Category Archives: Professional Development

Badging Webinar Today at 3:30pm!

Just a reminder that today is the Michigan Makers’ webinar, hosted by INFOhio. Join us today from 3:30 – 4:30pm Eastern. It’s free, and we’d love to have you! Webinar details are below: Badging for Learning in Libraries Collecting online … Continue reading

Posted in Badges/Badging for Learning, Professional Development, UM, Webinars | Comments Off on Badging Webinar Today at 3:30pm!

Join us next Thursday for a webinar on badging!

Most of us remember earning — or seeing — merit badges like these in our childhood. They helped us show off what we knew and see what others could do. We’re doing more out-of-school learning than ever before, and digital … Continue reading

Posted in Badges/Badging for Learning, Professional Development, UM, Webinars | Comments Off on Join us next Thursday for a webinar on badging!

EdWeb slides

Hi, y’all! Today I gave a webinar for LMC on the EdWeb platform about librarians as professional developers in implementing the Common Core State Standards. It keeps the cheap discount levitra couples together and live happily forever. As opposed to cialis … Continue reading

Posted in Common Core, Professional Development, Webinars | Comments Off on EdWeb slides

Join Me: Booklist Webinar on Common Core State Standards

Hi, y’all — on Tuesday, I’ll be giving a free webinar on the Common Core State Standards and research for K-8 students. The webinar will be geared toward K-8 educators and public librarians and sponsored by Cherry Lake Publishing. Their … Continue reading

Posted in Common Core, Information Literacy, Professional Development, Research, School Libraries, Webinars | Comments Off on Join Me: Booklist Webinar on Common Core State Standards

Scholastic Administrators: Librarians are Still Important

After all, the world is not perfect and thus, you are the one that is http://greyandgrey.com/third-department-decision-7-11-13/ soft generic viagra responsible to make one impotent. This is because it has all the necessary ingredients to reinforce your power sildenafil viagra de … Continue reading

Posted in Professional Development, Role of the School Librarian, School Libraries | Comments Off on Scholastic Administrators: Librarians are Still Important

“A Must Read”: Review of Growing Schools on the ALSC Blog

Thanks to Stacy Dillon and the ALSC Blog for this review of our collected work Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers. An excerpt: This is an inspiring work that outlines several school librarians’ forays into the world of being leaders … Continue reading

Posted in Books, Professional Development | Comments Off on “A Must Read”: Review of Growing Schools on the ALSC Blog

Learning 2.0 Conference is Underway!

The Learning 2.0 virtual conference (free!) is now underway through August 24. Tune in for free keynote webinars from amazing folks like Audrey Watters, Lee Rainie, and Yong Zhao, and a series of concurrent sessions as well. On Tuesday morning … Continue reading

Posted in Badges/Badging for Learning, Makerspaces/Hackerspaces, Presentations, Professional Development | Comments Off on Learning 2.0 Conference is Underway!

Houston ISD Presentations

Good morning, y’all! Today I’m at Houston ISD’s back-to-school inservice for librarians. It’s fun to be in a big Texas district (most of Michigan’s districts are too small to have Houston’s 60 librarians!), though I admit that as a Midwesterner, … Continue reading

Posted in Prior Knowledge, Professional Development, Role of the School Librarian | Comments Off on Houston ISD Presentations

Google Power Searching Class = PD Opportunity

With the release at ALA Annual of our new book Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers, my co-editors and I find ourselves not-yet-done being passionate about the topic. So … Over at the School Library Monthly blog, I share some … Continue reading

Posted in Free Goodies, Google, Professional Development | Comments Off on Google Power Searching Class = PD Opportunity