Today was a very exciting day of learning. Our lead librarian, Michelle Griffith, invited Shannon Miller from Van Meter, Iowa, to be the guest speaker at our staff development. I have recently started following her on Twitter (@shannonmmiller), and she is amazing. She is the librarian for Van Meter's k-12 campus. Shannon taught us about social networking and the importance of connecting and building a professional network. We also talked about getting our students connected and giving them a voice. I learned more about Twitter and Facebook, and I will soon be getting an Instagram account. For Twitter, you can follow me @BronwynRumsey, and you can follow my library @oggbookwizard. I will be creating an Ogg Library Facebook page, too. My plan is to post what is happening in the Ogg Library on all these social networks. I hope to allow the students to post, also.
We also learned about some other digital tools: Padlet, Symbaloo, Edmodo, Layar, MackinVia, etc. The list is extensive. I can't promise I'll master all of them, but I plan to try some out in the library to provide a more engaging learning environment for my students. I'm excited about what this will bring to the quality of education coming out of Ogg Library.
Tomorrow we'll spend some time with Shannon looking at our library spaces and getting advice on how to design our spaces for maximum learning impact. I can't wait!
Excellent summary. These were 2 of the most worthwhile SD days. Grasping a better understanding of how to move our programs forward with the other BISD lms is exciting.
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