During this budget crisis in Texas, there’s been much talk, including from the Governor, of how school districts are to blame, and plenty of implications that teachers and administrators are living high off the hog and not doing their fair share in this budget environment. So I asked colleagues around the state to share just [...]
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What are YOU sacrificing for our children?
March 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Web 2.0
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Libraries in a democratic society
March 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Web 2.0
Every morning a number of scenarios for letters to the editor or to the state legislators run through my head on the way to work, hoping to explain, convince, chide, persuade, and inform about the woes facing Texas schools and the impact on our students and on the profession of teaching as a whole. In [...]
SXSW Interactive Reflections
March 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
Yesterday was one of those perfect days at a conference, where the confluence of the setting, the people, and the sessions all come together in symphony, which makes me already feel nostalgic that SXSW Interactive is over. Spaces Ever since I designed our library, I’ve developed a fascination for how spaces are created. At SXSWi, [...]
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Blogging SXSW Interactive
March 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Web 2.0
I’m lucky enough to be at SXSW Interactive today. Will be live blogging when I can in CoverItLive. SXSW Blogging
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Empower us, don’t cripple us
March 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
Last week, one of our Student Council members, Danielle Suh, wrote this powerful letter to her legislators regarding the cuts to education budgets in Texas, and I felt it deserved a wider audience. When I asked her for permission to include it on my blog, she agreed, commenting, “There’s often this sense of helplessness, like no matter what [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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