Libraries & EdTech: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly!

Reflections on the ECIS Conference Since I accepted the position of 21st Century Literacy Specialist at ISB just over a year ago, I’ve been thinking about how natural the connection is between the library and technology. Granted, I had never worked in a library before I set foot in our fabulous Learning Hub this past…

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A Library Catalog Wishlist

We’ve got the super-cool, futuristic library, aptly renamed The Learning Hub, but sadly, we’re still stuck in 1995 with our outdated library catalog, Athena (well, to be honest, December 2001 is the most recent update, but it feels more like my senior year in high school to me). So, over the past few weeks our…

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The Parent Connection

I have been so excited about my new job at IS Bangkok since I was hired waaaay back in January that it’s hard to believe only three weeks have gone by since school started. For the past eight months I’ve been planning and thinking about what I can do with a brand new library and…

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A Global Kickstart

Now that our first few weeks of school are over and things are beginning to settle into a more manageable pace, I am finally starting to work with our individual classroom teachers to get the technological ball rolling. One of my major goals this year is to continue with the sort of global collaborations I…

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The results are in!

We hosted a school-wide contest to name our beautiful new facility and the winner is… The Learning Hub According to the handy Oxford English dictionary on my Mac, a hub is: the central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate. a place or thing that forms…

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