Computers in the 21st century play a major part in our roles as Teacher-Librarians, Technology Coaches and Media Specialist. With the advancement and popularity of Web 2.0 Applications, how are we able to ensure that fellow employees will not violate
Read more…I hope all of you had the chance to hear Joyce V on WOW2.0 early March. (SHOW #65) During some great suggestions, she was talking about teaching students how to create their own information portals. She suggested using pageflakes, netvibes or IGoogle
Read more…So, I've been doing a lot of thinking about this recently. Wondering- what are our best practices? Do we TL's have certain things that we all (mostly :) agree that are really important to our work IN and OUT of tech land? Joyce Valenza has put forth
Read more…Poster Girl is a chapter book about a messy, average kid, Paula, who wants to show up her goody-two-shoes rival, Cynthia. To pull off this feat, she’s got to make a great science poster, the ‘best’ in her class. But of course there are problems. Lik
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Hi, For the past two years I've been assigned a full teaching load. Six periods a day I'm with students, I have an aide who is to work under my direction but there's not much time for direction. I'm wondering if others have lost their positions this
Read more…Hi everyone - I wanted to post a discussion about how your Media Specialist Evaluation process works in your state and in your district: Information about how the media specialist evaluation process works: Who evaluates you as the media specialist?
Read more…This year, to enhance collaboration, I began offering virtual office hours for those assignments on which I collaborate. I embedded an instant message Meebo widget on my library contact page and created accounts on various IM services, which are mana
Read more…Hi everyone! For my Admin School Media Course, I have to conduct an interview with a Media Specialist about the budget for their school library. So please feel free to post your responses to the interview questions, and I greatly appreciate everyones
Read more…(Please excuse cross postings.) Our spring break is next week. I am reading for pleasure and profession. Pleasure: finishing Hugo Cabret, startingThe thirteenth tale by Diane Setterfield, The book of other people edited by Zadie Smith, Brother, I am
Read more…Hi everyone, Is anyone (in Canada? Louisana?) a Teacher-librarian at a French Immersion school? I am looking for a company that sells French Videos. I have found some fabulous ones available at amazon.fr, but can't seem to find a distributor. I have
Read more…Hi everyone! I am about to graduate in May with my MLS and am about to be flown across the country for my first job interview. I am applying to be the head librarian at an independent school, and needless to say, I'm a bit nervous. It will be an all-
Read more…Hi everyone, I am finally ready to start using blogs with my students for an upcoming middle ages project, and am worrried about 'safe' blogs. Can anyone recommend a safe blogging site? I don't want strangers to be able to access the student's work,
Read more…Our school is facing a sever space problem next year. We're a grade 3 - 13 school, housed in one building that looks like an office block. Next year we'll have 3 classes on each grade level, and we know now that we don't have enough space to teach ou
Read more…I would like to become a librarian at a middle school. I've just begun looking into this and I need to know what schooling/certification I would need. I'm sure that this varies depending on where you are, but this looked like a good place to get a ge
Read more…Hi everyone I wanted to post a discussion topic about student fines to have a feel where most Media Specialist stand on this issue: School library fines—should we charge them? What are they supposed to accomplish? Is it worth the effort? Thank
Read more…I have learned a lot and am learning more about the potential of blogs and wikis. I brought up the subject with my principal and got a "see me" response via email. The principal indicated that blogs would be a risky and problematic area that would be
Read more…We have the joy of hosting a YA author next school year. Can anyone make recommendations or share stories of their own author visits?
Read more…Launched at its annual conference in October, AASL's new standards are not our mother's information skills objectives. http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm These sophisticated standards will help ensure that our s
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