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On thursday November 12, 2020, I interviewed Ms. Ayanna Mayes, a school librarian at Columbia High School. She didn't find it robbery to accept this interview invitation at the last minute. The interview was very informative and I believe I found another library friend. I have listed Ms. Mayes shared foundation, domain, and competencies below: AASL Standards Shared Foundation III: Collaborate Domain- A. Think Competencies: School Librarians facilitate collaborative opportunities by: Challenging learners to work with others to broaden and deepen understanding Organizing learner groups for decision making and problem solving Some ways that Ms. Mayes provided a great example of how she is currently utilizing the comptencies in her library program. She explain that she was working closely with an English II teacher on a project-based lesson in which students will examine voter demographics from the past two presidential elections and identify groups with low voter turno...

Hello Everyone, On this evening, I was able to interview the lovely Ms. Connie Hollin, a K-6th grade School Librarian in Campbell County School District.Yet again, I met another sweet librarian that loves her job, and her wonderful students. The Shared foundation, domain and competencies for Ms. Connie are listed below: AASL Standards Shared Foundation IV: Curate Domain- A. Think Competencies: School Librarians challenge learners to act on a n information need by: • Modeling the response to a need to gather and organize information. • Guiding Learners to make critical choices about information sources to use. The interview process was so comforatable and welcoming that we spent over 45 minutes talking all about library stuff. Some ways that Ms. Connie models a need to gather and organize information is by showing students the importance of notetaking, finding relevant resources, and learning how to shred through useful information. She is also constantly using online databases...

On today, November 3, 2020, I was able to interview Mrs. Beth Janssen, a K-12 School Librarian at AGWSR Community School. She is the only Media Specialist amongst the 632 students that attend the AGWSR. Beth's polite, and hilarious personality immediately brighten our meeting. At first, I was nervous about interviewing these librarians simply because I feel as a intial certification student, I have so much to learn. I did not want to go in not knowing what I was talking about or sounding like the newbie as I am. However, Ms. Beth made this process so much easier. We begin talking about the basics of her library program. You can tell by the way that she explained her program and the wonderful things that she has done since being a librarian there, that she loves what she do. We spent over 2 hours talking before we actually got into the purpose of the interview. However, let's proceed with the AASL standards that was given to her before I type for over two hours about how grea...

On today, November 19, 2020, I was able to interview the lovely Mrs. Amber Glade through a zoom videochat. Ms. Glade is a seven year Pk-12 school librarian at Morristown Central School located in Morristown, NY. Instantly we connected! It's just something about meeting librarians that makes me so bubbly inside. I love hearing about their experiences. Well before I get off topic, let's continue on with the purpose of the interview. Amber's focus for the AASL standards, domains are competencies are listed below: AASL Standards Shared Foundation II: Include Domain- Grow Competencies: School Librarians explicitly lead learners to demonstrate empathy and equity in knowledge building within the global learning community by: Creating an atmosphere in which learners feel empowered and interactions are learner-initiated. Initiating opportunities that allow learners to demonstrate interest in other perspectives. When asked what are some of examples of ways that Amber was ...

                 This semester has been filled with lots of valuable information that I know will be beneficial for me as I continue through this program. One thing I found interesting from this week’s module that I would love to implement is the “Hour of Code” event that was discussed in the, “2,445 hours of code”, article. This was a wonderful idea and a cool way to introduce coding to students. Coding has become a popular activity in school library makerspaces. It’s so ironic, because for the longest, I have been looking for different coding resources and activities for my library makerspace area and coding events that the library could host. It was a little challenging because most of the activities that I found were not catered towards elementary aged children. The article also discussed the importance of exposing children to computer programming way before high school since “ Computing occupations are among the hig...

          I must admit that prior to this week’s discussion about Augmented and Virtual Reality, I never realized the educational benefits that they provide. Honestly, it looks as if they are just cool new electronics for kid and adult entertainment. However, after exploring this week’s resources, it’s evident that these are both great gadgets that can be implemented in a classroom or library setting. Virtual reality strives to completely simulate an immersive sensory experience indistinguishable from the real […] often using technologies like headsets that attempt to completely deprive human sensory organs like the eyes from any stimuli outside of that which is artificially generated by the VR technology. Augmented Reality strives to overlay additional layers of useful (e.g. actionable, descriptive, informative, directional) media onto the real without replacing it (Zoladz, 2015).n According to Bruce Massis’s article, “The mission of teachers in today’s cl...

          According to Dr.Laura Fleming, makerspaces are “a unique learning environment that encourages tinkering, play, and open-ended exploration for all”(Fleming, 2019).  With libraries becoming more modern, it seems as if makerspaces are popping up everywhere. Makerspaces provides access to physical resources such as materials for crafting, engineering, design, robotics, or media. In particular, makerspaces would be extremely useful in elementary libraries. “Integrating a makerspace within the school library is a means “to boldly go” beyond the traditional offerings of library programming” (Davis, 2017) .  In her PowerPoint, Dr. Fleming provided us with great examples of makerspaces around the world. However, I must first brag on Richland County Library’s makerspace located in Columbia, SC. I had the opportunity to visit there during the time that they were remodeling which was about two years ago. When we got to the makerspaces area, I fel...