Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

This week I got a draft of my dissertation back from my chair. There is much to adjust before my defense on May 7th. And so, dear readers, for the next two weeks this blog is going to be a bit quiet. Please forgive me and wish me well. (And pray that I get over [...]

I am happy to announce that our TeacherLibrarian Ning space is looking better.  I’ve added a banner, a Frappr map, and a couple of forum discussions.  If you have any interest in a professional version of social networking, please join our impressive little core group of members.  Add your ideas and your photos.

First–Where am I? I am in between conferences. I left PSLA, our state conference, and I on my way to DC for Computers in Libraries. At PSLA, a wonderful national speaker offered a fine basic workshop on blogs and wikis. She noted that there really weren’t any school library blogs of note, or none that [...]

Chris Smith has long maintained Shambles, the wonderful resource pages for all things Web and Web 2.0.   He’s now putting together video blogs libraries to help us learn and teach.  Take a look at his Web 2.0 films (great for inservices!), his collection on learning the alphabet (of many languages!) and his library of viral [...]

A couple of weeks ago I discovered Ning. I started playing around as I do in every new tool I find. I created a TeacherLibrarianNetwork. But I couldn’t find any buddies around and didn’t know exactly what to do or who to play with. I posted my first forum question. I was lonely in Ning. [...]