Month: March 2016

Screencasts , Instagram, and Vines are popular technologies that can be used in the classroom to great effect.  I have made use of most of these apps in my personal life, but had not thought of using some of them in my classroom.  Since I had teenagers, I was accutely aware of Instagram.  I have included a few pictures below:

Beneath the Blue

 

I use Screencast-o-matic all the time as I have to find multiple pathways to present material to my patrons.  This lesson was a timely reminder and I was able to use this technology to present our latest EBook acquisitions.  What was especially timely was that I needed to present the information in both PC and  Mac format.  I chose Screen-o-matic for my PC lesson and Adobe Voice for the Apple/Android access lesson.

Sreen-o-matic video over new EBooks in the NES Library:

Below find the Adobe Voice video for New EBooks in collaboration with New York City Public Library collaboration:

I found the Jing toggle tool to be helpful, but not applicable yet.  I hope to use it soon.  I found Adobe Voice really easy to use and I appreciate thtat as the technology is evolving faster then me!

* I experienced a lot of technical difficulties with my Vine account today, so I will edit this post when I am able to uplod my entries again.

QR codes and the Youtube channel are some of the most dynamic and useful tools available to library patrons today.  QR codes are scanable icons that link to Youtube videos offering additional information about the book that bears the code.  Youtube is also a great way to view information on almost any topic  in the world!  Youtube is a great teaching tool, but with any web-based information database it is always best to verify the information presented therein.  Below I have listed a few sites created by libraries and students to help present subjects that can be of interest to library patrons.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqcG3LqeiU

This site is vluable for students.

This site is valuable for students.

 

These two sites students would really like.

 

I created this book trailer on Youtube last fall:

After creating an account with Animoto I created this book trailer.

I really love how Animoto turned an ordinary book talk into an engaging and entertaining experience.  All the information for creating this book talk was available online.  Not having to write up all the book  reviews myself frees me up to read more books.  I can now have more time to help my patrons find books they really love.  My bookmark’s now do double duty.  They inform as well as hold my patron’s place. I can now commit to doing at least one review every two weeks.  I loved sharing this on our Facebook page for our library community to be aware of all that we offer.

Below you will find the QR code that I generated for this review:

 

 

The Newport Library recently acquired 18 Ipad mini’s for check out.  I intend to have the QR code  Ap installed on each of them for use in the library when the Ipads are not in a classroom. I love the reflection QR Codes provided byLearning in Hand by Tony V.  I am going to print out that cube for my teachers.  I recently bought bookmarks with embedded QR codes for  the latest and most popular books on Teachers Pay Teachers.    I realize that it is not possible for me to do everything myself.  I will now add Appleblossum the Possum, to a new bookmark. Buying great book talks allows me to make additional book talks of my own.

 

 

 

Infographics are a dynamic way to present pertenant information to library patrons.  This week I chose to use the information presented by the Pew Research Center on library usage in today’s world.  I used the website easel.ly to access a premade template.  I chose their site as I found them more user friendly.  While it took a while to learn the ins and outs of the program, it was similar to a lot of the technology I already new.

I am very excited about this technology and medium as a have to projects that I immediately want to create.  I have always wanted to create an infographic linking my school’s nightly 20 minute read requirement to educational success (i.e. higher reading levels), and further more to economic success.  I also want to create an info graphic on library procedures next.  All in all this was a very useful lesson.

Please find the link to my infographic below:

http://www.easel.ly/create?id=https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/1530837/1457180100&key=pri