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Posted in Cool to me!, Reading Advocacy, YA Literature on Feb 27th, 2013
Here’s another great idea for a library display that goes along with March…or rather March Madness. I swiped it from a librarian friend of mine, Susan R. Meyers who works in a neighboring district high school. Of course she credits her intern for the concept. So go on over and read and see their set [...]
Posted in 2.0, Cool to me!, Twitter on Oct 7th, 2012
Can’t wait for this: So hopefully I’ll see you there. Read more details here. Just in case you didin’t already know, my Twitter handle is CathyJo. I will follow librarians, just so ya know. Is Twitter really worth my time? Many of my friends scoff at Twitter as a helpful program for Professional Development. Often [...]
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So I’ve been dabbling in the stacks again, pulling old, outdated books.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 [...]
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 Cool to me!, Library Brand on Dec 11th, 2011
I’m not sure if this will be a post in praise of books, authors, local bookstores or friends! It has a little of all. You see it all started like this: Not sure if this has been posted, but author Cassandra Clare(the Immortals and Infernal Devices series) will be at the Hangar at the Runway Cafe in Greenville, [...]
Posted in Cool to me!, Education, Library on Sep 11th, 2011
A friend of mine pointed me to an article, one of many I’ve read over the last few days as the media and Americans everywhere commemorate the tragedies of September 11, 2001, vowing “we will never forget!” This is just one fo several I read: After Sept. 11, A ‘Missed Opportunity’ For America by NPR STAFF I think what he says [...]
Posted in Cool to me!, Learning, Library Brand on Sep 1st, 2011
I’ve been playing with Google Chrome now since June. I must say I like the browser. I was pretty skeptical when it first came out, refusing to get on the band wagon. My favorite part of the Chrome browser experience lies in the sheer amount of desktop real estate! My url bar is also my [...]
Posted in Cool to me!, Library on Jan 26th, 2011
I have to share this!! My friend @Paula Canine from Waccamaw Elementary is the absolute BEST! (Don’t kill me Paula!!) Read this note I and few friends received from her (pasted below.) I had used the quotes feature, but it took away from the note so I removed them. I also embellished with a few [...]
Posted in Cool to me!, Copyright, Rants on Oct 27th, 2010
Just read today that Limewire, very well known amongst our preteens and teens in k12 schools (and YIKES, even younger kids) has been shut down. Should we teach students about this? YOU BET. Students have a serious understanding of what Limewire and other similar sites can do. But it is also a huge MISunderstanding. Many [...]
Posted in Cool to me! on Sep 19th, 2010
…until you don’t have it anymore. Back in June a friend introduced me to Swype. Being a relative new user of my droid phone (the cheapest one I could get) I was really struggling with the input of text. I guess one could say as a forty-something year old (cough, oh wow what a difficult [...]
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