For my final reflections, I thought I’d try using Adobe Spark Video. I’ve used it once before to create a summary video about my trip to the AASL National Conference but this time, I made use of the voice recording option in addition to the pictures and text! Although the audio gets a bit wonky… Continue reading Cool Tools for School, Thing 12: Final Reflections
A few weeks ago, I got the email I expect but dread every. Single. Year: it was time to set up my observation. This year, the library department’s observations are being done by the head of the technology department. So, it seemed like a good idea to find a way to work technology into my… Continue reading Cool Tools for School, Thing 14: eBook Creation
Another year, another Cool Tools session to wrap up. Let’s dive right in! What did you learn? How did you put what you learned into action at school? Personally? While I struggled initially with the EBP lessons that kicked off the Track 4 Cool Tools, I think they have had the biggest impact on how… Continue reading Thing 40: Final Reflections & What’s Next?
For this lesson, I ended up looking at the following blogs: Aabdul810, TechieToolsBlog, and Bri’sCoolToolsBlog. What did I learn? So much!!! I wish I did a better job of reading other blogs during this year’s Cool Tools because in just this weekend, I got so many ideas and learned so many cool tips and tricks.… Continue reading Bonus Lesson: Making Connections
After exploring several of the links for App-apalooza, I found three discoveries I’m pretty pumped about: Discovery #1: Digital Dog Pound and their App Task Challenges! I loved that they made their ATC available in one Google Drive folder you can add to your own Google Drive-and of course immediately added it to mine. The… Continue reading Thing 38: App-apalooza
Wow, so many great examples to look at with this cool tool! My personal favorites were: Kirkwood annual report-I liked how she spelled right out why the different information mattered and what it meant. It saves the reader the trouble of figuring out why they should care-and I liked that it gave a purpose to… Continue reading Cool Tools for School, Thing 34:Annual Reports-Make Them Better
I’ll admit, I was disappointed when I first read through this tool. I was hoping for some cut, dry, concrete lists of data to collect and how to collect them. Of course, I knew it couldn’t really be that easy. If it was, we’d all be using EBP and wouldn’t need two cool tools… Continue reading Cool Tools for Schools, Thing 32: EBP-Collecting Data
I was so excited to see that Track 4 would be tackling EBP and annual reports this year! These are two areas that I know I could be tackling better but just don’t know where/how to start. I do send my principal monthly library reports (yay!) but they are the same template I got… Continue reading Cool Tools for School, Thing 31: Thing 31: EBP–Getting Started
All right kids, whose ready to learn about teaching with historical documents? Let’s get started then. When teaching kids how to analysis photos direct them to the people, the background and objects. Study those elements for clues as to what is going on and be on the look out for things that don’t seem to… Continue reading NYLA Breakdown-Part Two
This was my first workshop/conference experience so you’ll have to forgive me for my somewhat incomplete notes and complete lack of pictures. I’ll do my best to recap the day and share some tips, tricks and snippets of knowledge that I picked up throughout the day. We started our day with checkin, a light breakfast,… Continue reading Library Leadership Academy Workshop-A Quick Recap
