Time off

Librarian by Day wrote about taking two weeks off - I've decided that one week to reflect and reprioritize will do me well.  See you in 2010.

Tech tools I’ll be playing with in 2010

In no particular order... Prezi and Prezi Desktop Teqpad (how will this help teach website evaluation? hmmm...) TeuxDeux (ok, maybe less "tech" than "organization") The Monopoly card generator: great for working with classes, or contests. GoogleEarth, so I can create LitTrips. NetVibes' Wasabi Diigo CheckPlaces VocabAhead Arora Layers Timeline/mindmapping tools Stixy Zoho Notebook

What I learned/thought about in 2009

(an unofficial meme, via Buffy)  My Top Five? The wonder that is LibGuides - and how to make good ones for class projects.  Creating lists in Delicious isn't enough: you have to market those resources to your students/teachers for them to have value. That these aren't 21st century skills, they're 21st century tools.  How can…

Minor Musings

All year (it seems) I've been collecting blog posts and tweets and in an effort to declutter my inboxes, I'm going to just post links them with perhaps a couple of words of "why I saved this".  Feel free to add commentary and links of your own: Doug Johnson's series of posts on budgeting.  He's…

These are the people in my neighborhood

Bri comments about the increasing use of PLN to describe those we follow and learn from: I would posit that perhaps "digital natives" (a term I sort of grudgingly apply to myself) are not really using the phrase "Personal Learning Network" to describe their online activities. It's just LIFE. The Internet is so much a…

Smack this

For the past few conferences, Wendy and Joyce have helmed the Tool Smackdown. Now Diane has asked for a new name, and I have to admit I agree. "Smackdown" sounds a bit like my Animoto can beat up your Wordle, doesn't it? If you want a "sexy" name, what about Speed Dating? I've never attended…

Conference Craziness: AASL09

Better late than never, right? So, what did I think about AASL2009? In a word, not much (I know, that's two words). Why? Because it just seemed like more of the same. Technology glitches? Got 'em. Big Names cheering on Big Names? Got 'em. Too much tied in to the AASL Standards and too little…

Don’t believe everything you read

When I work with my students, I'm always floored by the way in which they get to websites. You'd think that they'd know to type the website into the address bar - and some do - but often they find it easier to just go to Google and "search" for MPOW/Facebook/YouTube/etc.. Bookmarks? Delicious? Wha???? So…

Minor Musings

Cart and buggy or…? (wither librarians?) Dangerously irrelevant libraries (eBook nonsense). There's even a book about how important we'll be in the future Doug's response (as well as that of others) re: The Things That Keep Us Up At Night can be found here. Since not many of us are getting the message about Google,…