Posted in 21st century, Library, Library Brand on Jan 27th, 2013
I really want principals and administrators to see this. Some teachers and even librarians need it too–as a reminder or as inspiration. It would be awesome if SCASL could make one of these too.
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Yesterday I shared Poster My Wall (postermywall.com). I have to give credit for learning about it to Jennifer Gallman, an English teacher at my school. She just called one day and asked me to check and make sure it was an unblocked site for students, as she wanted to use it with a class. As [...]
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The South Carolina Association of School Librarians hosted a month long event for our School Library Snapshot Day. The advocacy committee worked diligently to plan the event, finally deciding that to meet the widely varying schedules of our schools, it was best to allow each school librarian the flexibility to choose a single day in [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2010
Some how knowing the Old Spice Guy has become an Internet sensation and a very popular ad campaign, I sort of knew it would only be a matter of time before some savvy educator created their own spin-off!! This one is great!!
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2010
(Note to Bobby Newman of from Libraries and Transliteracy: Sorry, I shamelessly copied some of your post!!) Salem Press recently announced the winners of it’s Library Blog Awards and we were excited to learn that this blog, Libraries and Transliteracy was first place in the General Blogs category. First, second and third place awards were [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2010
Just read a tweet attributed to Joyce Valenza showing a Google Map of all the places where school librarians have been eliminated (though I could not track that tweet down so here is the one I saw). How very depressing! But instead of thinking “how many jobs cut” all I can think is “how many [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Library, Library Brand on Feb 20th, 2010
Just got through commenting on a relatively new librarian blogger’s post about adding some blogs to follow. It’s been a while since I have done this, so I thought now would be a good time to let readers know whose voices are shaping my thinking and practice. I have a folder in my Google Reader for library [...]
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