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What would Jian do?
I posted this blog entry this week in response to Chapter 2 of danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens I’m really enjoying my role as facilitator in the TVO TeachOntario book club collaboration with the Ontario School Library Association. Our discussions are so rich. It’s never too late to join.…
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Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem by S. Niles, D. Wachter, M. Santoro
Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem by Steve Niles My rating: 5 of 5 stars Set in World War II, our main character struggles to help his grandparents make ends meet. To keep the village safe, a tiny clay man is given to the grandson and he is told to “Get to know…
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Cultivating participatory cultures in your library learning commons
This week I’m presenting on this topic at the Ontario Library Association’s Superconference 2016 #OLASC16. Here is a link to my presentation: http://prezi.com/ossxf_ab8lxv/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share During the presentation I’ll be asking participants to participate! (surprise surprise) One of those ways is using crowdsourcing. I’m asking you to contribute your own ideas for cultivating a participatory culture using this…
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#BIT15Reads: Building a Participatory Learning Community of Professional Readers
Today I submitted this paper as a part of Treasure Mountain Canada 2016. If you don’t know this is an event that involves the best minds in Canadian School Libraries. To see all the papers, go to: https://sites.google.com/site/treasuremountaincanada4/home Be sure to follow the live events on the blog: http://tmcanada.blogspot.ca/ Be sure to follow the hashtag this week: …
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The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Troop by Nick Cutter My rating: 3 of 5 stars As The Troop is nominated by the Ontario Library Association’s for the White Pine award, I picked it up in audiobook. This book is seriously scary….I have an 11 year old boy named Maximilian (weird coincidence) and the idea of him going anywhere overnight…
threadbare beauty 