The Daring Librarian

3rd Annual Edutech Smackdown! Our highly anticipated, most attended, & crazy fun LIVE webinar event is BACK! Starring Dr. Joyce Valenza and YOU! December 2nd 8pmEastern with yours truly, @GwynethJones & @Librarian_Tiff moderating. For resources, chat & webinar archive visit the Session Wikipage Participant Link We’re creating (that's you, too!) a rich crowd-souced presentation/book . So grab a fresh slide (or two!) and share your Learning Tools tips, info, or resources! Remember to sign your slide with your name or @Twitter name so we can call you up to the microphone to share your slide (raise your hand to get quick microphone privs!) and let's keep the black background for visual continuity. The less text the better! More preso designing tips below.    Here are my slides to use as an example. Flickr is my #1 favourite source for all things digital image hosting. Experience the majesty of Flickr with Flickr Explore ! Flick the amazing HUGE repo...

Not if, but when your school turns to mobile learning, will your library be ready? Information technology presents librarians with an opportunity to facilitate the transition to mobile learning. Facilitators, which will include a student panel, in this hands-on, BYOT session will highlight strategies to virtualize library services for tiny screens. Participants will practice using tools for building virtual, hand-held libraries, and will leave this session with a toolkit to expand virtual library services. I'm both happy and sad to say that our Pre-Conference workshop at #AASL13 ( American Association of School Librarians ) is S OLD OUT! W00t! Sad because I feel in a way this blog post is a tease, 'cause if you're not already booked it's too late but happy because that's always the worry that no one will show up! Three years ago I blogged about this topic , but WOW...how things have changed since then! We can't wait to share some new ideas ...

  Please join us Monday, December 3rd at 8PM Eastern, TL Virtual Café hosts our 2nd annual FREE EduTech Smackdown/Open Mic night webinar.  Please plan on visiting or participating! "You don’t have to be a librarian to play!  We welcome classroom teachers, tech directors, administrators, enthusiastic partners of every persuasion! It's  more fun when we can learn from each other!" Joyce will be sharing her trend list and some of her favorite discoveries and so will several good friends.  The event will be ably moderated by yours truly and the lovely & talented  Tiffany Whitehead, aka The Mighty Little Librarian . We highly encourage moving beyond listening to sharing ! "If you’d like to take the microphone with your own exciting discoveries of the year, please grab a slide/slides and add to our crowd-souced presentation/book in advance. Share your best recommendations for tips, resources, etc. and help us build an intera...

Join IN the FUN EARLY! You Gotta b there! – Your Virtual Track Pass . Your one Pitt Stop Chop Shop for all the Cool links to get your AASL Experience Turbo Charged! Ooooer! i'm getting SOooo Excited for #AASL2009! and i have several reasons to be Excited! and like on Seinfeld i'm going to be using a lot of exclamations! so....buckle your seatbelts...you've been warned. I'm excited to be one of the conference bloggers (OMWerd, what an honor! no pressure there, dear reader! Eep!) and i promise Promise i'll not pepper EVERY post with contrived car related verbage, really!...in fact, the above was my last sputter, i swear! [grins] but hey! AASL egged me on....it was even one of the criteria for the conference presentation approval process! LOL and you don't have to b there! yet to get involved NOW! Click on the graphic above to find links to: concurrent session guide the author pit stop & interviews membership directory member videos the UNconference ! t...