42 days ago by Mrs. Conger

I think maybe these guys got it right. We need to start thinking outside the box in education. Love the idea of teaching with Primary Sources but Primary Sources are not just Library of Congress archives. A bus ticket or subway token can be a primary source. Show and tell is an example of teaching w ...

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59 days ago by cathyinthelibrary

Thoughts on Gil Yehuda’s presentation. This was my favorite presentation, and the one I found the most useful. I’ll be able to incorporate so much of this into my classes. The talk was called “How Job Seekers Can Leverage Blogs” but this is applicable to anyone who blogs or who wants to use blogging ...

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77 days ago by Mrs. Conger

I love Wordle. So, this morning I decided to check out what my Plurk posts look like in Wordle. The results are here to the right. Plurk is so much fun and so is Wordle. There are so many applications in the classroom. Some teachers use it for vocabulary words. I had a great idea for using it when I ...

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117 days ago by Mrs. Conger

I have been teaching 4th grade students how to use PowerPoint correctly during the last few years. I was wondering how I could show them that text and layout were important to the esthetics of their presentations and then I came across this presentation by Tudor Girba from the University of Bern in ...

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138 days ago by caseygibbs

Morning. Bach. Apple juice. Finished the Mill – it finished much better than it started, but, by the light of the previously quoted Wallace essay, which completely captured my imagination, and wherein the author asks point-blank whether it’s even possible anymore to have an informed citizenry (that ...

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139 days ago by Mrs. Conger

I have been following this link to Kelly's Curriculum Corner and I am getting angry at administrators who think they can get away with an aide in the library 3 days a week and sharing librarians among several schools. Kelly's Curriculum Corner: Libraries as the Hub of School Improvement. Librarians ...

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144 days ago by cathyinthelibrary

SSC Library hosted the first NOBLE Information Literacy Roundtable on June 10. I orgnized it, and despite my nerves leading up to it, I think it went well. About 15 people attended and we talked for 2 hours about information literacy and how we do it at our institutions. Since this was our first mee ...

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160 days ago by revolutionlullabye

McClure, Randall and Lisa Baures. “Looking In by Looking Out.” Computers and Compositon. (Fall 2007). McClure, a WPA, and Baures, a librarian, argue for greater collaboration between librarians and compositionists to revise first-year composition curriculum to better serve the information literacy n ...

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160 days ago by Mrs. Conger

I am again lamenting the fact that Youtube is blocked in my school. OK so I am whining. I know there are ways around it but if we want teachers to use technology in their classrooms why are we making it harder for them to do so? I found this wonderful video that I want to use with my 2nd grade stude ...

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164 days ago by cathyinthelibrary

Here’s the slide show and the Mindomo map for my presentation given at the 2009 Rhode Island Library Association Conference at Bryant College in Smithfield, RI. Tagged: information, informationliteracy, literacy, presentation, RILA09

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