There are holes in the buckets--and what the heck am I holding?

This is a great new post from Joyce Valenza about how research sources have changed and how educators can keep up with those changes.

There are holes in the buckets--and what the heck am I holding?: "

One of my big pet peeves has to do with teachers and teacher-librarians who assign research requiring students to find sources in buckets that ...

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The World of Delicious

Shelfari

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Goodreads

Podcasts!

I've spent the past few days in workshops at my new school, and have finally learned how to make podcasts using Garageband... and it is SO EASY!! And addictive. I've put three "book talk" podcasts below, as well as one promotional podcast, asking for students and other teachers to submit their own book talks/reviews to the library's website. I have also discovered the site GoAnimate.com, which is fun to play with. I've made a few library promotions.

Underdog Library
Obama Library

Flickr Fun

This week I have been exploring Flickr and some of the apps/ mashups that go along with it. I really enjoyed checking out the 365 Days of Library Pictures project (see the link on this post). It made me wish my computer hadn't deleted my awesome pictures from libraries in Slovenia and Vienna.

Starting 23 Things

As my first real act of librarianship after receiving a job in a 6-12 school library, I am officially initiating a blog and starting my journey through the 23 Things for Learning 2.0. Here we go!!!!