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December 7, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Too big to know:rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren’t the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room. (Title of David Weinberger’s upcoming book) Lately my imposter syndrome has kicked into even higher gear. The talent in our field is astounding. Experts are emerging everywhere, every day. I […]
August 25, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
We’re back! Join us on September 12th @8PM Eastern, for the first TLCafé webinar of this school year. We’ve planned a casual discussion to generate ideas on how to build school allies, support new teachers & become indispensable to admin & staff at the beginning of every school year. For Teacher Librarians, classroom teachers, tech […]
March 24, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
In my last post I wrote of Buffy Hamilton’s Crowdsourcing Recommended Reads for Issues in School Librarianship. Inspired by a request from her mentor and friend, Dr. Mary Ann Fitzgerald, of the University of Georgia, Buffy polled her PLN and compiled their impressive list of recommendations. That post echoed a post I’ve left in draft […]
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February 19, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
We began archiving the #TLChat hashtag as a daily newspaper around eight months ago. And now everyday I look forward to my email reminder to check out our newly aggregated news. But, when I looked at the number of other subscribers (only 56!), I realized that so many of you have not yet discovered this […]
January 9, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
You know who you are! I meet you at state and national conferences. Your students are achieving. You are effectively engaging learners and you teach and integrate information fluencies. You tweet and blog and present about your discoveries and successes. Your work is replicable. And you deserve to share virally and to be rewarded for […]
January 2, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
I checked the Urban Dictionary. It lists three definitions for the word fierce. 1. term that gay men used in the late 1990s and early 2000s to describe absolutely everything that was of “exceptional quality”. 2. being bold, displaying chutzpah, especially relating to fashion, clothes, hair or makeup. Girl, work those heels! fierce! 3. term […]
December 5, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Yesterday, the Edublogs folks announced the short list for the seventh annual Edublogs Awards. As I examined the list, I began to realize how far we’ve come as a tribe. It probably started just over a year ago when we first got together as a group to prepare for AASL Charlotte. This morning Gwyneth and […]
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