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Archive for November, 2010

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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Last Friday I had the privilege of sharing some of what I’ve been doing with blogging at my schools at the SLAV conference, Celebrations! An eye for literacy. I believe SLAV hosts the most informative and inspiring conferences, deepening our understandings and broadening our horizons. Unfortunately we were running late with this session, and at [...]

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  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 [...]

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This has been cross-posted from I get to say what’s culture. Taken from Jenny Luca’s presentation Kids these days are connected and mobile. Wherever they are, they have access to information and can communicate with their friends online.  Although I do believe that the media sensationalizes and demonizes social media, becoming informed about how to stay [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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