Teacher Librarian 2.0

This week’s topic for discussion is “Finding your voice within the edublogosphere.” While I was tempted to write about how I plan to become a famous (and rich!) blogger, I thought better of this. I’m sure you are all disappointed!
Seriously, as I was trying to think of an inquiry question for this topic, I was [...]

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I am asked: Will Richardson talks about the progression that bloggers go through from simple to real to complex blogging. What does this mean to you given your own recent journey into the blogosphere?
There is no doubt in my mind that I have written some blogs posts that might be considered true blogging, as Richardson [...]

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Are We There Yet?
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. LeGuin
So I’m almost finished the course, and it has been the most difficult course I’ve ever done. It’s also been the most exciting and immediately useful course I’ve done [...]

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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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There have been times while doing my reading for my Web 2.0 course that I have felt completely buried, so my inquiry question is this. What research-based strategies can I add to what I already know about online reading to help my students (and myself) read, understand, and learn more effectively?
As I work on this course, I have [...]

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