Each TechnoTuesday
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 [...]
Posted in Library, South Carolina on Mar 27th, 2011
Once before, in an effort to increase participation in summer reading, we created a short promo video for summer reading. We had animoto style the state book award nominees as part of the promo. We planned to reward students who could provide evidence of reading with a Limo ride to a neighborhood book store, a [...]
Posted in Education on Mar 23rd, 2011
We head out to spring break for a week starting Friday afternoon. We return Monday, April 4th. So at this time the library staff is brainstorming and planning how to celebrate National Poetry Month and of course National Library Week. Is it evil or teacher librarian-sacrilegious to think the timing of spring break is throwing [...]
Posted in 21st century, Education, Information Literacy, k12 Education on Jan 3rd, 2011
photo © 2009 Franco Bouly | more info (via: Wylio)Here is an exchange in Facebook that I engaged in tonight. Please excuse the letters used in place of names as I want to protect the identities of those in the exchange. I did send my friend the current login and password in a private email [...]
Posted in 21st century on Dec 11th, 2010
photo © 2008 Scott McLeod | more info (via: Wylio)As I reflect over the past year, I remember the knee-jerk reactions that I among many have had over the lack of respect for my profession as a school librarian. The average non-library users lauds that the internet serves all their information needs and now ebooks [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Professional Organizations, South Carolina on Nov 12th, 2010
The South Carolina Association of School Librarians has been having an at times heated debate over a reminder posted on our archaic listserv about the cutting of librarians from schools all over the United States (and even wider). Since I am so wordy, I decided to use my blog for a response–my “professional thoughts” so [...]
Posted in Information Literacy, Library on Nov 5th, 2010
Music Piracy spells the end of the traditional model for those in the music industry to make an honest living from their talents. At least it is according to my students. Current Events Class Guest Speaker Today I worked with our current events class to discuss the recent shutdown of Limewire as a way to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
K12 Online 10 Flyer
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2010
I’ve always considered myself a catalyst for change. You can ask any of my friends and they will tell you how animated I get when one begins to talk nerdy to me–just ask the teacher today who casually mentioned she had used moodle in a course this summer and discovered the beauty of Delicious and [...]
Posted in South Carolina on Aug 3rd, 2010
I have many friends and family anxiously awaiting this weekend to go shopping. Why? It’s the annual SC (and NC too) tax free holiday weekend. Anybody and everybody can purchase certain items over the three-day weekend that begins this Friday at 12:01AM and lasts until 11:59PM Sunday. The bonus and reason for celebration is that [...]
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