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Initiating Inquiry: Mindmapping and Fishbowl Discussions for Connecting and...
Click to view slideshow. Susan Lester’s 10th Honors World Literature/Composition students recently began a novel study of All Quiet on the Western Front. Since students knew little about World War...
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Media 21 Student Shares Her Creative Approach to Mindmapping
Earlier this week, I blogged about about first efforts in Media 21 to use mindmapping as a strategy for thinking and inquiry as well as a springboard for discussion in our Fishbowl groups. One of our...
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Transforming Information Literacy for Today’s K-12 Learners Through the...
Many thanks to today’s NEFLIN webinar attendees! Below is a link to download the PDF of today’s slides. Filed under: Participatory Librarianship and Learning, Transliteracy, Webinars and Virtual...
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Teacher Reflections on the Value of Pre-Search and Presentation Zen Style for...
I’m excited to team up again this month with Deborah Frost, one of the most experienced and talented teachers here at Creekview High School. Deborah’s 9th Honors/Literature Composition students are...
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Learning Menus, Multiple Mediums for Composition, and PLEs: New Paths of...
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the beginning steps of our new unit of inquiry in Media 21, a book tasting for students to self select books related to war and veterans. After a week long winter...
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Conversation 1: Student Reflections on Inquiry, Choice, Participatory...
Last week, we held a large group share/think/brain dump/reflect session with our Media 21 students over a series of four days after students completed initial written self-assessment and summative...
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Conversation 2: Student Reflections on Inquiry, Choice, Participatory...
Last week, we held a large group share/think/brain dump/reflect session with our Media 21 students over a series of four days after students completed initial written self-assessment and summative...
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Conversation 3: Student Reflections on Inquiry, Choice, Participatory...
Last week, we held a large group share/think/brain dump/reflect session with our Media 21 students over a series of four days after students completed initial written self-assessment and summative...
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Student Research Inspired Art Gallery
This fall, The Unquiet Library has hosted a unique art installation inspired by student research this past spring. Some of you may remember Teagan from this past winter and her unique approach to...
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Video Interview: The Importance of Choice for Igniting Student Passion and...
Earlier this week, I ran a short feature on our art gallery inspired by student research. In the video below, Teagan takes a few minutes to discuss her work and the importance of choice in igniting...
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Thinking, Wondering, and Blogging at DMLcentral
Literacies and Fallacies | DMLcentral via kwout I’m delighted to share that I have joined the blog team at DMLcentral-–I’m humbled and honored to write and think in this learning space as so many...
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First Efforts at Written Conversations Strategies: Write-Around Text on Text
A collaborative post by Darrell Cicchetti, Jennifer Lund, and Buffy Hamilton Background Original photo by Buffy Hamilton Earlier this month, my colleague Jennifer Lund and I attended a half day...
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Writing Around Text on Text Effort 2: Unplugged Conversations for Inquiry,...
This past Friday, my fellow librarian Jennifer Lund and I had another opportunity to help facilitate written conversations about texts using the strategies we learned in the Harvey Daniels workshop we...
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Advances in Citation Management Technologies: How Do They Shape Inquiry and...
Two years ago, I adopted EasyBib as my primary citation subscription service for a multitude of reasons, but the driving factor was to spend less time on the mechanics of citation and more time helping...
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Beginning Our Research and Inquiry Experiences with Pre-Searching
We formally began our first steps into our fall research experience with Ms. Rust’s 12 British Literature/Composition Honors students by giving them a few days to pre-search their initial lists of...
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Sticky Notes as Formative Assessment for Information Literacy Instruction:...
Yesterday I blogged about our pre-searching activities and the use of sticky notes for some gentle formative assessment. Today I want to share how I went about coding the student responses not only to...
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Collaborative Information Source Evaluation: Research/Inquiry Circles and the...
Last week, students completed the gentle entry-level phase of pre-search (see the end of this post for more detailed reflections); teacher Sarah Rust and I felt it would be helpful to introduce...
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Pre-Searching Round Two: Moving Toward a More Specific Topic for Research and...
After introducing students to some basics of information evaluation, we began our second phase of pre-searching on Monday, October 6. Our learning targets included (based on our district content...
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Written Conversation Strategies PD with Our NHS Faculty
My fellow librarian Jennifer Lund and I were delighted yesterday to have the opportunity to do an hour PD session on Harvey Daniels’ written conversation strategies with our NHS Faculty. Roughly 25...
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Pre-Search and Mindmapping to Narrow a Topic Focus
In my last post, I shared how we were moving deeper with our second round of more targeted pre-search after students had narrowed topic choices to one from their work with the first phase of...
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