I spent the better part of a week, this summer, migrating a small part of my website to Libguides. I’ve noticed in my roaming around the web that many college libraries use Libguides as their website, including Adirondack Community College. Every January we take our seniors to ACC as part of their senior research paper assignment, so that they get exposure to a college library. We’re always looking for ways to make the transition from high school to college less stressful, so it got me thinking about my website. I thought it the students were use to navigating libguides as seniors, it would be one less thing for them to think about freshmen year. I’m having the libguides as a link on my school website. It’s still a work in progress, but I like the way you can share templates with other libraries and the libguide community. I hope to continue migrating my website throughout the year.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Thing 3: Personal Learning Networks
Well, I'm going to see if I can complete this Cool Tools professional development before the deadline! I started out great, but things fell apart for me in August. I started this and I want to finish it! I loved iGoogle because I could add RSS feeds to librarian gurus' blogs, it was one stop shopping. I was upset when I heard that it was going to be phased out. I forgot where I heard about feedly, but I have migrated everything to it and I’m really liking it. It makes it easy to quickly scan for professional articles and great ideas.
Following the Daring Librarian give me the idea to create my own QR Quest for this year's seventh grade library orientation and I’ll discuss that in my next post.
Following the Daring Librarian give me the idea to create my own QR Quest for this year's seventh grade library orientation and I’ll discuss that in my next post.
I also follow a number of library and/or technology related pages on facebook. I've read some great articles, that lead to other great articles or other pages to follow. Since I usually check facebook daily, I can quickly scan my newsfeed for words of wisdom and much more. I also follow a number of authors, library gurus, and tech gurus on twitter. Another quick way to say current. Why I’m waiting for an appointment, I can quickly check my feeds in a matter of minutes.
Thing 4: Geolocation
As I mentioned in my last post I got the idea to do a QR Quest, for my seventh grade orientation, from the Daring Librarian. I wanted to do this last year when we got an ipad cart in our high school, but I just never got it together with APPR looming in the air. I saw Sarah Olson's post that she created a QR Quest and I thought she's my inspiration to do my own. I have to thank Sarah for patiently answering all my questions. For the past few years I have had my seventh graders do a scavenger hunt around the library, so I used the Daring Librarian’s question template and tweaked it with some of my own questions. Sarah added two items I really liked, the screencast tutorial on using the PAC and taking a picture as an answer to a clue. I tried to incorporate the screencast tutorial, but our students can’t access youtube. I tried to get around it, by doing the screencast and uploading it to my website. I thought I had the solution, because when I went to the tutorial on my phone, it asked if I want to open it in Google drive and it worked. The problem was that when I made the QR code of the tutorial page, then scanned the QR code, the tutorial didn’t work. I ended up not using. I did incorporate using the camera to take photos for some of the answers to to the questions. When the students were finished with the Quest they then had to show us the photos. I added an exit slip to the back of my Quest with three simple questions. For my clues I took photos and then added callouts and other information I wanted the students to know. When the photos were set, I upload them to flickr. I used Kaywa QR code creator to make the QR code for each picture. I printed the QR codes, arrows, lightbulb clues on yellow paper. I then spread the clues around the library. I used this lesson for observation and it went very well.
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