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I learn so much from Twitter! It is truly a constant PLN.  I have been overwhelmed by it in the past.  At iPadpalooza 2015 - it was stated WTF?  What's the FEAR? About Twitter, but I know the fear of being unable to read it all, that's the fear.  The fear of doing it wrong.  The fear of never finding the hashtag?

But I've fixed that in my head, I don't have to read it all. A colleague of mine said he is limiting his to 50 people to follow so he only selects great Tweeters who have something to do with his content of History. So his is more specific, while mine is jumping all over the place, with great librarians, principals, school leadership, teachers, authors, magazines, writers. I am trying to read all the blogs, reviews, ideas, books, plus Twitter chats scheduled all the time is just crazy.  It goes so fast and changes so quickly. That's the FEAR!

So this month my challenge goal is to calm down my own head about Twitter.  Just read what I want, and LET IT GO....about all the other stuff.

I  also learned how to use Google Forms extensively from Mr. Lebeau this week. I have a lot of ideas for my library using these, like connecting a QR code to a survey about the books on display, having kids tell me why they would or would not read it? Or linking QR codes to reviews and book trailers also. But I already do that, with forms I could gather student input so I can get reactions! Students love emojis so I plan to use several of those!

I read this book this week. I do like a good mystery! All Fall Down by Ally Carter


I also registered for a great webinar from school library journal can't wait for this fun day.

SummerTeen 2015: #SLJTeenLive!

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