When it comes to libraries, the term “accessibility” might bring to mind physical and virtual access to library spaces such as ramps, wide aisles, adaptive technologies, and even 508 compli...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/making-makerspaces-accessible-with-udl/
Happy New Year! I love the beginning of a new year, and one of my favorite things is to check out predictions about ed tech trends for the coming year. I’ve looked over several lists, but my ha...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/library-trends-for-2015/
Building literacy bridges. What do I mean by that? I’m using that term in today’s post to describe ways in which we can connect students’ out-of-school literacy practices with their in-scho...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/3-activities-that-build-literacy-bridges/
Yesterday, a SmartBlog on Education post caught my eye. It was titled Personalized literacy: Insights from champions in the field, and discussed personalized literacy as a function of personaliz...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/librarians-are-the-key-to-personalized-literacy/
Last week, I took my daughter to the Kimbell Art Museum on her birthday (per her request). It’s a nice museum with a great restaurant, albeit small (compared to the Art Institute in Chicago). M...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/designing-libraries-for-inter-activities/
Today’s post is partly inspired by Steven Bell’s recent op-ed piece on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Library Journal. Bell gives an overview of CCSS and highlights its impact on l...
Today’s title is a mouthful:) My daughter enters middle school this fall, which has made me pause and reflect on her development as a digital and information literate student. Much of what she ...
A few weeks ago, I read an NPR piece that reported on a group of studies from Common Sense Media concluding that teens aren’t reading for pleasure as much as they used to — nearly half of ...
In the age of online learning, embedded librarianship is a neat solution to the ongoing problem of how to meet the library instructional needs of students who never set foot on campus, let alone ...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/5-solutions-to-simplify-embedded-librarianship/
What does KitKat and Harvard’s Library Test Kitchen have in common? The idea that we need wifi-free zones, or wifi coldspots: You can tell by KitKat’s ad above that they already think of the ...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/why-every-library-needs-a-wifi-free-zone/