Ok, this is what I feel like after the first week back from spring break. Anyone else?
Entries from March 22, 2007
21st century schools
March 22, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cross Curricular Connections, libraries, Uncategorized
The vision committee I’m a part of just shared a presentation with our faculty based on our site visits to California, about the ideas we’re bringing back to our campus. It brought back to me the excitement of the trip, the excitement of feeling like a education professional, and the excitement of believing that so [...]
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“The accidental audience”
March 19, 2007 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0
As we move students into doing more projects online, using wikis or blogs or posting videos or images, Tim Stahmer at Assorted Stuff brings up some excellent points to consider about unintended audiences. Students typically have a certain audience in mind when they create a project and post it online. “However, what about the accidental audience, [...]
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Designing the future?
March 18, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cross Curricular Connections, Design, Whole New Mind
Maybe because I’m working on the new plans for the library, as well as rereading Daniel Pink’s book Whole New Mind, plus having recently visited High Tech High, I’ve been obsessing a little bit lately over the idea of the role of design and creativity in schools, and pondering about what we could do better. [...]
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Bringing the “outside” in
March 15, 2007 · 3 Comments · Future students
What am I doing writing about the SXSW Interactive, Film, and Music Festival on a blog about libraries and education? (Well, first off, because we won FREE wristbands to attend the SXSW music festival–thanks KGSR!) But also, as I’ve been using the SXSW website and reading articles about it, it’s fascinating to see how technology is [...]
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Want to give your two cents worth?
March 13, 2007 · No Comments · Future students, Will Richardson
Will Richardson has been struggling quite a bit lately about how to bring about changes in education that better reflect the sort of connected world that our students are growing up in. Then yesterday, he got an email from Senator Lamarr Alexander’s office asking him (as a blogger) to join a conference call today about the America [...]
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Spring in Texas
March 10, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Today is the first official day of Spring Break for most Texas schools, and thankfully, the weather will actually be spring-like also! Most of us are long overdue for a mental break! I’m looking forward to time to read, reflect, and mainly just rejuvenate. It’s enjoyable just to be in Austin for the break–SXSW [...]
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Research across the curriculum
March 7, 2007 · No Comments · libraries, Research
Rereading the Blog of Proximal Development that Will Richardson recommended and visiting other high schools has stirred up thoughts for me about how compartmentalized both high schools and many colleges are in terms of curriculum. As I said previously, one of the things that excited me the most during our site visits last week was seeing some interdisciplinary [...]
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Make mine international, please
March 6, 2007 · No Comments · Tools
A couple of the schools we visited on our site visits last week impressed me with their international “feel,” and I’ve been thinking about how we can bring more international connections into our curriculum here (both in the library and in general). So I was pleased to rediscover the Newseum (a news museum that will [...]
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Time to learn and share
March 3, 2007 · 1 Comment · Site visits, Tools, Web 2.0
As I sift through my thoughts from the site visits this past week, the theme that keeps recurring to me is the different ways the schools we visited supported either their teachers or their students, or both. Every school we visited had a non-traditional schedule, including our last site, Mt. Carmel, which I haven’t had [...]
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