On her blog, TechnoTuesday, Cathy Nelson shared a dilemma many librarians (and tech staff) face. How do we keep from getting demoralized when we are truly attempting to raise the caliber of an assignment and teachers feel they are too busy or too concerned with an upcoming standardized test or just reluctant about accepting our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Collaboration'
Solar, wind, or electric: Harnessing the energy
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Collaboration, Web 2.0
This morning and yesterday morning both I had the honor of attending the Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar and the Educon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia, both remotely. What was funny was that I felt such a sense of community in the chat rooms talking to students and to other wired educators, sometimes more of a [...]
Continuing the conversations
May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner
The end of the school year always feels like a mixed bag–excitement at the thought of relaxation and summertime, but wistfulness and sadness at saying farewell to the year, with students and friends leaving, and with things left undone, potential unfulfilled. But usually it feels over. Like things are packed up–put away, set aside, and [...]
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Collective blogs
May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration
Some of my twitter acquaintances have started a new blog, The Mommy Gig. And as I was reading it, I was thinking about other “group” blogs like LeaderTalk for administrators, or like Students 2.0. I like the idea of using a group blog for students in a class as well. It’s a way to feature [...]
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Sometimes a seed. . .
April 19th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Change, Collaboration, Web 2.0
Sometimes it just takes the seed of an idea to inspire others. Last night I was checking in on Twitter, feeling a little discouraged, and fellow librarian Jenny Luca just happened to tweet that her students’ live Project Global Cooling concert was just starting their broadcast from Australia. This was a concert they organized for [...]
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Do our systems support our goals?
March 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Change, Collaboration, Staff development
In their book Innovation, Curtis Carlson and William Wilmot talk about the difficulty many organizations have with adapting to change. They point out, “A fundamental reason for this failure…to keep up is that they are, by definition, built to fight the last war. . . . They have well-defined organizations and processes designed to achieve those earlier objectives, [...]
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Five things
February 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Collaboration, libraries
I’ve been thinking a lot about a session at TCEA’s Library Sig group meeting, where Barbara Jansen and her former principal Marla McGee did an excellent presentation about ‘five things librarians would want their principals to know about their programs’. (See Dr. Mary Ann Bell’s excellent summary of the session). Barbara emphasized the importance of identifying what your ‘five most [...]
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Coming back home
February 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
In his post last week, “Changing Ourselves, Changing Our Culture,” Will Richardson finds irony in the fact that “teachers are connecting more and more outside their spaces but, it appears at least, not so much inside their own districts and communities.” I’ve found that to be true for myself until recently. I’ve had only a [...]
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No longer on an island
February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
What is the value of being networked? Yesterday during my Hill Country Librarian Presentation on “How to be a Networked Librarian,” I threw that question out to my twitter network. The responses from my network were so varied and tremendous, that I wanted to share them as a resource when we talk about the power [...]
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Learning from our students–the roving librarian
February 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Student projects, Teacher Learner
Yesterday, I took the library to the students. As those of you who read my blog may know, we’re closed for a renovation, and I’m currently working out of the ninth grade center library, which is a trek from the main high school. I So in an effort to bring services TO the students, I’m [...]
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