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June 05, 2014

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3 Quick Things: Collaborative Lesson Plan Format, Weeding Nonfiction, & My Literary Life

In this week's "3 Quick Things," I share a lesson plan template I've been finding useful this year, discuss my love/hate relationship with weeding nonfiction, and share my attempts at letting students in on my reading life. Lesson Plan Template If you are a school librarian at any level, odds are that you know that positive collaboration and co-teaching really make or break you. For my first few years in the library, I was so anxious to prove that the library was a legitimate, important learning space that I ended up doing too much and not leaving room for teachers to enter into truly collaborative relationships with me. Over the course of the past three years, that has led to me feeling overworked, overanxious, and (occasionally) a bit taken advantage of. Since not collaborating was definitely not an option, I tried to start out this year with a clearer path toward true collaboration. Thus, the Library Collaborative Lesson Plan Template was born. Blendi

3 Quick Things: MLA Hyperdoc, Fake News Review, & You'd Be Mine

In this week's "3 Quick Things," I kick of 2019 with two reviews of soon-to-be published YA titles and share a hyperdoc review of MLA 8 citations. MLA 8 Hyperdoc Librarians, is there anything worse than a dry lesson on the ins and outs of MLA formatting (or APA, for that matter)? After working with just about every English class on correctly citing their sources last year, I came to a point where I. Just. Could. Not. Do. It. I could not stand in front of a class, showing off the rules and practicing with examples while the vast majority of students stared at me with glazed-over expressions. I knew that my teachers wanted support in that area, since it is such a tough part of research for students, but I didn't feel like my instruction was effective in getting students to understand the purpose or the method of correctly citing sources. With that in mind, I created the original MLA 8 Hyperdoc with one of my amazing co-teaching partners, Amy Wolk (@aewol

3 Quick Things: Serial, Google Draw, & An Ember in the Ashes

In this week's "3 Quick Things" post, I explore an app-smashing/genre-bending lesson idea I'm working on, discuss the power of Google Draw, and review the excellent An Ember in the Ashes. Serial, the Lesson Plan van der Chijs, Marc. "Logo of the world's #1 podcast: Serial." Flickr, 3 December 2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/chijs/15749967517. So, I tend to have my best ideas either in the shower or while drying my hair (who doesn't, right?). I've been late to the party in listening to the Serial podcast, but I tore through the first season over the summer and really loved the way it built suspense and blended fact with great storytelling. I knew that I wanted to get it into some classrooms this year, and over the sounds of the hairdryer, I had a brainstorm--what if we merged a study of Serial with Banned Books Week? Thus, a collaboration with our 11th grade AP Language teacher was born. The gist of the assignment is sketched o

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