Feedly/RSS
Blog name: Bright ideas
Blog address: http://slav.global2.vic.edu.au/2013/11/29/school-library-blog-making-connections/#.UwehC9GYaB0
I chose Bright ideas blog because it is more than just a blog of opinions. Its
entire goal is to encourage teacher librarians and educators to use tools and
share them with one another. It focuses on networking on a larger scale than
simply having a local connection. It encourages a global scale of networking so
that teachers, librarians and educational administrators can share information
with one another.
The reason that this blog caught my attention
is because it has many links and webinars¸ some of which focuses on Web 2.0 and
wikis, which hit home because those are the very things that we are talking
about in class. Mostly I love that the name of the blog “bright ideas” is
simple and straight forward, the whole premise is that people share their
bright ideas with one another to further benefit their students.
Blog name: Stephen’s Lighthouse
Blog
address: http://stephenslighthouse.com/2013/12/17/free-online-learning-tool-encourages-parent-engagement-in-school-libraries/
I chose Stephen’s Lighthouse blog
because it was a blog created by a librarian and a consultant who blogs about
strategies to help librarians and educators to use different strategies, guided
direction, marketing and technology all in collaboration to all of its users.
One of the reasons that this blog
stands out is because it focuses on parent engagement and how it relates to
student achievement. It gives tutorials and training to help parents engage
with students to improve student scores. The site helps parents to support
their children’s libraries by encouraging reading and information literacy. It
gives ideas about literacy events which includes lunchtime book clubs and
family reading.
Blog name: Youth Service Corner
Blog
address: http://www.youthservicescorner.com/
I chose Youth Services
Corner blog because it is a specific resource for teens and librarians and
whoever works with them. It focuses on books, pop culture, websites and other
things that might interest teens and at the same time helps them learn.
What made this blog
stand out to me are the recurring themes of the blog such as (1) a library spotlight
that highlights library teen webpages, teen spaces from around the country. (2)
Reviews of different movies, TV shows, websites and music that may be of
interest to teens. (3) Program ideas for libraries. (4) Links of the week,
which focuses on news articles and blogs for that week that might interest
teens. (5) Books to Movies, a summary of movies that were based on books. I like all of these themes because it brings
what young people are doing every day to the library and helps the two
collaborate.
Twitter
Expert/Organization: @TheLitPlatform
A
Little about them: The Literary
Platform is an online magazine that focuses on the collaboration
between books and technology. They work with schools exploring the impact of
technology and books.
Expert/Organization: @roseholck
A Little about them: An
author, librarian, and technology teacher who can also change a tire and
install a kitchen sink.
Expert/Organization: @aasl
A Little about them: The
American Association of School Librarians is a community of librarians and
educators who collaborate for social and professional networking.
Expert/Organization: @ldfredrickson
A
Little about them: Linda Fredrickson is a school librarian
who provides information via twitter such as: free technology tools, links, videos
and other information to teachers and librarians.
Expert/Organization: @DPS_librarian
A
Little about them: Sudi Stodola is a Teacher-Librarian
in Denver Public Schools who focuses on Educational technology and blended
learning. She refers to it as-THE LIBRARY IS MY CLASSROOM.
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Reflection
I have never really used twitter,
actually before this class I didn’t even have a twitter account. However now
that I have one I’ve able to follow people that I am most interested in.
Included in that are President Obama, Oprah, various reality stars and some
classmates. I haven’t used it much for educational purposes as of yet but the ability
to use it is great, and as I get more involved in the process I will use it
more often, specifically for educational purposes. I have used the feedly to
follow and read various blogs that I’m interested in, some educational and
some for recreation such as cooking recipes. I have gravitated more toward
feedly, it allows me to read opinions and information about anything that I follow, which is why I enjoy it so much.
Hey Tracie, looked at some of your resources and feel that I need to borrow some of them to put on my feed. Even though I am not going to school for library science, I feel they could also be helpful in supporting my students in learning about accessing information, as well as more technology. Thanks, rdavenport
ReplyDeleteTracie I enjoyed reading the PLN post. I believe that collaboration is key to everything we can do as education professionals. Teaching can b a very isolating profession. By that I mean the sole contacts through out the day are usually children. Contact with peers is limited. Using the tools we have with the internet via blogging, twitter and other social networking opportunities expands our reach and perhaps helps us to feel like we are not that alone.
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