Category Archives: Professional Development
#LibraryMade
This week is National Library Week, and this year’s theme is “Unlimited Possibilities at Your Library,” complete with a social media hashtag of #LibraryMade, in which patrons are encouraged to share their library-facilitated creations. It’s a theme at the forefront … Continue reading
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Making Maker Learning Workshop for Librarians and Fellow Informal Educators
Howdy! Thank you to everyone who attended today’s workshop on Making Maker Learning. Here are the resources from today’s workshop: Slide deck List of maker activities Blank templates for board games Need dice for your board game? Try these paper … Continue reading
Hello, HASL! {Student-Led Interviews and Inquiry}
It was a pleasure to be with the Hawai’i Association of School Librarians again this year and to be with friendly, welcoming people who allowed me to test out one of this week’s AHA moments: that one of the … Continue reading
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Growing Schools Book Mentioned in USDOE Newsletter
The first week of classes at the University of Michigan has come and gone in a whirlwind of new faces, excitement, anxiety, anticipation, worry, logistics, paperwork, and earlier-than-average alarm clocks. Go Blue! Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education welcomed in … Continue reading
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New School of Open Courses
“The Birds of Creative Commons” by Kristina Alexanderson on Flickr. CC-BY-SA. On our campus, we have frequent and significant conversations about the role of open resources in learning. Through our Open.Michigan group, we’ve gotten to work with the folks at … Continue reading
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“There are no shortcuts in professional development”
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by marya In, “Benefits of Online, Face-to-Face Professional Development Similar, Study Finds,” Education Week blogger Benjamin Herold reported earlier this week on research by my U-M colleague Barry Fishman. From the post: … Continue reading
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Liberty 1:1 Talk
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Free Book on Ed Tech Policies, Practices, Procedures
On behalf of my co-teacher Jeff Stanzler, we are pleased to announce our yearlong ED 504 class project — a book for teachers about ed tech policies, practices, and procedures — has been published! We’re printing copies on our campus … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Creative Commons, Databases, Digital Literacy, Digital Publishing, eBooks, Facebook-Twitter-Social Media, Free Goodies, Google, Information Literacy, Professional Development, Self-Publishing, Teaching, Wikipedia
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Starred Review in LMC for GROWING SCHOOLS
We were excited to receive a starred review for Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers in this month’s Library Media Connection. From the review: You need to steer clear of such medications by tadalafil cipla choosing a reliable and licensed chemist. The effect … Continue reading
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Review of Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers
Thank you to Mary Alice Anderson, who reviewed Growing Schools: Librarians as Proefssional Developers on her blog: Staff development is an important, exciting role for school library media specialists. Media specialists have a unique perspective of the school and curriculum; they … Continue reading
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