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 [...]
Back to School – NOT! (or What I Learned While Sick at Home)
September 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Brunch with Margriet Ruurs, author
March 21st, 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) and [...]
You say “toys”, I say “tools”
February 11th, 2010 · 2 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 10th, 2010 · 3 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 10th, 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.
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