I’m a little tired of people telling me I’m wasting my time on Facebook. Yes, I do enjoy keeping an eye on what my friends and colleagues are up to, seeing photos of their weddings, new babies and celebrations, particularly when they don’t live close. But I also use Facebook professionally. I’m a teacher librarian [...]
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As the world changes, how do we keep up with it?
Posted in Libraries, Teacher librarians, tagged information, libraries, school libraries, Teacher librarians on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Photo from Enokson on Flickr Books have been a source of information for some time now. But in libraries, the people have been important too. Librarians have been the personal link to information for some time too. As the world of information has changed from being bound in books to becoming available to all [...]
Goodbye Fiction Focus blog – but why?
Posted in blogging, Children's books, Teacher librarians, YA reviews, tagged books, CMIS, Fiction Focus, journal, Judi Ja, Teacher librarians, YA reviews on November 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This morning I read a tweet that left me in shock: New FF blog post So long and thanks for all the fish: This is the 798th post to the Fiction Focus blog sinc… http://bit.ly/9eNNmK #FFblog Following the link I discovered the bad news – Judi Jagger would no longer be writing the Fiction Focus [...]
What George Siemens knows and is sick of asking.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged learners, learning, longer asking, questions i, requires on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
George Siemens’ recent post is to the point. He says we should stop asking useless questions about learning and just get on with it. The following convictions explain the kind of learning he’s talking about. His second last question has made me think: ‘Which questions are you no longer asking about the role of technology [...]
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Posted in blogging, Books, Children's books, tagged Fiction Focus, Judi J, literary award, literary awards, lucy christopher, prime minister, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, reviews, ya fiction on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks, Fiction Focus, you are always ahead of the latest news in fiction; my first stop for reading news and well written YA reviews. Sadly, due to funding issues, we will no longer have the pleasure of your blog posts. Thankyou and well done for 798 posts! Judi, you will be sorely missed! Amplify’d from [...]
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