Melinda Pennington's Page

Inspired by Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0 and California's School Library Learning 2.0, let's use this space to explore new things to prepare ourselves for leadership in new information landscapes.

This group is for teacher-librarians who want to discuss coteaching with classroom teachers standards-based lessons and units of instruction.

A forum for discussing best practices using and promoting YA lit with teens in a school library setting. What are you buying? What's hot and what's not? How do we help make kids life long readers?

I'm curious, from an author's standpoint, what teachers and librarians hope for when an author comes to visit the classroom. Do you wish mostly for inspiration? Entertainment? Academic info?

A group for Middle School Librarians - Teachers.

What's the DIF? Digital Information Fluency that is? This group is dedicated to the proposition that part of the mission is to teach 21st Century Information Fluency Skills to each other and our students. (Let's share ideas and energy!)

This group is about using instructional technology in the library. The technology can be anything, Web 2.0 tools, hardware, software, etc. Discussion should center on integrating technology into information literacy instruction and collaboration.

This group is for those who wish to share about using collaborative Web 2.0 tools in their library instruction. Here we can discuss what tools we are using, make connections for collaboration, and celebrate our technological triumphs!