Introduction This post explores some of my learnings on how technology fits into the LLC model, along with a smattering of related learnings that have come up during my TL as Tech Leader course. It contains ideas that I would like to implement in my LLC when I become a teacher librarian . I’ve structured […]
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Caveat: I’m not the teacher-librarian at my school, so this floor plan is from memory and thus almost certainly incorrect in some details, but the gist is there. I used the web application Floorplanner to create this. The tables in the collaboration space are moveable, but they are large and the space they are in
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I am not the librarian in my school, and I am hesitant to be too critical of my school’s librarian for not being a tech/maker person, because she has many, many other wonderful qualities, skills, and passions that make her a great teacher-librarian. However, there is little in the way of maker programming at my
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Someday, I will buy a scanner. Today is not that day. Sources Averill, S. & Bernie, S. (2017, October 21). Applied Design Skills and Technlogies K-9. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/av3rill/docs/applied_design_skills_and_technolog Chrichton, S. & Carter, D. (2017). Taking Making into Classrooms; A Toolkit for Fostering Creativity and imagination. Retrieved from: https://mytrainingbc.ca/maker/en/toolkit/Taking_Making_into_Classrooms.pdf
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I found that my thoughts mostly steered toward curation and professional development. I feel like I have a lot of specific skills in ADST and familiarity with processes (e.g., V model, Scrum) around software development to offer to my colleagues which may be applicable in other areas. I’ve colour coded ideas that I feel connect
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One of my assignments in a recently completed introductory teacher-librarian course was to create a book display. I quite liked what I came up with, so I’m sharing it here. This is a depressing display, but sometimes it’s important to showcase the darker sides of human history, and there are a lot of incredible works
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This is an assignment post and a follow-up to a previous post. If I had received critical feedback on my professional goals, I would have revised them, but as it is, I did not receive that feedback this time around. My classmates were too nice! The questions I included for feedback were: How do you
Questions for feedback: How do you choose to participate in your PLNs? What professional goals for technology did/would you have set as a new teacher?
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For this assignment, we were asked to look at some educator communities and join one that best supports our PLN goals. Since I am in a Microsoft district, I looked into the Microsoft Educator Centre, as well as various ISTE Professional Learning Networks. For the Microsoft network, I found a huge number of online courses,
Purpose of my PLN: Network with computer science educators and teacher librarians who can introduce me to new ideas, share up-to-date research, and help me with specific questions as they come up. Share thoughts and read others’ thoughts on chapter guiding questions as I work through Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (2020) Steps for my
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