Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

The 2nd annual K12 Online virtual conference is just about a month away. Make sure you attend, or attend the conference archive. The event is completely free. Important thinkers and dreamers and practitioners will present. Connect yourself with their visions of how our schools are evolving, how learning is changing.
Because the presentation [...]

Just wanted to alert those folks who don’t read my SLJ Blog to my latest post.
One of my most popular pathfinders in our high school, where media projects are fairly commonplace, has been the one that leads learners to images and sounds they can use easily in Web publishing, podcasting, and broadcasting.
As I worked on [...]

SLJ just posted podcasts of our SIGMS panel at NECC.
You can hear my 21st Century Librarian Manifesto, as well as David Warlick on 21st century literacies, Alice Yucht–who throws a lifeline to those drowning in an information ocean and suggests her new three Rs, and Lisa Perez–who urges us to explore the potential for libraries [...]

I am back from Texas, from the UNT hooding ceremony and from visiting family in Houston. (Those of you who are already groaning, please keep reading, this post moves beyond the personal.)
First, let me say that I am grateful to the UNT SLIS faculty for offering me a precious gift–the chance to pursue the degree [...]

If you don’t yet have administrative or board blessing for curricular use of social networking, you might want to download the new NSBA (National School Board Association) study funded by Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon.
You may have already guessed it: the Internet is not always as dangerous as some people say.  Students use it in [...]