Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

My student, Martin, who is also busy helping me get podcasts (coming soon!) ready for our Virtual Library, wrote to share some stuff he thought I’d enjoy over the break. On its About page, Uncyclopedia calls itself: “an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies. You might say it puts the “psych!” in “encyclopedia”. It’s [...]

One of my students, Dani, surprised me with this cookie portrait today. That’s me with the curly hair on the screen. Everything about this day was sweet. For the first time in a couple of weeks, our students were singing and laughing. It seemed, to those of us who talked about it, that they did [...]

I was flattered to be asked to share ideas relating to evaluation in the 2.0 landscape with IMSA’s 21st Century Information Fluency Project for their very cool Full Circle Resource Kit.  The kit offers some very handy resources to use with learners. Frances Jacobson Harris shares a podcast on issues relating to teaching credibility assessment: [...]

This time of year, I look forward to two events. (Well, probably a few more than just these two, but for now . . .) I’ll discuss the EduBlog Awards winners in a future post, when I have the time to further explore and enjoy them all. In this post, I want to point you [...]

I want to thank so many of you for your kind thoughts this past week as I grappled with the tragedy that rocked our school community. Debra Lau Whelan’s piece for School Library Journal captured what Tuesday looked like at Springfield through my eyes.  I continue to discover the many different lenses through which the [...]