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A Family of Readers

Do you come from a family of readers? Check out a wonderful post on just this subject. It reminds me of the picture of my daughter and I in the photo I use for this Ning. I was rereading one of the Harry Potter novels right before the movie came out and my infant daughter picked up a board book to imitate me. Love it.

Added by teacherninja on January 9, 2009 at 11:45am — 2 Comments

I was nominated for best poem-please vote!

My poem, "An Empty Stage" has been nominated by the Preditors and Editors Poll. Please take a minute to read it, then follow the link if you want to vote for me.

AN EMPTY STAGE

Coiled torso frozen on an empty stage,

a living sculpture trapped and placed

with no gown of tulle to hide her age

but with weeping knees below her waist.

Framed in light her insides groan

with pent up passion… Continue

Added by Kathy Stemke on January 4, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Time to get Social Bookmarking

I've been teaching social bookmarking as part of my e-learning classes for some time. Social bookmarking is always a difficult concept to get across. Truly, it's something you need to actually do in order to begin to grasp the power of this web 2.0… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on December 28, 2008 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Reading like crazy!

Now that the quarter is over, my elementary school is on winter break, and all the Christmas cookies are baked; I can settle down and read all those books I have missed since September! I've read "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix, "Savvy", and am reading "House of Many Ways" by Diane Wynne Jones. I have the book "Dark as Gold", a Rumplestiltstin variation, but am looking for a few more that may be on Newbery lists. Any suggestions out there?

Added by Liz Deskins on December 24, 2008 at 5:47pm — 3 Comments

Sample Vision/Mission statements

Dear All

Greetings from a muggy Pretoria! It is at times like this that South Africans really long for a "white" Christmas! Anyway, i hope you are all taking a well-deserved break from educating and enriching your charges...

I am busy doing some background reading for a new media center that we are planning to build in 2010 (hopefully!) I am working through Designing a school library media center for the future by Rolf Erikson and Carolyn Markuson which is proving… Continue

Added by Andrew van Zyl on December 15, 2008 at 5:29am — 1 Comment

Right Behind You by Gail Giles

Gail Giles has done it again, a superb psychological thriller with a 9 year old boy setting his friend on fire, being sent to a juvenile detention center and learning through many mistakes, good psychiatrists and a supportive family that he doesn't deserve the unhappiness and self hate for the rest of his life. This book kind of reminded me of Boy Toy by Barry Lyga and how kids can be so damaged by what has been done to them or by them. They feel insecure, are not honest with their own feelings… Continue

Added by bj neary on November 30, 2008 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Paper Towns by John Green

Quentin ("Q") is a teen who has loved from afar crazy, sexy neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman (and you must always say all three when you mention her name). When they were nine, they came upon a dead man in the park where they went to play. Q's parents told him to take a nap and forget about it but Margo slipped out of her house and investigated the suicide. That is just how Margo Roth Spiegelman is, adventurous, alluring but also lots of scary fun. One night she slips in Q's window and she takes… Continue

Added by bj neary on November 30, 2008 at 12:44pm — 1 Comment

Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson

Gripping, intense and thrilled to go to Paranoid Park to use his skateboard, a 16 year old kid ventures back a 2nd time without his friend and meets up with scary skater dudes and decides to hop the train with him, just for fun. What happens when they get to the train yard forever changes his life. A guard tries to yank them off the train with a fierce club that he uses visiously on both guys. In their effort to defend themselves, they kick him and then hit him with his skateboard. The guard… Continue

Added by bj neary on November 30, 2008 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Tutorial & Game: Determining Website Accuracy

Free Online Materials from the 21st Century Information Fluency Project

We've just posted a revised version of our Accuracy MicroModule.

We've also added a practice game that helps students practice:

finding embedded evidence

checking evidence for accuracy

triangulation of data

This is one of about… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on November 23, 2008 at 6:05pm — No Comments

Biographies

My biographies are mixed up as B, 92, 921 and I would like them to be
the same. How should theses books be cataloged?

Added by Carmela V. Petraitis on November 18, 2008 at 8:58am — 1 Comment

Care to Moodle your Google (GDocs that is)?

moodle your google

Learn the basics of GDocs collaboration in ths week long fully facilitated online class. Learn a bit about G-Docs, get introduced to Moodle based online learning, and have some fun!

It's a simple search puzzle to find us: Use Google to search with these keywords:…

Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on November 11, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Getting Your Children Excited About the Library

Dear All,

It may be of your intrest.
For further reading please follow the link

Link: http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/24056

Regards
Naveed

Added by Naveed Ahmad on October 29, 2008 at 10:45pm — No Comments

New events feature!

I just added an events widget to the side right of our Ning. Please use it for announcements of events of interest to our community!

Added by Joyce Valenza on October 19, 2008 at 12:41pm — 2 Comments

David Loertscher in SL: Reinventing School Libraries

If you're like me, you are continually thinking about what's next, for our profession and for the learners we serve.

Every conversation I have ever had with the phenomenal David Loertscher (whom I consider a mentor), forces me to further consider and often to refine or rethink my vision.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet David in Second Life.

On behalf of ISTE's SIG-MS and AASL, Lisa Perez (aka Elaine Tulip) invites us all to attend Reinventing School… Continue

Added by Joyce Valenza on October 19, 2008 at 12:36pm — 2 Comments

4th Grade Struggling Readers

I am passionate about promoting the importance of children learning to read and write with both fluency and comprehension. In my eight years of teaching elementary school, I have encountered too many kids third grade and beyond who can't read or produce a complete sentence. This bothers me a great deal. Many of these struggling readers go on to high school and college lacking basic reading and writing skills. So. during my first grad school experience, I developed "A Curriculum to Improve Word… Continue

Added by Kenneth Miles on October 16, 2008 at 5:06pm — 2 Comments

K-12 Online Classes

I teach at an online K-12 grade charter school where students are given laptops to work at their own pace in completion of previously missed assignments, and to acquire needed credits to graduate. Most of these upper grade kids were kicked out of public schools for one reason or another and this place is pretty much their last resort. For several students, this means that if they don't adhere they will go back to jail or will simply be kicked out--including young teen mothers. Most of these… Continue

Added by Kenneth Miles on October 16, 2008 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Dewey Cutter Table

Dear Professionals,

Use the following link to free download Cutter Table and easily get
cutter numbers.

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/support/program/default.htm

Regards,
Naveed

Added by Naveed Ahmad on October 14, 2008 at 10:45pm — No Comments

Google Documents (Fully Facilitated 5 Day Online Class)

Moodle Based

Fully Facilitated!

Login as guest: http://21cif.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=58

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions:

How much time… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on October 10, 2008 at 9:43pm — No Comments

Dewey and Wordle

I read Joyce Valenza's post (thank you Lucy and Ethel's Library Schemes') and couldn't wait to test this great idea out with Wordle! Here's the results so far. Also discovered that there's a Dewey Decimal group on Flickr, so I sent these pictures… Continue

Added by Kathy Epps on October 5, 2008 at 7:11am — No Comments

Information Fluency: It's Elementary (Beta Testers needed for learning games)

Carl Heine is developing a series of online learning games to teach elementary students the essentials of search. We're looking for feedback and suggestions as we begin the development cycle.

You will find all the details on the Information Fluency group We are asking for feedback on our new elementary age games to be posted to… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on October 3, 2008 at 4:08pm — No Comments

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