Comments on: I’m on board, are you? http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772 Each TechnoTuesday Tue, 07 May 2013 01:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts » Blog Archive » June is going, going, gone… http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-1974 Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts » Blog Archive » June is going, going, gone… Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:51:46 +0000 http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772#comment-1974 [...] question “Can a media specialist still be relevant and not use 21st century tools? There was a stirring twitter conversation that was loosely threaded around this question some time ago in Twitter, and some really big [...]

]]> By: Fran Bullington http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-1930 Fran Bullington Fri, 01 May 2009 13:43:52 +0000 http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772#comment-1930 Can I say “Amen” to Diane?!!!

I feel passionate about weaving technology into instruction – why? Because it is where the students are. If we are to reach students, we have to use their interests to do so. As a NB Certified teacher, I learned (over and over) that learning must be made as real world as possible. How can we NOT use technology?

]]> By: diane http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-1929 diane Fri, 01 May 2009 00:27:17 +0000 http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/?p=772#comment-1929 Cathy,

Library Media Specialists must be proficient in all aspects of their profession, both the book/reading/literature component and the information/communication/technology one.

If not proficiency, then at least familiarity, with modern tools and resources is mandatory.

Anything less is a disservice to the students and staff whose needs should be driving the library program.

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