A few weeks ago, I had the honor and privilege of attending the School Library Journal Leadership Summit in Seattle, WA. It was an amazing weekend filled with sightseeing, learning and good times with friends old and new. I’m going to break up the experience with several posts. The 2015 SLJ Leadership Summit Last week … Read more
A few weeks ago, I had the honor and privilege of attending the School Library Journal Leadership Summit in Seattle, WA. It was an amazing weekend filled with sightseeing, learning and good times with friends old and new. I’m going to break up the experience with several posts, starting with today’s. School Tours in Seattle, … Read more
Hacks for Back to School Last week I had the honor of presenting as part of TL Virtual Cafe’s Back to School Special along with Andy Plemmons and Nikki D. Robertson. If you missed it, make sure you check out the webinar archive, as it was pretty awesome. Throughout the presentation, I had several requests … Read more
Creative Confidence I’m always up for reading books that deal with creativity and self-improvement. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All certainly did not disappoint in this realm. Coming from the two guys who started the Stanford d.school and IDEO, I was excited to read about their perspective on creativity and design. While … Read more
Tinkering Fundamentals is a massive open online course (MOOC) put on by San Francisco’s Exploratorium museum every summer. I’m going to be chronicling my six weeks with this course here so you can learn along with me. See Week One, Week Two , Week Three, Week Four, and Week Five for more. Wow, these last six weeks have flown … Read more
Content Curation: How to Avoid Information Overload Content Curation is an excellent resource for helping you learn how to organize all the information you ingest. I don’t know about you, but figuring out a good method for dealing with the tons of information at my fingertips is no easy task. You’d think as a … Read more
Valuable Lessons from my First Makerspace Year In my article for AASL’s Knowledge Quest blog, I decided to reflect on my first year of having a Makerspace in my library. I started our Makerspace back in January of 2014, so 2014-2015 was my first full school year with a Makerspace, our first makerspace year. Check … Read more
Tinkering Fundamentals: Week 5 Tinkering Fundamentals is a massive open online course (MOOC) put on by San Francisco’s Exploratorium museum every summer. I’m going to be chronicling my six weeks with this course here so you can learn along with me. See Week One, Week Two , Week Three and Week Four for more Thoughts on Readings This week’s … Read more
Tinkering Fundamentals: Week 4 Tinkering Fundamentals is a massive open online course (MOOC) put on by San Francisco’s Exploratorium museum every summer. I’m going to be chronicling my six weeks with this course here so you can learn along with me. See Week One, Week Two and Week Three for more Thoughts on Readings & … Read more
Read this book: Show Your Work I had heard from other friends and educators that Austin Kleon‘s books were must reads. So when I visited the gift shop at the New York Public Library back in December and HAD to buy something (because it’s NYPL, and they give discounts to librarians), I decided to … Read more