One theme for this class has been taking on modeling behavior when it comes to engaging technology as tech leaders. The librarians in my district are tech-savvy and we usually bring and model new tech tools to other departments. However, I feel we haven't done a great job of showing our tech leadership when it comes to our own department. So for this class, I decided to take on a more active role with two of our tech tools:
Our Twitter handle, DGSLibrary, was used mostly to communicate schedule changes when we had in-person students. Occasionally we would highlight a class or project but we weren't very active in sharing our story. I have started a weekly campaign to promote books in our library, books I'm reading, books I'm listening to, or the books in the Lincoln Awards list. The list has 20 books and each Wednesday I'll be tweeting a short book talk video about one of them. Last week's tweet was about A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti.
DGS Library Website (Libguides) presence:
Remote learning has meant that our students and staff rely more on our website for information. We started using Libguides last year to mostly link to Google Docs with instructions. This year we are converting lots of our instruction to videos for both students and teachers. For a Social Studies class, American Government, I created a page to include all the information that in the past we would have just linked to students from their Google Classroom with videos, interactive games, and a section in Spanish to help our EL students. Check it out at Media Bias.
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