Teacher Librarian 2.0

Towards School 2.0
Professional Development: What Doesn’t Work
When I began to think about at how I would introduce web 2.0 to the teachers at my school, I immediately thought, “NOT professional development!” Why? Mention the phrase “professional development” to some teachers in my large, urban high school and you will immediately see their eyes begin to [...]

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Last week we arrived home late in the afternoon after a brief rain storm, and as we got out of the car we saw our willow tree bathed in gold. My husband dashed in the house to get his camera, and took a dozen shots of it.
This beautiful tree is old, much older than our [...]

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As I was thinking about this week’s post on using RSS feeds and aggregators, I kept coming back to the same idea: information overload. Since I first investigated using RSS feeds early in October, and then began using Diigo, I have become more efficient in terms of finding and storing information. I still experience overload. [...]

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As I was working on this week’s assigned blog entry, I realized that I was writing two separate pieces. While I spent a lot of time reading and thinking about students (and my grandniece, Lauren) using social networking services (see Social Networking 1), I also have been trying some out myself. I’ll share some of [...]

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Lauren’s Current Network
Last weekend I took a break from working on this week’s blog post on social networking. I went to visit my niece, and when I arrived, my seven-year-old grandniece, Lauren, closely supervised by her mother, was on the computer. She was busy checking her email at Webkinz, a social-networking site aimed at kids. [...]

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This is a picture of my nephew, Henry, and my dog, Henry. Henry Hopscotch was our dog’s official name as a registered Shetland Sheepdog – we called him Nap, short for Napster. That’s right – Napster, one of THE original social networking sites.
My husband spent a lot of time on Napster in its early [...]

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