Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

I am sitting at the Montgomery County IU listening to Will. What excites me is his enthusiam. The stuff I’ve been jumping up and down about for nearly two years is coming out of Will’s mouth, far more articulately, of course. And no one is complaining about what to do about filters. Or “but we [...]

eSchoolNews today reported on ETS’ recently released report on its ITC Literacy Assessment. The report, which distinguishes tech literacy from information literacy, will probably not come as a surprise for many of us in education or in the library universe. 6300 students from 63 institutions around the country were tested using authentic, scenario-based assessment items. [...]

Don’t forget to nominate those edublogs you read and love for the third annual Edublogs Awards! Nominations remain open till November 30th. So much was cool and new this year as social networking became far more mainstream in the classroom. Recognize your fellow edubloggers! The categories are: This year there are ten categories: Best audio [...]

I wanted to love Answers.com’s video Mission Possible. I discovered it when I received my Educator’s Update yesterday and I think Answers.com is doing a lot right for student researchers. What I like: Among the cool ideas in the Answers.com newsletter is using the film Borat to explore satire: Satire – The movie Borat may [...]

When I am not blogging these days I am studying websites.  Here’s where my dissertation sits right now. Over the summer, a Delphi panel of 20 stellar professionals identified features and characteristics they felt would be present in an effective school library website. They also nominated ten sites as exemplars.  Based on their feedback I [...]