Author name: James Allen

James Allen is the Statewide School Library Lead and a Digital Learning Coach for the Kentucky Department of Education in the Office of Education Technology. Previously he was a public K-12 school librarian for sixteen years. James is an organizer and regular moderator of #KyLChat, a biweekly chat that gives school librarians across Kentucky a place to share and explore new ideas. James is also a Google for Education Certified Innovator, an ISTE Community Leader, a Future Ready Schools librarians advisory team member, and a co-chair of the American Association of School Librarians Practices Committee.

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Design Thinking Challenge

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My first full-staff professional development day at Eminence Independent Schools was a Design-Thinking Challenge! This place is awesome! Our challenge […]

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This was a day of professional learning that some fellow Oldham County librarians and myself organized this past summer. We

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edcampKY

Thank you to Kentucky Teacher and Brenna Kelly for this writeup of the very first edcampKY in 2014.

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Prezi

This is a Prezi that I used for talking points when I was a guest speaker for an EKU graduate

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LMS Handbook

I helped to create this wikispaces wiki to help provide a central location for resources for our district’s library media specialists.

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Library Map

I created this map for my first school library website at Camden Station Elementary. I wanted to be able to

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Poetry Quest

I’ve been working on transferring my “portfolio” of projects over to my new site. This poetry project was one of

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