Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

Elementary librarian Doug Valentine, a.k.a. Dr. Loopy, a member of our TeacherLibrarianNing, recently posted three very clever, tongue-in-cheek videos about our profession.  I later discovered that these are but three of his many funny efforts posted on TeacherTube. He’s given me (us all?) some great ideas for new productions this fall and some cool material [...]

Finishing my dissertation means that I can blog and Twitter again. I must admit it. Twitter did not impress me at first. But, as I mentioned briefly in my last post, as folks began to use it at and beyond the podium at NECC and at the BLC conferences this summer, we all began to [...]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to report on, and now how to summarize, BLC (Alan November’s Building Learning Communities). I find it a mightily tough challenge. Let’s start by saying ideas were flying. We are on the precipice of dramatic classroom change. An explosion of emerging tools connects us and allows us to [...]

A day or so ago I was so inspired by my blossoming number of professional networks, and what I am learning from colleagues spread all over the world, that I drew a picture of what it looked like and posted it on my SLJ Blog. One of the comments I received referred to my use [...]

A recent post on the AASL Blog made me cheer and worry at the same time. Blogtator describes a problem that has been facing our profession for some time–the disposable librarian. Blogtator writes: Occasionally, other professionals quietly refer to negative impact of Disposable Librarians with the Walt Kelly quote, “We have met the enemy and [...]