Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

The cover story of the March issue of American Libraries (the magazine of the American Library Association) explored librarians who blog. Despite the fact that school librarians represent a major segment of the membership, the story did not list a single school library blogger. Doug Johnson and Peter Milbury wrote eloquent letters to the editor [...]

Two stories from eSchoolNews caught my eye this week. 1. The fourth annual Speak Up survey revealed student, teacher, and parent attitudes relating to educational technology. The study found that students want to increase integration of technology into such subjects as science and math. Students cite communication as their number one use of technology. Here [...]

An unintentional parable. Two honors students visited yesterday.  They asked to use the library microwave to make a bag of popcorn for their class.  We sent them to the little kitchen area in the back. We heard no popping.  We smelled no butter.  Five minutes later the girls emerged.  “There’s no popcorn button,” they complained.  We shared our [...]

This week I discovered Zamzar. It was love at first conversion. This lovely Web-based app will convert files from one format to another and email ‘em back to you. For a bi-platform girl like me, this is an especially amazing discovery. My Apple prefers .mov files. My PC prefers .wmv. Now I can move ‘em [...]

I was thinking there’d be a backlash. I was hoping it would come from outside the teaching community. Thank you BJ and Chris for pointing to this new Tom Chapin/ John Forster song. http://www.tomchapin.com/ Not On The Test by John Forster & Tom Chapin © 2007 Limousine Music Co. & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP) [...]