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Recently, the plagiarism detection software group, Turnitin, released an Infographic on their research findings student information literacy. A terrific argument why teacher-librarians are needed now more than ever...Courtesy of Turnitin, 2012

It happened.Four times this week.Four times.It happened again and again and again and again--my perceived job title was called into question.With our library resource assistant at lunch (or having left for the day) several students showed up at my office door to ask me if "the librarian was around" because they wanted to "sign out … Continue reading Excuse me, can you sign these out? →

After watching Renny Gleeson's succinct story and lessons of the 404 page the other day I was curious about how such we, as educators, might be able to utilize or view this 'lemonade from lemons' anecdote.http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Let's be blunt about this: our youth lack perseverance. Resilience, perhaps the most important character trait, for survival in … Continue reading Resilience, Perseverance, and the 404 Error →

I am a teacher-librarian and I have a confession to make...I have been unable to finish Mockingjay, the third book in the hugely popular The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, for over three months.A contributor to my 'series burnout'?I last read Catching Fire nearly two years ago with the promise to take a short … Continue reading Series Burn-Out? →

Arguable, the last bastion of the 20th century to fall to the technological r/evolution is education. It has been able to continue to morph and wiggle for nearly thirty years. But no more. Change is unavoidable. The time for education to evolve is now.Inforgraphic courtesy Column Five Media for Knewton.  http://www.knewton.com

In preparation for a spring purging in our school library, I recently reread Julie Goldberg's reverent post I Can't Believe You're Throwing Out Books again this week. I suppose that I needed to thicken my skin thickened a little; keep up the resolve to start pulling; it was a desperately needed pep talk before absorbing … Continue reading Yes, I Am Removing These Books From the Library… →

Last month our superintendent, Mr. Jeff Jones, on his blog shared an anecdote on the passion and motivation of the administration that he witnessed while visiting last month at a local school.I felt compelled to respond (this is an editing version from the comment I left on his blog)...To take it a step further, Jeff, … Continue reading Passion: A reply →

To be honest, I was struggling to find an adequate explanation of the idea of the 'Flipped Classroom' that I could share with colleagues. And then...This Infographic by technology writer and educator, Peter Pappas, comes the closest, (so far):

For five and a half years, I've been encouraging teachers at our school to promote and support etextbook use among their students. Yes, there are essentially PDF versions and require a relatively large screen to view. These etextbook versions really offer no more of a benefit to students than not having to haul around fifteen … Continue reading iBooks Textbooks a Solution? →