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	<title>Random Thoughts: Change &#38;  Other Stuff</title>
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		<title>Being a guru in the &#8220;old days&#8221; was easier than today. . . .</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/being-a-guru-in-the-old-days-was-easier-than-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tech savvy, energetic  student in the Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists class is frustrated with the pace of implementing web 2.0 tools in the curriculum. It looks like she is doing quite a lot already.  I&#8217;ve been  thinking about this myself, too. Why are so few teachers are adapting  2.0 tools or rushing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=328&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever been a coach?  You always have such upbeat suggestions. . . .</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/have-you-ever-been-a-coach-you-always-have-such-upbeat-suggestions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Centers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me that today.   I have never  been a coach. Like many media specialists these days, it&#8217;s easy to whine now and then.   We get frustrated with policies, declining budgets, limited time, NCLB, and a multitude of daily challenges.
There&#8217;s been a fair amount of discussion (and whining) lately about the Valenza/Johnson article Things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=297&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still thinking about those transferable skills</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/still-thinking-about-the-importance-of-transferrable-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ongoing Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am no longer providing any direct instruction to elementary or middle school students;  I miss those opportunities to remind them how they can easily how to use new computer applications just by remembering how they used the same skill in another application.  A speaker at a conference listed skills she expects studentes to learn, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=277&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership or Management</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/leadership-or-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his October &#8220;Head for the Edge&#8221;  Column (LMC Connection) Doug Johnson addresses &#8220;Leadership or management.&#8221;   I related to his comments. For quite a while I&#8217;ve been thinking that all the emphasis on collaboration has left too many media specialists feeling guilty for not collaborating as much as they think should.  Many find fewer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=272&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are you doing? What do people see you doing?</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/what-are-you-doing-what-do-people-see-you-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not sending a tweet.  Many years ago a school superintendent spoke at our state media conference.  A few words stuck with me:
When people see you checking out books and doing clerical tasks they think that&#8217;s what a media specialist does.
Today&#8217;s version:  An administrator asked a media specialist this question:
How will you use your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=262&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your media center&#8217;s web site. An essential tool for advocacy and visbility</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/your-media-centers-web-site-a-tool-for-advocacy-and-visbility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ALA/AASL  Advocacy University Materials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s &#8220;your&#8217; media center web site doing these days?   Is it  a &#8220;Let&#8217;s stop here first&#8221; shopping center for information? Is it current?  Or, has it been left behind as you move forward with nings, Twitter, blogs, wikis or other web 2.0 tools are there for us to use?   Or, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=232&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The class was what I needed to help me get focused for school!</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/the-class-was-what-i-needed-to-help-me-get-focused-for-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Professional Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-learning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Primary Sources, Where have you been? Why have I never used primary sources?  I didn’t use them because I didn’t know where to find the resources. I never considered all of the possibilities.
Primary sources are all around us and accessible to all of us through vast digital collections.   Each time I engage with students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=215&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Learning Certificate and Online Learning Certificate</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/e-learning-certificate-and-online-learning-certificate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ongoing Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Professional Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like &#8220;everyone&#8221; I talk to these days is taking online classes,  teaching online, or  wanting to know more about online learning.  I&#8217;ve been honored this summer  to work and learn with a practicum student in the elearning program offered by the  University of Wisconsin-Stout.   This final course in the 5 taught program is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=207&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Show me the Numbers</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/show-me-the-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Show me the Numbers (PDF)
Data Gathering, Why you Needs the Numbers and How to get them &#124; Data Gathering, Part 2. Developing your Spreadsheet, Multimedia and Internet@Schools &#8220;Media Center&#8221; columns.
You gotta have the data. Administrators and school boards understand data.  The presentation and articles address examples of successful data gathering and using data to advocate for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=197&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get recharged! Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists</title>
		<link>http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/get-recharged-energized-innovations-and-opportunities-for-media-specialists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Alice Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Centers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote &#8220;Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.&#8221;  With the beginning of each new school year,  media specialists have a chance to start fresh.
Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists is your opportunity to  get recharged and energized to deliver a media program that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maryalicea.wordpress.com&blog=2303474&post=160&subd=maryalicea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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