Struggling to commit...

Appalling I know - but I must finish - even if I should have done it in July!

I've been looking at ebooks quite a lot recently as we are putting an ebook management system into our Library. It'll be up and running at the beginning of 4th term. We do have over 100 ebooks already but they don't have a high usage. That might say something about our school, or our lack of advocacy! I'd be interested in your opinion of Overdrive if your Library has it. 

Now...I have downloaded ebooks but it'll take a trip OS to make me a real convert. I'm still attached to print.

Appalling I know - but I must finish - even if I should have done it in July!

I've been looking at ebooks quite a lot recently as we are putting an ebook management system into our Library. It'll be up and running at the beginning of 4th term. We do have over 100 ebooks already but they don't have a high usage. That might say something about our school, or our lack of advocacy! I'd be interested in your opinion of Overdrive if your Library has it. 

Now...I have downloaded ebooks but it'll take a trip OS to make me a real convert. I'm still attached to print.

Time management! Working on it...

As it is now August and I should have completed this weeks ago, this skill is obviously not my forte! Drinking from the torrent of the internet fire hydrant is demanding some content curation and organisation. Diigo and Evernote have been excellent tools to catch the content but now the task is to curate/ condense the collected content for others. paper.li and flipboard look promising but there are only so many tools one can use! I'm finding Twitter and Scoop.IT quite productive and possibly what I can cope with at the moment.

This is my first Scoop.IT

http://www.scoop.it/t/librarians-rule-ok

I've been looking at shortcuts to help students find better search strategies. This one's from Google.

Google does more

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...! Google Images have redeemed themselves with their camera search feature.

Video

Back from Palm cove in Tropical North Queensland - 28 degrees!!! But despite the inherent summer joys there was no free wifi. And at $7 for half an hour, my catch up is even further behind. I did have a bit of a whine - amid quite a bit of wine - but then remembered comedian Louis CK's vent about whingers like me. IT IS AMAZING! (And now I've worked out the resizing!)

Visualising The voice of the active learner