Lists, lists, and more lists. I keep saying that we librarian love lists. Edutopia provides a hyperlinked annotated filmography of films that talks about the importance of school libraries in Five Minute Film Festival: Reimagining the Library. The article goes from the general to the specific in its coverage of school libraries, with all the
What a treat it was to visit the Mackay Centre School and see how library services can be developed to meet the needs of disabled children! When my colleague, Julian Taylor and I visited the library and chatted with Anne McNicholl-O'Connor, the doc-tech and with principal, Patrizia Ciccarelli, we hoped to create a film that
Two things happened to me this week. First, I went on a West Wing rerun binge. Second, I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend about a speaker who was talking to teachers and made it a point to play up the importance of classroom libraries, not school libraries, but classroom libraries.
This film shows the excitement of students, parents, teachers and the principal at the opening of their new library learning commons. It is apparent that project based learning is very much a part of the curriculum at Douglasdale Elementary School in Calgary. The principal in this film recognizes that students are using libraries very differently
February 22-28 is Freedom to Read Week, the Canadian equivalent of the American Banned Books Week. There are lots of free materials and kits to download at FreedomtoReadWeek.ca - just click on this link. There are banners and posters that you can distribute, so even if you feel that you might be a little late
This past week, I participated in a webinar on Makerspaces entitled Makerspaces: The Now Revolution in School Libraries with Leslie Preddy, school librarian in Indianapolis, Indiana. She's also the author of the book, School Library Makerspaces, Grades 6 - 12. If you are a member of edweb (anyone can register for free), here is the
Sandra Bebbington, Julian Taylor and I are very excited to be working on a digital badging program for libraries and library personnel based on the Standards of Practice for Library Learning Commons in Canada...but we're not the only ones thinking of digital badging! Meg Sinclair shared this article with us about digital badging in the
Putting together a Lego station in a school library may be one of the easiest ways to get your first makerspace up and running. The good news is that it can be done cheaply. I read a blog post by Heidi Neltner in which she describes how she created a Lego table/station and obtained a large
If I were a library volunteer or doc-tech or an older librarian who had never been comfortable with new technology, the video displayed here might scare me a bit. It's a great promotional video for the Library Learning Commons in that it suggests exciting possibilities of what students might achieve in this revised library space, but
Advancing the Learning Community, the second of five standards in CLA's Library Learning Commons standards, requires collaboration and cooperation between librarians, teachers and administrators. Trying to get busy people to sit down and plan is no easy task, but having a template to work through helps, especially if you can say something like, "They do
