LIBRO Island Part 2

School Library Journal  Unexpected treasure is this great blog for books for guys  http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com/ and the SLJ Teen Newsletter archives.  AND copyright lessons designed to be taught to our students.  Another chance to not re-invent the wheel. There's something in almost every dropdown menu.  There are too many blogs to read, but what if I read one a day.....

VOYA I love this magazine, and the eVOYA is the treasure. The best part is the teen pop culture, even if you aren't in secondary, most of us want to be current and cool and just reading the answers will get you there.  I send this out to my faculty occasionally to remind them that our students are not us.  It ups our street cred (hall cred?) And the book lists are great because they have fine-tuned age appropriateness as well as quality and popularity indicators.

Libro Island 1 June 23 2011

ALA-poking around in the ALA site, I discover online education possibilities, some of them free and the others a lot cheaper than driving to Clear Lake.  These would be great for library in-service, to get comp time and just to be a better more current librarian.  For example, I am pretty sure I need to watch "RDA: Benefits for Users and Catalogers"  How about "Introduction Guide to Reference" General Editor Denise Beaubien Bennett and ALA Publishing staff introduce you to Guide to Reference, with more than 16,000 fully annotated entries describing essential print and web reference sources. Holy cow! I paid big bucks for less than that in library school.  There's about 30 offerings just under school libraries including one on using books to counteract bullying. 
Who knew?  I always just looked at the reading lists.

TXLA also has cool and free continuing education, but the most interesting link is INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM http://www.txla.org/intellectual-freedom

YALSA  WWW reading challenge, of course, and I am going to seriously check into it a.s.a.p.
                    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wrestlemania1112  BUT I also blush to realize I missed Teen Tech Week which might have let me let them loose in the library to really use all their 2.0 plus acumen to my delight.  Here's YALSA's take--Teen Tech Week is a chance for libraries to throw open their physical & virtual doors and show their communities all the great things they're doing for teens with technology.  Here's mine--why limit it to teens?  String around my finger for next year!! Virtual string, of course.
alsc-- I like the external  relationships link.  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/externalrelationships/organizations.cfm

Blogger's Island responses

These animated teachers are..animated!  Nimble, flexible, modern, open and they really reflect the 21st century student attitudes toward technology and social networking.  I like the verbs  illuminate  & extend possibilities but the one that really applies right now is overcome.
 One of my goals for 2011-12 is to get two teachers to move away from pamphlets to a 2.0 presentation for the final product and PowerPoint doesn't count. This video explains why.

 My other goal is for every incoming and current BWH student to have a GoogleDocs account, or something similar.  What do you think?

Another voyage June 7, 2011

I love this course! And sometime I will try to get some new stuff on my homepage.