Nevenka Mandelj, Osnovna šola Litija, Urša Bajda, Osnovna šola Tončke Čeč Trbovlje in Javni zavod Osnovna šola Marjana Nemca Radeče

In tendency to digital literacy we cannot ignore the media literacy of an active learner. With the power of ICT and modern mobile devices, learners can enter into the school library from their home beds, on holidays, anywhere through its blog – an online diary. With a properly planned school library blog, teaching can be carried out outside school walls and library shelves. Media literacy competency, like all competencies, adopts gradually, until a learner develops an ability of critical evaluation of various media contents. With the assistance of school library blog, we can approach learners the ICT as a learning environment, that exceeds the space of games and peer conversations (mostly monosyllable words).

In contribution the authors represent two different school library blogs, which each on their own way, deepen students’ ICT skills, and enable media literacy a supportive environment.

Litija elementary school library blog fully introduces an extracurricular activity of young librarians, who actively engage in various national and international projects. Among other things, they created an innovative book trailer, abroad recognized as The Book Trailer.

In Radeče elementary school pupils are, among other things, joined in a debate club. Since pupils attend several debate tournaments a year, they prepare to them by exploring a wide variety of informational sources – the media. Through their school library blog, pupils also inform a wider community about their interests, achievements and dilemmas.

With this contribution the authors want to emphasize the importance of school libraries in the digital era, and draw attention to a long ago exceeded physical space of the school library, which could become a successful virtual learning environment – respectively a teaching tool.