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31
Dec
Blog / Posted by Tasha White
This was the first Media Smart workshop I attended. This workshop was before I even started taking classes to get my masters as a Library Media Specialist and I was a first grade classroom teacher. My friend, Kristin Polseno mentioned it to me and I thought why not try it out! I was so glad that I did!
The presenter was informative, supportive and an amazing overall presenter. I remember being so excited to go back to school the next day and try this out with my students. We had four iPads in...
22
Dec
News / Posted by Karen Mueller
I am always looking for new ways to attract teens to the library. I volunteer in a small rural library in Foster, R.I., offering a Friday night film program to young adults, complete with digital playground, hang-out space and free pizza. Many young adult librarians have embraced the maker movement as a way to engage teens, so I was very excited to hear that Bevin Winner, librarian at Exeter/West Greenwich Junior and Senior High School, was offering a Media Smart Libraries workshop entitled “...
05
Dec
Blog / Posted by Alyssa Taft
I have been intrigued by the idea of a makerspace in my library for the last year or so but it always seemed a bit intimidating. Where would I put such a space? Where would the money come from? How would I know what to choose? Would it really attract more children and youth? How would I fit this program into my already full schedule? In other words, I was stuck. Then I went to Bevin Winner’s “Starting a Makerspace in Your Library: Tips and Tricks” and came away a believer.
The library at...
09
Nov
Blog / Posted by Kat Lynch
When I was young, I recall watching television shows like “Davey and Goliath” and being fascinated by them. The animation was so different from that of the saturday morning cartoons or the Disney animated feature films that I watched at the time. I remember the wonder I felt when I learned how the animation was created. I could not fathom someone putting so much time into creating something.
Fast forward thirty years and I watched as my own children learned, also with wonder, how these...
03
Nov
Blog / Posted by Kathi Barker
After attending the conference and the workshop presented by Aylssa Taft and Sam Simas titled, “Making Presentations Pop with tech 2.0”, in a nutshell, here are the programs and apps I liked the best and thought were the easiest to use right away in the library and/or classroom. I shared with a few co-workers and some of my classes of students to jazz up the same old power point type projects!
“Slides Carnival” – A collection of professional – looking FREE presentation templates for...
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