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12/5 is Smackdown/Open Mic/Karaoke night. Prepare!

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Time to look back at the best of 2011 in our school library/edtech world and share!

At the TL Virtual Cafe on December 5th, 8PM Eastern, we’ll be hosting a Learning Tools Open Mic/Smackdown/Karaoke.  And the plan is to get ready by building a crowd-souced presentation/book.

Gwyneth and I are listed as host and presenter, but the… Read More

Library 2.011: Not live, but very much alive and free

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Last week many of us had the opportunity to attend the free, online, global conference, Library 2.011.  But if school or sleep or life in general prevented you from attending a few sessions, the good news is they are all archived as a rich legacy of this inaugural event.  (Thank you Steve Hargadon and San José

Mobilize for help and hope: Petition Obama & Twitter bomb Senate!

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

'petition' photo (c) 2011, League of Women Voters of California LWVC - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
It’s time to act!  This week, promise to raise your political voice by participating in two political activities to save libraries for young people!

1. Sign this

Just published: School Libraries: What’s Now? What’s Next? What’s Yet to Come?

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Holy collaboration!  Looking for some updated thinking about school libraries?

Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton just released the ebook they recently crowdsourced and edited: School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come?

It is now available for free download in three formats:

  • PDF for those who want to read it

Fifty Ways to Leave Your Term Paper/Book Report & Tell Your Story

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

'Endless grading of term papers' photo (c) 2007, Jo Guldi - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/For my September newsletter, I decided to resurrect and majorly update an old PowerTools document of ideas I had for mixing up the traditional student… Read More

See Sally Research @TEDxPhillyED

Monday, September 5th, 2011

When I discovered I was selected to present at TEDxPhillyED last spring, I was both honored and terrified.

Doug wrote about this event and his own TEDx experience in his post Everyone should give a TED talk.

Doug hit the nail on the head with his question:
So here is my question: Could you give a TED talk inspired by a personal passion

InfoLit instruction: a few good portals

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

As we open our library doors–both virtual and physical–this fall, we are less alone than ever.  Librarians (and others) are sharing when it comes to info lit learning activities.

I’ve been trying to aggregate some of my favorites in this Guide.  And with the understanding that the best infolit instruction is integrated infolit instruction, I’ll highlight just a few information literacy portals to guide us as we develop… Read More

But what does it look like? Colorado paints the picture

Friday, August 19th, 2011

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 inclusive program.

Becky writes of the urgency for action and for… Read More

It was Shannon!

Friday, August 19th, 2011

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

Dear ISTE: How about NETS TL?

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Dear ISTE,
I’ve been attending your conference since the early 1990s, before the Web was born.  I was a founding member of SIGMS, which has grown, under the stewardship of so many of my TL colleagues, to one of ISTE’s more powerful SIGs.
At this year’s conference in Philadelphia, you released three new sets of NETS standards