Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

If you are new to the Web 2.0 world as it relates to education, or if you want a convenient gathering of the ideas of some of our most forward- thinking thinkers, consider downloading the very new: Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web, edited by Terry Freedman. http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/db/web2/ You’ll recognize the [...]

When my state young adult book committee met this Sunday around my dining room table, it became clear to me that my colleagues were struggling, caught in a downward spiral that alone, they were not able to stop. I heard stories of amazing librarians whose budgets were cut to next to nothing. Of new high-tech [...]

Help me figure out if I am way too out of touch. A couple of weeks ago a student showed me a video she was going to incorporate into a persuasive presentation. Her goal was to convince the class that we need to all think more seriously about how to make vehicles more energy efficient. [...]

A pathfinder is a guide for researchers. Pathfinders have been used in libraries for years–probably since the 70s–to save researchers time, to guide them to the good stuff, and to help them avoid frustrating dead ends. At Springfield we’ve been experimenting with pathfinders as student projects to demonstrate their skills and energy in researching and [...]

This morning I opened the third in the series of Google’s new Librarian Newsletters–http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0604.html This issue contains the first of Google’s downloadable teaching tools–two different size posters containing tips for using “nifty modifiers in Google’s search box.” They’d make nice additions to our labs. Here’s the 8 1/2 X 11 version: http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Tips_Tricks_85x11.pdf Editor Jodi Healy [...]