Supporting My own Personal Learning, Development, and Network There are many different ways that I can continue to develop my skills as an educator. Virtually, all of these ways of learning are dependent upon forming and maintaining connections with a community of fellow learners. Firstly, I meet regularly with other teacher librarians in my district in both large and small groups. For our last Pro D day, 20 of us or so met and shared two resources each that we enjoyed using in our libraries with students. One of the resources, based on the picture book "Snowflake Bentley", allows students to create their own snowflakes online. It is a moment of wonder for students. The website for this is https://dangries.com/rectangleworld/PaperSnowflake/ I also have the good fortune to have several teacher librarian mentors. Being able to visit their library set ups has been so incredibly...
Hi All, In reviewing Theme 3, Reference Materials, I was struck by three ideas: the importance of the online world to a library’s collection, the importance of having collection resources in multiple formats and serving multiple purposes, and the importance of examining the biases of the library collection itself. Let’s examine the importance of the online world to our libraries. Some databases available through B.C. Digital Classroom are EBSCOhost (grades 4-8), EBSCOhost image search, EBSCOhost EBook collection, the Funk and Wagnalis New World Encyclopedia, Masterfile (with the full text of nearly 1700 periodicals), Explora Primary and Secondary, Consumer Health Complete, and NoveList K-8 Plus. This is far more information than could ever be housed in a school library. Moreover, as Richard pointed out in his notes, this is just the tip of the iceberg. He states “That there are 500 billion web pages (only 1/500 of that accessible by a typical search engine search)” (course ...
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