Can I take a moment out of my busy day to say that I love the word “iterate”? Such a lovely word that just rolls off the tongue and says “fail forward” in a much nicer way. Likely due to how late in the week I submitted it, I did not receive a lot of […]
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Source Overdrive. (n.d.). Fraser Valley Regional Library. Retrieved from https://fvrl.overdrive.com
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A few questions that came to mind while reading about the legal issues surrounding the sharing of student work. How does my home district monitor and enforce compliance with FOIPPA and sharing of student work? Given that most version control companies are based out of the United States (e.g., Github, Bitbucket), what options exist for
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This graphic, created in collaboration with Dee Singh and Angela Stevens, is targeted towards a middle/high school audience to educate students about some digital literacy topics. Sources Mihai Tanase. (2009, November 4). Cloud computing – How it all works. [YouTube Clip] YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNgV0O_oTg November, A. (2012, March 25). How to read a web address? November
Another day, another assignment. Today, I’m talking about strategies for evaluating new technology for privacy concerns. At the end of all this, the individual needs to decide whether the privacy risks are worth the advantages that the tech provides, but being educated at least allows us to make an informed decision. How can you learn
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Introduction This post explores some of my learnings on how technology fits into the LLC model, along with a smattering of related learnings that have come up during my TL as Tech Leader course. It contains ideas that I would like to implement in my LLC when I become a teacher librarian . I’ve structured
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Caveat: I’m not the teacher-librarian at my school, so this floor plan is from memory and thus almost certainly incorrect in some details, but the gist is there. I used the web application Floorplanner to create this. The tables in the collaboration space are moveable, but they are large and the space they are in
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I am not the librarian in my school, and I am hesitant to be too critical of my school’s librarian for not being a tech/maker person, because she has many, many other wonderful qualities, skills, and passions that make her a great teacher-librarian. However, there is little in the way of maker programming at my
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Someday, I will buy a scanner. Today is not that day. Sources Averill, S. & Bernie, S. (2017, October 21). Applied Design Skills and Technlogies K-9. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/av3rill/docs/applied_design_skills_and_technolog Chrichton, S. & Carter, D. (2017). Taking Making into Classrooms; A Toolkit for Fostering Creativity and imagination. Retrieved from: https://mytrainingbc.ca/maker/en/toolkit/Taking_Making_into_Classrooms.pdf
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One of my assignments in a recently completed introductory teacher-librarian course was to create a book display. I quite liked what I came up with, so I’m sharing it here. This is a depressing display, but sometimes it’s important to showcase the darker sides of human history, and there are a lot of incredible works
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