What’s New?
January/February
“Freedom to Learn ” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, January/February, 2012
The guy who prepares my taxes says that good citizens pay every penny they owe in taxes - but not one cent more. That pretty well summarizes a sensible view of compliance with any law. Follow it, but don’t go overboard.
A driver is not more law-abiding when going ten miles per hour under the speed limit.
Unfortunately, too many school technology decision-makers “hyper-comply” with CIPA - the Children’s Internet Protection Act. Tumblr, Wikipedia, YouTube, and even the Google search engine have all be singled out as violating CIPA by schools around the country. Some school districts have just flat out blocked any sites that use SSL to encrypt the data because Orwellian administrators can’t see what their network users are reading and writing when sending or receiving data from these sites. Since GoogleApps in Education uses SSL, schools have been blocking that very useful tool as well. (Continued in LME…)
December
“Stretching Your Technology Dollar” Educational Leadership (ASCD), December 2011/January 2012
November
“No more ‘book only’ librarians ” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, November/December, 2011
October
“Who doesn’t get it? ” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, October 2011
September
“7 Myths About Internet Filters,” AASL Blog. September 11, 2011.
August
“Are you speaking where people are listening? ” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, Aug/Sept 2011
June
Here are the links to my last year’s Head for the Edge columns published in Library Media Connection. You really should subscribe to the magazine and these while they’re fresh!
School Libraries as a Third Place, August/September 2010
The E-book Non-Plan, October 2010
What Does a Good Library Tell You About a School, November/December 2010
These Horses Are Out of the Barn - Ride’m, January/February 2011
Signs of a Welcoming Library, March/April 2011
GoogleApps and Librarians, May/June 2011
April
“Libraries in the Cloud: Library Media Connection, April 2011
“GoogleApps and librarians” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, April 2011
March 2011
January 2011
“These Horses Are Out of the Barn - Ride’m” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, January/February 2011.
November 2010
“Changed but Still Critical: Brick and Mortar School Libraries in the Digital Age,”InterED, Association for the Advancement of International Education [AAIE], Fall 2010.
“What Does a Good Library Tell You About a School?” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, November 2010.
Taming the Chaos, Learning & Leading with Technology, November 2010
October 2010
“The E-Book Non-Plan” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, October 2010.
September 2010
“School Libraries as Third Place” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, August/September 2010.
Summer 2010
“Miles’s Library: Annotated” - chapter in Visionary: Leaders for Information compiled by Dr. Arthur Winzenried from the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, Australia. You can order the book here.
