In my previous post, I mentioned the need for an app to scan a book barcode and save the information in a list to be exported for easy ordering. I heard about another app that scans barcodes, Shop Savvy. I thought I’d try it out. This app does a nice job of scanning a book [...]
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As a school media specialist, a big part of my job is to building a library collection that meets the needs of our students and teachers. Scouring book review periodicals and book stores can be time consuming, but it’s a necessary part of the job. There are a lot of places with “Best [...]
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The Best List of…. Can there really be a Best List of list? I’m not sure. Obviously, these lists are simply opinions of someone or some organization. What makes the list more credible, I believe, is our personal opinion of the person or organization. If I heard a list of “The Best Teaching Sites” from [...]
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ISTE Sunday – kind of sounds like a holiday doesn’t it? This year, I signed up to attend Gary Stager’s Constructivist Consortium. This was a day long event held at Maggiano’s in Denver. For a modest fee, we could spend the day with Gary, have some discussions about creativity in the classroom, [...]
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| Tags: allen, frames, grice, iste, kolbert, magee, pixie, stager, utecht
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I have to give huge props to one of the kindergarten teachers in my school. We have quite a few new teachers at our school who seem to be pretty tech savvy. I’d love to get them more connected and sharing what they are doing in their classrooms. Perhaps that should be one of my [...]
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Tonight I presented a session on Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons for WEMTA’s Wired Wednesday webinar program. Each month, WEMTA, our state technology organization, offers a free webinar for members. In fall, I was asked to be one of the speakers and hesitantly accepted. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, it was more [...]
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My evening with WEMTA members is approaching very quickly. I’ll be presenting on Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons to about 20-30 WEMTA members as part of their Wired Wednesday activities. This will be my first webinar and I’m looking forward to it. We did a little test run tonight to see if everything worked, [...]
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Thursdays are usually days I dread. It’s the day I travel to my other school to teach two classes, both 4th/5th grade splits. The first class contains too many students who are disrespectful, rude, mean, careless, and unmotivated. I believe these students also negatively impact many of the other students in the class, who are [...]
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What you are going to read next is the exact dictation, obviously unedited, from my blabbering on the way home from school today using Dragon Dictation, a free app for the iPhone. Following the dictation are a few of my thoughts on this app – which is apparently only free for a limited time.
this blog [...]
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This is the first of two related posts. The second will hopefully be posted in the next day or two.
Today marked the first time I was presenting at a conference. My friend and colleague, Rachel Yurk, and I were scheduled to present a session on Personal Learning Networks at the WEAC Convention. This is the [...]
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My name is Chad Lehman. I'm currently an Elementary Library Media Specialist. I spent eight years teaching third grade prior to moving to the school library. When I'm not at school, I'm probably online, playing or watching sports, or driving my two kids to one of their activities.
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