Each TechnoTuesday
Posted in Education, Information Literacy, Library, Literacy on Jan 5th, 2013
My friend Frank Baker posted this on our SCASL listserv recently and included a link to this article: With the increased popularity of social media have come more bullying, cheating and privacy concerns. Now, some are questioning whether schools — where students learn many lessons in morality — should include social media etiquette as part [...]
Posted in Education, Professional Development, Social Networks on Nov 25th, 2012
I have to confess I haven’t kept up with my feeds as much this year as years past, but I know the ones I read first when I do venture in to open it. I also have some favorites from some of the other categories as well. So today, I take time to make a [...]
Posted in Digital Video, Education, Professional Development, South Carolina on Jul 5th, 2012
In South Carolina, teachers are annually assessed based on a “goals-based evaluation” (GBE) that we as teachers work with an assigned administrer to plan and implement as our own method of growing in our profession. It’s kind of cool if you think about–innovative and definitely a think out of the box approach to assessing educators, [...]
Posted in Education, Information Literacy, k12 Education, Library, Professional Development, Professional Organizations, research on Jul 4th, 2012
So I’m sitting here tonight listening/viewing the Alan November keynote from the SIGMS Breakfast at ISTE. During this keynote he polled the audience to see how many were familiar with Eli Pariser, his book, and/or the Ted Talks video. Oh my, only maybe THREE acknowledged awareness of it. I blogged it May 8, 2011 and [...]
Posted in Collection development, Education on Apr 19th, 2012
We are excited to share our weeded books that have been transformed into works of book art, or more aptly book sculptures. We hope to showcase them throughout the rest of the school year and hopefully even into the fall. As soon as they were set out we had a steady stream of curious students [...]
Posted in Education, Library, Library Brand, YA Literature on Apr 13th, 2012
This has been a reoccurring question lately in the library, and there is no shortage of dystopian novels to read. After reading other library related blogs suggesting titles, and factoring recent ones I had read too, I decided to create a display for our students that could help them select another read as enjoyable as [...]
Posted in Collection development, Cool to me!, Education, Library Brand on Mar 31st, 2012
So I’ve been dabbling in the stacks again, pulling old, outdated books. At one point in February, my colibrarian and I had five carts full to overflowing with weeds. Meanwhile I had been exploring Pinterest and a collection of pins done by my dear friend Diane Cordell. I kept finding these sites or pics and sharing [...]
Barring any snafus tomorrow 6PM-ish (ET) I have a group of 8 students signed up for our first participation into the SWVBC (somewhat virtual book club.) We are connecting with seven other schools from all over the US via Skype. I use Skype at home, but at school, with our filter and firewall and who [...]
Posted in Cool to me!, Education, Teaching Tools on Feb 22nd, 2012
Once a month we’ve been doing a PD spin off from the ISTE SIGMS series One Tool at a Time with teachers at our school. It’s all volunteer and done during planning periods. Some have opted to count it as their GBE (goals-based evaluation) where teachers set goals, work towards the goals, and then are [...]
Posted in 2.0, 21st century, Education, Learning, Professional Development, South Carolina, Teaching Tools on Dec 13th, 2011
Today my colibrarian and I lead a staff development each block for any interested teachers. We have been doing this since October, and we call the opportunities “One Tool at a Time.” Yes, I swiped borrowed the name from the ISTE SIGMS webinar series called “One Tool at a Time.” When I send out emails [...]
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