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Entries from February 16th, 2011

TCEA tools “brain dump”

February 16th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0

The sessions I attended at this year’s TCEA conference in Austin were wide-ranging, so it’ll take a little reflection to post all of them.  But first, a little “tool-sharing” is in order. First off, Elaine Plybon’s session on paperless classrooms and how she maximizes the use of various tools to reduce paper use in her [...]

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TCEA 21st century libraries

February 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Web 2.0

In addition to my post below about my TCEA library session, I wanted to share the opening slideset that I used to stimulate our thinking.  The intention of these slides was to portray images of events, signage, physical spaces and virtual spaces of many libraries around the country who are embracing bringing 21st century libraries [...]

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TCEA Presentation–Facebook uses in education

February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Web 2.0

Our school is making efforts to allow teachers to use professional facebook accounts to communicate with their students.  Dustin Windsor, our technology coordinator, and I shared in a session at TCEA how our school embarked on this process.  The slides and notes from our presentation are below. Links to resource materials we used as a [...]

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TCEA presentation–21st century library issues

February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Web 2.0

I’ll be leading conversations about the issues facing librarians during a session at TCEA on February 9 from 10:30 to 11:30.  We’ll be using a specially designed “idea” space at the conference to foster discussions about many areas of concern facing librarians.  Feel free to join in remotely via the tools below. If you are [...]

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Librarians as Leaders

February 6th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0

In a recent article on librarians as leaders which I wrote for TCEA’s Tech Edge magazine, I was puzzling over the issues related to librarians as leaders in schools, particularly their role as technology leaders and how they can ideally work as part of a team with the school technology staff. The skills demanded of librarians [...]

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