Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | October 31, 2007
I’ve almost finished sorting through the piles of conference materials that made the luggage cut instead of ending up in the hotel waste basket. Since my main reason for attending the AASL conference in Reno was to learn more about Web 2.0 tools and thinking, I have quite a list of ideas to explore from [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | October 19, 2007
For the past week I have been “attending” sessions of the K12 Online Conference in an effort to bring myself fully into the Web 2.0 way of thinking. I click on the keynotes and other sessions and watch them whenever it is convenient for me because, as David Warlick says in his keynote address, “Information [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | October 7, 2007
Several weeks ago, I met a history professor from Colorado College who told me, “I meet a lot of people, but it’s not very often that I meet a primary source enthusiast.” I felt an instant bond. Even in workshops that I conduct on how to teach with primary sources in the classroom, I can [...]