It's Fall Ya'll

School is in full swing, and things seemed to have calmed down a bit--even the temperature is starting to cool off. Yesterday we had a professional development day, and the other LMS and I met with our district's Director of Instructional Technology to brainstorm some "big ideas."

I'm looking forward to introducing faculty to ways that we as media specialists can provide opportunities to assist in teaching information literacy skills that directly correlate with core curriculum PASS objectives, thus helping improve API scores, and perhaps taking a little load off teachers' already overloaded shoulders. Here are a few lessons we're working on providing:

• evaluating sources
• teaching summary and generalization skills through podcasting
• using thinking maps for organizing information
• lessons on primary and secondary sources
• literary genres and sub-genres
• using GoogleDocs for note-taking and collaboration
• reading for pleasure

We'll be looking at ways to incorporate various Web 2.0 tools, information literacy standards and standards that are tested on the EOIs in the spring. Exciting things are coming!