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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…

Forgive me for not being more active on this great NING.  Wherever teacher-librarians gather I find valuable resources and deeply caring people. 

I'd like to add to the resources by sharing by new online magazine. This is a curated publishing effort that is just getting started.  I think the content will appeal to this audience. 

Digital Magazine: Information Fluency . If you like what you see,…

Please see my blog Thoughts from a LiberryGurl

The cornerstones of exceptional educators continue to be collaboration and communication. Technology has simply expanded the methods educators can successfully collaborate and communicate. Using digital tools such as Skype, Google docs and ePals, educators can stretch far beyond traditional classroom walls in order to provide their students with truly 21^st century learning skills.

However, you must be able to distinguish between collaboration and communication. As…

While I teach Internet Safety to over 800 students every school year, I do not compartmentalize Internet Safety into one or two discrete blocks. Instead, Internet Safety, digital ethics and etiquette compose a portion of every Media Center lesson. However, before reading K. Walsh’s blog entry on special needs students and Internet resources for educators, I will admit that my…

This is one of many many many poems which i've written over the last five years of "retirement" as a teacher.  

Many are in my books or on my website (Google JOSIE'S POEMS) but this one you can use in your classrooms or libraries to read to the children as autumn is well and truly here.  Well it is here in England as my back tells me because I've been picking up many leaves today.  Do let me know if the children enjoy this…

Smashwords - School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come - A book by Kristin Fontichiaro via kwout

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the over 50 authors who contributed to School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come, we are delighted to announce that our crowdsourced eBook is now available for free…

Scoop.it Young adult novels

Thanks to Eric Bateman for his wonderful scoop.it and giving out this idea!