Catching Up

It turns out the LMSs will get laptops too with a trade-in. We're very happy about that.
I suppose it's pretty pathetic that I'm spending a Saturday morning blogging, but my dog woke me up at 5:00 today so I got all sorts of chores done early. Don't let the picture deceive you -- he's cute, but not at 5:00 a.m. I decided to look at some of my colleagues' blogs, do some of the 23 things, etc. I looked at the articles and found it encouraging that the president of Toshiba felt compelled to write about information literacy, making some good points as a matter of fact. Also, for the first time I skimmed the results of last year's MILP. I thought the teacher and LMS survey info was very interesting. Too bad about the pre- & post-test data. I hope this year's data is more reflective of what the project accomplished.
I'm mulling over where on my webpage to put a new section called "Helpful Blogs." I found some consumer-related blogs in the paper this summer that would help kids & staff, but I can't really post them on my Reliable Online Resources page, because I can't vouch for every blog like I can for the ROR sites. Maybe on the Research page --- nah, maybe not. I'll have to think about this some more.

Second Posting Attempt

The teachers are using their equipment and Leslie has offered to help those having "Mac Attacks" (in the computer sense, of course) one on one.
I'm excited because she'll be doing a Podcast workshop here on Nov. 9 for staff.
In the back of my mind I'm thinking about phase 2 of Information Literacy instruction here, which involves how best to teach kids the tools they need to do a smart search on Google. I feel like our staff is on board with directing our kids to use the ROR page, so the next step is to give them what they need if they hit a dead end there.

Blogging Baby Steps

After the frustration of technology that wasn't working, I was finally able to do this. Not easy but the first steps are done.