AASL, Charlotte, and the 2.0 World

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 [...]

ALA – Anaheim – Day 2 – “A Civics Lesson on Steroids”

While there are so many concerns in the school library field, today was a day to rejoice at the success and advances being made in the profession.
INFORMATION LITERACY STANDARDS FOR STUDENT LEARNING
At the session AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action there was an opportunity to make comment on the first draft of the [...]

ALA – Anaheim – Day 1

After a 24-hour trip to Anaheim, I finally made it to the land of palm trees and no humidity. Wow! What a change from Kansas City. After finally getting checked in, I find out that the Marriott doesn’t have free wi-fi (boo!). I need to check this more closely in the future.
I am mentoring one [...]

Why “The Steak and the Sizzle”?

When I was thinking about starting a blog/homepage/Web site/aggregator I kept coming back to the issue of how the school library media center is perceived by its audience? It is no small matter that libraries were left out of No Child Left Behind because as Doug Johnson once said, “what gets tested gets taught.”
What [...]