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  • edTPA: Unexpected, Unprepared, and Untested

    I’d like to start this post by making it clear that I am not describing myself in the title, but the newly rolled out Library Specialist edTPA requirement that school media specialist candidates seeking New York State certification pass an unexpected, poorly prepared, and unproven assessment to receive certification. The edTPA assessment is required in… Read more

  • My First MOOC

    MoMA’s Art and Inquiry I’m half-way through my first MOOC, and I am so happy I picked a good one. Last semester, one of my classes considered MOOCs for different ages and types of learners, and during my investigation and learning I saw that the Museum of Modern Art in New York offered an “Art… Read more

  • If You Want Kids to Read the Collection, Weed the Collection

    I love vintage books. I have shelves full of them at home. I once bought a 1930s era dictionary at a Goodwill store just to browse through it and see what words I could *not* find there. I have a special passion for old etiquette books and what they reveal about the behavioral and societal… Read more

  • Blind Date with a Book

    Blind Date with a Book campaigns have become popular at all sorts of libraries. The concept is simple: library members choose and check out a “mystery book,” read (or abandon) the book, and then provide feedback about whether they connected with or liked the book. The purpose of campaigns like this one is to encourage… Read more

  • Winter Reading: An Un-Review

    In early December, I thought I would post book reviews here every few days to keep my blog rolling through the weeks between fall semester and spring semester.  I knew I would read over the break–in spite of days of driving with car-sick cats, and days of unpacking, and weeks of getting to know my… Read more

  • Cool Tool: Storybird

    I have written about Storybird before, and tonight I was able to share some of my Storybird learning with my Information Technologies in Educational Organizations classmates during a webinar. I wanted to provide a few additional resource links here as a follow-up to that experience, and I wanted to share the learning with anyone else who may… Read more

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