Rebranding Dhaivyd

   I have stopped maintaining my blog oriented toward technology professional development for staff at my school, Park Center Senior High, as I've gone to another program for supporting staff in this endeavor. I realized that I needed a new venue for sharing my ideas, and have also been enjoying the concept - and beginning to enjoy the implementation - of a curriculum that is rich with musical mnemonics. My vision is to create musical ditties, and help students create ditties, that remind them of the core parts of lessons they are learning. Thus was born the alliterative title of this blog, "Dhaivyd, Ditty Dude."

    In November, 2013, I participated in two events associated with the American Association of School Librarians annual conference in Hartford, Connecticut which allowed me to express my musical propensities. The first was at David Loertscher's Treasure Mountain Research Retreat, in which I offered to give an improvisational summary of the event. The second was the same service for the first AASL Unconference, spearheaded by the illustrious Dr. Joyce Valenza. Here is a video rendition of the former, captured on the cell phone of Dawn R. Nelson.