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November 29, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
It’s that time again! For the fifth (I think) year, put away the last of the turkey leftovers and get serious about remembering your very favorite techy tools and strategies of the year. Get ready to Smackdown your favorite learning tools, friends! Librarians and teachers and friends of other types are all invited to join […]
November 19, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
After nearly five years, led by a devoted team of volunteers, TLVirtual Café is still going strong. You can be a star at our next event. Please consider adding a slide to our 5th annual EduTech Open Mic Smackdown, sharing your best ideas and discoveries for teaching and learning. Then, on Monday, December 8th at […]
August 10, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
In the past couple of posts about keeping up with news and trends relevant to practice, we looked at harnessing social media in the form of portals for sharing slide presentations and curation sites for current awareness. Now let’s turn to the fabulous and nearly overwhelming array of webinar/conferency-type professional development available to you free […]
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March 4, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
If you were busy doing anything else last night, lucky for you this particular TLCafé was archived. (Well, they all are.) But, last night Shannon Miller and Carolyn Foote were truly inspirational as they discussed their own experiences and shared images about rethinking and improving the space we call library. Tiffany Whitehead moderated expertly. Our […]
January 3, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
I love Jennifer LaGarde’s idea of beginning the year with questions, rather than resolutions. Jennifer recently asked 11 Questions (About Libraries) That Need Answers. And Doug Johnson added a few of his own in a Blue Skunk Blog post. (See below.) The lovely part about this whole social media thing is that we can attack […]
November 27, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
The end of the year draws year. And it’s that time again! That’s right. Put the Thanksgivakkuh dishes away and get ready to smackdown. Librarians and teachers and other friends are invited to join me, Gwyneth and Tiff this coming Monday night for another exciting virtual, karaoke-style, smackdown! This is an opportunity for you to […]
September 18, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
We launched #tlchat last night. And wow. Worried that we’d have to fill in the lulls with prepared tweets, our small group of organizers had a full page of them ready to go. There was no need to worry. In fact, the chat needed no nurturing at all. Most of us struggled to keep up […]
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