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Cool Tools for School

Nov 29th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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Cool Tools for School

Cool Tools for School

We kicked off another Learning 2.0 program today! This one is called Cool Tools for School and was the brainchild of  J’aime Pfeiffer (Capital Region BOCES) and her colleagues at other nearby BOCES School Library Systems:   Jen Henry (CVES BOCES), Deb Booth (HFM BOCES), Dee Portzer (Questar III), Paige Jaeger (WSWHE BOCES).

We all started talking about this last summer, but finally got around to setting it in motion just 2 weeks ago! Despite a quick start, we’re taking a slow approach with this program. Instead of a new lesson/thing being posted every week, we’ll offer a new topic every 3 weeks. This should give everybody time to digest the topic and have time to do more exploring. We’ll see! It will be a fun experiment.

We have just shy of 100 people signed up. And at the end of day 1, 7 people had already completed the first lesson. We’re off to a fast start for our leisurely program!

 

Learn with CDLC! Learning 2.0 program

Mar 30th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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Learn with CDLC is off to a great start! We have 150 people signed up for this program, with close to 50 already on the waiting list for the next program. We just didn’t have enough people to manage more than 150 participants.  And just 2 days into the first week, 50 people have already finished the first exercise. A great beginning!

This program is sponsored by the Capital District Library Council, which is a multi-type regional library system here in the Albany, NY area. Members include 4 regional school library systems, 3 regional public library systems and many academic, medical, government and special libraries.

Instead of 23 things, we’re doing 10. Sounds a bit less daunting maybe? Though I think if we counted everything we’re asking people to do, there probably are 23 things.  Either way, there’s lots of fun and learning ahead.

Week 1 is Blogging, Week 2 is RSS. Then photo sharing, videos, online communities, webinars, productivity tools and more.

I’m so excited to be running this program in my own home region! It’s great fun to see many of my longtime friends and colleagues participating and connecting with lots of new folks too. Wish us luck keeping up with it all.

 

School Library Tech Camp – March 2010

Mar 26th, 2010
by pollyalida.
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Last weekend, 30+ school librarians & classroom teachers gathered at the Hotel Thayer at West Point for 2 days of Tech Camp! After a bit of a rocky start due to problems with the hotel’s wireless network (which the ever resourceful Danielle handily solved!), we were off to the races.

Tech camp is a two day immersion in technology tools and and an opportunity to explore ideas for integrating technology into the curriculum.  The sessions offer school librarians (and classroom teachers) (more…)

Connecticut’s 23 Things Program

Mar 7th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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After a successful project for staff at the state library, the Connecticut State Library is taking their 23 things project statewide. Terrific! I spend a lot of time teaching in CT and am so excited to see this program going statewide.

The program kicked off February 9th, but there’s still time to join. They’re just into Thing 2 – Blogs. There will be a new topic every 2 weeks.

The program officially wraps up on July 27th. Complete all of the activities by July 27, 2009 to receive a continuing education certificate.

I hope tons of CT library staff take advantage of this terrific learning opportunity. As an unofficial CT librarian, I’m going to follow along and participate at this blog: Polly’s CT 23 Things.

23 Things at the Connecticut State Library

Oct 7th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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The Connecticut State Library launched 2.0@CSL last week, a 23 things Learning 2.0 project for State Library staff.

Kris Abery, Sharon Clapp and Nancy Peluso were the masterminds behind the project and have done a terrific job putting this program together. The project will run for 13 weeks and is using a wiki as it’s ‘base of operations’. There are over 50 staffers signed up already. Yay!

I’m a frequent visitor to the CT State Library and am really excited to see this project underway. I hope they’ll be able to roll it out for library staff all over Connecticut in the near future.  Kudos to Ken Wiggins, CT State Librarian, for supporting and encouraging this project.