Getting There

Attending a seminar in Second Life is in itself an engaging experience. But, what made it really memorable was Mike Eisenberg–a visionary, a radical, and someone, who after fourteen years, still makes me think. Of our three main responsibilities: information literacy, information management, and reading advocacy, we should be concentrating our efforts on articulating, implementing, [...]

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Why wouldn’t a technology teacher, classroom teacher, and library media specialist use an information search process (e.g. the Big6) to teach content and meaningfully integrate ICT skills into the curriculum? It makes good sense for the educators and students. Using the steps of the process to plan the lesson/unit and delineating the roles all collaborators [...]

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Meeting with our American History teachers this morning to iron out the big paper requirement brought out that the teachers offered their students a choice to use the online bibliography/notecard creator NoodleTools or do them all by hand. They thought that either would serve the purpose, as that is the way they learned and it [...]

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I am making the case for a full time 1-12 Instructional Technology Director. Right now, I am the Chair of 1-12 Instructional Technology along with being the Upper School librarian and technology coordinator. The main responsibility of my position as Chair is to work with the other two tech coordinators and the library coordinator to [...]

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A professor at out large university requested some information from me over the holidays. My quick replies are here:
1. How receptive is your school to the way you approach technology and learning?
It has been slow to catch on. Many faculty are reluctant to move into a true technology environment (meaning that they are using the [...]

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