a discussion of information fluency, searching, teaching, and learning in the 21st century

Thank you, Debbie Abilock, for updating and sprucing up one of my favorite tools for learners, “Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need.” http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html. Debbie’s organized the search engines, directories, portals, etc. around learners’ authentic needs and includes major subject tools, media search tools, primary sources, and such emerging search strategies as tagging. A similar tool [...]

I love what’s happening at EdTechTalk! It’s where the real buzz is.  The stuff that goes on there just may be in my professional journals–two months from now. Every (well most every) Wednesday night at 8 PM EST, I join educators from all over the world for discussions about where the ed tech world is going.  The [...]

This was posted today on the JESSE listserv. If, like me, you are an adoring and devoted fan of Librarians’ Index to the Internet, read Karen’s post; take the one-minute survey; spread the word! From: “K.G. Schneider” Date: March 10, 2006 9:48:28 AM EST Please take this survey and disseminate it widely: http://tinyurl.com/nd33u Librarians’ Internet Index is facing a [...]

Our schoolwide focus this year is improving reading across the content areas. I am part of the team working on the next inservice–”during-reading strategies.” We’ll be looking at student notetaking specifically and one of the strategies we’ll be revisiting is using Inspiration as a notetaking tool. My hot-of-the-presses Inspiration 8.0 arrived and I was eager [...]

Thanks to all of you who’ve been visiting and working on our baby wiki–http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/ –this week.  (Thanks especially to Chris, Deb, Tony, Francey, Lisa, Brenda, Tony, Dianne, Linda, Mario, Lori, Becca.) I think this may work!   I’d love to see the sharing grow and I am hoping folks will want to take some ownership and help enrich particular areas with [...]

Some very useful discoveries on the lists and the blogs and in the mail this week: 1. Google recently digitized and posted 103 historic films from the National Archives http://video.google.com/nara.html 2. Ruth Small, of Syracuse announced the birth of the very cool online journal Educators’ Spotlight Digest http://www.sosspotlight.org/   ”Educators’ Spotlight Digest is published three times per year and is a free, online [...]

Somedays, most days, I love where I live. Searching for story ideas for my Inquirer column, I discovered that some of the most interesting happenings are happening very close to home. After 18 months in the planning, yesterday, John Street, mayor of Philadelphia made the long-awaited announcement that the city will become the largest wireless [...]