Jul
19
2008
This is how I felt this morning…
… a calm and happy Librain

Well, The Librain is a lot slimmer and younger than her creator! The little dragon is her daemon.
This is how I feel now…
… a really ANGRY Librain

So that is all I am worth to teachers after so many years - zilch!
- Why did I stay up late at night, working to finish things for them for the next day?
- Why did I let them book in at the last minute?
- Why did I try to learn cutting edge stuff to help them?
- Why did I write teaching materials and get them ready for observed lessons, when I had other things I needed to do?
- Why do I feel so unappreciated?
I did it for the kids…
… and for the kids I will do it again…
Oct
18
2007
We can all get depressed about the Google generation and headteachers who think that libraries are obsolete -
Cheer yourself up by reading this article:
33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important by Will Sherman on the DegreeTutor site.
Oct
14
2007
At the moment, I am in the middle of Year 7 Inductions. We take a whole morning (3 lessons of an hour each) to cover a general orientation, how to find and choose fiction and how to find information (including Dewey). We do use some modern methods - e.g. a whiteboard and music, but generally the sessions are largely unchanged from the kind of thing that I used to do years ago.
But the children love them!