If you’re still using email and/or pencil and paper to schedule, communicate, and collaborate with your teachers, it’s time to look at digitizing your work. It may be hard to get used to at first, but so was using an online… Read More ›
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Monday Means Leadership: Virtual Library Legislative Day
National Library Legislative Day will be held May 4-5, 2015, in Washington, DC. If you have the opportunity to attend the event and speak to your legislators about funding and support for libraries, it is an incredible experience. But if… Read More ›
Friday Finds – Knowledge of Patrons
Have you seen the story about this Colorado teacher? It is amazing. With just a simple question posed to her students, she learned so much about her class. She was shocked and surprised by many of their answers. As… Read More ›
Let’s Get Together Thursday – Celebrating School Library Month
It’s School Library Month! I hope you have all been celebrated and honored for the important work that you do, working in collaborative ways to make your library a relevant, student-centered hub of learning for your school. Even if you… Read More ›
Technology Tuesday – Creating Video MashUps
I was recently asked to introduce some emerging educational technology trends to a parent group on campus. I decided video clips would be the best way to share these trends because parents could see the technologies in action, and many of the… Read More ›
Monday Means Leadership: Literacy Leaders
When we talk about literacy, we no longer mean just reading abilities. We refer to digital literacy and information literacy and transliteracy in our discussions about how we work with students to improve their reading comprehension, their proficiency and their… Read More ›
Friday Finds – Cool Library Video
Fun Friday video, from Orange Public Library and Chapman University, for librarians to share with the patrons! Happy National Library Week.
What to Read Wednesday – You Gotta Love a Good Cult Story
I started listening to Vivian Apple at the End of the World a couple of days ago and it brought to mind how much I enjoy a good cult story. So, for today’s What to Read Wednesday post I’m going… Read More ›
Ideas for Using AASL Best Websites: Youngzine
There’s good news for educators looking for safe online sites with quality content for their students. Youngzine is a child-friendly online news source with excellent subject matter designed for upper elementary to high school students. The original educational news articles… Read More ›
Monday Means Leadership: Your Professional Place on the Internet
Whether it’s through LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google or some other application or platform, we all should find our professional place on the internet: a website to share our resumes and professional activities, our lessons and research projects, our educational philosophies… Read More ›