If you’re attending Internet Schools West and visiting my blog for the first time, welcome! To find pages on web 2.0 tools or the link to my conference notes, check out the wiki page. My presentation slides can be found on Google presentations. If you’re interested in using VoiceThread in the library, here’s an example on [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2007
Website smorgasbord
October 31st, 2007 · No Comments · ISW2007
My plan this evening was to write a beautifully coherent post about many of the websites, tools, and strategies that I’ve heard about at Internet Schools West the last two days. But just as I was starting to write, there was an earthquake here in Monterey, so I had to leave the room and sit [...]
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Balancing act
October 30th, 2007 · No Comments · ISW2007, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
Yesterday morning (since I woke up at 4 a.m.–still on CST, evidently), I walked down two blocks to the cove at Pacific Grove(near Monterey, California). If you look closely at the photo you can see the seals balanced on the rocks here, scooting themselves onto the boulders in the cove, while the waves crash up [...]
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Hello from Internet Librarian Schools West!
October 29th, 2007 · No Comments · il2007, ISW2007
I was planning to live blog the IL Schools West conference, but unfortunately the one room we are meeting in doesn’t have internet access because we’re not in the conference center, so, I’m taking a quick fire minute break to post an update! I feel like my limbs are missing since I haven’t been able [...]
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Learning all around us
October 28th, 2007 · No Comments · il2007, ISW2007, k12online 2007, k12online07
Something about being in a different place, or maybe a place so rich with literary history, makes you realize that learning isn’t just something that can go on in school, but all around you. The Monterey area is like an outdoor learning laboratory–you hear sea lions barking at night or can watch them from the [...]
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A must-read
October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment · ISW2007
In this “must read” post, Joyce Valenza challenges librarians to climb on the front of the wagon-train and be leaders of this new educational expedition. But I believe her challenge applies to all educators as well. Thanks to SC Morgan from Twitter for the tip! (The only comment I’m not sure I agree with is [...]
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Shouting in the wind
October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
“Our speech can be powerful, or we can be shouting in the wind. Never in the history of humankind have we had so many means of communication–e-mail, cell phones, faxes, television, radio, newspapers–but we still remain distant islands. There is so little real communication between the members of one family, between the individuals in society, [...]
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A vital link
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
At our campus, we’ve been involved in a several week workshop on 21st century skills and web 2.0 in particular. Today teachers were exploring and signing up for a web 2.0 tool, to join and participate on the web. All during the workshop today, I was seeing Twitters on my twitter account from Jennifer Wagner and Sylvia [...]
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When Night Falls Around the World
October 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · k12online 2007, k12online07
What if you held a conference and attendees came from every part of the world? The K12 Online conference concludes this weekend with just such a culminating event–a 24 hour around the world online chat known as “When Night Falls.” To “illustrate” that event, the conference organizers have invited participants to join a new flickr [...]
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What’s goin on round here
October 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
Some great things going on around here–I’ve been so swamped with professional development and our library renovation lately that posting to my blog has been limited. But I did want to highlight a few cool things going on around here, some of which are coming out of our staff development or from workshops from [...]
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Flickr/whslibrary
Twitter/technolibrary
YouTube/whslibrary
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