Congratulations, Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness has won the Carnegie Award for Monsters of Men, or let’s be honest, for the complete Chaos Walking trilogy, and well deserved too (all three chapters have been shortlisted after all). However, I personally would like to thank Mr Ness for his outstanding defence of books, reading, libraries, and librarians. Here’s a snippet [...]

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Photographer Librarian

Today, I was Photographer Librarian. I’ve attended a few rehearsals of the school show already, just to get ideas of the best bits to try and capture (like the enthusiastic snogging going on at the side of the stage – not much acting there I think) but today I just had to be completely in [...]

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Confusion

So, what is it I do again? In the last couple of days, two separate people have suggested that I’m doing too much. Well, ok, that’s not actually debatable. I am doing too much, but what’s causing pondering is the specifics that they’ve chosen. According to source 1, I shouldn’t be organising assignments from conception, [...]

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New blood I

Every year, I speak to the student teachers about how important libraries are to education, and how they can get the best out of them. Usually, it goes along the lines of  “Go and talk to the librarian – a lot. Keep them up to date in what your plans. Don’t forget to include them [...]

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Chuffed

Left at lunchtime on Friday to go along to Daughter’s school show (really funny and well produced), and discovered The Envelope from uni waiting for me at home. Got good comments for my final assignment so I’ve now completed my PGC APS. I’d love to continue, but the cost is just too much, for now [...]

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Awful Library Books Blog

I was pointed towards this gem from a LibraryThing forum post. The Awful Library Books blog celebrates all those wonderful resources from the past that should have been binned years ago. At this point I have to pause to consider some of the tattier fiction residing on the LRC’s shelves. Unfortunately, it’s tatty becase it’s [...]

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Catalyst

The Catalyst Awards are on, but one’s Husband is providing expert interviewing skills with mock interviews. He needs to get Daughter to school first, so I ask Lovely Friend for a lift (Thanks, L F!). Unfortunately, Daughter’s school closed due to heating issue, so she comes along with Husband. Go and ‘fess all to Boss [...]

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Can you be a constructivist librarian?

Brooks, G.R. and Brooks, M.G. (2000) “Becoming a constructivist teacher” in A.L. Costa (ed),  Developing Minds: a resource book for teaching thinking (pp. 150-157). Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. There’s plenty of fascinating stuff in this tome but I’m particularly taken by this article. The authors define constructivism as a theory of learning that [...]

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After Glow

First day back, stinking headache. Too much time spent in small room, staring at a screen might be the reason. Could also be lack of scones. All day I’m seeing investigations and activities and wondering if they would be best served on Glow, or fine where they are. S2 History are still working on JFK, [...]

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Still Glowing

Day 2 on mentor training answers a few more questions – but there’s still no scones. There is a simple survey creator – but you can’t export the data. Hmm. There is a text editor, but you can’t copy and paste. Right…. You can drag and drop on a PC, but not on a Mac. [...]

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