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, 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 Google, Information Literacy on Feb 28th, 2012
Today a drove over to my neighboring county to speak with their local chapter of the National Council of Teachers of English. My topic was web evaluation. Here is my slide deck and links shared in my session. It was a lot of fun, and it’s amazing what i had in common with this group, [...]
Posted in 21st century, Information Literacy on Feb 26th, 2012
This Tuesday I head over to neighboring Greenville County School District to be a guest speaker for the Greenville County chapter of the NCTE (Nat’l Council of Teachers of English). My title and description go like this: Web Evaluation — It’s not all legit Cathy will lead a discussion on web evaluation and it’s role in research [...]
Posted in Collection development, Education, Information Literacy, Learning, Library, Library Brand on Nov 27th, 2011
In July, 2011, the AASL Board approved the Position Statement on Labeling Books with Reading Levels. If you haven’t read it, do take some time to do so. I wrote about it over at the SCASL blog back in September, and our SCASL listserv had a pretty heated debate by those who were defending the labeling [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Education, Information Literacy, Learning, Library, Library Brand on Nov 11th, 2011
Rant two: student ID’s. See rant 1 here. (Fictitious letter, all names and locations are anonymous.) Dear School Library Professional Guru, My colleagues and I don’t agree on the requirement of student ID’s to check out books from our high school library. Can you guide me in how to handle this situation? I want to [...]
Posted in DISCUS, Education, Information Literacy, South Carolina on Sep 12th, 2011
DISCUS – South Carolina’s Virtual Library periodically evaluates the current and evolving needs of the three communities served: K-12, public libraries, and college/university libraries. The process is guided by the DISCUS Program Goals and Vision (pdf) to establish priorities for the selection of online library resources for statewide licensing. DISCUS funding has not been increased. The purpose of the evaluation is [...]
Posted in Information Literacy, Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2011
Those of you in South Carolina know the value of DISCUS and probably like me try to do all but cartwheels as we evangelize using it along with any other paid subscription services for online research with our kids. I have used the downloadable content (logos, powerpoints, brochures and more) from our DISCUS Toolkit, but [...]
Posted in Collection development, Information Literacy on Jul 8th, 2011
A letter to Kershaw County School District via their PR person and an associate superintendent who were “Instrumental” in having the book Angry Management removed from a summer reading list. This is in direct response to Chris Cructher’s response that I blogged about yesterday. First let me say thank you two and Mr. Douglas [...]
Posted in Education, Information Literacy on May 8th, 2011
I sent this in an email to staff, and shared via facebook too. This is a snippet from my reader (Jenny Lucca’s Lucacept–Intercepting the Web) about a recent Ted Talk (Formal Title — Ted: Ideas Worth Sharing). Ted is pretty much a favorite video blog, and I’m always playing catch up with it. The snippet [...]
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