The Week’s Reflections
As I sit with my big cup of joe (Bugaboo from Kicking Horse Coffee Co. – if you care), I’m thinking back on my week. There were certainly times in the week where I was wondering what I...
A new year, a new project
Happy New Year to anyone who stumbles upon my blog. It was a very relaxed holiday after an intense end of semester finishing up an online search course and a course on the learning commons. Many o...
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: Or would it?
I had an opportunity to visit the CLA (Canadian Library Association) 2011 Teacher Librarian of the year this week. We’d crossed paths a few times, more digitally than in person, prior to yeste...
A Study in Contrasts – My trip to the Johnstons Heights Secondary Learning Commons
I’m spending a fair amount of time thinking about the physical Learning Commons space these days. This has led to some great conversations and the beginning of a few visits to local schools th...
Learning Commons as Athletic Space
One of the advantages of a long commute is that you do have plenty of time to think. It struck me on the drive in this morning that the model of the Learning Commons proposed by David Loertscher, et...
Book Review – Building a Learning Commons
Koechlin, C., Rosenfeld, E., & Loertscher, D. V. (2010). Building the learning commons: A guide for school administrators and learning leadership teams. Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow Research &...
Book Review – The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win!
Loertscher, D. V., Koechlin, C., Zwaan, S., Rosenfeld, E. (2011). The new learning commons: Where learners win!: Reinventing school libraries and computer labs (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow...
Library as Platform
One of my current favourite thinkers is David Weinberg. He is the author of Everything is Miscellaneous and Too Big to Know. He thinks a lot about how information is organized, searched and used, ...- 4 of 4
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