As part of assignment one in ETL504 students were required to use mind mapping and concept mapping software. One resource that was shared with us was Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Concept Mapping in the Classroom which is a site I have shared with staff at school. This is a mindmap I created when becoming familiar with one of the software tools, Mindmup.  I decided to start mapping many of the roles I do in school as a teacher librarian and think this is a good example of how it demonstrates how diverse the role is. Last week I used this as an advocacy tool when I shared this with the leadership team at school.  There is so much involved that you will need to zoom in on the screen!

For the final assignment, I used Lucidchart instead, which I actually preferred to Mindmup because I found it more user-friendly. I have shared both of these tools with staff and already one year group have decided to use this tool and we are planning that into the curriculum. This is another great example of how as I learn the students and staff benefit from my new learning!

After completing this mindmap I was also introduced to the Future Ready Librarians website and think this poster and this infographic sum up a lot of what I was expressing in this mindmap. It is certainly a website I will refer to when writing assignment two which involves writing a future-proofing discussing paper.