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Reading in a Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins and Wyn Kelley

Jenkins and Kelley offer an optimistic alternative to Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains which is filled, as Jenkins claims, with “contemporary anxieties” (p. 10).  The book...

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#BIT15Reads: Where do we go from here?

Welcome to all new members of #BIT15Reads! Hello to all of you who’ve been with us since the beginning. We gained almost 30 new members since November 4th bringing our total membership to 92 members....

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#BIT16Reads: Branching out

Happy new year and welcome to your brand new name.  There are 3 online book clubs for Ontario educators starting up and I wanted to be sure you knew all about them: 1)  Learning leader Jennifer...

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Cultivating participatory cultures in your library learning commons

This week I’m presenting on this topic at the Ontario Library Association’s Superconference 2016 #OLASC16.  Here is a link to my presentation:...

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#BIT16Reads: Multiple entry points

I attended TEDxKitchener last weekend and the first speaker of the day, Dina Pestonji, reminded me that learning has multiple entry points.  Likewise, our online book club #BIT16Reads has multiple...

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#BIT16Reads: Are you underwhelmed in online spaces?

In reading Participatory Culture in a Networked Era, I’m reflecting on how not much has really changed since the invention of forums in the 70s … not that I was lurking there, but really it goes like...

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The inauguration in my school library learning commons

“Our approach to freedom need not be identical, but it must be intersectional and inclusive.” – Janet Mock, writer, TV host, transgender rights activist Today I feel compelled to put into words my...

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UX/UI Design with Canada Learning Code

I’ve been watching this group Canada Learning Code for awhile and trying to summon the nerve to go to one of their workshops.  I worried that I would be completely out of my element and that I’d feel...

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Getting on the Train: A Decade of Shifting Culture in the School Library

**This paper was originally submitted as part of Treasure Mountain Canada 2020 School Library Research Symposium. Read more action research about Canadian School Libraries on their website....

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