Each TechnoTuesday
Posted in Advocacy on May 18th, 2011
So this article has been making its rounds today. It’s generating a lot of traction in my area that includes some panicked school librarians. Can you hear them screaming, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”? Click here to see the pic if it is not pictured below. As expected many are knee jerking [...]
Posted in Information Literacy, k12 Education, Library on Apr 13th, 2011
The Read, Write, Web site announced the demise of the Flip camera and its software yesterday. I heard about it from several sources, particularly in my reader and via Twitter yesterday. My friend John Woodring blogged about it today as well. Point, Shoot, Record, Edit And let’s face it, we like them because they are [...]
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 Advocacy on Jan 16th, 2011
photo © 2009 Blatant News | more info (via: Wylio)(From CBS) This week marks a bittersweet anniversary: It was 50 years ago, on a cold and snow-covered day in Washington, D.C., that a relatively young and untried man stepped forward at noontime to take the Presidential Oath of Office. But for many of us of [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Professional Organizations, Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2011
photo © 2006 Tod Baker | more info (via: Wylio)There is another webinar playground for Opal (the webinar service SCASL is providing) tonight at 7PM. There was one Monday afternoon this week at 4:00PM that was attended by very few–me included. I could not get in because I use a Mac computer. But my friend [...]
Posted in Information Literacy, Learning, Library on Nov 19th, 2010
Since the hour was pushed back, we have a new problem fourth block in the library. Cathedral ceilings that include glass panes provide a beautiful view of Carolina blue skies, but now that sunset is earlier, the bright afternoon sun shining through those high western windows wreaks havoc with the monitors on the eastern side [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2010
Lol cruising through my reader and then tweets this morning I ran across this–actually in both places. What a pleasant surprise to see my school represented! It comes from one of Joyce Valenza’s recent Pennsylvania School Library Association presentations–this one titled Reading 2.0. Cool. Often I forget about some of these tools. We just can’t [...]
Posted in 2.0, 21st century on Sep 24th, 2008
Last week I posted a comment on Doug Johnson’s blog about filtering, yes that necessary filter educators reckon with daily. Yes, I compared the weirdness that ALA would sponsor rebels with a Banned Book Campaign Annually but have not even remotely addressed our 21st century censorship issue–that of filtering. My comment even somewhat dared him, [...]
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