This class consisted of creating an immense planning, marketing and assessing document for a library program or service of our choosing. Many, many details of project planning were incorporated into this project. The host librarian I worked with, the librarian at our district high school, did not get deeply involved in the project but was available for questions.
I chose to develop (not implement) a program called "Readers and Reviewers" or "R and R." It is a voluntary program where students use VoiceThread technology to create multimedia book reviews and then comment on them. After delving so deeply into the project, I realize that I'm not so sure secondary students would want to participate or have the time to do so. It might be a good pilot test for the program to try to encourage participation and adding of book reviews by students to our current circulation system.
I struggled a lot in this course. This project was very detail oriented (something that doesn't come easy for me) and extremely time consuming. To be honest, I can't see how anyone in the library field would have time to plan something out ahead of time to this much of an extreme. I can see doing this for a very large or costly program or service that might be implemented, but the process is not very practical for school library programs.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Reflective Comments-Information Technologies in Educational Organizations-SU Course IST 611
There were three major projects in this class. The first involved a partner and I exploring a Web 2.0 technology, Facebook. We collaborated on part of a class wiki to contribute information, explain how to use this technology in an educational setting and developed a tutorial using Jing to explain its use (other members of the class were assigned different Web 2.0 technologies). Just doing the wiki was a new experience for me. I can see definite educational uses for collaborating on projects and contributing to learning as a social process.
Another project involved website evaluation. Using various evaluation tools and input from two other adults, I synthesized various aspects of a real website. In completing this project, I learned how much I have to do on my own library website! Information learned will help me as I continue to develop my web presence.
A final project in this class was a collaborative technology project of our choosing. Two gals and I explored the databases we currently have at my school. We put together a wiki with screenshots (we tried using Jing tutorials but district technology would not support this nor could the wiki support such large files) so that I can share this information with the staff and students at my school. I will be presenting at an upcoming faculty meeting.
In this course I learned that there are soooo many new technologies out there. I was asked to join a good number of them that I will probably never use again. The exposure was still good though, so that if any of my staff is interested in using them, I will at least be somewhat familiar.
Another project involved website evaluation. Using various evaluation tools and input from two other adults, I synthesized various aspects of a real website. In completing this project, I learned how much I have to do on my own library website! Information learned will help me as I continue to develop my web presence.
A final project in this class was a collaborative technology project of our choosing. Two gals and I explored the databases we currently have at my school. We put together a wiki with screenshots (we tried using Jing tutorials but district technology would not support this nor could the wiki support such large files) so that I can share this information with the staff and students at my school. I will be presenting at an upcoming faculty meeting.
In this course I learned that there are soooo many new technologies out there. I was asked to join a good number of them that I will probably never use again. The exposure was still good though, so that if any of my staff is interested in using them, I will at least be somewhat familiar.
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