I’ve been waffling about sharing my political thoughts here, though no one who knows me has any doubts who I’m voting for. And even though I don’t think I’ll change any undecided minds, I decided I wanted to put it down ‘on paper’, so to speak, before the election.
There are so many issues to consider [...]

Our lunch break today was too short to get any game playing going - school librarians know how to eat quick and network at the same time! But I did get a few games out for people to look at.  In honor of ALA’s National Gaming Day coming up on Nov 15, we had [...]

Thanks to everyone who attended the School Library System Tech Camp today at Cap Region BOCES. Hope you all had as good a time as I did! I’ll try to get the powerpoint slides from the early part of the day posted to the class wiki on Sunday or Monday. As [...]

Testing out some new themes this week. Comparing how they work here in a single user install of WordPress and the multiuser version, WordPress MU. In a couple of weeks, I’ll be teaching a class on using WordPress to create a library web site. To give everyone their own blog to work on during the [...]

Election coverage from the Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary in Florida. Damon Weaver, a 5th grader, is the news reporter covering Obama and McCain rallies in Florida. And he gets a terrific interview with Joe Biden. Well done Damon! And “well done” to the school too. What an amazing way to involve your students in [...]

Glogster for Education lets you create online posters with graphics, photos, text, video and audio. Wow, what a great tool for student projects. I can see lots of other fun uses for this in public libraries too.
Though Glogster has been around for a while, I just heard about it today in a twitter post [...]