The Daring Librarian

ISTE10 SIGMS Forum: Learning Tools Smackdown ! No sitting on the ropes! Bring your most effective learning tools to the ring. Categories: digital storytelling, reading promotion, information fluency, and digital citizenship. Join Joyce Valenza, Gwyneth Jones, and other speakers for this event. For a full line-up and ALL the Resources & Goodies visit our Wiki! Visit Chad Lehman's & my Network Building Page Want to watch the video in a larger size? Visit ISTE Vision !

WARNING : Much like my AASL-Charlotte debrief this is bound to be a bit stream of conscience and edited over a few days. Background: This was a very special & crazy busy ISTE for me. After being newly elected to the board of directors of ISTE I had duties for my new position that would sometimes interfere with my ability to hang out at the Bloggers' Cafe, the SIGMS 21st Century Playground, and the SIGVE Second Life playground ....AND go to all the sessions I wanted to. But in all honesty? ...being able to go greet & thank attendees, vendors, & poster presenters on behalf of the board and serve was both a joy and an honor. (and fun!) The other ISTE board members and the amazing full time ISTE staff (more about them below!) were so awesomely welcoming and helpful! Especially Annette Smith and her amazing crew from Wisconsin and Mike Lawrence and his crew from CUE! See Annette Smith dancing the Affiliate dance! I got a LOT out of the Leadership Bootcamp by lurking o...

ISTE/TIE Leadership Bootcamp 2010 View more presentations from elemenous . I met Lucy Gray last night at the TIE/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp and she was just lovely!...and seeing this preso above it's like meeting another kindred tech spirit. (like our Geek Tribe family!) Must to give her a Geek Tribe ribbon! Now...i'll shut up and encourage you to scroll through that slideshare again....and then suggest that you send it to someone back at home who couldn't be at #lbc10, #ISTE10 or #ALA10. I'm gonna be singing this same song at the sold out ISTE10 SIGMS Learning Tools Smackdown Tuesday 10am - our topic Network Building with IMCguy Chad Lehman . You can get a sneak peek 0n our wikipage and the visual imagery of our smack here! i'm also thinking that this McCloud guy is a kindred spirit, too! See all the great thoughts and tweets from his Leadership Bootcam session and some of my thoughts, too: ScottElias ...

Advocacy in Education is so important..now more than ever. ISTE10 Denver has many opportunities to involve yourself for advocating for our customers....the KIDS! Wanna know how? The following is from Hilary Goldmann, ISTE’s Director of Government Affairs : "Once again we have a dynamic line-up of advocacy activities at ISTE2010!! Thanks to all of you for your ideas, help, advice, support, guidance etc… Below is the line-up. • ETAN Booth - Raffle prize is an interactive white board donated by SMART, Technologies. Michelle and Barack Obama will make a cardboard appearance again. • Send a video letter to Congress – We will have flip cameras at the Advocacy Lounge and a script so attendees can send a video email to Congress. • YouTube ISTE Advocacy Channel – We now have an ISTE Advocacy YouTube Channel ! We will post video letters to Congress here and stream them at the Advocacy Lounge. • Collecting success stories at the Advoc...

If you're an educator in Second Life you can experience the 21st Century Library Media Center Playground also on the grid! Can't get to Denver but want to experience the 21st Century Playground? A duplicate and decidedly different set of kiosks have been created in Second Life to mirror those set up in Denver! The informational kiosk topics are: Libraries in Second Life Whiteboards Virtual Bldg Glogster Wikis Twitter Mobile Tech Digital Storytelling This year's theme is the Wild, Wild Steampunk West: the Victorian Denver Goldrush of Information featuring an in-world games and panning for gold!! Created by master builder Miss Eleanor Anderton (Linda Dougherty - RL) and Capt. Red Llewellyn (yours truly!) this build brings together the romance of the steam era and the modernity and Science! of the 21st Century! When you visit, be sure to pick up your free gifts on the oceanfront patio! The souvenir ISTE SIGMS top hat that i created for this event and the beautiful I...