Information Literacy

Sup­port­ing the growth of stu­dents and edu­ca­tion pro­fes­sion­als using cut­ting edge tech­nol­ogy tools to develop and use online resources. My expe­ri­ence in web design, pre­sen­ta­tion tech­nol­ogy, net­work­ing tools, and Web 2.0 appli­ca­tions car­ries over into both my teach­ing and my per­sonal and pro­fes­sional learning.

I worked with a team of col­leages to develop a web site for improv­ing research and crit­i­cal think­ing skills. The internationally-​​recognized site, AllAbou​t​Ex​plor​ers​.com, has been fea­tured in sev­eral print and online publications:

• The New York Times: “The Future of Read­ing: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update”, Feb­ru­ary 16, 2009.
• Toni Buzzeo’s book, Col­lab­o­rat­ing to Meet Stan­dards: Teacher/​Librarian Part­ner­ships K-​​6 (2^nd ed.)
• Pear­son Edu­ca­tion Canada’s grade 8 text­book Lit­er­acy in Action 8: CyberSense, by Sharon Jeroski and Kath­leen Gregory.
• Alan November’s list of rec­om­mended web­sites at the Novem­ber Learn­ing website.
• School Library Jour­nal blogs on Octo­ber 28, 2008 and Feb­ru­ary 17, 2009
• The TechChick­Tips pod­cast: “The Golden Episode: Links That Make Us Think
• Sil­via Tolisano’s Lang­witches’ Blog: “Teach­ing Information/​Research Skills in Ele­men­tary School”, Feb­ru­ary 21, 2009.

I also devel­oped a pro­fes­sional blog tar­geted at dis­cus­sion of tech­nol­ogy tools and dif­fer­en­ti­ated instruc­tion for gifted stu­dents: Quis​i​tiv​ity​.org. The blog has been fea­tured twice in the Teach­ing K-​​6 Blog Car­ni­val.

In order to more effec­tively share my resources and ideas for class­room enrich­ment and dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion, I am devel­op­ing a wiki (http://​dif​fer​en​ti​a​tionkit​.wik​i​spaces​.com/).

In my own class­room, I used a class­room blog and class­room wiki in order to bet­ter moti­vate stu­dents and encour­age collaboration.

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