It’s time for the voice of student readers to be heard on Twitter! After our first few synchronous SomeWhatVirtualBookClub meetings, it occurred to us that we could expand our discussion to include more clubs and more kids if we moved some of our discussion to Twitter. We hope your clubs will join us! After a […]
Two goals, one stone, easy magic

So my two big goals for the school year are 1) encouraging reading outside the curriculum 2) proving that learning opportunities exist outside the doors of our school and our library. Shannon Miller and I started chatted about connecting our book clubs late this summer, but the beginning of the school year hit and so […]
Goodbye, Google Directory

And another one bites the dust. (See Alas, poor learners . . .your Wonder Wheel is Gone!) On Wednesday, the Unofficial news and tips about Google blog led me to the sad news that Google Directory [was] no longer available. Now, some may think that Google’s second service–launched in 2000 after the search engine itself […]
Library hero

This may seem like the corniest idea in the history of corny ideas, but something about it made everyone smile this week. So we’re going to institutionalize the corniness. On Tuesday, Jimmy solved our Adobe Flash issues. He said, Just have everyone download Google Chrome, Dr. V! Mixbook, Animoto and everything else will run. No […]
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