Archive for the 'Instruction' Category

This and That….

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Your chance to respond:
I recently received an email from a librarian from a small conservative area of the state who was concerned about the growing number of young adult novels that contain language and topics that are often graphic and explicit. She wants to offer a well-rounded collection of titles to meet the needs of [...]

Copyright Issues

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Question?
How do you deal with copyright as related to multimedia,specifically using music in multimedia projects.

What have I told you about thinking?

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

       I have been reading about critical thinking skills in preparation for the summer workshops and one of the more intriging discussions is centered on at what age does the critical thinking process begin and at what age is it developmental approriate to assume that students are ready to think critically.
      My problem is this..I [...]

Big 6

Monday, February 6th, 2006

My name is Scott Cassell and I am in my first year as the Librarian at Riverheads High School in Augusta County. I have read about and visited your blog page and was wondering two things. First, how could I get a new topic for discussion on the blog? Second, I am very interested in [...]

To Fine or Not To Fine

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Recently I was asked my opinion on students paying fines and being denied from checking out materials because they owed fines or had yet to return books.  What is your opinion on this?

Thoughts on Information Literacy

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Recently there has been a wonderful discussion on what is and who is responsible for teaching information literacy skills.  I have been following the discussion with much interest and wanted to share with you one of the postings.  I want to thank John for allowing me to reprint his thoughts on the subject and invite [...]