I am attending NECC in just a few short weeks. I plan to carry may laptop (since the conference center will be free wifi.) I hope to blog some of the sessions I attend (under the umbrella of AASL--if I can get my paperwork done.) Either way I'm totin
Read more…In my little corner of northern NJ, I see that some districts have parent volunteers and others do not. If you do have volunteers, what do you have them do, and how do you motivate them? I would like to have volunteers have some fun so they're not ju
Read more…I will begin a new job in a middle school in the fall. Short of reading up on middle school and young adult literature, particularly my state's 2008 award nominees, does anyone have other words of wisdom?
Read more…Good morning! I am new to TeacherLibrarianNetwork. I just completed my BA in History and am certified for K-5 and middle school Language Arts and Social Studies. I live in NJ, where it is a VERY tight job market. I am just beginning my LMS endorsemen
Read more…I am teaching a 6th grade information fluency class this semester. My objective in blogging with students was to introduce them to Web 2.0 technology and give them the opportunity and experience of communicating globally. Initially we brainstormed to
Read more…I've been hearing about IM reference services in academic libraries for some time, but haven't been able to see how to use it in our school until now. We have so many computer labs - and will have 8 laptop classrooms next year - that I'm thinking set
Read more…Have been reading Friedman (The New York Time ) spin on globalisation and of course was interested in his perspective (it is driven by economic models raising questions centred on key indicators of globalisation - insourcing, open-sourcing, informing
Read more…I was looking around School Library Learning 2.0 and followed a link to http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/ where a discussion had started about five suggestions of things you could try in the your public library. I think a number could easily apply
Read more…As I am selecting new books to purchase, I am wondering how many school libraries are purchasing eBooks. Any thoughts or opinions to share?
Read more…You are welcome to join us for the School Library 23 Things in California. We officially begin on June 1. You can join us in the experience and exploration or you are welcome to modify what we have developed and use it for your own school library gro
Read more…Co-founder Larry Page of Google told shareholders that the company has a long way to go in searching strategies. "Our goal is to produce a search engine that understands what you want before you type it," "Like a super-librarian." What a vote of conf
Read more…I shared this in my blog this morning and thought it would be cool to start the discussion here as well. The links didn't travel well into this forum, so here is a link to the original post: http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/2007/05/11/the-best-resear
Read more…My wonderful principal is retiring in June. The new principal is a great, energetic guy from another district. At this point, I am not sure his view regarding the role and importance of the library program/librarian. How do we begin?
Read more…How about this twist on Joyce's 23 things. Perhaps doing these before breakfast is a bit much, but what about 6 web 2.0/lib 2.0 things you do for your students or teachers before 9am? Love to hear this one...
Read more…Hi I am trying to compile a list of picture books addressing our nation wide problem, Childhood Obesity. After surviving many years of lunch duty, I became dismayed at school lunch menus, and by what the students threw away. I think we need to appea
Read more…I'm loving the discussion on end of year protocol and have received so many good ideas. I know it is the end of the year, but I'm wondering if I can plug some good beginning of year ideas into my calendar for next year! Does anyone do anything at th
Read more…Hi, I'm the media specialist at a K - 6 school (at least for this year, rumor is we are adding PK in the fall). I recently attending a technology conference and have started to think about different ways to use technology in the media center for next
Read more…I am doing a session at our annual principal's conference in mid June. I want to introduce Blogs, Podcasts, and tracking them through aggregators. What other web 2.0 apps do you all think I should showcase? Keep in mind I only have an hour, so it has
Read more…On the library 2.0 Ning site, there has been discussion of a great Flickr.com project called 365 days. The idea is for each library who joins to post 365 photos of their library in action over the next year. My library joined--I think this is a grea
Read more…2.0 or otherwise, what was your most sharable project, success, idea this year?
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