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  • What I do in the library

    Here’s what I do all day.  Based on Bill Ferriter’s blog post on Developing Technology Vision Statements, and Mike Eisenberg’s Vodcast on The Role of the Teacher – Librarian, I have aimed to define my job. The pie graph lays out my belief of how I spend my day/week/semester.  Is your pie chart the same?

    February 8, 2012

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  • Results of technology-use survey at Superconference12

    Thank you everyone for participating! Here’s the link to the survey:   Here are the results of the survey:

    January 30, 2012

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  • How to sustain self-directed learning

    This week at my secondary school of 1450 students, the department heads and the directions team and the administrators got together and started examining the feedback from our School Effectiveness Framework (SEF) visit in December. Of course, we’re doing lots of things well.  Yet the same criticism kept arising in the next steps category:  The…

    January 21, 2012

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  • Sharon Coatney’s The Many Faces of Library Leadership

    Abstract This paper examines in detail Sharon Coatney’s The Many Faces of School Library Leadership (2010) through the perspective of three influential topics: advocacy leadership, literacy promotion, and the changing definition of literacy.   Reflections are made throughout on current practice in the secondary school library and questions for further study are suggested. Advocacy leadership Coatney’s…

    January 15, 2012

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    definition of literacy, ken haycock, library leadership, literacy promotion, school librarian, secondary school library
  • The emergence of Web 3.0

    Thinking a lot about Web 3.0 today and how social bookmarking is so close to being a truly intelligent aggregator. Things like Diigo and Evernote are getting there, as well as something like http://ifttt.com where the internet is actually doing the work for us. Some of the clearest examples I’ve seen of web 3.0 tools…

    January 7, 2012

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    aggregator tools, education technology, Robin Morris, scopus, social bookmarking, Web 3.0, web of science
  • Reflection

    There were two initial goals that I had entering this project: to grow personally, and to develop professionally.  The two main vehicles for this progress were media creation and digital information management.    As a new teacher-librarian in a secondary school, I realize that my scope of influence is limited by my reach to the students…

    December 4, 2011

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