Florida’s iSchool unveils new leadership for #1 ranked School Media program Focus will use new leadership approaches to innovate and reimagine K-12 school technology leadership TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – February 3, 2015 – The iSchool at Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information today announced that it will launch a new initiative, “Educational Informatics” as …
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Florida’s iSchool unveils new leadership for #1 ranked School Media program
Mardis publishes new book
Marcia Mardis has a new book hitting shelves this year. The associate professor at Florida State University‘s School of Information wrote The Collection’s at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM. As a former school administrator and school librarian with 15 years experience, Mardis takes a look at K-12 …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Mardis & Spears Published
Two faculty members in Florida State’s School of Information have recently had their research published: A Failure to Connect: The Elusive Relationship between Broadband Access and Children’s Information Seeking in American Academic Research. Associate Professor Marcia Mardis and doctoral candidate Laura Spears conducted a study concerning children’s information seeking and broadband access. In the United States, the …
CONTINUE READINGUniversity of Texas Professor to present on April 16 about broadband deployment and use
Dr. Sharon Strover will present an Eppes-Summers lecture on Wednesday, April 16, in the Shores Building, Room 206, from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. This presentation will be webcast at webcast.cci.fsu.edu. She will also be available later that afternoon for additional conversations. The title of her presentation is “From Dial-Up to Fiber-to-the-Home: The Forgotten Rural Challenge.” Strover has a national …
CONTINUE READINGFSU School of Information faculty and doctoral students to attend 2014 iConference in Berlin
Several doctoral students and faculty members from Florida State University (FSU)’s School of Information are heading to the 2014 iConference in Berlin, Germany that will take place March 4 through 7. This year’s FSU participants include: Dr. Warren Allen, Dr. Gary Burnett, Dr. Kathleen Burnett, Wonchan Choi, Laura-Edythe Coleman, Dr. Nancy Everhart, Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho, Ji Hei Kang, …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS Professor Mardis joins UCAR as Distinguished Research Fellow
FSU School of Library and Information Studies Associate Professor, Marcia Mardis, will join the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR) during the 2013-14 academic year as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). UCAR is a consortium of over 100 member universities and academic affiliates focused on research and training in the atmospheric and …
CONTINUE READINGVisit with FSU-SLIS at AASL Conference, Minneapolis, Oct. 27-30
Are you going to the American Association of School Librarians 15th National Conference & Exhibition in Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 27-30, 2011? Our own Dr. Linda Swaine is attending and is available at the FSU School of Library & Information Studies booth #1209 in the Exhibit Hall. Other faculty members attending are Drs. Nancy Everhart, Marcia …
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