Reflection 2 My last week
Reflection 2 All about this week:
On my first reflection, I had created a wordle, I saw my professor’s and wanted to impress him by doing one myself. I was happy since everything was going well when I could not link my wordle to my blog. I do not know how many times I attempted the task to meet failure with building frustration; yet I tried in vain. My final thoughts centered on how I had completed all the work and I was unable to highlight my efforts if I could not post. I thought I have done all this work and not to be able to posted would be a shame. As they say when there is a will there is a way. Therefore, I took a picture of my wordle on my desk top with my iphone camera, e-mail the picture to my self and posted it. Looking back I could have also used snap pro, jing etc. The point is I was able to post it. If we can get students to get excited about reading wheather it is through the use of physical books, kobo, e-books it is all worth it. I have learned in this class that technology is definetely the future of our libraries and that we must begin to embrace it, since our society already has and we do not want to be left behind, but instead be the forfront of technology to bring literacy into our schools/communities.
I enjoyed visiting the UBC Irving K Barber Learning Centre. This was a great example of how I could incorporate the physical organization, open space concept for a future post secondary library. Such as the tables that come apart and can become individual desks I like the rolling chairs, however; they would be difficult to stack up to make space if needed. I can see buying comfortable sofas, having large windows by open areas over looking perhaps a gardern or a beautiful forest. I would also have the book stacks in a separate area from the open space area. When I used to work as a library technician, the librarian and I would always try to incorporate students art work, or a sample of their various projects into our library. Some of the art displayed does not necessarely have to be the studen’ts work, but some can be permanent art displays similar to the ones at at UBC’s library (Irving K Barber Learning Centre).
Blogsters, an ingineous way to advertise library events, keep students up to date on new materials available, library schedule and get the school community involved with their school library and not just another isolated area. I had to quickly learn this new technology to present it in class.
Seeing Esther’s presentation made me think on my original plan in assignment 3 which was to do a full in depth Social Studies 9 IRP and to go deeper into the subject headings to cover all sub-headings areas and cater to specific websites that cover each topic. Unfortunetely, our group was under time constraints and we had to limit as to how detailed we want to be. This site was reliable and free from advertisements to keep the students focused on the readings. I would have incorporated some paid web databases that most school districts have nowadays in this area of our website.