Author Archives: Kristin Fontichiaro

Huffington Post interviews Carl Harvey

Thanks to the Huffington Post for running this interview with AASL President Carl Harvey: C. M. Rubin: How Will We Read: In Schools? via kwout Male Yeast Infection – Increased blood sugar levels increase the risk of blurry vision or … Continue reading

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Set your clocks back an hour today!

Yay! Just in time for a marathon day of grading, it’s time to set our clocks back an hour today. “Spring forward, fall back!”

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MAME Presentation :: Librarians as Publishers and Aggregators: Seizing the eBook Opportunity

MAME – Home via kwout It’s great to be home for a conference after a few weeks on the road. Today at the MAME conference, I’m talking about some tricks and tools that can help librarians move Web content to … Continue reading

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Great editorial on citation

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: [For] many of us over the age of 40 … our teachers … emphasized how to effectively and responsibly locate, evaluate, and integrate other writers’ words and ideas into our own writing better, perhaps, … Continue reading

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eBook Makes It Into WorldCat!

Thanks, Farmington Community Library and Library of Michigan! School libraries : what’s now, what’s next, what’s yet to come (eBook, 2011) [WorldCat.org] via kwout We take buy sildenafil 100mg some rests to healing our body from pains. Whether you fail … Continue reading

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BookRix: A Story in 15 Words

I’m a pretty rusty fiction writer, but when I got the email today that BookRix, a digital publishing site I played with earlier this year, had a contest ending today for stories that took no more than 15 words to … Continue reading

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Change is hard.

Please view the video above, then read Buffy’s post about the challenges that come along with moving away from lecture-based teaching and toward inquiry-based teaching. Shifting practice in a meaningful way is hard for everyone.   The Possibilities and Challenges … Continue reading

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Learning spaces reinvisioned as sandboxes, not labs

What are we doing, as educators and librarians, to promote exploratory, discovery, inquiry-oriented, and social learning in our schools? Here’s what Bentley University in Massachusetts is doing: From Computer Lab to Sandbox — Campus Technology via kwout Cost is the … Continue reading

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