There were so many great programs at ALA this year. One of the outstanding panels was the AASL President’s Program, “Intellectual Freedom: A Core Value” with author, Susan Patron, discussing her experience with the Newbery award-winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky.
The panel included (l. to r.) David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy among [...]
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I just got through reading Jamie McKenzie’s review of Andrew Keen’s bookThe Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture (published in September 2007 – so I’m not real current in my reading!). I thought it was a particularly interesting review considering the amount of time I’ve spent thinking about Web 2.0 [...]
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A group of us got together recently via Skype to discuss AASL’s great leap forward into the 2.0 world. Specifically we were talking about how the next AASL conference could take advantage of the collaborative and transparent nature of 2.0 to make the conference more available to AASL members as well as make the conference [...]
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