Category Archives: School Media Specialists
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Whac-A-Mole! The Start of a New School Year
Leave a commentAugust 16, 2026 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Did you ever play the game Whac-A-Mole? Either the big mat that I played on or the arcade game? You …
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AI Can Find You Via YOUR Images
Leave a commentJuly 6, 2026 by Dr. Robbie Barber
You can control your location information inside various apps, if you choose, by turning off the location. The default is …
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Teaching Teens About AI & Mental Health
Leave a commentNovember 8, 2025 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Teens in my high school appear addicted to their devices. It is a constant distraction. This means that in the …
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Who Cares About the School Library?
Leave a commentApril 21, 2024 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Answer: Students do. In all of the doom and gloom presented in the past year of school libraries being shuttered …
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Compliment a Colleague
Leave a commentFebruary 18, 2023 by Dr. Robbie Barber
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s …
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Help with Help Tickets
1October 23, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Technology use has exploded in the school building. With the theme of this being the #YearofAskingforHelp, there is a growing …
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Is This the Year of Asking for Help?
1August 28, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Welcome to the school year SY23. I am understaffed and overwhelmed. A third of my certified teachers left the building …
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Relationships from the Hardest Year Ever
Leave a commentJuly 6, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
I called SY21, the #StrangestYearEver, and used this as the lens to look at everything. I wrote about my relationships …
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EOY Report for the Hardest Year Ever
1May 15, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
To cap off the #HardestYearEver, we need to create an end-of-year report. This year, our district’s teacher-librarians (a.k.a. school librarians, …
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#WhyStudentsGoToSchoolLibrary
Leave a commentApril 30, 2022 by Dr. Robbie Barber
Why do students go to their school library? In all of the arguments about the access to and appropriateness of …
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