Library Media Tech Talk

📌 Updated May 2026: This session was originally designed in 2016. Breakout EDU has expanded considerably — see the bottom of this post for current platform notes and tool updates. I was first introduced to Breakout EDU while attending the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Forum in Denver, Colorado this summer. After experiencing a session at the conference, I knew it had lots of potential for library programming. I shared it with Kaitlyn Price, my new partner teacher librarian at Lakeside High School. We couldn’t wait to try it out for 8th grade library orientation! I am grateful she is joining me for this blog post. P lanning (Kaitlyn & Stony) We actually started talking about this potential early in August. Tiffany Whitehead even brainstormed with us in a webcam session prior to school starting. She gave us many good pointers (she had done several last year with her students). Then school started, and things got very busy. Brainstorming session with Tiffany...

I'm delighted to be joined by  El izabeth Hutchinson in  this  blo g ar ticle. Elizabeth is a chartered librarian on the Island of Guernsey which is located in the English Channel. She is the head of School's Library Service there which serves the Bailiwick of Guernsey island schools. Introduction    (Elizabeth)   Way back in January I was looking for information about  M ystery  S kype. It was something that I had been interested in but did not know where to start. I found  S tony's  blog post about his first  M ystery  S kype attempt with lots of suggestions on how it worked. He made me feel that this was something that I could at last try so I took the plunge and sent him a  T weet .    This is the Tweet that changed us both! It turned out that Stony was keen to try his  first international  M ystery  H angout and was in the middle of a library  re-vamp ....