Loertscher strikes again!

With his new book, The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win, David Loertscher strikes yet another 21st Century Learner note: learners need to participate in the common spaces libraries provide to become better learners.     In the new School Library Journal article, Loertscher compares the “old” model of libraries to what is currently happening to the [...]

One for the po-mo business world

I’m digging on Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: the Power of Organizing Without Organizations.  It’s outside my normal range of reading, but I’m interested in what he has to say on how “flat” organizations structures can actually come into fruition in today’s educational and/or Quaker environment (my spin on reading this).  I’m no business management [...]

Visiting ALA Anaheim

On Thursday, I’m heading to ALA in Anaheim to update my overall knowledge of libraries.  I’m particularly interested in Koha, the open source ILS which has been in development for a while.  It seems to have a pretty cool kid-friendly interface.  I’m also attending the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner pre-conference which I [...]

Search engine redux

So, I’ve been feeling like Google has become Yahoo! circa 1999 recently (wow! free email for life!). What’s really all that new, anyway?–lots of results, images, video, news, and other categories. But the interface is just not new at all! This I learned after looking into alternative search engines with a class of students in [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Wikipedia: why the fight?

If you’re a blogger, you’ll love this–free access to the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica once you register your blog!