Had a blast this week at ODU meeting all of my classmates, learning about geocaching, booktalking, and making a fun video! Thanks to my sisters for driving down and helping with the video. My video on how to use goodreads starred my baby sister Kelsi. She is so cute! I mentioned geocaching to her and she told me about how her Earth Science teacher used it.
The booktalking was fun. The avatars were interesting and took sometime to get used to, but it was an new experience and the first time I have officially done a booktalk. I did three books, but only got through two. I wish I had moved Monster to the middle since I had two girl books and one boy book. One of the avatars really wanted a boy book. Now I know and knowing is half the battle=)
I enjoyed the special presentation of all of the technology available for students with disabilities. I even went home and researched the amazing and indestructible laptop for my son. He is only 3 and it makes me nervous whenever we play games on sprout using my laptop with all of my library work on it. I am thinking a hardier computer may be a better fit for him to learn on.
I also enjoyed our skype visits from our classmate and the librarian talking about ALA and AASL. I actually went straight home and joined both and am working on VAASL. I look forward to becoming an active member of the library community! While searching I saw that there is a conference on transliteracy in October and I am trying to figure out how I can budget it in. I loved learning about transliteracy and think it is such a relevant topic to us as educators and school librarians. We need to jump head first into the modern age of technology and embrace it!
I love skype and use it all of the time at home since I have a brother who lives in California. We even skyped him into Thanksgiving last year=)
I thought the QR codes were a great way to have us introduce ourselves. A wonderful icebreaker! Perfect for a setting where phones are allowed and service is available. Both of these things would be a problem in my classroom during school. However, after school the rules change and it could work for an after school or evening activity. Maybe a great way to start off the first book club meeting=)
It was definitely a very busy and informative week! After exploring the different devices, it made me love my IPad even more. My IPad is my bestfriend! My favorite part of the week was definitely the videos!
The avatar experience was one of my favorites!! It was pretty interesting and not something a person gets to experience every day!
ReplyDeleteIt was definitely a neat experience and I liked being able to booktalk to "students" and have them interact. It wouldn't have been a true booktalking experience if we had just done it alone to a videocamera or to a group of teachers who would sit quietly and behave=) (Although, teachers can be worse than students sometimes!)
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