School Librarians… Again!

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Board of Directors has voted to re-name the title of media specialists… school librarians! I’m glad to hear it. Deja Vu all over again!

Presentation Materials Now Available!

If you would like to peruse conference presentation materials from the MAME 36 conference held last month in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan, please check them out at the MAME website. You will see quite a few PDFs and PPTs from our presenters. More will be added as they are received. Keep checking!

The MAME Conference

I am back from the MAME conference in Traverse City. I presented a session called “Web Jackpot: Free is Good.” About 30 people turned out for the session and they had good comments and suggestions about the tools and sites I presented.

I also presented a roundtable called “Search Engine Roundup.” It’s good for people to know that there are some unique search engines out there. I chose a good variety to get my point across.

Great conference as usual! Traverse City was dark and rainy but very autumnal looking with the yellows, oranges and greens in the trees.

A Web 2.0 Week!

Yesterday I presented a blog workshop (WordPress MU) and tomorrow I am presenting podcasting in a district. Last week I presented a half day Introduction to Web 2.0 to media specialists. I love it when attendees find a tool that they can apply to their classroom or media center.

School Library Media Activities Monthly Article

My article “Be the Web ‘Go-To’ Person for Parents!” just came out today in the February issue of School Library Media Activities Monthly. In it I write about how media specialists need to learn Web tools and provide some workshops for parents so that parents become more comfortable with the Web and also see that the media specialist is a good point person for help with these tools.