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Anybody recently retired or planning to in the next year or so? What are you up to?
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Hi! I need a bulletin board idea - and fast! I'm at the end of my practicum and my site supervisor asked me to make a bulletin board. I want to do a winter theme so she could leave it up for awhile. It has to be quick and simple because I don't have
Read more…Visual for Social Networks
I'm finishing an article for Florida Media Quarterly about Social Networking for school library media centers. I'd like to include a visual or two. Do you have any ideas of what that might look like? I thought of taking some screenshots of "friends"
Read more…Travel language studies
Two weeks a go, a friend of mine went on a 'Språkresor' with her school to Australia for a week. She went with around 30 students and some tutors to Sydney and had a specific program that they followed. They tried to visit as much as they could and t
Read more…Setting up an endowment in a professional organization
Have any of you had any experience with setting up an endowment for a professional association? I understand that NYLA in New York has done some work in this area. AASL would like to explore developing educational endowments. As a part of this plan w
Read more…iPhone apps for librarians
I'm new to the iPhone & want to use it to help me be more organized & productive both personally and as a librarian. I also, tho, recently attended a session on using mobile devices to engage students. Can any of you recommend apps you recommend eith
Read more…Policies Manual on the Web
Hi, group. I am teaching an administration class and for an assignment I wanted the students to create their own policies manual and post it for student discussion. I asked them to use Google Docs to post their assignment so they could be shared. So
Read more…Social networking for professional use
As someone new to social networking (but not new to teacher-librarianship), I'm wondering what online social networking services you find beneficial for you as a teacher librarian -- other than this excellent resource, of course. I already belong to
Read more…Library 1.0 vs. Library 2.0 Ideas
Hi - I'm doing a workshop on Lib 2.0 on Thurs. Nov. 20 - one of the graphics I am showing is a comparison of Library 1.0 to Library 2.0 such as static vs. dynamic; library vs. the world, etc. What other ones would you add? Thanks.
Read more…True Knowledge invites available
I've received 20 invites to True Knowledge, a sematic approach for web search that's in beta. Send me a friends invite if you'd like to join this opportunity. We'll have to exchange email addresses to get you on board. http://www.trueknowledge.com/
Read more…B&N book fair
Hi All, looking for tips and suggestions for having a successful fundraiser at Barnes & Noble Bookstore. We are a secondary high school and we have never done anything like this before. Thanks!
Read more…Reading Lists
Hello All I have a question about recommended reading lists. I'm buying some new fiction for my library soon; there haven't been fresh purchases for a few years so here is some catching up to do. However, I'm finding all the different awards lists,
Read more…Fixed schedule elementary library classes, length of time.
Has anyone done or read any research regarding the length of fixed scheduled classes at the elementary level? My school system switched to a 30 min. every week schedule this year for grade 3 from 45 min. every other week. Now they are thinking of swi
Read more…Strategic Planning and the Teacher Librarian
I would like to start a discussion around the ways you approach the need to develop a plan for your Library. I have been asked to update my book http://books.google.com/books?id=xlIo0A8YpBMC&dq=john+crowley+developing+a+vision&pg=PP1&ots=dXg8mz7qr4&s
Read more…Wikipedia?!?
Who out there is deeply disturbed by Wikipedia? Who out there finds it a useful tool? Today I attended a HS librarian inservice on teaching research strategies. Wikipedia got dumped on a lot. Once again, I found myself wondering why their is so much
Read more…slide show programs
I would like to use a different slide show program for our daily school announcements. We have been using PowerPoint for many years. I thought of using either Photo Story 3 or Windows Movie Maker but we need to add and delete slides on a daily basis
Read more…Male Librarians
It is great to see so many male librarians showing up on here! As I go in to my final week in an elementary placement, one of the challenges I have been working on is getting upper elementary (3-6) boys reading. I pulled together a set of "dangerous
Read more…New Elementary School Libraries
Our community just approved a bond issue to build two new elementary schools. (K-2 & 3-5). I would love to receive input on what you feel a new library must have for 21st century learners. Any ideas on floor plans, community space, equipment, work ar
Read more…Web 2.0 Tool Needed
Greetings! A physics teacher and I are collaborating on a series of learning activities to bring his physics students into the web 2.0 world. We are searching for the web 2.0 tool to support the following project: 1. Locate online videos that show e
Read more…Librarian survey-HELP PLEASE!
Ladies, I'm in the process of getting two books published that I feel will be extremely valuable in the library and the classroom. Because of the high cost of printing my small publisher wants to know if teachers and librarians will buy a paperback v
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