Each TechnoTuesday
Posted in Advocacy, Conferences, Library Brand, Professional Development, Professional Organizations, Reading Advocacy, South Carolina on May 20th, 2012
On the school front, we’re pushing the public library’s summer reading program for teens. It sounds so cool and I love their logo so much — i soooo want a tshirt. Too bad I don’t qualify. I think I’ll crash their kickoff party anyway to see if I can score a shirt. After all I [...]
Posted in Conferences, Learning, Library Brand, Professional Development, Professional Organizations on Mar 20th, 2012
SCASL allowed my committee (the Information Technology Committee) to sponsor a Learning Commons at conference. We took it upon ourselves to advertise, solicit volunteers for presentations, and make it a go. We wanted to loosely base it off the one I had seen and experienced first hand at AASL in Minneapolis, MN in October. I [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Professional Organizations on Jul 17th, 2011
This post was born of an idea I am tossing to my admin. No rest for the weary. Educators everywhere in the south are preparing for the return to school, and generally that means a little professional development. Too bad one size does not fit all in this case most of the time. So I am pitching an idea [...]
Posted in Learning, Professional Development, Professional Organizations, teacher librarian on Jul 12th, 2011
Copied and shared from Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian‘s original post over at her blog: “School Libraries: What Next?” Ebook Project 12JUL We are delighted to accept submissions for a collection of crowdsourced short essays on the future of school libraries from multiple perspectives, to bepublished in e-book format to coincide with Treasure Mountain and AASL in October 2011. We believe [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Professional Development, Professional Organizations, Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2011
Okay I am on this panel, and I have promised to help promote. It also falls into the category of “Shameless Self Promotion.” So I shamelessly copied Doug Johnson’s original post to share via my blog. Forgive me Doug!! You said it so well, how could I improve on it? Yeah, the answer was to [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Professional Organizations, South Carolina on Jun 4th, 2011
Wow June is here and I am absolutely SWAMPED!! What is on my agenda? My to do list is crazy– This week!! May Monthly Library Report (90% done) and Annual Report (60%) done. My goal is to turn in May’s this week, and submit the Annual Report next week. June 6-8, 2011: A district staff [...]
Posted in Education, Information Literacy, Library Brand, Professional Development, Teaching Tools on Apr 29th, 2011
photo © 2010 Abby | more info (via: Wylio)It’s research paper time in the library, but today the un-paper research project was born. I have an English teacher who lamented that a college prep high school English class of hers was extremely varied in abilities and interest in her class, and she was trying to [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Professional Organizations, South Carolina on Mar 12th, 2011
Our annual conference is finished once again, and I’m trying to process. It will take me days to really think through everything. There was quite a bit of buzz about school budget cuts, LMS jobs being endangered, and many many friends not present. I am pleased to report that at our final event, the SCASL [...]
Posted in Professional Development on Feb 20th, 2011
Dear ISTE, First thanks so much for providing an online planner so I can begin to plan out my days at your annual conference. The ability to see it as an itinerary, embedded in a calendar view, print it out hard copy, and have it emailed to me (and even friends) is absolutely genius on [...]
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