Feb
10
2011
A lovely presentation on libraries that I found through Twitter, this one is by Katie Birkwood: Just a Room Full of Stuff? Why Libraries are Great / Katie Birkwood View more presentations from Katie Birkwood.
May
27
2009
Almost a year ago I wrote a post about how I was trying to pull together all of the web services that I was developing in my previous school. I had created a library website, a wiki, a blog and was developing sections of the school’s VLE to support teaching and learning through the library [...]
Apr
24
2008
As usual, the best ideas seem to come to me when I should be doing something else – like relaxing or the housework! So, I was musing on how I could promote all of the services that we have been developing – or playing around with. We have had some for a while, like the [...]
Dec
19
2007
The previous post “Missed opportunities or a chance to shine?” was about promoting ourselves – amongst other things. I just found this blog post today SL2.0 Suggestion Camp: Library Powered. It gives a really interesting and simple idea on how to market what you and your library can do for your school: why not make [...]
Dec
10
2007
I have just spent an interesting couple of days on a course. The SLICT (Strategic Leadership of ICT) course is run by the National College for School Leadership and involved senior staff who lead on ICT in their schools (plus me). It felt a bit beyond my “comfort zone” at times, but was very interesting [...]