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  • CanConnectEd2015: Transliteracy and the teacher-librarian

    This week I’ve been attending the Connect conference in Niagara Falls for the first time and as a representative of the Ontario School Library Association Council.  It also gives me a chance to speak about my M.Ed. capping paper on how teacher-librarians are in the ideal position to facilitate transliteracy. I mean, we really do…

    May 7, 2015

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    Change agent, definition of literacy, digital literacy, educational research, educational technology, information literacy, reading, school librarian, school library, teacher-librarian, transliteracy
  • This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

    Reading this book has changed my life.

    March 27, 2015

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    Audible, book reviews, books, Canadian, capitalism, climate change, collection development, developing nations, economics, environmental law, Evergreen, Global warming, globalization, industrialization, infertility, minimum wage, Naomi Klein, non-fiction, ontario library association, secondary school library, slavery, This Changes Everything, world trade
  • Cinder by Marissa Meyer

    Cinder by Marissa Meyer My rating: 3 of 5 stars As much as I wanted to get into this book about a Cyborg with way more problems than Cinderella (who the book loosely resembles), I had trouble with the world-building and the flow of unfolding the politics of this fantastic setting. I had trouble understanding…

    January 31, 2015

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    book reviews, books, children’s literature, Cinder, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Cinderella, collection development, cyborg, fantasy, Marissa Meyer, Prince Kai, reading, school librarian, school library, science fiction, secondary school library, teacher-librarian, young adult fiction
  • The Bear by Claire Cameron

    The Bear by Claire Cameron My rating: 4 of 5 stars The UGDSB has just chosen this book as our board-wide novel for secondary students and author Ms. Cameron will be visiting schools in May 2015. After reading this terrifying novel, I am nervous about the problematic areas in Cameron’s choices. As a parent, I…

    January 31, 2015

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    Algonquin Park, book reviews, books, Canadian, children’s literature, Claire Cameron, collection development, literacy, literacy promotion, reading, school librarian, school library, secondary school librarian, secondary school library, teacher-librarian, The Bear, UGDSB, young adult fiction
  • Revisiting Treasure Mountain 2014

    I need to start off this blog post by once again speaking to the imbalance I experience in blogging itself.  Try as I might, I sometimes take years to process an experience or a reading and I find it really challenging to write regularly.  Today is no exception and I’d like to revisit an experience…

    January 30, 2015

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    Anita Brooks-Kirkland, blogging, Carol Koechlin, Change agent, Daniel Beylerian, David Loertscher, definition of literacy, digital identity, educational research, Google Hangout, Heather Leatham, Kathy Inglis, Kevin Greenshields, Kimberley Flood, Peter McAsh, risk-taking, Robin Feick, social media, Tim King, transliteracy, Treasure Mountain Canada
  • Launching a book club with a riddle

    My White Pine book club is growing stale. The same few students join every year (which is awesome) but I’m not reaching as far as I’d like to in my secondary school of 1200 students. So I’m trying an additional book club this year in a different format. The book I’ve chosen is “This Dark…

    December 1, 2014

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    book club, books, Canadian, children’s literature, inquiry-based learning, literacy, reading, school librarian, school library, secondary school library, student-centred learning, Switzerland, This Dark Endeavour, transliteracy, young adult fiction
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