Tomorrow marks 74 days since we saw our students face-to-face. Since we had the luxury of physical indoor and outdoor spaces. A library. Fields to play in. Classrooms. We're at the point of the year now where we've started talking about assessments and report cards and student led conferences. Where there are fewer days left … Continue reading How long will it take to rethink online learning?
In the interests of trying new things myself, and also making library orientation and searching the catalog / tracing items from the catalog to the physical copy more fun, I decided to create a library breakout. I'd watched the "Breakout" phenomenon ebb and flow about 3-4 years ago and had always put it in the … Continue reading Seek and Find – breakout
Or perhaps big little things? The theme for this year's Collaboration for Growth MYP session is "School Cultures; How do we shape them? How do they shape us?" It made me think about what is different this year to last year culturally (besides feeling less like a deer in the headlights as it's my 2nd … Continue reading Little big things
Part of my vacation time is usually spent doing personal learning and preparing for the new year for both my students and for how I can impact teaching and learning for teachers. Last year was my first in a new environment - both in terms of level (middle school rather than primary) and country/school (Beijing, … Continue reading How to WINN in the new school year
First a shout-out - if you're an international librarian and reading this - please join the International Librarians Lead (inTLlead) moodle - it aims to bring together a repository of resources, ideas and discussions on everything to do with being a 21C librarian in a global setting. We have 195 members and growing. Further to … Continue reading When to read what how
A long while ago (3 years) I wrote a post about the fact that we needed to look beyond "search and cite" in teaching information literacy and look at the threshold concepts of research, and a presentation I'd given on the theme. I remember at the time seeing half the audience (of librarians) eyes glazing … Continue reading Beyond beyond search and cite
There are problems with reflection. Seeped in the IB tradition, first through my children and now as an educator, I know that no matter how well it's disguised or re-engineered most students do not like reflection. In my own children, the response to me asking them about the reflection process resulted in one saying, "it's … Continue reading Reflecting on reflection
Recently I've been given to much pause of thought about learning and education, not the least following watching the movie "The imitation game" about Alan Turing's code breaking during WW2 on the plane, followed by three days of intensive attending of presentations at 21CLHK. It's taken a while to try and crystallise my thoughts, and … Continue reading The Imitation Game
In the last blog on Libguides this year I just wanted to show a little bit of what is going on "under the hood" with "forcing" things to look in a certain way around the possibilities and constraints of Libguides. Our school got a great new brand update last year, and this meant that we … Continue reading Libguides – back-end/front-end (3)
aka I think I'd better think it out again ... Over the summer I completely rethought our school library libguides, and I've received quite a few positive comments and questions as to how I made the guides. Unfortunately there is not quick and easy answer, as the process resembles more closely this TED talk on … Continue reading How I built a libguide
Informative Flights - Musings of a Teacher Librarian 