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On being more genius
I’ve been thinking a lot more about the notion of Genius Hour since Matthew and Sherry shared their plan for GeniusCon with me at AASL. I woke up to the New Year to discover Susan Oxnevad’s inspiring post and 6th grade teacher Chris Kesler’s Genius Hour site and his explanation: Everything about the Genius Hour model [...]
Launching lovely little labels (way more than eight solutions)
Not a week goes by when I don’t find myself looking for a label to represent a blog post, to pin an image-free article or post on Pinterest, to add visual interest to a quote for a slide or our LibGuides. I find my students and teachers seeking similar solutions. Here’s a round-up of my [...]
2013: a round-up of wrap-ups
When we return to a new year in school and approach the customary looking back and thinking forward rituals, here are a few models that might inspire reflection and creativity. Google’s #Zeitgeist2013 shares trends relating to the stuff we searched. You may also explore the Zeitgeists by categories. Use the pull-down menu to shift to [...]
On metaliteracy and ACRL’s coming standards update
They’re coming and they (will/should) affect us. I hope they affect our seniors, especially those used to using social media thoughtfully, as they meet new librarians and instructors in their college years. The focus of the new ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries Information Literacy Competency Standards will be metaliteracy, a reframing of the [...]
Top ten tech trends (expanded)
A week ago I shared ten digital tech trends within the confines of a word count. Here’s an expanded version with all the links and details. For a profession situated at the intersection of metaliteracy, education and emerging technologies, forecasting is kind of exciting. For a profession threatened by severe cuts in educational spending and [...]
Jennifer’s perception flowchart
I was extremely flattered and newly inspired by Library Girl, Jennifer LaGarde’s thoughtful perception flowchart, in response to my last post. (In fact, if you haven’t read her blog, or seen the eloquent way she visually transmits concepts, please stop reading and take a trip there right now.) Jennifer reminds us: Your work has to [...]
School Library Story: When libraries thrive and when they crumble
School Library Story from joyce valenza on Vimeo. I’ve been wanting to tell this story for a long time. My very talented student friend, Walter Lynch, offered to help me tell it. A day doesn’t go by when I am not inspired to action by the inventive ideas I discover from my generous teacher librarian colleagues who [...]
British Library expands The Commons with Public Domain Goodness
The British Library recently uploaded one million scanned public domain images onto The Commons, the world’s largest photo archive hosted by Flickr. Taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books, and digitized by Microsoft, the first set of public domain images–Highlights from the Mechanical Curator–is available for use, remix and repurpose. The set includes: [...]
Free-range scanning
The other day my desktop printer/scanner decided it would no longer scan. Panicked, I wondered if I could simply take a picture of the page I needed with my smartphone camera. That sorta worked, but the text didn’t look as clear as I hoped it would, so I searched the app store for options. That’s [...]
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