I am a big fan of the unconference/edcamp movements and of open space planning. And though I’ve personally been lucky to attend a number of local, regional, and national edcamps and unconfs, I’ve wanted to share my excitement about these participant-driven events with my TL colleagues in Pennsylvania. Our traditional PSLA state conference is pretty darn [...]
In case you’ve missed it, my dear friend, Michelle Luhtala hosts a series of free, monthly webinars for the professional learning community, Emerging Tech: Using Technology to Advance Your School Library Program. The series is sponsored by Follett Software Company. About a week ago, Michelle’s virtual panel discussion presented a comprehensive array of perspectives on online [...]
School of Open Project Showcase from Creative Commons on Vimeo. As teacher librarians, we need to be aware of major shifts in the intellectual property arena. We need to be experts on the exciting developments in the culture of openness. And we need to prepare classroom teachers and digital age learners for similar understandings of [...]
. . . If it’s part of a movement. If every day is a building block on the way to something important, and if the attendees are part of a tribe that goes beyond demographics or professional affiliation. Seth’s Blog: When a Conference Works (and Doesn’t) I spent the weekend downtown at Educon. This January [...]
August is Connected Educators Month. I started writing this post on the last leg of a flight home from Australia*, where Gwyneth Jones (the Daring Librarian) and I met with the fabulous librarians of Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. Sometimes it really hits you hard that things have changed. It hit me hard on this trip. [...]
The game has changed. We need to play the new one wisely. We need to teach others how to do the same. Though we may rely heavily on our favorite feeds and brief network updates, it’s good to have a thoughtful and more comprehensive examination of what’s going on. And we need to be able [...]
Last Sunday, I joined a group of bloggers interviewing educational authors and experts at the ASCD Conference here in Philadelphia. I’ll share some of the highlights in a series of post. First, I’d like to share a video interview with Heidi Hayes Jacobs–author and editor of Curriculum 21 and a personal hero and inspiration–who discussed [...]
During my presentations I always try to provide a little update on the world of search. And folks often ask, how did you discover that? One of several things that separates TLs from other techie types in our buildings is our interest in things searchy. I want to function as a scout in that arena. [...]
Lately I’ve been reading a bit about digital content curation, also referred to as human editorial curation or aggregation. I think we’ve been doing this type of work for a long time in the form of widget-based pathfinders, but now folks seem to be talking about it. In a recent Mashable post, blogger, author, and [...]
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 [...]
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