Professionals: Joyce Kasman Valenza

Dr. Joyce Valenza is the teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, PA. She received her Ph.D. (2007) at the University of North Texas’s School of Library and Information Science.

Joyce is a prolific education and technology writer. For ten years, she was the techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and has also authored columns for Media And Methods and Electronic Learning. She has written articles for journals such as Information Today, Classroom Connect, Learning and Leading with Technology, Educational Leadership, and Knowledge Quest. Joyce has also written several books and book chapters including Power Tools (1998), Power Research Tools (2003) and Power Tools Revisited (2004). You can find information about these and many other professional accomplishments at Joyce Valenza's Homepage http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/jvweb.html.

Learn more at these online resources:
Award-winning school website - Springfield Township High School Virtual Library http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/

NeverEndingSearch - Joyce's Blog at School Library Journal
http://schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html

TeacherLibrarianNetwork http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com
teacherlibrarianwiki http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/

Listen to a podcast of Joyce Valenza's remarks made at the SIGMS Forum (June 2007) at NECC (Atlanta, GA).
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/contents/media/SLJ_SIGMSForum_Joyce_Valenza.mp3?nid=3381
Related resource::
Web 2.0 Meets Information Fluency! (Wiki created for the NECC Presentation)
http://informationfluency.wikispaces.com/