectiveness to build stronger programs and cultivate beneficial professional connections and friendships. He defines and clarifies the role of the school library media specialist in a technologically enhanced school, providing relevant examples and useful advice on a variety of topics; and underscores the importance of strong management skills, especially regarding collaborative planning and communications. The book is written especially for K–12 school librarians, both new and experienced, and is also suitable for pre-service librarians as a textbook.
 • Provides both practical and visionary insights from an experienced, currently practicing librarian/library supervisor
• Supplies accessible and often humorous coverage of the subject without being simplistic
• Includes provocative ideas to stimulate thought and discussion
• Highlights the impact of technology on the library program and serves as a straightforward guide to changes needed in the field
• Offers an essential foundation of all aspects of managing a school library program

The Indispensable Librarian: Surviving and Thriving in School Libraries in the Information Age

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