Part A: What Makes an Effective Teacher Librarian (TL) Word Count: 86 An effective teacher librarian is courageous. They can apply educational theory in new situations, they gravitate towards the complex and difficult areas of school culture to improve upon it and they take the time to both promote and learn from others. They help […]
Read more "Professional Reflective Portfolio ETL 507"INF 506 Reflective Statement Constructing and Contributing to the OLJ For me, the most significant aspect of contributing to my online journal was the realisation that staying “fresh and frequent” in regards to posting, is paramount to social media success (Ashley & Tuten, 2015). This resulted from my investigation of the American Library Association’s (ALA) […]
Read more "INF 506 Reflective statment: Assessment 3"Librarians Fighting Fake News. When reading Ryan Holmes post in Forbes about how libraries are reinventing themselves in order to fight fake news, I instantly made a connection to Mark Ray’s TED Talk and a previous blog post in which I came to the realisation of the importance of finding the niche needs of your […]
Read more "INF506 OLJ#7: Librarians Fighting Fake News"Freedom or Safety: Where Do Librarians Stand? Ben Johnson’s article “Archiving Al Qaeda” notes that libraries are one of the last free and open accessible internet access points, yet he doesn’t suspect this will last long (2018). Working in schools that are governed by a district or private rules and regulations and would not dare […]
Read more "INF 506 OLJ#6: Areas of Concern- Freedom of Speech"Defining the Teacher Librarian (TL) 2.0? Creating a singular, static definition for what a TL is may be as futile as being a rigid and immutable TL. Most all relevant literature points to any librarian that is stagnantly “shushing” students and not meeting the needs of an ever changing information landscape, is likely to be […]
Read more "INF 506 OLJ #5 Defining The Librarian 2.0"Evaluating American Library Associations (ALA) Tweets: May 1st-7th, 2019 The American Association of School Libraries (AASL), a division of ALA, published a toolkit for libraries and stated that a regular social media presence which highlights developments and acquisitions while modelling school library trends is essential for building credibility amongst your library community (2015, p 3-4). […]
Read more "INF 506 OLJ #4: Twitter Feeds (Module 3)"Social Media is Changing the World In Alejandra Guzman’s blog post, she highlights six different six ways in which social media affects the world and provides links to more detailed posts about each of the six concepts. When reading her article I immediately began to think of my experiences with NAG- the home of new […]
Read more "INF 506 OLJ #3: Social Media is Changing the World (Module 2)"What is Web 2.0 and how can organisations prepare? Web 2.0 is a term that most everyone knows, but do we actually understand what it means? You might be scoffed at if you were to ask for a definition amongst friends; everyone “knows” what Web 2.0 is, c’mon! However, the same people laughing might find […]
Read more "INF 506- OLJ Task 2: What is Web 2.0 and how Can Organisations Prepare?"Debating the Guise of the Nordic Resistance Movement Helena Bloomberg and Jonas Stier (2019) investigated how both protagonists and antagonists of the right wing Swedish Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) are creating discourse about the movement on the Swedish based online platform “Flashback”. The study reviewed over 1500 posts on a NRM thread and concluded […]
Read more "INF 506: OLJ Task 1- “Flashback” as a Rhetorical Online Battleground"(a) define what social networking is (in your own words); Social networking is communicating on an online platform by creating content and sharing or reading what others have created and shared. The phrase is a “doubled edged sword” of sorts, as it holds the potential for sharing, reading and learning, it also hold the potential […]
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