How the Blog Will Evolve
I would like for this blog to serve as a place for my elementary students to find out about books, authors and illustrators. I would like this to be a place for them to come to search for new titles and find out about great podcasts and Internet sites. I am so excited that I took this class! Now my blog can be used as a teaching tool!
Podcasting
I had a great time at the Library of Congress. You know the whole media specialist/book thing. I knew that there was some podcasting available, but didn't until this class have time to explore it. I really enjoyed watching Doreen Cronin. Her and Harry Bliss read their book Diary of a Spider. Since then they have released a new title Diary of a Fly. If you haven't checked these out, do!
The Water Buffalo movie was extremely interesting. My school studies a country every year and we are currently studying Vietnam. I knew water bufffalo were very important to them and it was nice to see the video to go along with what I already knew about water buffalo. It was also nice to go to learn out loud and podcastalley.
Podcasting is new to me and I think this week was my favorite. I think that every week! I just love gettting to know what is out there.
As far as podcasting at my school, I would love to see children doing book talks of their favorite books to put on the school website. How cool would that be!
The Water Buffalo movie was extremely interesting. My school studies a country every year and we are currently studying Vietnam. I knew water bufffalo were very important to them and it was nice to see the video to go along with what I already knew about water buffalo. It was also nice to go to learn out loud and podcastalley.
Podcasting is new to me and I think this week was my favorite. I think that every week! I just love gettting to know what is out there.
As far as podcasting at my school, I would love to see children doing book talks of their favorite books to put on the school website. How cool would that be!
Wikis
Every week I am taken to a whole new level with respect to technology. With not very much knowledge about wiki's prior to this week, I am delighted to see that wikis can be used as a collaborative tool for students. I really like the fact that many people can work at the same to to not only collaborate but also contribute. Thinking of the media center, this is a great way for students to research on a topic whether it be individually or in teams. I work in a PK-4 environment and can really only see wiki's as a possibility for 3rd and 4th grade. I can only imagine the endless possibilites in middle and high school. I am going to make sure and pass this information from this week to the middle and high school media specialists at my school.
I am a part of the organization South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL). We are currently in the process of creating a wiki to keep all the documents that we use so frequently to be located on the scasl website. There will also be a place for us to contribute processes that we use to share with other media specialists. I am excited to see how this will play out.
I am a part of the organization South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL). We are currently in the process of creating a wiki to keep all the documents that we use so frequently to be located on the scasl website. There will also be a place for us to contribute processes that we use to share with other media specialists. I am excited to see how this will play out.
My Journey Through Blogging
I have found that blogging is awesome. There are clearly enless possibilities. I am thinking for the media center I would like to use a blog as an online book club for our 3rd and 4th grade students. My school currently serves PK - 4th. We do not use any sort of reading tracking system at my school, so not AR, Reading Counts, etc. The children at my school turned on to reading and my job primariliy is to fuel the fire so to speak. I think a technology component would really fuel the fire with the students.
Students could likst their favorite books with a review. I think that this would be a good way for students to find out about books that may not know about.
Other ideas - I like the idea of voting for favorite books although when I find out more about wiki's this could change.
I like the idea of students posting their own pigeon stories and sharing comments about others work. We currently creating our own pigeon stories now. I think that this will help with pre-reading, reading and creative writing.
I'm so excited to implement these ideas at my school!
Students could likst their favorite books with a review. I think that this would be a good way for students to find out about books that may not know about.
Other ideas - I like the idea of voting for favorite books although when I find out more about wiki's this could change.
I like the idea of students posting their own pigeon stories and sharing comments about others work. We currently creating our own pigeon stories now. I think that this will help with pre-reading, reading and creative writing.
I'm so excited to implement these ideas at my school!
The Pigeon Wants a.........
On April 1st, Mo Willems is going to release a new pigeon book. He is having a contest to guess the ending of the title of the book. If you guess the title, then he will visit your school. The title is The Pigeon Wants... What do you think?
What is your favorite book?
Such a hard decision!! I personally love Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller
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