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Joyce Valenza, Cathy Nelson, and I will be leading a conversation about libraries at a conference this Saturday called Educon 2.0. The session, Extreme Library Makeover, will be a discussion of what Library 3.0 could look like at your school.

The session will be streamed LIVE on Ustream, at 2:30 Eastern time.

For the link to the stream, click here:

http://educon20.wikispaces.com/Agenda

In fact, all the sessions…

K12 Online is coming soon! Check out the website for teaser videos! www.k12onlineconference.org.

It's a great opportunity for staff at your schools, since it's free, and online to be viewed at their convenience.

If you'd like a flyer to share with staff, please download the one attached here!

I attended some sessions last year, and it really invigorated my understanding of web 2.0…

The K12 Online conference is coming soon, in October!

If you haven't participated before, K12 Online is a conference that takes place entirely online, over a two week period in October.

For more information, check out: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=84

And there are some sample video presentations here as well: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=104

I'll be…

The global librarian group is highlighting Global Library 2.0 week next week, so I have started a post on my blog asking for us to share posts and ideas for bringing web 2.0 tools into school libraries specifically.

http://futura.edublogs.org/2007/07/20/joining-the-network/

Feel free to share your ideas either there, on your own blog, or here.

Ideas for:

library design and what it would mean…

I had the opportunity to hear Joyce at NECC this past few days, and her presentation was incredibly inspiring. Her vision to share the web 2.0 tools and help students become information fluent infused the whole presentation.

She really stressed creating pathfinders for students, which I do, but she creates them on everything, and ties in many sources that I wouldn't have thought of. And she uses wikis for the pathfinders so that other teachers can add sources as well, which is quite…