LIS 568 WEEK 9

When thinking about copyright infringement and possibly being sued, it can be a scary thought.  I will use a website called "BIGSTOCK" to help protect myself and the district I will work for.  BIGSTOCK is a website that has over 68 million stock photos and videos that have been approved for use and free of copyright infringement.  This website can be very helpful and useful when developing a school website or a teacher's website for his or her classroom.  Using the images and videos from BIGSTOCK will ensure no lawyer will come knocking at the school's front door.

https://www.bigstockphoto.com/

LIS 568 Week 8

Information literacy can be an intimidating topic for anyone including fellow librarians and classroom teachers.  Even a well organized and detailed presentation from the school librarian can often leave a fellow classroom teacher confused on the topic.  But alas, I found a website with all kinds of fun medias that a teacher can browse at his or her leisure without feeling embarrassed by asking the librarian questions after the presentation.  S.O.S. for information literacy is a place that has multiple platforms for teachers to view and get ideas from to help themselves to understand and to teach information literacy.

 http://www.informationliteracy.org/

LIS 568 Week 7

Sometimes it's difficult coming up with creative ways to share information to colleagues and to students.  When I coach high school varsity baseball, I take pride in being organized for myself and for the players.  I came up with a way for the pitchers on my team to keep track of how much they would throw off of the mound while we practiced in the gym during February, March, and April.  I used a boring spreadsheet.  Now that I've come across Venngage Templates, I will be using that for next season.  There are so many templates to choose from.  The way the templates are set up, you can have half of the page as a chart and the other half with bullet points or anything else relevant to the task.  This can really help a teacher that might be struggling coming up with an idea of a worksheet or a study sheet for the students in his or her classroom.  Venngage Templates is definitely something I'll be using moving forward.

https://venngage.com/templates

LIS 568 Week 6

Thinking about ways to help guide young readers to read information in it's entirety lead me to the Super Why app.  I have an almost 7 year old son and a 4 year old daughter, both love super heroes and the idea of super heroes.  Super Why is a show on PBS that is tailored to educating children.  Like many other popular shows, there was an app made.  This app can be used to help young readers complete their reading tasks and other tasks.  I think that a school librarian could use this app to generate reading interest among the students.  Many kids enjoy the super hero idea and this app can allow the students to act like a super hero and read through tasks completely.  This can help teach kids the value of completing tasks and show them how rewarding it can be.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-why!-for-ipad/id362179828?mt=8

LIS 568 Week 5

I laughed when I read Susan's post on how people really can't multitask.  My wife has been telling me for years that she can multitask and always points it out when she feels she's succeeding at it.  Well I forwarded the article that proves multitasking isn't possible and it will be interesting to see what she tells me about it.  😁

I then searched on Google for ways to help keep focused on a task.  I came across  https://www.focusboosterapp.com/  and was impressed.  It's an app that can be installed on any device.  It makes you stay on a task for 25 minutes and then an alarm goes off.  It then gives you a 5 minute break.  I feel that allotted time is substantial enough to get a good chuck of a task completed.  The 5 minute break then allows you to check your email or texts or whatever else a person constantly checks.  I feel this app can be helpful in the classroom for students working on a chrome book or any device in the school.