Author: kendra5623
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Library Redesign Series: Noisy Vs. Quiet
Some ideas on how to redesign your library space. Does your space need to be quieter? Does it need to be noisier? How can you figure out what is going to best serve your patrons? What can you do to change the noise level to match what your patrons need?
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Main Take Aways: 21st Century Learning Conference Hong Kong
My main take aways from the 21st century learning conference in Hong Kong 2018. Joyce Valenza and many other incredible speakers left me with so many inspiring ideas! Links to resources, lesson ideas, inspiring people to follow and suggested books to read!
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Managing Subscriptions/Databases: Starting Out and Maintaining Them
A helpful guide to managing subscriptions. Templates for emails to send out to vendors, editable checklist that you can use to make sure you’ve done everything for each subscription, connecting databases to Destiny Follett advice and more. This is helpful for first time subscriptions to maintaining subscriptions year to year.
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Library Orientation for Teachers: Where Do I Begin?
Here are some ideas that will help you plan your next library orientation presentation for staff at your school. This includes my slides, and information on the activity I used. Hope it gives you ideas for your own.
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Language Barriers: Tips and Tricks
What can you do to help improve communication with Chinese speakers who don’t speak English? Some tips and tricks that I used while working in a library that did not have one common language amongst the staff. I think this would be helpful for other language barrier situations too.
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Cite This for Me Changed my RefME Blog Post
I wrote a blog post for RefME, which was purchased by Cite This For Me. Cite This For Me has edited my post without my knowledge and without my permission. I have written this post to set the record straight.
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LKSW Conference in Singapore Ideas, Free Resources & My Main Take Aways
Some resources, food for thought and book reccommendations from my experience at the LKSW conference in Singapore this Feb. 2017.
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Canva: An amazing time saving, free Poster/Infographic creator
This free website lets you create awesome posters, annual library report pages, promotional materials, labels, infographics, etc.! Learn more about how to use this and how I use this in our library.
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Digitizing Your Library: Follow Up
Check out the follow up questions and answers from my presentation at the online free 8th annual conference put on by The Library Journal’s The Digital Shift. Links to find the archive of all presentations from this event. Enjoy 🙂 I had a great time presenting and especially getting ideas from others.
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Librarian-A-Like: Suzhou
I’m excited to be at another Librarian-a-like this year. This year Suzhou Singapore International School hosted us. Their beautiful libraries are an inspiration.I wanted to share some information with everyone from what I thought were the most valuable learning points for me and resources.
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Charity Work in China
Need to get rid of weeded books? Old computer equipment?Mifan Mama is a great charity that our school works with in China to help out rural children throughout the country. They are a pleasure to work with. It’s a truly rewarding experience that they make simple for us to plan.
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Digitizing Your Library: A Free Online Presentation
I’m presenting at a The Digital Shift this October 2016. Sign up for free to learn from amazing professionals with experience from all different areas.
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Enhance Your Library: Save Time & Build a Smarter Collection – Join My Webinar
Join my free upcoming webinar, Enhance Your Library: Save Time & Build a Smarter Collection. Learn about:Purposeful discussions with teachers and studentsFacilitating “subject chats”Engaging DP, MYP, and PYP coordinatorsBuilding relationships with new and existing staffMaking informed content purchases, especially for Extended Essay (EE), Theory of Knowledge (TOK), and Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS)
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RefME: Researching is fun!
My second guest blog post for RefME is up :)Get some ideas about how…RefME can be used as a handy tool to put together last minute, or well-prepared, lesson plans that educate students in the importance of avoiding plagiarism by referencing correctly.
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Webinar Follow Up
Feel free to use the PPT that I presented in my webinar “Distract Me Not: Using Technology To Focus on the Research”. You can still watch the recording and read up on suggestions I have if you are going to do any kind of online presentation. It’s definitely not the same experinece as presenting in…
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Watch my Webinar about Technology on July 12th
I’m excited to be doing my first webinar this upcoming Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 1:00pm EST for The Partnership: The Provincial and Territorial Library Associations of Canada. It’s free to sign up and it will be recorded so you can watch it any time.
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The International Librarians Network: new round begins August 2016
The International Librarians Network: new round begins August 2016Find all the details here and links to find more information.
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A Fun Way to Promote Your Library Locally
Writing for local publications is a fun way to promote your library to the community. I wrote a book review about Life on Mars by Jennifer Brown for local magazine, Urban Family and was surprised at how many emails and positive comments I received afterwards. It’s something fun, easy and free that anyone can do!
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The International Librarian Network
I have recently become the Ambassador of China for the International Librarian Network. It’s a great opportunity to network with library professionals from around the world, to help new librarians and to seek advice. It’s completely free, fun and full of inspiring ideas!
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Planning Guest Visitors: Tips & Tricks
Looking to plan a guest speaker but not sure how to? Or are you just looking for a few ideas to make planning, networking and the whole process smoother?I recently did a presentation at the School Librarian Connection with Stojana Popovska on this topic, so I’d like to share my experiences with planning Guest Authors as…
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Series Stickering: Find all the Books That You Didn’t Know You Were Missing
Having a hard time finding book 2 of a series when you know you have books 1, 3, 4 & 5? Didn’t realize that a title was even a part of a series? Want an easy way to keep book series in order on the shelves?Series stickering is the quick and easy solution!
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Make Finding Books Easier for Teachers and Students!
We created small signs in the Non-Fiction stacks that helped staff and students to find where topics based on our school’s curriculum were located. Shared Resource – The tables that we created for our stacks available as an editable doc that you can modify for your own library!
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Librarian-A-Likes: Better than your Average Job-A-Like
Librarian-A-Likes are a great professional development opportunity that shouldn’t be passed up!
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Library: Not Just a Quiet Space Anymore!
Looking for ways to get more involved with students and teachers?Want to boost your circulation? We’ve had some great experiences this year working with other departments around the school to support events and the curriculum.
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If this, Then That: Link Apps Together to Save Time!
You can create connections between apps/products that you love to make them work more efficiently for you.
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Scavenger Hunts: A Great way to Teach Information Literacy Skills & Open up Conversations with Teachers
It’s important to teach students research skills, but it can be a lot of fun too.See what skills we taught our students during this year’s book week.
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Navigating the New IBO Extended Essay Website
Where should you get started with reading through all the material posted on the brand new IBO Extended Essay website?I can’t tell you where you should start, but I’ve posted some of what I consider to be the most helpful pages. The PDF Guide, Supervisor resources, printable resources, the new Follett IBO store, where to…
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Amazon’s Audible… Do I like it? Yes and No.
Audible… is it as good as Amazon makes it out to be?Yes and no.
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Integrate News into IB & TOK Lessons Quickly & Easily
Looking for an easy way to integrate the IB Learner’s Profile into Lessons?Looking for a quick way to find the latest news on TOK related topics? Check out this amazing web news source.
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Book Week!
Our second annual Book Week! A lot of planning and teamwork lead to an absolutely amazing week for both staff and students. 52 individual events, 2 guest authors, 2 book fairs and many activities & contests 🙂
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Rasterbation: Print Infographics! Print Huge Posters with this free site!
Have you ever wanted to print an infographic? How about print an image over multiple pages? This blog explains the amazing and free rasterbator that allows you to do all this and more! Create beautiful displays for your library (or anywhere papers can be hung) instantly!
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Want websites to load faster? Want to get rid of creepy ads? Try Disconnect!
Load webpages faster, and stop creepy ads from following you around the internet easily… and for free!
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RefME: The Best Reference Generator Around & it’s Free!
With more and more reference generators starting to charge money for premium versions and providing less and less features on those free versions I sought to find a better solution for our students. By far the best one I found was RefME.
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Amazing Kindle Trade In Deal!
Great Kindle trade-in deal on until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) March 31, 2016.
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Creativity, Inc.
Creativity, Inc. an inspiring read not only about the creative process but excellent leadership advice too!
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A Review of Pocket Chrome Browser Extension & Android App
Check out what I think of the awesome Chrome extension & Android App, Pocket.