Mar 02 2009
Transforming school libraries – Days 8 & 9
First of all, I want to apologise to anyone who saw my previous version of this post. It was not professional to let off steam on here and so I have now removed it completely.
I did finish the course, although I skimmed over the last few presentations and did not post very much to the discussions. This was because my personal life was encroaching too much and I was feeling under pressure.
I will return to the presentations at a later date and think through how I am going to move forward and feed back to the school. As I am new in post, I am not sure of the best way to do this, or, in fact, whether I should just wait for a more appropriate time. My main focus now has to be on developing the new library, getting it up and running in the autumn and then starting the process of encouraging teachers to make use of it and myself. So it may not be until this time next year that I can actually begin to use some of the amazing things that I have learned.
In the meantime, I will continue to try out these things for myself, and maybe draw up a plan of action. I can use tools such as VoiceThread with my Reading Group, perhaps. And, of course, I can enjoy using them in the library website.
Via Twitter, I saw a link to this downloadable book “21st Century Technology Tools : Tutorials“. It looks really useful for helping teachers and others who are not very confident about using a lot of Web2.0 – and in fact I will read some of the chapters myself!
When I have had more time for reflection, I may post some more about the course.
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