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  • Top 10 Redux and Reflect

    At the end of this semester of Emerging Tech, we are asked to revisit our Top Ten post from the beginning of the semester. In typical ME fashion, I posted 2 lists: Read on for copy/paste/reflection. Top 10 things I learned the first week: Reflection Blogging is harder than it…

  • Partners and OPAC

    This week was partner week in Emerging Technologies class, and I had the pleasure of working with fellow BPS educator, Michele Lavorgna. She is an English teacher at Brighton High School, another BPS school, so she uses the same library system that I do. Michele was not familiar with the…

  • What the Dewey Decimal System Means To Me

    I was going to call this post “What MARC records mean to me” but the truth is I was inspired by the show What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck and that show is about looking both backwards and forwards. For me, there is no backwards in MARC…

  • So far just one thing…

    For this assignment I chose Helene Blowers article reflecting on her experience creating and leading her Learning 2.0 program, 23 Things. Part of the reason why I chose it is reflected in her opening paragraph – “23” is a prime number and therefore catchy. It sounded interesting and I am…

  • MSLA Conference 2024

    The conference was great! It started with a stirring keynote by Rajani Larocca, author of picture books, YA fiction and nonfiction who is also a primary care physician! It was truly inspiring to hear her talk about the books and teachers who have inspired her as well as the wide…

  • Tech Promotion

    This week I chose to imagine a series of library lessons attached to units I know BINcA teachers are doing in each grade. I am hoping the teachers will let me “butt in” to their units at different points to make sure all students have experience using archives for research…

  • Games, games, games – at home and in the library

    I would never have described myself as a gamer but looking back, games have always been a part of my life. I have used games in many of the ways Jane McGonigal describes them in her book, Reality is Broken: as brain builders, as social connectors, and as emotional fulfillment…

  • Reflections on social media and the library

    So this week I did a fair amount of reflecting and thinking about how much of my thinking about social media is personal vs professional. I can see that a lot of people in all kinds of fields are using social media to advance themselves/their cause/their work but I can’t…

  • How will we use adaptive and assistive tech in the library?

    Our library is just starting out so the world is wide open! Our students all receive a chromebook at the beginning of the year and I think many of them come to library to put the screen away. The students who gravitate towards the library seem happy for lower light,…

  • Building our library

    This week we built a library. After planning for new furniture and poring over the list of books for the Opening Day Collection, that Opening Day arrived and the books went on the shelves. The team from Mackin, the book distributor, made it look easy. Every box had the books…