Paper.li - your personalized twitter newspaper

My friends have been posting their paper.li content so I thought I would give it a try. I am actually enjoying using Paper.li as a way to make my twitter stream a bit more manageable. Also, people have asked me about what a read and who I follow online and this is a great way to share that information. I have set it up so it's only a weekly update. If you have a paper.li you want to share please post a comment.

It's actually does give an picture about some of the things that I am in to. I might have to test this for my personal stream. 

You might want to check it out too.  

Lynne D Johnson - WomeninTech Daily http://paper.li/lynneluvah/womenintech

Acknowledging a breakthrough...I love my job

ssshhhh. don't tell anyone!

I actually twittered that I am very happy at my job. The first two years I was glad and pretty happy but I was also extremely overwhelmed and a little lost. Being a school librarian is a very challenging specialty of librarianship. No one ever tells you that. All you ever hear about is how you will lose your job and how under-appreciated you are by teachers and administrators. Luckily, I am at a place that appreciates us and what we do. I hear it and feel it everyday when students come up to me and say, "Thank you." Yes, there are moments where I am "ssshhhing" and there are moments where I look around and wonder, "where are their teachers?" But, for the most part, I am so very very lucky.

We have only a few more days before the Winter Break and I can honestly say that I feel really positive about the year so far. My class management skills are much improved. Sometimes, I wish I had a video of my classes before. I think I looked a bit frazzled. Trust me, there were moments where I would walk out of my class and it looked like I was hit with a bomb. I had fun and I trust that I taught my students well, but by this time last year, I was grabbing a cocktail and trying to relax and not feel so burned out. This year I just feel happy.

Feeling a little overwhelmed

I have not been able to post at all. I wanted to post more often and also write a bit about the IL conference but I just keep running out of time. I think I need a secret hour, like in Westerfeld's Midnighters series, so I can just catch up on reading and writing.

Some cool things I am checking out:

• Flock - social web browser
  
• My Pop Studio - for digital literacy and critical thinking skills amongst middle school girls
• reading SLJ about Twitter & Libraries

That's about it for now. One day I will catch-up. Hopefully.