tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70323248901858436642024-03-20T20:21:55.670-07:00Diary of a School LibrarianA journal of the life of a NYC elementary school librarian. Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-38053273076850520692015-05-10T15:14:00.001-07:002015-05-10T15:14:17.899-07:00I'm learning coding through <a href="http://codeacademy.com">Code Academy</a>. <br />
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</html>Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-42011065952632449562013-06-14T05:56:00.001-07:002013-06-14T05:56:35.760-07:00School Librarian Job Description: Perception vs. RealityI haven't been here in a VERY long time. I will not apologize or even vow to do better from now on; that's counterproductive. From the infographic below, maybe you can see why:<br />
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I made this web using popplet to show how some perceptions of school librarians' jobs are quite different from the reality! Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-41688728840617645462012-12-10T06:01:00.001-08:002012-12-15T06:45:11.450-08:00Bibliotherapy: The Right KindI love publishers' previews, and the passion that editors bring to their newly-birthed titles. Two of the picture book titles that I previewed at the Macmillan Spring preview will be added to my wish list. These books, though different in style, approach social issues in an authentic way, through the story line, rather than through a sermonizing voice. There are oodles of those kind of character education or "issue" books; they are "functional books," i.e., designed for a therapeutic purpose, and often designated to the shelves of the school guidance counselor. The alternative is a piece of excellent illustrated literature that happens to deal with a relevant social issue. <br />
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<i>Missing Mommy, </i>by debut author/illustrator Rebecca Cobb, deals with a very fragile subject, the death of a child's parent. The story doesn't force any answers or advice; it articulates the fears and questions that a bereaving young child might have. <i>Bully</i>, by the brilliant Laura Vaccaro Seeger, is a sparely worded graphic novel (19 words in all) that propel the reader through the story of a bull's turnaround from bully (the eponymous main character) to friend. Here, the reader even sympathizes with the regretfully tearful bully. <i>Missing Mommy</i> is just so sad; I may house it on a back shelf on reserve for the right time. But <i>Bully</i> will hopefully find its way into every classroom. <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The highlight of my Saturday Chelsea Gallery walk was the <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/ed-ruscha--november-17-2012" target="_blank">Ed Ruscha show at the Gagosian Gallery</a> on West 24th Street. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.111111640930176px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Ruscha </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">pays tribute to the printed book in his super-scaled realistic paintings of rare books, painstakingly capturing the marbled endpapers, or the yellow fox marks on a blank page. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.111111640930176px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">I loved the smaller paintings that present text distilled into their rectangular ghosts, footprints of phrases that correlate to the length of the words. Ruscha also manipulates actual books, using the covers as supports for painting. In the age of digital reading, these works convey a reverence for the tradition of the printed form.</span></div>
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A visit to the sleepy historic conceptual art exhibition "<a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/six_years/rosario.php" target="_blank">Materializing SixYears</a>" at the Brooklyn Museum afforded me the chance to look at artist Ed Ruscha's 1966 <i>Every Building on the Sunset Strip</i>, an accordion book that recorded in black-and-white photographs, with written labels identifying the housing blocks and businesses. I was thinking how fun it would be to give kids cameras on a neighborhood walk to discover our school community, and produce a similar book. <br />
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Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-15520194773472593822012-10-05T07:58:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:02:58.172-07:00Reading Series Out of OrderOne of the gifts to librarians that designers/publishers can give is to put the number of the series book on the spine of the book, so that we can tell what order the series should be read. How annoying it is to have to look at front or back matter to find a list, or--even more time consuming--to have to research where a single book fits in a series. If I can't determine where it fits by examining the book, I turn to the incredible <a href="http://www.mymcpl.org/books-movies-music/juvenile-series" target="_blank">Juvenile Series and Sequels</a> database from Mid-Continent Public Library, where I can search by series title, book title, series subject, or book author.<br />
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How can one know if a book in a series can be read as a standalone book, without having read the titles that come before? My general policy is to read at least the first book in a popular series--but I don't feel compelled to read every single <i>Magic Treehouse</i> book (I get the idea...). I certainly don't want to give a kid <i>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</i> before s/he reads the <i>Chamber of Secrets</i>. </div>
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Some kids want to read the A-Z Mysteries or 39 Clues in order, regardless of whether it makes a difference (and it doesn't). But I'd love to have a way of knowing which series books <i>must</i> be read in order. </div>
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We--librarian/bloggers--were treated to a show-and-tell of classic titles that Penguin has enticingly repackaged. Printing classic titles is a relatively economical enterprise for publishers, on account of the texts' placement in the public domain. At a time when such titles are widely available for free in electronic format, the publisher must come up with a design that is so irresistible that one wants to own it in its physical form. Well, I'd say they have succeeded in making this reader covet some of them. <br />
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<a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/pages/classics/penguinthreads.html" target="_blank">Penguin Threads</a> designed by Jillian Tamaki (some of which I featured <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7032324890185843664#editor/target=post;postID=2132231785624499207" target="_blank">here</a> back in November 2011), were painstakingly embroidered by hand in prototype. <br />
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The last specimens to be unveiled were the soon-to-be reissued children's classics, such as <i>Pippi Longstocking</i> and <i>The Wizard of Oz, </i>decked out in the bold signature chalkboard lettering by designer <a href="http://www.danatanamachi.com/" target="_blank">Dana Tanamachi</a>. You must wait to see these--<br />
<br />Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-88798170083613210122012-09-09T09:18:00.003-07:002012-09-29T04:32:34.190-07:00Librarians as Curators?Having moved from the museum world a decade ago, with a grad degree in art history and certification from a curatorial studies program, my ears perked up when I heard the term "curate" being used at a professional development workshop about a year ago to describe one of the aspects of our work as librarians. Wow," I thought, "I've actually been curating all these years!" The term "curation" has been used in the library and technology world to characterize the activity of the selection and organization of online apps, as well as physical collection development (what we choose to buy for our library and how to arrange it). Well, it seems that the term "curator" is no longer sacrosanct, and this has irked many who want to preserve its conventional meaning, i.e., a professional who is in charge of a museum or exhibit.<br />
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Apparently, the term was first bandied about in the fashion blogosphere. It could be applied to selecting merchandise for a boutique or arranging the shop windows. I dug up this amusing rant from 2011 on the misuse and abuse of the term in <a href="http://hermitagemuseum.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/an-open-letter-to-everyone-using-the-word-curate-incorrectly-on-the-internet/" target="_blank">An Open Letter to Everyone Using the Word 'Curate' Incorrectly on the Internet</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Courtesy Wiki Commons</span>Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-47783881921143537442012-08-31T09:46:00.001-07:002012-08-31T09:49:28.575-07:00Organizing Conference Notes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My friend and fellow library media specialist Debra Truss recently queried the NYC School Librarians List (<a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D0544E4C-45EC-4038-BA78-616DB87C193A/33426/Section54.pdf" target="_blank">NYCSLIST</a>) the following:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have my notes from various workshops and conferences (now mounting up!) in a variety of formats: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"old-school" paper notes shoved into manila folders, or notes filling </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">up the nifty little journals that are handed out at conferences. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Occasionally I peruse these and flag with Post-its or mark up in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">highlighter anything that seems pertinent at the moment. I've also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">scanned many of these into PDFs and saved in Dropbox, where I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">created folders (time-consuming). Then there are the notes that I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">typed up in Word or Google Docs (now Drive). Relevant websites that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">are mentioned during talks I bookmark in Diigo (useful because you can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tag them); and--more recently--apps on the iPad like Penultimate and my current favorite</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">--Notability, which has an audio record feature and ability to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">organize into folders (but, alas, no tags).</span></span><br />
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Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-63611404880232297472012-08-29T06:45:00.000-07:002012-08-30T06:09:46.844-07:00Century of the Child @ MoMA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The exhibition takes its name from an eponymous book by Swedish feminist writer and suffragist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Key" target="_blank">Ellen Key</a>, who was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting.<br />
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Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-63364658498258228652012-08-22T14:14:00.002-07:002012-08-22T14:17:11.267-07:00America's Largest Cookbook Collection<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Yesterday I had the privilege of taking a trip through the stacks of the <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/foodcookery.html" target="_blank">Food & Cookery Collection</a> at Fales Library at NYU. The collection has approximately 50,000 volumes, 26,000 of which have been catalogued. I had the privilege of rummaging through the stacks of children's cookbooks on a tour led by the most gracious librarian Marvin Taylor, who oversees this awesome resource and is himself an incredible resource for food and cookery literature. <br />
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I got a sneak peek of <i>101 Classic Cookbooks</i>, edited by the Fales Library, with Mr. Taylor at its helm. The editors compiled cookbook favorites by such notables as Florence Fabricant, Judith Jones (Julia Child's editor), and Alice Waters. Taylor launches his introduction with a description of his childhood food memory of onions sauteeing in butter in his grandmother's kitchen. I can't wait to get my hands on this book!<br />
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<br />Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-11596580236494440912012-07-28T04:45:00.000-07:002012-08-02T04:58:33.947-07:00Focus on Immigration and FoodI'm thrilled to have been selected, along with 24 other educators, to participate in the three-week seminar <a href="http://www.nypl.org/node/140785" target="_blank">"Recipe for America: New York, Immigration and American Identity through Food Culture. "</a> The Institute is organized by The New York Public Library and funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities. We will be looking at the lives of 19th and 20th century immigrants through lectures, readings, pictures, menus, and other resources in the NYPL's collection. I plan to share resources and ideas with my teacher colleagues teaching immigration. <br />
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I am a knitter. One of the drawbacks of my hobby is that you need both hands and eyes to do it, which gets in the way of reading time. So I have taken to listening to podcasts like <i><a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/" target="_blank">This American Life</a></i> or even a full-length audio book (which I alternate with reading of the print or e-book when I am hands-free). While this is more productive than focusing on either task on its own, I admit that the reading experience is compromised. Unlike other forms of entertainment, reading demands that you create the imagery and the sounds, and this is what makes your reading experience unique to you. When you listen to a reading of a book by someone else, even its author, you are giving up the voice in your head that makes the story or narrative your own, making it a more passive activity.<br />
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But just in case "<i>just</i> words on a page" is not enough, there is a new app called <a href="http://www.booktrack.com/" target="_blank">Booktrack</a>, which claims to offer a "fully immersive, captivating reading experience" by adding a synchronized soundtrack to your book. Booktrack allows you to choose ambient sound, sound effects, or music to enhance your reading experience. "It's like having a personal composer arranging a perfect movie-style soundtrack for your book, the company claims in its promotional video, so that "reading [is] a truly sensory experience." Will this new concept catch on?<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently got a request from our principal asking if I had any books about potty talk, to try to counter the numerous incidents and use of foul language in and out of the bathrooms at school. Periodically I get requests from guidance counselors or teachers for books on other topics being accountable for your own actions, or, more commonly, preparing for a new sibling. The idea of using books to address social or psychological issues has been referred to as "bibliotherapy." I have always been suspect of acquiring materials solely for therapy or character education. , because they tend to be preachy, emphasizing a didactic message over literary merit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I attended a panel discussion at the New York Public Library, as part of its Children's Literary Salon, called </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1em;">"From Readers to Leaders: Encouraging Ethical Behavior Through Children's Books," which addressed the question of to what extent can a children's book effect the development of ethics and behavior. Authors Janet Wong and Stuart J. Murphy, moderated by librarian Betsy Bird, suggested that </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1em;">the term "bibliotherapy" implies that something is wrong and needs intervention. Instead, said Murphy, a book can be character building. They agreed that reading a book alone cannot heal, but can be a powerful tool for talking things through. All agreed that foremost, a story has to be engaging and stand up on its own. Wong has written many poetry and chapter books, including <i><a href="http://www.charlesbridge.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=5316" target="_blank">Me and Rolly Maloo</a></i>, an early chapter book that expores issues of cheating, popularity, and integrity. Stuart Murphy is known for his story books that teach mathematical concepts, and has also written the "<i><a href="http://www.stuartjmurphy.com/iseeilearn/" target="_blank">I See I Learn"</a> </i>series of "Percy" stories that focus on social and emotional skills. </span>Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-21322317856244992072011-11-12T11:42:00.001-08:002012-10-02T17:51:08.993-07:00Books and Threads<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A display of books in the store windows of <a href="http://www.purlsoho.com/purl">Purl SoHo</a>, one of my favorite fabric and yarn shops, caught my eye as I walked by this weekend. Apparently, Penguin books has just released three classic titles repackaged in new "Penguin Threads" editions, which, according to the <a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143106463,00.html?Emma_Jane_Austen" target="_blank">website</a>, "will appeal to the Etsy-loving world of handmade crafts." The cover designs were <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">stitched by artist <a href="http://jilliantamaki.com/embroidery/penguin-threads/" target="_blank">Jillian Tamaki</a>, using needle and embroidery floss, and then reproduced in a final, embossed design. The underside of wraparound French </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">flaps boldly and honestly reveal the underside (i.e., normally hidden side) of the stitching.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">These designs connect to a genre of children's book art: illustrations where needlework panels make up an entire picture. </span><i><b>A Pocketful of Posies</b>,</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is an example that we recently acquired for our library. Illustrated by </span><b>Salley Mavor</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, this book is made up of page after delightful page of appliqued and embroidered scenes from nursery rhymes. While researching Salley Mavor, I discovered that there currently is a traveling exhibit of the work that she made for the book. You can learn more about Salley Mavor, her work, and her process on her </span><a href="http://weefolk.wordpress.com/">Wee Folk Studio blog</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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Clare Beaton, <i>Mother Goose Remembers, </i>Barefoot Books, 2000<br />
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There's a huge body of children's literature around the subject of quilting. But in <b><a href="http://www.aghines.com/" target="_blank">Anna Grossnickle Hines</a>' </b><i><b>Pieces: A Year in Poems and Quilts</b></i>, quilting is the medium for illustrating her poems on the theme of the seasons.<i> </i>In the appendix, Hines describes her process of making quilts.</div>
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Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-38775249152706841322011-11-10T15:53:00.001-08:002011-11-10T16:30:15.534-08:00Mark Aronson @ NYCSLS Fall Conference<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once again, New York City's School Library System's (NYCSLS) Office of Library Services put together a fantastic day of learning at Brooklyn Tech. <a href="http://www.marcaronson.com/"> Marc Aronson</a>, the prolific author of many original nonfiction books for young people, kicked off the 2011 NYCSLS Conference with a spectacular keynote called "The Magic Key and the Great Quest: The Many Journeys Nonfiction Books Offer Readers." Aronson disputes the notion that fiction is for pleasure and nonfiction for information. He even called into question the very name "nonfiction," as if it defines itself by what it is <i>not </i>(fiction). In light of the demands of the new Common Core Standards, which emphasize reading informational text, Aronson asked "how can we convey the pleasures of nonfiction reading?" With nonfiction books, readers find pleasure beyond story. A reader of nonfiction is not reading <i>about </i>or living through<i> </i>someone, s/he <i>is </i>someone. Librarians, he concluded, are the wizards, giving young people the key to a journey, albeit one that does not necessarily take them out of themselves.</span><br />
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I picked this up from the library after attending uber-librarian Buffy Hamilton's presentation at a tech educator's conference (video here): <a href="http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/iste-2011-talk-libraries-and-enchantment/," rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/iste-2011-talk-libraries-and-enchantment/,">http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com...</a> where she discusses the possibilities for enchantment in the library. *Enchantment* is defined here as something that "causes a voluntary change of hearts and minds...transforming situations and relationships." This is basically a business book of the "how to persuade" variety written by venture capitalist and former Apple fellow Guy Kawasaki. Particularly of interest for me is the concept of "push" and "pull" technologies, i.e., bringing your story to people, and bringing people to your story; and tidbits like "underpromise and overdeliver."<br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1249267-cheryl">View all my reviews</a>Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-79135773623844275982011-07-18T10:21:00.000-07:002011-07-28T10:26:17.112-07:00PS 63 Tech Team<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Technology Development with PS 63 Teachers. We are adopting and practicing new tools to use with students, including podcasting and moviemaking, as well as developing a plan to infuse technology into all areas of the curriculum. <a href="http://sarahbsed.wordpress.com/">Sarah Benis Scheier-Dolberg</a>, from the <a href="http://uelp.tc.columbia.edu/">Urban Education Leaders Program @ Teachers College</a>, is consulting with our team, as well as leading workshops for the whole staff.</span>Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032324890185843664.post-31430245051324373752011-07-01T10:14:00.000-07:002011-07-28T10:35:33.408-07:00ISTE 2011I had the privilege of attending my first ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference in Philadelphia. Having had a few days to recuperate, I'm settling in with my notes (I used the Penultimate app on my iPad to quickly scribe my notes) for review. There were so many tools and--more important--ideas to mull over. For now, I offer a precis of the sessions I attended:<br />
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What will I take back to school in 2011-12? I recently read a piece called How To Make Planning for Next Year Fun on an edutopia blog, wherein the author suggests going through your notes and circling the items that seem like they'd be really fun. "Go with the topics that make you feel tingly," she advises.Well, I'm sure there will be no shortage of these. <br />
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June 10, 2011. Last night Mat (kindergarten teacher) and I attended Teq's (the SMART Board people) "Innovation Celebration," which showcased new products, e.g., a wheelchair-accessible SmartBoard and a SMART Table (which we have in our library). They also presented videos recognizing the achievements of schools that are using SMART and other technology devices to enhance learning. We left feeling inspired to create more interactive learning activities for our students.<br />
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The Library has been closed a lot these past weeks, causing much disappointment among the students , and I am sorry for this. However, this has been a season of rich professional development that will be, in the long run, passed on to the school community.Librarian Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105349078577882480noreply@blogger.com0