After just about three months in my new position as 21st Century Literacy Specialist, I was curious to see exactly how much time I spend doing the different aspects of my job. Considering this job title and description is completely new, and I’m actually taking over a Librarian position, I’ve been kind of making it…
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How cool is this: Last night, Jeff Utecht invited me to Skype into his presentation on online professional development at the EARCOS administrators conference in KL, Malaysia today at 9:30 am. Of course, I said yes! So, this morning, I strolled upstairs in my PJs, opened up the laptop at about 8:45 am and saw…
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This Friday, September 21st is International Peace Day and one of our fourth grade teachers, Scott, would like to bring a global perspective into his classroom. We hope you and your class can help! Scott has written a post on his classroom blog requesting that students and teachers around the world comment on what peace…
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We all know that you only get out of a conference what you put in. So, I did my best to make the Learning 2.0 unconference sessions work for me by moderating 2 of the 3 sessions (during the third session I was totally wrapped up in Alan November’s amazing presentation on Creating a New…
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Because Monday was a school holiday here at ISB, I was able to spend most of the day online, which, due to the time difference, meant that I had time to connect with some wonderful colleagues during hours that I would normally be at work: 6:00 am: As usual, I woke up way too early…
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