Teacher Librarian 2.0

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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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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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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As I researched this week’s discussion topic, How are you managing information overload, I found that  reducing information overload is a hot topic. One estimate in a New York Times story is that this problem and its resulting loss of employee efficiency will cost US companies 650 billion in 2008 alone.
Mary Brandel’s August 25, 2008, [...]

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