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A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
The Classroom Bookshelf
by Denise Davila
Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Amanda MacGregor
March 24, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
In my last post I wrote of Buffy Hamilton’s Crowdsourcing Recommended Reads for Issues in School Librarianship. Inspired by a request from her mentor and friend, Dr. Mary Ann Fitzgerald, of the University of Georgia, Buffy polled her PLN and compiled their impressive list of recommendations. That post echoed a post I’ve left in draft […]
March 23, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Buffy Hamilton (Unquiet Librarian and new Mover and Shaker) recently posted: Crowdsourcing Recommended Reads for Issues in School Librarianship. Inspired by a request from her mentor and friend, Dr. Mary Ann Fitzgerald, of the University of Georgia, Buffy polled her PLN for recommendations for a recently published single book: a paradigm shifter sort of book […]
March 22, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve worked with my practicum student Jenni to pack up my very messy New Tools Workshop wiki to new, much neater space. (And happily, our Tech Director, Kirsten Swanson, just joined the fun!) It’s not perfectly ready-for-primetime, but I am pretty excited about our new New Tools Guide and […]
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March 18, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
I wanted to share just a little of the piece I just posted for VOYA on my epic quest for the best pathfinder platform. My exploration involved creating pathfinders of pathfinder platforms. Here’s one using Sqworl And one using LiveBinders: And one using Weblist: And one using Jogtheweb: See the VOYA piece for more details […]
March 18, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Gary Price alerts me. I’ve been following his work as editor of ResourceShelf for more than ten years Now, he and his scouting and writing partner Shirl Kennedy, continue to feed me tasty information leads, in two new information spaces: INFOdocket and FullTextReports Still shy of two-months old, these prodigious infant sites are engaged in […]
March 15, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
My practicum student Jenni Stern and I have been playing with ideas for promoting new and traditional skills we think are important. And we’ve been inspired by my good friend Gwyneth Jones’ Comic Life At-A-Glance tutorial posters. Says Jenni: Gwyneth’s posters guide students and teachers to work creatively. Her design is contemporary and eye catching, in […]
March 13, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Tomorrow night, ISTE’s SIGMS presents a free webinar featuring my good friend Kristen Hokanson and Spiro Bolos. If you are a librarian and you are not up to speed on issues relating to fair use, this is a must-attend event. The details (reprinted from Brenda Anderson’s announcement): When: Monday, March 14, 2011 at 8pm ET […]
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