Becky Russell, School Library Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education wrote this week to share an exciting project relating to the State’s retooled Power Library Program. The program and its competencies are closely tied to the newly revised Colorado Academic Standards, which integrate 21st century skills across grade and content area. It is a highly [...]
It was Shannon!
August 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
The article Casting a Wide Net for Mentors appeared on the front page of Tuesday’s USA Today. (Here’s the link to the online version.) The article begins: Julia Albaugh’s high school in Van Meter, Iowa didn’t have a course that would teach her about marketing and public relations. So a librarian in the school helped [...]
School Libraries: What’s Next (an ebook project)
July 22, 2011 By
Share your vision for our future. Please consider contributing to this exciting crowdsourced collaborative visioning project coordinated by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. To coincide with the 2011 Treasure Mountain and AASL National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we are engaging in an ebook publishing experiment, and we want you to be a part of it! [...]
Which style? The responses
July 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
A few days back, I presented a little survey to explore which documentation styles were most prevalent at the K12 and the university levels. The question came out of a Social Studies Department professional development session. At our high school, we’ve been using MLA for all but Science Department projects. Our students move fairly easily [...]
I hope you’ll search (with skill): a revised letter to my grads
June 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(It’s that time again. I was thinking about how sad I am going to be to say goodbye to this year’s senior class, and decided to update a piece I first shared in my April 2009 VOYA column.) A letter to my seniors Each spring I watch another class leave me for the university and [...]
Guide for TLs (and on curating digital content)
April 23, 2011 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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