library leadership
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Reaching out through the library
Our secondary school is one of 11 in our school board and one of 4 with a full-time teacher-librarian. Other than guidelines from our provincial school library association (OSLA) there are very few mandates for library. The community of Orangeville is about 30 000 people and while initially agricultural, it is now a commuter town…
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Reflection: on entering the library
E contacted me today thinking about career changes, or sidesteps moving from classroom teaching to some of those rarer positions in schools like teacher-librarianship, and asked what are the differences between being a classroom teacher and being a librarian. Moving into my fourth year in the library, I had a lot to say. Here’s my…
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The quest for self-selection
The truth is that the technology within my library is not self-selected. We have 44 desktops, 7 netbooks and these have all been purchased by the board. The software on the desktops is controlled by the board as well. So while I can tell people my opinion on hardware and software choices for students, I…
BYOD, computer lab, convergence culture, digital literacy, digital mastery, educational computing organization, educational technology, Eliza Dresang, Henry Jenkins, information literacy, library computer lab, library leadership, radical change, school library, secondary school library, self-directed learning, software choices, student-centred learning, technology, Tim King, Wendy Stephens -
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…
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Find of the week
Mashapedia is an aggregator combined with a search engine. Mashpedia is an online encyclopedia comprised of “LiveDocs”, which are dynamic web documents displaying blocks of content related to the given topic, retrieved from multiple sources across the Internet in real-time. If a user types in a concept, it goes to the news, YouTube, blogs, Twitter, Facebook…
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