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Gearing up for September--best ideas?

I would love to hear what brilliant ideas you are planning for this coming school year. What 2.0 excitement is brewing? What new bulletin board ideas do you have? How will you be greeting and orienting your new learners? Please share any special, nifty ideas for the greater good.

Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments (Add)

2007 Quill Award Nominees

At BookExpo America, they announced this year's Quill nominees. It's the third year for these consumer-driven awards. The last two lists helped me plan my summer reading and helped me to discover new authors and titles to include on our high school shelves. Scroll down to the bottom of the list for youth titles.

Posted on June 3rd, 2007 at 7:26am — No Comments (Add)

Create your own group here!

Cathy Nelson just pointed out that we could create groups within our Ning community. This is very cool. I played around by creating one for high school.

Please create any others that make sense to you (ala http://library20.ning.com/).
How about one for independent schools, one for TLs from Arkansas or Alaska, one for the NECC conference, one for TLs without budgets, one for TLs with special super powers?

joyce

Posted on May 19th, 2007 at 4:13pm — 5 Comments (Add)

And the winners are . . . (from my blog)

SEOmoz’s new Web 2.0 Awards were announced yesterday. Last year’s list led me to tools that became a regular part of my life online. There’s lots to explore. Some are already favorites. Some look like great fodder for pathfinders. Others present some cool potential for incorporating in learning activities.

Among the categories:

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Posted on May 10th, 2007 at 7:31am — 3 Comments (Add)

California's 23 things

I knew it was around, but I hadn't actually seen it. Doug Johnson just pointed me to the California School Library Association's School Library 2.0: The 23 Things. Great stuff for training and learning. Take a good look!!!! BTW, our Ning is one of those things.

Posted on May 9th, 2007 at 5:02pm — 5 Comments (Add)

Senior bulletin board

Just wanted to share our very easy end-of-year display case idea. Our seniors look forward to this all year.

We put out boxes of index cards and art supplies. Each senior decorates a card with his or her plans for next year. They go crazy competing to create the very best index cards--school colors, mascots, all sorts of images. We cluster them. (For instance, all the Penn State cards go together. All the military cards go together.) This year we photocopied their 9th grade pics from t…

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At 4:26pm on June 16th, 2008, Glen said…: See you there...

At 9:42pm on June 15th, 2008, Glen said…: Joyce,
Wonderful Ning! I hope that you will be at either ALA in California or NECC in TX this year. Will you be presenting at either?

At 10:57pm on March 10th, 2008, guybrarian said…: Hi Joyce!
I've started a discussion about your idea for using IGoogle over in the forums. Would love to have you describe exemplars of what good work looks like. I started doing this during teen tech week, and now I'm ready to roll! Thanks for your help!
-phil goerner (pgoerner)

At 4:04pm on February 20th, 2008, Richard Beaudry said…: Hello Joyce,

Sounds good. I use GoggleTalk rather than Skype but I should be able to connect with you. I am on the West Coast of Canada so we have a three hour time difference. There is no rush so when you have the time send me some times to contact you and I will make the arrangements.

Thank you,

Richard

At 4:00pm on February 19th, 2008, Richard Beaudry said…: Hello Joyce,

I am the editor of School Libraries in Canada (SLIC) and I would like the membership of CASL to join the TeacherLibrarianNetwork and form a group like the teacher librarians of Colorado.

I would like to add an article on the Teacher Librarian Ning in the next issue of SLIC. I can write the article myself but since the success of this network is based on your efforts I would like to offer you the opportunity to be the writer for this article. You have earned it. I realize that you are very busy with writing for other journals and conference presentations but I would appreciate it if you could do this for CASL.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Richard

Richard Beaudry
Teacher Librarian
Editor of SLIC

At 1:27pm on February 13th, 2008, Joan Collins said…: Just joined your Ning thing.....I'm a slow immigrant....Hope all is well....

At 10:21pm on January 28th, 2008, msannakoval said…: hello joyce, =)
you don't know me. i'm a first-year teacher-librarian in san francisco unified. while i was wandering around the internet this weekend looking for ways to be a better librarian,i stumbled onto your ning. i didn't really know what a ning was, and i didn't really know who you were, but i'd heard of both, and mostly you. (my master teacher thinks very highly of you and just last week shared with me some of your handouts for a collaborative project i'm working on.) anyway, your ning was just what i was looking for! i invited all of my colleagues, classmates, and even college instructors from library school to join tln. many have, and i hope more will. i was so inspired by tln that i made my own ning this weekend and plan to roll it out to my students tomorrow! but here's the weird thing...although my own ning shows up on my account, yours still isn't listed as a network i belong to. granted i only joined it two days ago, but still. i want to make sure i'm wearing my tln badge with pride! =) perhaps you've encountered this glitch before. your assistance is appreciated. it's a pleasure to introduce myself to you. i hope to make your acquaintance one day i.r.l. =) smiles, anna koval =)

At 9:32pm on September 27th, 2007, Dennis O'Connor said…: Hey Joyce, we sent out our Information Fluency Group invitations mid day today.

We're starting to grow... now it's just a matter of adding kindling to the flame.

Thanks for your help on this!

Dennis

At 12:53am on July 25th, 2007, Mrs. Spielman said…: Thanks for the invite. Happy to be here.

At 2:59pm on July 23rd, 2007, Amy Sprung said…: Thanks for the add! Is your daughter in Somerville the person who drew the image on your library homepage?

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