I started the day with a great session on Empowering Learners--Unpacking the Guidelines with Dr. Carol Gordon from Rutgers. She had great insights into the guidelines and their intent since she was on the committee to create them. Carol is also able to synthesize the research on instruction and learning so well. The question was "What does a good 21st century school library media program look like?"

"Instruction has taken center stage." The library media program is still and alway… Continue

Started the day at 7 am this morning with a book discussion of Born Digital and then caught a little of James Patterson. He is working on 26 books! Talk about multi-tasking. He explained how he collaborates with his co-author. He writes an outline. His co-author writes a first draft. Patterson that reviews and edits and sends it back. This goes on until they are both satisfied. Fascinating. He is a role model of collaboration.

My next stop was a workshop "Drive Learning with Profe… Continue

I'm registered and ready for the green flag.

I stopped to listen to a Bloggers Cafe session led by Joyce Valenza. Unfortunately, the internet connection was unavailable and that limited what she could do. She and Buffy Hamilton showed some slides that they had on Pageflakes (a social personalized homepage tool that she uses as pathfinders), creating widgets to make access easier for students, creating iGoogle accounts, and… Continue