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Shaky professionalism?

Posted in professionalism, tagged , on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve find myself muttering PDM, PDM under my breath: I’m so busy that I don’t even have time to say that work is Pure Dead Mental and have to resort to abbreviations!!
Every day, another colleague walks in and asks to book more classes – just the booking is taking up huge chunks of time, [...]

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Lost in thought

Posted in CPD, learning and teaching, professionalism, studying, thinking, tagged , , on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

New module, and it’s not what I expected. I had assumed that this would touch on multiple intelligences, learning styles etc, but it’s patently not.
The main theme so far has been about making learning visible: an interesting concept. We’ve been introduced to Harvard’s Project Zero, which niggled away in the back of my mind until [...]

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Learning Wall

Posted in CPD, learning and teaching, libraries, professionalism, tagged , , on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today was an in-service day with a focus on the Curriculum for Excellence (sorry, but the A in ACfE needs to go).  Sessions on each of the four capacities, plus me and colleague on cross-curricular themes.
We wanted to make our bit interactive, and eventually settled on the Learning Wall. This was inspired by an idea [...]

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Interrupting the Heart of the Curriculum

Posted in learning and teaching, libraries, professionalism, tagged on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There’s been a discussion on the School Librarians’ Network about how to get every department using the library. This post includes part of my contribution to the discussion (plus a lot more which I decided not to post because it sounded self-promoting. I’m quite happy showing off here though.)
Because librarians all believe the library is [...]

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Could you hand me a brick wall, please?

Posted in enthusiasm, information literacy, inspiration, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, librarians, libraries, professionalism, resources, thinking, tagged , , , on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week I spoke to the students about how to get the best out of their school library – how to help the Librarian, what to expect in return, not forgetting “we are all individuals“. I thought my mindmap of notes just required printing, but instead it was nowhere to be seen. And I knew [...]

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Catching up

Posted in books, librarians, libraries, professionalism, tagged on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The LRC was shut for three days so allow the 1st years to do a test. At the time it was booked, I was smilingly informed that those three days would give me time to “catch up”.
Yeah right.
What I actually accomplished was clearing about ten shelves worth of returned books. Not reshelved them, you understand, just organised [...]

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Inclusion?

Posted in enthusiasm, learning and teaching, librarians, professionalism, studying, thinking, tagged , on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just completed the latest module and I’m a bit underwhelmed. Also a bit patronised, a bit irritated, but also more educated. Just not as much as I’d hoped.
The two previous modules have challenged me, made me consider issues from different viewpoints: they’ve stretched me considerably. My practical CPD is pretty good and I like playing [...]

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Flattened

Posted in librarians, professionalism, tagged , on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I discovered today the new flat fee for CILIP membership. For the privilege of being able to put a few letters after my name, a couple of journals and a lack of support when requested, I am now being allowed to pay out £172. This is a rise in membership fees for anyone earning less than £30,000.
This [...]

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