Hello colleagues,

All of us will soon depart for our summer holidays, so I wanted to get this great information out now about the keynote speaker and workshop presenter Debbie Abilock for the librarian segment of ACAMIS March 11-12, 2011, and which Concordia International School Shanghai is hosting.

Debbie Abilock is

· passionate about 21st century literacies and espouses what Howard Gardner proffers in his book Intelligence Reframed regarding literacies
· cofounder of NoodleToolshttp://www.noodletools.com with its affective web-based software program NoodleBib that helps students become ethical researchers
· an educator with more than 25 years experience as a curriculum coordinator and director of a unified library and technology department
· editor of Knowledge Quest, an American Library Association magazine. See her most recent KQ article on “Inquiry Evaluation” that I have attached
· active in presenting curriculum, reading, ethics & information literacy workshops worldwide
· expert on the subject of having participants understand the challenges of teaching evaluation of sources
· past presenter of SEEDING THE OYSTER: LEADERSHIP THROUGH DIALOGUE "School is about practicing to wrap one's mind around real and complex ideas, those of fundamental consequence for oneself and for the culture

For more information about Debbie’s background, please go to http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/bio/#quotes

More details will be forthcoming.

Christina Mayers

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