December 2011 Blog Posts (7)

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Lauren, thank you so much for highly recommending this book! It was so…

The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



It took me awhile to get around to reading this book, but I was determined since it was…

Now that I've been reading Pam Berger and Sally Trexler's book, Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World, I've decided to resurrect my blog that I'd started as part of the PSLA "23 Things" exercise.  I exported it to another email account and changed the blog URL, and in the process I lost my previous followers.  You can find the blog at http://librarythreads.blogspot.com if you'd like to sign up to follow…

We are appreciating the opportunity to use LibGuides at Chambersburg Area Senior High School Library.  See our page for our 11th grade English "Junior Project": http://palibraries.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=270348&sid=2236206 

We assign a separate tab for each research project, by the teacher's name.  (We haven't decided yet what to do when the teacher comes in for a second project.  I…

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Lauren, thank you so much for highly recommending this book! It was so…

Look Back and Forward

My Capstone experience has reinforced my belief that in order to be an effective teacher, you must remain a lifelong student. My significant learning moments came when I applied what I learned from ISTE colleagues to my interactions with building level peers and of course my students! Informing my peers that they could work together even though they could not find a convenient meeting time for all concerned by using Google.docs was a fulfilling moment for me.…

Well as a culminating activity to my ISTE Capstone journey, I have to come up with a way to express all that I have learned in 3 to 5 minutes! UGH! I have never been to stay within a time limit. Anyways, I decided to try and use Prezi to highlight everything I’ve learned over the course of the last year about integrating technology into the curriculum, global citizenship, and the digital world. Prezi is an awesome digital tool and I will definitely be using it a lot in the coming months as I…