April 2011
2 posts
Professionally developing
This week has been all about professional development for me. I actually taught a professional development session on blogging to teachers in the school where I am student teaching on Friday! After that experience, I am even more interested in creating the type of self-directed online learning modules utilized at PLCMC and by Kristin in her old school. Teachers are difficult to manage as...
Google, Twitter, + more embeddedness
Class:
Last week we had Paul Courant guest speak about the Google Books court decision. I must admit that I haven’t been following this issue as closely as I should be, so I learned a lot from Paul but didn’t really know what to ask about. I did notice an article from ALA come through my e-mail in which Paul is interviewed about what the Google Books ruling means for HathiTrust,...
March 2011
6 posts
Embedded Librarians + Effective Teaching
The articles and chapters for this week really synced with my thoughts and frustrations surrounding my future as a school librarian. Pardon me if I write a little too much about my outside experiences in this post, but it is all too interconnected for me to focus too closely on just the readings.
Just last week I posted on my other blog, almost jokingly, about how great it would be to have a...
Workshops
I was very impressed by the workshops presented by the other “Hearts” members—great job, everyone. While the primary purpose of the workshops may have been for us to practice using the ADDIE model for planning, implementing, evaluating, and redesigning (or at least thinking about how we would redesign), and while I think this goal was accomplished, I especially loved thinking...
Book clubs, ethics, ebooks, etc.
Congratulations again to my fellow Clubs. You all selected great stories for discussion and we had some really great discussions in our belated book clubs. As mentioned previously, the readings we had were as follows:
“The Lady or the Tiger,” by Frank Stockton
“Cinnamon,” by Neil Gaiman
“The Gift of the Magi,” by O. Henry
“The Goose Girl,” as...
Ethics, Library Assignments, and HarperCollins
The ALA Code of Ethics can be difficult enough for public librarians to adhere to, what with the mandate to resist censorship of all kinds and preventing personal beliefs to interfere with our collection and services. Librarians are, after all, human beings with convictions living in cultures and societies that influence the way they view the world. What might seem outrageous in one community...
book clubs!
Can I just say how excited I am to read the selections chosen by the other “Clubs” book club groups? Gaiman and the Grimms!!! <3<3<3
I am part of the group meeting next week on account of the student teacher celebration dinner. I read each of the selected readings once, but don’t plan to do the super close reading with lots of note-taking, etc., until next weekend so...
Hechinger Report | Why are other countries doing... →
Ties right into what we’ve been reading in How People Learn!
February 2011
7 posts
How we spent Valentine's Day
I was one of the students who did not get around to looking at the survey data on McGonigal’s TED Talk, and I was glad to have the chance to go over it and try to draw conclusions. My cohort and I realized that as hosts of a speaker, there are many other questions we would have been more interested in asking and different ways we would have phrased the questions so that the response data...
Talking about texts
Hoffert’s article introduced me to many different ways of orchestrating a book club. I was aware of “we all read the same book,” of course, but even within the thematic approaches there appears to be a lot of variety. I love the idea of thematic book clubs/discussions. While it is great to converse with others who have read the same thing you have, especially with difficult and/or...
It's all about understanding
In class last week it took me awhile to figure out the purpose of the TED Talk and follow-up exercise. I thought at first it was the content: how can we use gaming to help students learn or something like that. I took notes because I found the content rather fascinating, if a little farfetched. I didn’t understand the purpose of the survey, but I answered honestly. I was excited to work with...
What librarianship is all about →
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"Is is a skill or a mindset" from Blue Skunk blog →
Learning environments
Chapter 6 in How People Learn addressed different types of learning environments, specifically learner-centered, knowledge-centered, community-centered, and assessment-centered. I first thought each of these would be mutually exclusive, as you can really only have one “center,” but the author seems to promote learning environments that prioritize the relationship between the learner and the...
January 2011
4 posts
6 tags
Information Literacy from the School Library...
The articles I selected from school library professional journals had a common theme of how school librarians can incorporate an effective information literacy curriculum into their schools. Unlike public librarians, school librarians are also teachers and share the responsibility of educating students so that students graduate with certain knowledge and skills. The first article I read,...
Reference Backtalk: Screencasting for an Audience... →
This article includes a list of recommended screencasting tools that we didn’t talk about yet as well as a list of tips for great screencasts. I found it helpful!
Online Library Instruction
Griffis, Johnston, and Yelinek et al all write about the value of using online software to create video tutorials and pathfinders to help students use online resources such as databases and course management systems. These types of online pathfinders and tutorials are great for the basic “provision of resources and tools” role of libraries, but they are not a substitute for all the types of...
How People Learn, ch. 1 + 2
The first chapter of How People Learn, “Learning from Speculation to Science,” supported much of what I have learned in my education courses at U-M, especially in Psychology in Teaching and Learning (EDUC 606). Unfortunately, it did not reflect many of my experiences as a student in K-12 or higher education. For instance, on pages 4 and 5, Bransford, et al, discuss the new concept of “knowing’...
