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 [...]
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SXSW Interactive Reflections
March 16, 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 14, 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 9, 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 16, 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 10, 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 9, 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 9, 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 6, 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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Keeping advocacy focused
January 24, 2011 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
Tightening budgets in many states and local school districts (including the one in which I live) remind me of the importance of having a focused advocacy message for library positions/technology budgets. Texas is facing a severe budget shortfall, as is my local city’s school district, and library and technology budgets are on the line with [...]
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