It may be too late to enter, but it’s not too late to enjoy and share some of the fabulous submissions in ALA’s Why I Need My Library Video Contest. Here’s just one of the many true gems. Check out this professional produced music video from New Canaan High School. (Directed by Nicola Scandiffio. Production [...]
Meme: Designing the new action figure
April 12, 2011 By 3 Comments
I know the Nancy Pearl Library Action Figure is meant to be tongue in cheek. I have three in my office–representing both the deluxe and basic variety. I absolutely admire Nancy and her work, but after years of watching visitors try her amazing push-button shushing action, the joke’s worn thin. I know that the folks [...]
Pursuing the perfect pathfinder platform
March 18, 2011 By 3 Comments
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 [...]
Our new posters
March 15, 2011 By 6 Comments
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 [...]
NCCE TL Summit
March 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Those TLs in the great Northwest are shaking things up! Don’t miss the UStream broadcasts of some of the highlights of Wednesday’s TL Summit, part of this week’s Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) Conference, in Portland. I am including a couple of my choices of most inspiring moments. Mike Eisenberg provocatively questions some of [...]
Live in your world. Create in ours. The back story of our ISTE Board visit
February 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
On Friday, our High School was honored to be one of three schools to host visiting members of the ISTE Board who were in town for a meeting. (The other schools on the tour were Science Leadership Academy and School of the Future.) We began by posing this problem to a core group of students, [...]
Karen, on saving our staff
February 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
5 reasons why_ View more presentations from Karen Kliegman. This morning, Karen Kliegman tweeted about her powerful and compelling argument to retain support staff for her elementary library program, and the district. I asked if I could share it here because I suspect it will help other make the case on behalf of our learners. [...]
On LibGuides (and the dangers of relying on free lunch)
February 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
It’s a new semester here in Springfield and I’ve been reflecting again. (This post is kinda connected to the next, so please read on. It will be up soon.) I am a huge fan of free apps for creativity and productivity and dynamic information gathering. No surprise that in this blog I frequently celebrate the [...]
AASL: Is it time for a one-word edit?
January 16, 2011 By 14 Comments
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