The Librain

I was really thrilled to receive this award from our Transforming School Libraries course: Thank- you so much everyone!

First of all, I want to apologise to anyone who saw my previous version of this post. It was not professional to let off steam on here and so I have now removed it completely. I did finish the course, although I skimmed over the last few presentations and did not post very much to [...]

This is my response to the thoughts going through my head after reading Ken Eustace’s Web3.0 presentation and Judith Comfort’s post. I am copying it across from Sosius as I am really tired today and I need to do something else! If I feel up to it, I will try to sort out my ideas [...]

I must be getting tired! Or real life is grabbing hold of me again? I feel I have become so immersed in a Web2.0 world and am so excited and inspired by all that I am reading and experiencing that I cannot immediately look up and engage with a real person! The podcasting presentation was [...]

A more difficult day for me this one. I dipped in and out of the course all day and switched between various things that I needed to do in the library. I read Judy O’Connell’s blog regularly, so I already had an idea about her presentation. I continue to be in awe of the things [...]

I have watched the presentation about Social Bookmarking – nice to have another one with a voice narrating. I think that I learn a lot from this kind. I really like VoiceThread in particular as the commenting is nice! Anyway, back to the presentation. Again, I don’t think that I found out a lot of [...]

Well, I am actually writing this on day 4, but that is because for some reason I couldn’t get to my blog last night. So I will have to write something for day 4 this evening, if I have the time! I started the day thinking about participation on the course. A lot of SLN [...]

I am writing this with my laptop on my knee after everyone else has gone to bed – just about the only time I can find on a Saturday! I did sneak two hours this afternoon to work through presentations and discussions, but I think that the time zones have an effect as it was [...]

So, the course has now started and I am beginning to understand more about Sosius! I watched an interesting presentation about setting up a new library and it was such a contrast with what I am doing in my new job – a new school, lots of students and a huge space. Whereas here we [...]

An interesting training opportunity is taking place from the 20th February to the 1st March. A group of us from SLN (School Librarians’ Network) are joining an international group on an online course – “21st Century Learning : Professional development to transform school libraries with Web 2.0“. I remember many years ago a lot of [...]