Sometimes a post doesn’t quite fit in with all the other categories. These may include personal stories, travel accounts, general education ideas or just things that don’t quite fit in elsewhere. But they’re still things that I think are awesome and worth sharing :)
There is a familiar sort of guilt in my life. That feeling of all the things that I should be doing. I should be reading and replying to more library Facebook threads. I should be going to Twitter chats. I should be spending more of my summer planning for a school year that is impossible … Read more
Checking in I actually had some new posts scheduled and ready to go out, but as things have changed dramatically over the past week, I realized that now might not be the time to write about finding inspiration from co-working spaces for school libraries, or how to organize your makerspace supplies. Like many of you, … Read more
I was a media specialist at my previous school for seven years. A TON of things changed there during that time. But they didn’t happen overnight. I built things up piece by piece. I experimented and tried new things. There were plenty of failures, to be sure. But there were also great successes that my … Read more
This summer has been one of a lot of reflecting for me. For the first time in seven years, I’ll be at a new school next year. This coming school year, I’ll have two books published under my name. So much is going on and so much has happened so fast. This summer, I’ve slowed … Read more
The Complete Do-it-yourself Manual When I was growing up, the 1973 edition of the Reader’s Digest Complete Do-it-yourself Manual sat on a shelf in our garage. I was born in 1984, so the book was well over a decade old by the time I was reading it. I wasn’t really that into the handyman section … Read more
I’m working through Austin Kleon‘s amazing Steal Like an Artist Journal (Check out my review of his book Steal Like an Artist here). As I’ve been working through the various exercises designed to boost creativity and help you get new ideas, I was struck by how beneficial these types of exercises would be to our … Read more