International Children’s Digital Library - Ann Carlson Weeks Keynote at IASL
Have you checked out the updated ICDL site? If not, it’s worth spending some meaty time there. We have a total of four presentations at IASL today that show how the ICDL is providing international books to schools around the world. One of the fascinating aspects is the child-friendly search (yes, you can search by the color of the book title — at last!) that does not require text typing.
Think about giving your ELL students books in their native language, having foreign language books for your foreign language teachers, or doing a “big book” storytime by connecting your laptop to a data projector. Has your book acquisition budget dwindled? Think about how you might use these digitized books to supplement your collection.
So many possibilities!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
The middle school in our district has one year for Western Global studies and one for Eastern Global. These books would be a nice way for the kids to see what children read in those studied countries.