Technorati

I’ve been told to claim my blog over at Technorati and I am working at it. This is my ‘claim post’. Technorati Profile Here’s hoping it works

Free Speech?

When I first began to think about setting up my blog, I had to contemplate the public nature of the format and the impact that could have on my work life and my personal life. These wonderings take sharper focus when I hear news clips of folks who’ve lost their jobs due to the [...]

Schools in an Information Age

What should an information age school look like?  Clarence Fisher has given me a bit of a glimpse of what is possible.  I believe I need to let go of my control of the classroom content; all students doing the same thing in the same way at the same time.  I would love to say [...]

What is Information Literacy? Why Bother?

Doug Achterman’s article “Surviving Wikipedia: Improving Student Search Habits through Information Literacy and Teacher Collaboration”, highlights some of the key problems in addressing the ease of access to information common in the internet-connected world. Students and teachers can easily obtain information, but is it accurate and reliable information? Students are unlikely to [...]

Virtual School Libraries – Audrey Church

Audrey Church works as a professor in library science at Longwood University.  In this article from Multimedia and Internet@Schools, she encourages teacher librarians to get their resources onto the internet in accessible ways for students.  Why?  So that students have access to assistance when they get information from the internet for their research.  The virtual [...]

Once More with Feeling – Stephen Abram

Stephen Abram is a well known librarian who regularly makes submissions to the MultiMedia & Internet@Schools journal. Visiting his blog makes me ask, what is Sirsi and should I be concerned about the connection here between big business and public education. I expect Sirsi and open source software do [...]

Protecting or Educating?

Donna Desroches extrapolates on the key issues surrounding the use of web 2.0 tools in schools. Do we try to create a school safe haven or do we open the doors and let in the messy real world? It is easy to make this an either/or discussion. I wonder if it is [...]

New Times: Big Dreams

New times talk always makes me a little wary. I wonder about the baby and the bathwater. Colin Lankshear and James Gee have written extensively on new literacies and new times. Both of them advocated for schools and educators responding to the changing literacy environment and both of them caution against schools [...]

Hypertext – carving a path

I am taking an online course through the University of Alberta on information literacy. It is lookng very interesting. It seems that it will also provide grist for the mill. Another very important feature in a course! As I scanned my way through the first set of online lecture notes. [...]

Reading, Reading, Reading and not a thing to Write

Perhaps I took too  much time off from the writing process.  I feel overwhelmed by the posts that I could respond to and the good ideas which are circulating on the blogs I frequent.  I’m wondering if less is more when it comes to blog feeds.  Each time I come across someone new, I wonder [...]