July 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Northglenn High School Secondary Experience Post

Patricia Martin

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Student Learning Toolkit…

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Added by Pat Martin on July 13, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Help!!! I'm being driven crazy by a Wiki!!!

Thank you all so much for your awesome advice about how to tackle all my library woes!

Next challenge: I need Wiki-creation 101! I'm trying to create a wiki that will serve as my online newsletter for my library and the wiki is being a butthead.

I had envisioned a homepage with four maybe five 'tiles' or little snippits of subjects (ie "Great New Reads" and "Author Spotlight" and "In the Library", etc.) and I'd planned to have these… Continue

Added by Suzanne Cucchetti on July 13, 2010 at 9:27pm — 4 Comments

The Balance of it All...

Alright Library friends, Suzanne needs some help.

I've taken over a library that is in shambles, and I'm taking an ambitious 7 (technically 9 if I include the ISTE Conference, but for that I must simply write a paper) credit hours this summer.

In short - I've had very little summer vacation. And my summer rolls on past me, I'm starting to wonder about balance. I now know that there is no way I'm going to have EVERYTHING done in my library before the kids show…

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Added by Suzanne Cucchetti on July 8, 2010 at 8:32am — 2 Comments

Drive by Daniel Pink

Just watching Alan November's presentation from ISTE and he mentioned the book Drive by Daniel Pink. I read this after being drawn there by my practitioner based research project looking at motivation. Has anyone else out there read this? He reports on research that indicates the "carrot and stick" method of reward and punishment does not work, and is actually counterproductive. Instead of moving people toward internalizing motivation, it externalizes… Continue

Added by Carole Horger on July 7, 2010 at 7:38am — No Comments

ISTE

ISTE helped me realize that we are doing our students a huge disservice if we are not keeping up with all of the wonderful tools now available through Web 2.0. How do we keep up with all of this? One thing that keeps coming back to me is the need for collaboration. Sharing ideas! I guess that is where blogging can continue to be a learning tool. I have learned a lot from my instructors and fellow students in these courses. I hope to build a community at my school district of like minded… Continue

Added by Kathy Plath on July 2, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

ISTE Reflections

This past week I was lucky to have the opportunity to attend the ISTE conference in Denver. It was a productive three days filled with interesting presentations and many creative and thought-provoking applications of technology in education to help students and teachers.

For me, the highlight of the conference came on Monday when I attended a presentation by David Warlick on "Cracking the 'Native' Information Experience." Warlick writes one of the few educational…

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Added by Michael Stanley on July 1, 2010 at 1:37pm — No Comments