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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No longer on an island
February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
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Seeing is believing, part two
February 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Change, Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
No one who watched the ads on the Superbowl doubts the impact of a well-designed visual. But in schools, we often neglect that power. It is harder to make a striking visual, because it takes more time to make a well-designed handout—or a powerpoint that is thought-provoking—or a digital video that has impact—or even a [...]
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 [...]
Your wild and precious life
February 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Educon 2.0, Innovation, Teacher Learner
When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, [...]
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The peanut butter cup effect
February 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
How do you empower students to engage with a text in such a way that they can come to their own understanding of it? I just participated in a fascinating live blogging experiencewith Maura Moritz’s and Karl Fisch’s students at Arapahoe High School. The students were using the inner/outer circle discussion method in their classroom to discuss [...]
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Learning from peers
January 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Educon 2.0, Teacher Learner
This summer, at the NECC conference, I was sorry to have missed the first “Educon” — an informal gathering of educators/bloggers who had only previously met virtually –who were meeting in Atlanta to talk informally about education. Tomorrow I’m leaving for an experience I am very excited about–and the seeds of which were planted at [...]
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Keeping it real
January 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Staff development, Teacher Learner
Quite a bit of conversation has been circulating around the blogosphere lately about personal learning networks and how to move them into the professional practice of teachers. Scott Schwister pushed at that idea in a “must read” recent post, asking “How do we show the learning that happens through personal learning networks?” He concludes by [...]
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Lock, stock, and barrel
December 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Learning, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
I don’t often write ’inside info’ kind of posts, but in the last two days, I witnessed an amazing example of a learning network in action. Twitter, a site I’m a huge fan of as many of you know, announced it would be going down for maintenance for most of Saturday. Since a number of us rely on [...]
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Fifteen minutes
November 30th, 2007 · 22 Comments · Teacher Learner
What kind of difference can fifteen minutes make? Yesterday, I was delighted to chat via Skype with David Jakes, Patrick Higgins, John Maklary, Robin Ellis, and Joel Adkins during a workshop for Teacher/Leaders in our district. The theme of our workshop was connections and how teacher leaders in a school help begin epidemics, springing off the idea of [...]
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Beginner’s mind
November 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Change, Innovation, Teacher Learner
Garr Reynolds writes thought-provokingly on Presentation Zen about the concept of beginner’s mind and how we learn. Reynolds writes: The meaning of the beginner’s mind does not mean to retreat to the naiveté of a child. It is not about being simplistic or ignorant, it is about approaching life and its challenges with curiosity and [...]
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