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Debbie Abilock
Editor

Debbie Abilock , consultant and speaker, is widely known for innovative curriculum design and web projects that teach critical thinking.

She has been developing educational applications of online technology since 1992 and is a cofounder of Noodletools, Inc., a suite of web-based interactive tools for educators and school librarians. With over 25 years practical experience in education as an administrator, curriculum coordinator, teaching librarian and director of a unified technology-library department, she currently consults and speaks on curriculum design, integrating technology, teaching the Commons, ethical issues raised by technology and reading comprehension in new media.

As founding editor of Knowledge Quest she supports the mission of AASL by providing timely information and articles of interest to support research and practice for school librarians.

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Homepage Articles

2007-2008: Vol. 36

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: The Heart of the Game

No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Four Questions to Ask Yourself

No. 3 - Jan/Feb: Visual Information Literacy: Reading a Documentary Photograph

No. 4 - Mar/April: Applying Information Literacy Skills to Maps

No. 5 - May/June: Storytelling

2006-2007: Vol. 35

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: Portkeys to Vocabulary

No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Educating Students for Cross Cultural Proficiency

No. 3 - Jan/Feb: Small Changes

No. 4 - Mar/April: Practicing What We Teach

No. 5 - May/June: Choosing Assessments That Matter

2005-2006: Vol. 34

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: We're Here! Great Digital Teacher Librarians

No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Writing for KQ

No. 3 - Jan/Feb: Blogsense, not Blogvangelism

No. 4 - Mar/April:

No. 5 - May/June:So Close and So Small:Six Promising Approaches to Civic Education, Equity, and Social Justice

2004-2005: Vol. 33

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: Beginner's Blind Spots

No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Alpine Flowers

No. 3 - Jan/Feb: Focus on the User

No. 4 - Mar/April: Stories of Value

No. 5 - May/June:Cold Blooded Conference Strategies, With Thanks to Many

2003-2004: Vol. 32

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: Make a Deal
No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Put Yourself in your Administrator’s Shoes
No. 3 - Jan/Feb: What are You Called?
No. 4 - Mar/April: Information Literacy from Prehistory to K-20: A New Definition
No. 5 - May/June: Data Driven or Data Action? Data Mining or Data Designing

2002 - 2003: Vol. 31

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: Facility Dreams
No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Ten Ideas for Collaborative Leaders
No. 3 – Jan/Feb: Collaborating with Science Teachers
No. 4 – Mar/April: Our Common Wealth and Copy Rights: Five Easy Pieces
No. 5 – May/June: Collaborative Tools for the Global Village

2001- 2002: Vol. 30

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: My Own Sea of Learning
No. 2 – Nov/Dec: White on White
No. 3 – Jan/Feb: The Politics of Reading
No. 4 – Mar/April: Articulation from School to Society
No. 5 – May/June: Three Perspectives on March 21st and Beyond

2000 - 2001: Vol 29

No. 1 – Sept/Oct: Teaching with Primary Sources
No. 2 – Nov/Dec: Assessment that Teaches
No. 3 – Jan/Feb: Leadership Qualities
No. 4. – March/April: Is Print on the Line?
No. 5 – May/June: Partners and Mentors: Nourishing Professional Growth

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