The Daring Librarian

Only 3 weeks until the ISTE11 conference kickoff with Mario Armstrong! OhEmGee, I am SO excited! Besides being super busy with with ISTE Board service, meetings, poster sessions, Blogger cafe hanging, and playgrounds - I'll be presenting twice on two exciting (but very different!) panels! !! Game Show Learning! Learning Tools Family Feud: Crowdsourced Edition with Geek Tribe pals my dear mentor the amazing Joyce Valenza, super cool & smart Shannon M. Miller, slick Chad Lehman, hilarious & high-energy Nick "The Nerdy Teacher" Provenzano, and the wonderously sweet & funny Matthew Winner! With our special game show host the AWEsome Steve Dembo! Survey Says! This is gonna be GROOVY! We're gonna re-visit the favourite 70's Game Show with a Twist! We've crowdsourced the survey with over 100 of our PLN answering questions using a Google Form and will be going head-to-head boys against the girls to see if we can guess what the top learning tools wi...

I'm incredibly honored & humbled to be named as an Innovator and one of Library Journal's 50 worldwide Movers & Shakers for 2011!! This is like the Oscars of Libraryland! "For ten years now, LJ 's Movers & Shakers has been spotlighting librarians and others in the library field who are doing extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services forward. They hail from all corners of the library world and several nations. Nominated by their colleagues, friends, bosses, and just plain admirers, they are just the tip of the iceberg." - Library Journal Honestly, last Monday I was stunned. Mouth unbelievingly agape, eyes wide & blinking, and most likely resembling some kind of redheaded goldfish. The tweets got to me first and when I saw the posting & the amazing 49 librarians I was listed with ... I said - out loud - a Scooby Doo "Zoinks!" I also felt like just doing a Wayne'...

photo © 2007 Darren Stone | more info (via: Wylio ) A Year in Review What an amazing & astonishing year it has been for our PLN (that's you, too dear reader!), Geek Tribe, & Librarians! So many of our tribe have been recognized by the Edublog Award Nominations for our achievements in the last year - it's astonishing! This posting is an unashamed and repentant thank you & celebration of what we ALL have done in the last year. Fakey false-modesty is NOT how I roll. I'm flippin psyched! WARNING: I use !!!'s & say YAY & AWEsome a LOT To all those who are looking at this blog because it was nominated - Hi! How you doin? I use these !!!!!'s and AWEsome a lot....or as Bob Edwards of NPR recently said of me after an interview that I " speak almost entirely in exclamation points ." Heh heh heh Like Elaine Bennis in Seinfeld - yeah...I own it. " There’s an 'embarrassment of riches' in the education blogosphere !" - Larry Fe...

The 2010 Edublog Awards – Nominations Open! Nominations: Close Friday 3 December! Voting: Ends Tuesday 14 December! Award Ceremony: Wednesday 15 December! The EduBlogger award nomination process is a wonderful opportunity Pay it Forward by recognizing those in our PLN for their hard work and generosity. Thank you all! (and I wish I could name more than one on several of these categories! Gah!) My Nominations: Best individual blog: Shelly Terrell , Teacher Reeboot Camp Always cutting edge, compassionate, and savvy - Shelley Terrel is a true web wonder! Best individual tweeter: Shannon Miller Shannon Miller has a zest for the new, the challenging, and is a true change agent in her school, district, & community! She also is one of Cengage/Gale and SLJ's 5 national new library leaders program! (me, too! YAY!) Best new blog: Sara Kelley-Mudie - K-M The Librarian Honest, fearless, and willing to share both triumphs and failures on her new blog, Sara Kelley-Mudie is an inspir...

Dont Hate the Hashtag: a Social Media Revolution for Librarians View more presentations from gwyneth jones . Dear CASL family of school librarians, Thank you so much for your time today! It is such an honor to be invited to talk to you! The people of CT have been so wonderfully warm, friendly, whipsmart, & inspiring! I truly met some "kindred spirits" in your state! Thank you Jackie, Irene, & Sara for welcoming me - I'd come back ANY time! Heart You!! And on a personal note, can I say what a thrill and an honor it was to share the billing with The Unquiet Librarian: Buffy J . Hamilton ? I so treasure her mentorship and friendship! She rocked it at the pre-conference! Ok...enough of the mushy stuff - Let's get onto the resources, links & goodies! Don't Hate the Hashtag: A Social Media Revolution for School Librarians Having a web presence, keeping hip with cultural literacy, transliteracy, and building strong personal learning networks is not jus...

Hi, My name is Gwyneth and I use Wikipedia every day. There, I said it. Somehow that's pretty freeing! Wikipedia is NOT a dirty word. We're doing a disservice not teaching our kids HOW to use it and how to cite it...as in - ummm selectively & with forethought. Sadly, I don't believe teachers & college professors are ready to wrap their mind around or admit recent studies that show: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica. Much like the Internets in general, (or the Googles, or the Facebooks, or the Twitters, or the YouTubes) many educators look upon Wikipedia with suspicion, sometimes derision, and occasionally with fear. But who are we kidding? It ain't goin away folks! The Wikipedias are here to stay...It's an Internet Wonder of the World! And for gosh sakes, it comes up top 3 in just about any Google search you do. What? Ignore a good entry for a query? Really? Can you admit, you use it, too? So....How do we teach kids to use it? Teaching Wikipedi...