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 [...]
Moving new tools
March 22, 2011 By 5 Comments
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 [...]
My big duh (and Patrick Larkin on reinventing PD)
March 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
At TeachMeetNJ yesterday, I attended Patrick Larkin’s session, Professional Development Doesn’t Have to be an Oxymoron. Patrick described some of his PD strategies as the Principal at Burlington (MA) High School, (see his post A Professional Development Day that Worked and the Google Doc for the session), and engaged the rest of the participants in [...]
Gwyneth’s At-A-Glance Comic Tutorials Rock!!!
December 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
Need another holiday gift?
A revised manifesto
December 3, 2010 By 56 Comments
Thank you all for the kind feedback you offered for my rant a few days back. As I wrote that response, in the back of my mind I considered a few realities: 1. Some administrators have never seen a vibrant library program. 2. In tough times moving forward is more challenging. Not moving forward is [...]
What librarians make. A response to Dr. Bernstein and an homage to Taylor Mali
November 27, 2010 By 78 Comments
In his Newsday article last week, Dr. Marc Bernstein, Superintendent for the Valley Stream (NY) Central High School District, suggested Steps to Take Now for our Schools; What Cuomo Can Do to make NYS Education More Efficient and Effective. Among the several steps Dr. Bernstein suggested Governor Cuomo take in this Internet age is, eliminating [...]
Edublogs Awards 2010
November 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nominations are now open for the 7th annual 2010 Edublogs Awards. Think of this event as an opportunity to celebrate your favorite blogs, but more importantly, as an opportunity to discover and explore outstanding blogs and also tweeters and podcasters and wiki owners and hosts of online communities and media producers you have never heard [...]
DocsTeach rocks primary sources!
October 18, 2010 By 2 Comments
I discovered National Archives Experience’s DocsTeach today, thanks to eSchoolNews. My teachers are going to flip. And so will my APUSH gang. Searchable by time period, historical thinking skill, and tool, this new portal helps teachers find, use, and create instruction using more than 3,000 primary sources. I love the open-ended approach to instruction and [...]
Things I think teacher librarians should unlearn (20 & counting)
August 24, 2010 By 44 Comments
In a blog post today, Scott McLeod shared whathesaid’s list of the 10 things he believed teachers should unlearn. Scott and whathesaid got me thinking about what ideas or beliefs our own subset of educators might also want to lose. (I got carried away and I will probably continue to add to this list.) A [...]
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