Another day, another assignment. Today, I’m talking about strategies for evaluating new technology for privacy concerns. At the end of all this, the individual needs to decide whether the privacy risks are worth the advantages that the tech provides, but being educated at least allows us to make an informed decision. How can you learn […]
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For this assignment, I surveyed staff on their current views of our school’s LLC, as well as their design thinking and maker-related practices. I did not get permission to survey students for this. The goal was to see where the library could be improved, and where a makerspace could fit into that vision. I only
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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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