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Engage

Shared Foundation VI. Engage Deborah D. Cooper, Fairfield County Librarian  Demonstrate Safe, Legal, and Ethical Practices Librarians support and promote scholars’ commitment and intellectual growth by modeling and explicitly teaching best practices in information and resource use. Mrs. Cooper has what one would call a mixed scheduling system. A mixed schedule consist of her seeing certain classes at a fixed time each week, but also allowing her to have time to have open flex scheduling where teachers can sign up for library time as needed. This is what helps Mrs. Cooper teach how to cite sources,  Easybib, and Works Cited pages. In order to better serve the teachers at her school, she looks at their lesson plans to see how she can help in any way to support their standards. This may include but is not limited to pulling books that match, doing certain read-alouds, and or helping students with certain research topics. She also teaches the teachers about copyright laws so th
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Curate

Shared Foundation IV Curate Leslie Cooper  Collecting, Organizing, and Sharing Resources Librarians maintain an abundance of resources that complement both the standards and scholars’ interests and needs. Librarians can help select interactive technology tools for working with small student groups to guide standards-based projects, perspectives, and publish scholars’ work. Librarians help scholars curate information in efficient and effective ways. Ms. Cooper gave me great knowledge of how to create readers. Read and know the books on your shelves, how else are you going to tell scholars what to read. This is not the first time someone has told me to listen to my books because they will speak to me. To know your books is to set yourself up for success. Knowing your books is a powerful tool because you will know what you have and what you need for your scholars’ interest. One of the most memorable statements she made was the power we have to buy a book and give it to the righ
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Collaborate

Shared Foundation III. Collaborate Kelly Anne Burbage, Mitchell Elementary Team Work Makes the Dream Work Librarians help scholars to work effectively with others to build on their prior knowledge of the standards in order to create new knowledge. Librarians foster a learning environment in which scholars understand how to be social responsible when networking. Students may not see the library as a place to collaborate but it is our job to open their minds to understand collaboration is everywhere. Students working together over a period of time to create a poster by StickTogether is just one way Ms. Burbage incorporates collaboration. Students also get to see first hand how bees work together with the bee colony right in their library.  Ms. Burbage keeps abreast of what teachers are teaching by collaborating in the content area. You have to be intentional so teachers and students know you are there to support them and nothing is isolated. It is challenging to collaborate
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Include

AASL graphic Shared Foundation II. Include Cindy Philbeck Simmons-Pinckney Middle School, three years A school librarian differentiates instruction to support scholars’ understanding of the world around them. Scholars are provided the opportunity to interact with others that have multiple perspectives on the topics within the standards. Mrs. Philbeck implements inclusion competencies in many ways. One example would be how she develops reading paths for students. She makes sure each of her students work with multiple resources to gain the knowledge needed to complete difficult task given. Mrs. Philbeck reaches out to the community so scholars can use resources they may not have at home or around them. She collaborates with classroom teachers to create novel studies so the scholars can learn about diverse perspectives. She provides professional development so the classroom teachers understand how to use a variety of resources to help each of their scholars. Mrs. Philbeck has a
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Futurecasting

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If I had to pick only one tip to take with me from this module and course into the field of librarianship it would be that no matter what tools, books, or widgets are around it is the person teaching/learning that must be flexible in any moment. Technology is ever changing. In the article "Librarians share their predictions for education trends in 2017" solidify my belief that it is not the program that truly makes a difference but the person implementing the program that matters.  What stood out that I know will be useful for  me as I move into my new profession is that time is always ticking, it is my job to keep moving forward with it. I can not settle to be stagnate with learning one tool, but I must continue to want to grow with the times and not stay stuck believing what I learn this year will be relevant for the next. I know I must stay connected to technology to identify the trends on the horizon of school librarianship. As I have stated earlier tech
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Augmented Reality App: Layar

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Name: Layar Layar was founded in 2009. Layar is an augmented reality app. The Layar app allows teachers and students to extend the physical world with virtual overlay. The Layar App can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices. Layar was once one of the world's most popular platform for AR. Layar is part of the Blippar Group.The Layar app is free, but the Layar Creator is not. Once the app is downloaded you can scan pages and/or QR codes by tapping the "Scan" in the menu. Align the page or QR code in the on-screen frame and tap the screen to scan. Make sure to keep your device pointed at the page or QR code to see it come alive with digital content. Beth Holland on Edudemic has a helpful article " How to Start Using Augumented Reality in Education ". In the article she compares two of the most popular tools for creating Augmented Reality, Layar and Aurasma. She also shares links to other educators who use AR in their classrooms. Layar in Education: Bring Lea
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The Daring Librarian (Makerspace Starter Kit) Blogshare

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Blog:  Makerspace Starter Kit   Makerspace Starter Kit Updated  Tools: Sphero Mini  and Creativity Can Gwyneth Jones The Daring Librarian has an informational blog to help anyone start a makerspace. She created a blog about three years ago called Makerspace Starter Kit , in this blog she gives information about how to start up a makerspace with three stations 1. Makey Makey Coding Corner 2. Lego Creation Station 3. Duct Tape Craft Cubby. The one take away I felt was important from the blog was to start small. The blog gave great resources on how to acquire what was needed to get started. The best part about this blog is that it has been updated this year. The updated blog by Gwyneth Jones is  Makerspace Starter Kit Updated . The updated blog has better insight on what worked, and what failed for her makerspace. She talked about how her makerspace is operated, great information for newbies. She also list her Amazon stater kit, great place to start from, especially with all the tools
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Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying! October is national bullying prevention month! As an educator and parent of two preteen daughters, bully prevention is a topic we often  discuss in my house, but only because of my career.  As an educator I have been afforded the opportunity to become trained on many topics, and I use my knowledge of these trainings with my children daily, but out of all the trainings bully awareness has given me the dialog most needed as a parent. With that being said, what stands out the most regarding cyberbullying, is that even with all the resources out there about it, I only knew of them because of my trainings and grad school classes. As a busy working parent I would not have looked on my own for information regarding cyberbullying as a preventative.  According to Faucher, Cassidy, and  Jackson a lack of awareness of bullying is due to underreporting (2015). Many suffer in silence. Shocking? Students are afraid to report bullying, but why? According to Orech's article &
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Prodigy

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https://www.prodigygame.com/ As a former second grade teacher, I know how important it is to have engaging tools for students to use while working independent. Prodigy is a math game to do just the job. Prodigy can be integrated into the math workshop model. As the teacher is meeting with small groups, the teacher can assign a set number of students to work on an assigned lesson in Prodigy to reinforce previous skills mastered or skill that may need extra practice. What is Prodigy? Prodigy is a free, Pokemon-style math game that has been proven to improve student scores and confidence!  Prodigy was designed with three primary goals in mind:  1. To create deep engagement so students double their math practice time at school and home.  2. To equip teachers with reports and assessment tools to inform their instruction.  3. To provide curriculum aligned content for free, regardless of a student’s demographic. It takes teachers less than 5 minutes to sign up and get s
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Padlet

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Padlet When students are engaged in collaborative work, Padlet is a great assistive tool for the classroom. It works like a bulletin board but digitally. Students can post in several different forms. Padlet works as a starting point where any student can participate. It is easy, universal, and inclusive. Padlet supports just about every file type and has an App for almost any device. It creative, fun, private, and secure. Padlet is flexible and versatile for any student to use. Using Padlet is simple, just go to the Padlet website and sign up for free to create an account and make you first board. When you have done that you share the board to your students with a QR code, link, or which ever option you choose from Padlet.  Uses for Padlet in the classroom are endless, if you need some ideas, Lucy Renard has 30 Creative Ways to use Padlet for Teachers and Students . In the article she explains how to use Padlet and then list 30 ways to use it. If 30 seems to be overwhelming, Educati
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