Note: I’m posting this without photos or links because my internet has been down all morning and is still cutting in and out. I did put the photos in a Picasa web album that can be found here. Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to join 4 grade six classes who have been studying [...]
A New Adventure
September 4, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I have recently moved to Arusha, Tanzania to be a volunteer teacher-librarian at the School of St. Jude. So far I haven’t managed to blog much but I did post a piece with some details here.
“Lit Circles? Awesome!”
March 26, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Photo: Heping Village Primary School, Dongxiang County. Gansu province, China. Classroom. 2005 Photo: © Liang Qiang / World Bank. Used under a CC license. Literature circles are on the long-range plans for our grade three students and most teachers start them in January. Last year, when I was scheduled to work with specific grade levels [...]
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One Sunday Morning on Twitter
September 26, 2010 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Soundtrack for this post: Hello Beautiful Life – Skydiggers There are many educators (and others) who are skeptical about the value of Twitter. This morning, several things occurred that would not have, had I not been on Twitter as I did other work on the computer. 1. I made a plan to visit Edna Sackson [...]
Back to School – NOT! (or What I Learned While Sick at Home)
September 4, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I tried to start the school year. I went to work for the full week before the students came back; I went to staff meetings, team meetings and collaborative planning meetings; I created schedules for the computer labs; had all the teachers sign up for their library times; I planned lessons for the first week [...]
Brunch with Margriet Ruurs, author
March 21, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
I had a lovely brunch this morning at Halia in the Singapore Botanic Gardens with the author, Margriet Ruurs, and several teacher-librarians who work at various international schools in Singapore. (Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos.) Margriet will be working with students at United World College of South East Asia (both Dover and East campuses) [...]
You say “toys”, I say “tools”
February 11, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
My school values collaborative planning and one-way this manifests itself is in our grade level QUIP (Quality Unit of Inquiry Planning) days. A week or two before beginning a new unit of inquiry teachers are given a ½ day of release time to plan with the members of their team, our curriculum coordinator and our [...]
Good Workshop Presenters vs Not-so-good Workshop Presenters
February 10, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
I spent the first two days of this week at a workshop for librarians and library technicians hosted by our library software company. The best outcome of the two days is that it has inspired me reflect on good workshop presenters vs. not-so-good workshop presenters and has given me the necessary push I needed to [...]
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Finally a use for my domain name!
February 10, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I bought this domain name back in September when I visited Katie and Keri-Lee at the UWCSEA East Campus to pick their brains about all things library and IT.
