Don’t be angry for this little digression into the world of fashion information. If you know me, you know I love scarves. I love mentoring. I find myself spending a lot of time mentoring others who have trouble with scarves, having to introduce them to the very many ways they can be used for fashion [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
My year on the web and off
December 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Around this time of year, it is customary for bloggers to look back at their blogs and come up with a list of highlights. Here’s a recap of low points and highlights and favorite discoveries. In January, I lamented the disappearance of the majority of the databases in our state suite and celebrated the launch [...]
SIGMS Launches 1 Tool at a Time (and a Loerscher SL webinar)!
November 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
Hooray! SIGMS (our own lovely ISTE special interest group) just announced powerful opportunities for learning and retooling. This month you can meet with one of my mentors (and likely one of yours too), David Loertscher. And you can join in on the exciting, new 1 Tool at a Time series! This first event will cover [...]
On returning from Oz
August 19, 2010 By 5 Comments
I’ve just returned from nearly three weeks in Australia. It’s been a long time since I was away from home for so long. During the first leg of my trip, I spoke at the Winter(!) conference of the librarians of SLAV (School Library Association of Victoria). I’ve never met a more intrepid, creative, energetic and [...]
CSLA introduces TeenLearning2.0
August 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Once again, the fabulous and irrepressible leaders of the California School Library Association offer us all a little gift to use with learners this coming school year. Teen Learning 2.0 is an updated social web tutorial, tested with middle school students. TeenLearning 2.0 explains its purpose: This tutorial is designed so that you can learn [...]
On digital publishing (chapter 2)
July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a recent post I shared a few new options for student book creation. Another strategy for publishing is a very simple one, one that allows us to take documents originally published quietly in traditional formats–Word, PowerPoint, PDF, XLS–into more dynamic, more polished, flippable, zoomable, scalable, and embeddable Web publications. Most reproduce the feeling of [...]
Only Two Clicks and Weblist: For presentations, lessons, pathfinders
July 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
At the BLC Conference this week in Boston, David Jakes introduced me to Only Two Clicks and I can’t believe I didn’t discover this three-year-old project earlier. It presents all the sites you plan to share as handy clickable thumbnails on a start page. Here’s the start page I am getting together for a workshop [...]
Elementary Library Routines: a new community of practice wiki
July 7, 2010 By 7 Comments
The wonderful elementary librarians out there are getting very wiki. Elementary Library Routines is a new space for this particular community of practice to engage in knowledge sharing relating to effective practice. The site explains: This wiki was born from a short Twitter conversation and the admiration of the work of Harry Wong. Please add [...]
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