Kelly Christopherson's Blog – September 2007 Archive (5)

“Who do you want me to be?”

That’s what my oldest daughter asked me today. It was a question that came during a heated discussion.

“Just tell me and I’ll do it!”

Each of us has had those moments when we wish someone would just tell us how to act or what to do so we could do it and avoid the difficult journey in discovering for ourselves who we are. As an

educational leader and school administrator, I’ve had a few moments

like that over the years. “If someone…

Today is a day which we should be showing our appreciation for those people who work so hard finding resources and helping our students to meet the demands of the various assignments teachers assign. I’d

especially like to thank those blogging librarians who give me all

kinds of great insights and links to various informative sights.

Rob Darrow

Hey Jude…

I returned from our yearly administrator’s seminar yesterday a bit tired but with a host of ideas for creating a better climate for our school. While we were there, we were given two new tools that I feel

are really going to help our staff to focus their efforts and move us

forward.

Now, to be honest, I wasn’t really looking forward to these two days. Not because of the content but one of my staff members had had a stroke on the weekend and I was still trying to figure out…

This past week I’ve had time to get back into reading some and commenting some. I really wish I could do more but I have decided that being connected in a variety of ways in my f2f world is more important

that my being connected on the web. I had always imagined that, as I

learned more about the tools and became better at discussing the

implementation of the tools, my readership would grow and, eventually,

I’d get to do some presenting on the topics, at least in my…

As school began, I promised myself that I wouldn’t allow my network connections to interfere with my work. As last year came to a close, I was finding that much of my evening was spent checking the various

networks of which I was part and keeping up with the ever-growing RSS

feeds in my reader of choice. Once the summer began and I was able to

“denetwork”, I realized that there had to be a better way to stay

connected and informed without spending all that time checking…