Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

One of my research questions asked, “How are school library sites evolving? How do the features and services offered by exemplary sites in the 2006/2007 school year differ from the state-of-the-art of the randomly selected sites last studied by Clyde in 2002?” Clyde’s (2004) longitudinal content analysis described the state-of-the-art relating to school library website [...]

My study looked at both features and characteristics of a small sample of exemplary school library sites. That is, it looked at both the “whats” and the “hows” of effective practice online. Regarding the “hows,” one of my research questions was: What common organizational structures and design characteristics are employed in exemplary school library sites? [...]

You can tell it’s the end of the year. Their exam over, our AP US History students are a little more relaxed as they attack their final debate. You can tell the pressure is off. When I shared our new books on the environment, the girls grabbed them and broke into a spontaneous book dance.  [...]

Our students are just finishing up the latest in our series of learning objects.  I think they did an especially nice job on the critical disease, Prepositionitis!  These are becoming nifty tools for whole-school review.   http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/videos/prepositions.mov

A few weeks ago, Martin, one of my students, told me about a couple of his latest purchases from a web tech catalog in China. It took a while, but his package arrived.  Today he showed me his new Dick Tracy-style MP4 watch.  It’s very Martin; it’s not very Joyce.  I hope he doesn’t trip. [...]