Monthly Archives for July 2024


Create a blog: participatory design strategy

Forum post: Select one useful participatory design strategy and explain how you would use this strategy to engage students in the process of redesigning a space within your library. Participation in my school context is minimal. Parents and carers are not onsite often at all. For this reason I would engage families by creating a […]


Thornburg’s- Campfire/watering hole/ cave/ life

Task: Select one of the learning space archetypes mentioned at the beginning of Module 2.2 (either Thornburg’s or McIntosh’s). Describe this archetype in your own words. Select three of La Marca and Manning’s practical elements of library design [of any of the elements that are mentioned within this module] that you believe are connected with […]


Dynamic School Library

After completing module 1 of ETL501, I am so excited to be doing this course. The reinforcing all the ideas and plans I have for my school library. From makerspaces, lego corners, designing and using a 3D printer…. the list goes on. I cannot wait to learn more about how and why I should create […]


TL as RFF teacher

Reading about the Practicality of Learning Commons Model (Burress etal 2018) How can understaffed schools cope? In a school where the library is an RFF teacher- how can we enact these models???? Burress et al 2018 state 68% of teacher librarians teach library related lessons in isolation and that 30% of TL’s reported co-teaching or […]