You will find my final vision product through the link, Mrs. Acob’s Website !!!!
I loved doing my final vision project, as I am walking away
with a useful, helpful, engaging, safe and curated space to house resources and links
as a means of communication for my learning community!I have wanted to do this for a few years and
am so happy to have it started! Initially
I set out to create a link for teachers to learn about the technology
available to them in our school. I was looking
for a one stop option to house this information for teachers. My vision
adapted to become a central and inviting library homepage that would be useful
for my whole learning community.I
believe my site is a welcoming first impression to our school library and I hope my
goal of it being easy to navigate has been attained.I have information in place for
students and teachers, but in the future I plan to have more for students,
teachers and parents: perhaps study tips for students, e-books, a place for
book reviews, internet safety for teachers and parents, more video tutorials on
technology, and updated links.
I feel things went well with this project, but with only 300
words to reflect here I cannot go into all the details of my MANY technology speed
bumps I navigated through!Safe to say I
have stepped out of my comfort zone and spent way too many hours talking at my
computer and asking it questions, like “why can’t I move this tab over????”.I originally started with my given school
website (Scholantis), but was too frustrated with its tricky-to-use
interface.It was way too technical for
me and I felt confined to their style of webpage, as well.
retrieved from: https://www.weebly.com/ca
I moved to Weebly, which allowed for
different templates and it was much easier to make a simple website where I learned to embed videos, add links, and make new tabs. It was a HUGE learning curve for me, but
attainable with Weebly.I can also share
that I definitely took longer than Aaron with his one-go-at-it
retrieved from: https://screencast-o-matic.com/
screencast-o-matic
videos. However, it is a simple site to use and one I will be using again to
add more videos to explain technology our school has to offer.I know many of you are expert tweeters, but I
was a virgin tweeter at the start of this course so was proud of myself that after
some trial and error, I managed to add this to my home page.It is going to be an excellent way to
communicate with parents, share out ideas, display student work, and
demonstrate the learning taking place in our space!
Screencast-o-matic on Microbits
I use the word ‘final’
vision project loosely in this post, as I have more to add and this is in no
way a finished project.I know my site
will need to change and adapt to meet the learning needs of my learning community as my community grows and changes.A big focus on my site is resources for our school wide inquiry for students and teachers.I know this will be an area that will be
added to and changed, as we journey on this inquiry path as a school. I will
gladly take feedback from all of you to make my site better (please note…the
sd22 digital resource link will NOT work for you, as you need to be on one of
our school computers).I will say I feel
triumphant with my final artifact and know that with my new found knowledge, I
can be sharing out the site to my colleagues and students!
References
- Coldstream Elementary School. (2018). Retrieved from
http://www.sd22.bc.ca/school/coldstream/Programs/library/Pages/default.aspx
Heather, A. (2018). MRS. ACOB'S WEBSITE. Retrieved from
https://coldstreamlibrary.weebly.com/
Screen Recorder & Video Editor | Screencast-O-Matic. (2018).
Retrieved from https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Weebly is the easiest way to create a website, store or blog.
(2018). Retrieved from https://www.weebly.com/ca
While
working on my vision of the future this week, I found that my biggest audience
focus is ending up being my students.I
originally had started with the idea of making videos of technology and
makerspacers available in our library space for teachers on my staff.I had to back up a bit and first create a
library homepage that would house these videos.I still plan to do this to include teachers in my targeted audience.However, I had spent quite a bit of time
exploring others library websites to determine what would and wouldn’t meet the
needs of my learning community and have made my major focus to be my students
and how best to meet their learning needs.I want to create a safe, curated place for students to go to do research
and be able to have all their reading needs met.When I have all student comfortable using my
site, they will be great leaders bringing teachers and parents to it! With school wide inquiry being a focus for
our school this year, I want students to have a place and space specific
resource.Students using this site will see
how they have access to the library and resources 24/7 and that learning can be
extended beyond the walls of the library.I know I like a user friendly site, so I need to create the same for
students so all ages can find what they need from a simple format.
My
main target at this time in our 3 week time frame is my students, however, my
library webpage will eventually target all in our learning community.After investigating websites this past week,
I spent some time looking at what makes a good website.Thoughtcosays
it well as to the value of a good website: that first impression is an
opportunity to highlight the school’s best qualities and to show how welcoming
the school community is to all stakeholders – parents, educators, students, and
community members.Teachers are my second targeted audience
members.As time continues I will extend
out to the parents in our learning community.Teachers, like my students, will have 24/7 access to all resources in
one place.Parents can see the
happenings at the school and have an insight as to how learning is for a 21st
century learner.
School Web Masterstalks about a website as being one of the most effective tools a school has to
improve communication, engage parents, market its strengths, and build a trusting
reputation within its community.SO many
reasons to make a good first impression with a good library website!
References
Bennett, C. (2017). Importance of Keeping School Websites Updated.
Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/schools-website-first-impression-7655
What makes the best school websites?. (2018). Retrieved from
https://www.schoolwebmasters.com/Blog_Articles?entityid=375456
The
weeks of exploration from this course that got my mind directed towards my “aha”
future vision project was week 6 and on.
It began with me wanting to expand my own PLN, but a major focus for my
vision project stems from week 7 as to how I will best support and be responsive
to the personalized needs of the educators, staff, admin, parents, and other
members of my educational community.I am hoping to create a library learning commons homepage with links to
resources, videos, and my own professional blog as a way to share out the technology
and resources our school has available, taking into account the varied abilities
and experience levels to accommodate all within my learning community. My
current homepage is a basic, standard school district one.
Coldstream Elementary School current library homepage
I know that my long term vision is greater than
what I will be able to accomplish in the next three weeks and it will be an
ongoing project. In order for my
homepage to be responsive to my learning community it will need to continuously
evolve anyway.It has been on my mind to
do something with my library homepage and now this is my opportunity to get
going on it and with a specific purpose and direction.A few weeks ago my future vision project in
my mind was to make videos of the various makerspacers (microbits, osmos,
spheros, etc )
available in our school for my staff as the audience.I still want to do this, but that may be
farther down the road.First I have
decided I need some other basics on my library webpage to service more than
just staff. From this course, I have
certainly come to understand the value of sharing out my ideas and resources,
as I ‘steal’ others’ ideas from pinterest to tweetsso I best share, too!I know there will be value in my vision
project in that all members of my school community will benefit from it
eventually, including me.I doubt my
library webpage will help others country wide, but perhaps within our district
it will spark feedback from my fellow TLs and help my page evolve and become
even more useful.Perhaps fellow TLs in
our district will make their library webpages a useful resource to their
learning community, as well.
I
know that my first step is to contact our district website person to allow me
access to the site. I need to find out
what I can and cannot do according to our district guidelines. I have started exploring other TL library webpages
this week to get a better sense of what I want my actual final project to look
like. I did note that some TLs have almost
nothing on their school library homepage, but a link that connects me to their
well-designed blog or site. I am
assuming they don’t have the access to do so on the school homepage. I will explore some more sites, but so far I have
gained some insight about my format likes and dislikes. I like the sites that are simple in
layout.
I did check out Aaron’s ParklandSecondary School site and love the simplicity of an image/title that leads to many resources
on one topic. I have liked tweets from
Anna Crosland so searched to find her new school library site thinking it would
be a good one to model mine after. Her
school, which is called Ecole Martha Currie, library website is a standard district one. It gives a link to her edublog, which is personalized to better meet her learning community needs. What I like about her site is the display of student
work. Kids and parents must love that
and me, as a fellow TL, love to be able to steal cool ideas. Anna, like Aaron, has clear titles linked to
resources clearly laid out. I also checked
out a local TL who is always a step ahead of the rest of us here in Vernon with
great programs in his library, Mark Bendall of Vernon Secondary School . I liked his links for students like note
taking and citations. I think I’d like
information like that on my site, as it’d be helpful for my students. A neat
upcoming idea Bendall is working on is online book chats, which is an online space for students to recommend books or argue which book is better. One idea I’d like to steal from Black MountainElementary learning commons webpage is how they created links to author webpages. My students could be exploring the books, games,
and blogs of their favourite authors.
Stacey Manoin of Mar Jok Elementary has awesome clear tabs that pull down to a plethora of resources for students
to parents, plus has highlights of upcoming author visits and virtual field
trips.
I
have lots of ideas, but where to start!I know I want clear labels with an easy to navigate site.I want to target my whole learning community
to have everyone coming to the library homepage.I hope to include the learning happenings
through pictures or videos, have digital resources for staff, parents and
students.A little more planning and
sometime investigating web design are my next steps….for now!
References
Bendall,
M. (2018). VSS Library - Vernon Secondary School. Retrieved from
http://www.sd22.bc.ca/school/vss/Programs/library/Pages/default.aspx
Crosland,
A. (2018). Anna Crosland TL | Anna Crosland TL. Retrieved from
http://annacrosland.edublogs.org/
Learning
Commons - Black Mountain Elementary. (2018). Retrieved from
http://www.bme.sd23.bc.ca/Programs/lc/Pages/default.aspx
Library -
Ecole Martha Currie Elementary. (2018). Retrieved from
https://www.surreyschools.ca/schools/marthacurrie/Library/Pages/default.aspx
Manoin,
S. (2018). Stacey Manoin. Retrieved from https://staceymanoin.weebly.com/
Mueller,
A. (2018). Course: Learning Commons. Retrieved from
https://parkland.sd63.bc.ca/course/view.php?id=274
I am excited with the many, many ideas and blogs, posts and research
we have piled through this month.The
best part of it all for me is that it is applicable to the work I am
doing!It made this course not feel like
a hoop to jump through, but one where I have tonnes of takeaways, lots to be
interested in, and lots I have already incorporated into my work.
One new avenue for development for me personally is that just
this week I received another inquiry grant from my school district.The grant is for my little TL group in which
we began as an inquiry group working to transition our libraries to a learning
commons.This year we are collecting
resources and sharing with each other our learning.This is a huge help to me professionally as I
am given time to talk, share, discuss, and learn with fellow TLs.I feel I learn LOTS from simple conversations.
We
will continue our march on towards becoming a full library learning commons and
are almost there.There are so many
ideas I gathered from this last month, such as Book Clubs or Book of the Month
to continue the development of the reading culture in our school
community.
Our group also hopes to bring
in a neighbouring district guru, Amber Hartwell, to help inspire other teachers
in our district to transition their libraries and give us guidance, as
well.I like the idea of having my own
personal inquiry in that I am modelling the process for colleagues in our
school, just as we embark on a school wide inquiry process.Another area for me to development in my own practice
is staying on top of an efficient and practical way to curate resources.I think heading forward I hope that my
library webpage will hopefully house resources through links, my blog, and twitter.
Moving forward from what I learned this month is I will be sharing
out!I had thought about it briefly before,
but my biggest takeaway is definitely the importance of sharing out and how not
just others benefit from it, but me too!
Richardson (2012, p.387) named reasons that teachers don’t share out,
from fear to a culture of competition in schools, but I feel the biggest factor
for me is time.Really the lack of time
is my issue.However, sharing out with
fellow local librarians, colleagues, and other TLs is an area needing growth
for me, one that I can attain, and one that will help me professionally, as
well.A quote from Paige Bredenkamp found
in fellow wolf Karla Germaine’s blog has stuck with me since I read it: “Knowledge
is the result of interactions and experiences through connected networks in a
community”.
I have some highlights of learning I have gained from others
over this past month and one is that it is time, past time, to have a blog and
active twitter account for my school. Although twitter has not been my favourite
social media form (I don’t feel I have time to sort through what people had for
breakfast to find things of interest to me), I do like being able to get
snapshot ideas.It is growing on me now
that I found some that are specific to teaching and like the quick snippet idea. Two new accounts I am now following are fromHannah's blog : https://twitter.com/bctla and Darryl Beck's blog: George Couros, which both provide professional and thought provoking ideas.I still feel blogs are more valuable overall
to me and I have appreciated blogging with my fellow wolves. For me it is the discussion feel, like a
conversation, that I am drawn towards.I also like the building on the plentiful array of ideas.I give an idea, but others tag in and say…”I
also tried this”, which is a little new tweak to something I had just
done.It adds a fresh zing to add onto an
idea.Every single blog post from my
colleagues has had a little idea or two I have either incorporated already or
hope to do.For example, as TLs we are
always looking for a perfect book for someone and ask questions of them, “what
did you last read?What is your
favourite book?” etc., but I have tried Hannah’s reader personality testand students had fun with that.They
were shocked to see that some of the books recommended to them from the test they
had already read so the simple quiz seemed to work for many.Thanks
to Alison's blog for 2 peas and a dog blog, which I now like to peruse.Another tidbit idea from Karla’s blog,
which is still rumbling around in my head, is about helping students and
colleagues with their PLNs.I have been
focused on me, but Karla shared the ideas of Irene Hanreates and her ideas which has me thinking of
how important sharing out is, the need to model it, to work on my own PLN, but to
help others gain the benefits of this, too.
The one topic that resonated with me most this past month is
in regards to how I will continue my own professional development.This is my last library course and it scares
me a bit to become stagnant.So often
you see a teacher teaching the same grade and same material year after
year.They are doing what they know
well, but not updating or challenging themselves with something new.It isn’t enough to go to a pro-d day, but in
a role as TL I can do so much more to be inspired and to inspire.
References
12 Ways a School Librarian Can Help Teachers - 2 Peas and a Dog.
(2018). Retrieved from https://2peasandadog.com/2018/07/12-ways-a-school-librarian-can-help-teachers.html
BCTLA (@bctla) on Twitter. (2018). Retrieved from
https://twitter.com/bctla
Beck, D. (2018). Mr. B's Blog. Retrieved from http://kidstonkokanee.blogspot.com/
Couros, G. (2018). George Couros (@gcouros) on Twitter. Retrieved
from
https://twitter.com/gcouros?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Cuthill, A. (2018). LIBE 477: Special Topics in Teacher
Librarianship - New Media and Technology in the School Library. Retrieved from
https://critiquelecture.wordpress.com/
Germaine, K. (2018). Reflections of a New Teacher Librarian.
Retrieved from http://kargermaine.blogspot.com/
Reader Personality Types - A Book And A Hug. (2018). Retrieved
from https://abookandahug.com/reader-types/
Richardson, W. (2012). Why
school. New York, NY: TED Conferences.
Wilson, H. (2018). Hannah's Learning Library. Retrieved from
http://hannahslearninglibrary.blogspot.com/
The topic of libraries around the world is a new area of exploration
for me! I found it to be quite
insightful and super interesting. When
I first read this new topic, I immediately thought of two school trips that my
husband, Cliff, was a chaperone for. As
a highschool teacher he has helped make Me to We trips possible for his school to China and Ghana.
retrieved by: https://www.metowe.com/
Two of the five main themes of Me to We is to
help create and ensure a sustainable future for rural children by providing
access to and removing obstacles to a quality education and another is to
create nutrition programs at schools.
Cliff traveled to Asemkow, Ghana with 15 students to help build an
additional room to the community school.Asemkow had one school in the village for about 100 children from the
surrounding area.The school went up to
grade 8 and was of no cost to students.Only those that could afford highschool continued on past grade 8, which
this village sent about 5-6 children per year.The highschool was about an hour walk away.
Those that did not go to highschool became street
vendors, fisherman (boys) and helped to cook/house chores (women).This school had three teachers that commuted
daily to the village.The school had
tablets…..CHALK tablets.There were no
books or technology, just a blackboard…in fact there was no electricity in the
village save one light post. What my
husband couldn’t figure out is that the highschool kids all had cellphones, but
where did they charge them without power? (He assumed at the highschool, but
never saw it). It was only an hour’s
drive (no cars in the village however) to a bigger city with a westernized
university, but there was such a difference from grade school to highschool and
university. Moving forward to best meet
the needs of Asemkow, Me to We is helping to train the teachers in the school
plus build rooms and teacher accommodations complete with furnishings and
toilets. There is no one working at
expanding access to the internet at this point in Asemkow, but this is an area deserving
some thought.
Cliff’s trip to China involved building a school garden and chicken
farm in Gufubao (2 hour drive Northwest of Beijing). The idea was to help this smaller village
become sustainable with better nutrition. There was such a stark difference between the bustling city of Beijing
and a poverty stricken Gufubao. This
school had more than that of Asemkow.
Gufubao has 12 classrooms up to grade 5, electricity, and books in each
classroom. There was no library and the
classrooms had no internet access. The
teacher rooms, however, did have access
to the internet. Teachers taught students from a learning
package provided to them by the government. Cliff’s trip was in 2016, so maybe in the past three years students in
Gufubao now are connected to the internet?It seems if the teacher accommodations had internet that it is plausible
to have the internet in the hands of students, as well.Only teachers had cellphones.
My exploration this week followed my earlier thinking about Asemkow
with no electricity and that of Gufubao being so close to being connected to
the world and how can they best move forward.There is so much out there!I
came across an article, Availability and Use of Digital Technologies in P-12Classrooms of Selected Countries that discussed the enormous difference of access to technology between
developing countries and developed countries.Developed countries had similar technology available, but developing countries
had a huge range of different digital technologies available.An interesting takeaway for me was that funds
were found to have digital technology in schools in both developed and
developing countries, but there was not money to have proper training on the
use of the technology.This study by
Khan, Hasan, and Clement (2012) focused on Bangladesh, but outlined barriers for developing countries
acquiring ICT: lack of equipment, lack of technical support, lack of funds,
political views of the country, social and cultural factors, teacher shortage,
lack of skill. That is a lot of barriers
to overcome with Asemkow not even having electricity! I focused my search on how to overcome these
barriers in developing nations and found this article by Steven Livingston,
Classroom Technologies Narrow Education Gap in Developing Countries. The discussion debates the idea of putting funds towards laptops and
not adequately training teachers and employing enough teachers.
retrieved from: https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/
However, I was excited to find a link to the Varkey Foundation on how
help is being given to Ghana! The belief of this organization is that every child deserves a good
teacher and access to a good education.
They are not necessarily at the point of putting a laptop in the hands
of every student, but instead investing in training teachers for remote areas. Dubai Cares is also training teachers for tomorrow
and working on helping with nutrition in Ghana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqGjsMAGbk
I also came across an Edu Tech, A World Bank Blog on ICT Use inEducation and found it to be an interesting read talking about the electricity
divide, not the digital divide! Also the
‘second digital divide’ is discussed in regards to skills and abilities of
people benefiting from technology. There
were interesting concepts that make financial sense helping communities with
little funds, such as a school having only one computer but 50 students
benefiting from its use, each with their own mouse. Another idea is the use of a mobile phone
connecting a teacher in a remote area to education content.
It seems that some organizations want to train teachers in
developing countries and other organizations want to put a computer in the
hands of every child, such as One Laptop Per Child .
retrieved from: http://one.laptop.org/
One Laptop Per Child's aim is to have every child have " a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop" called the XO Laptop 4.0 pictured here on the left, which students can take home even without electricity in their home. Which is the best way to provide greater
access to information that best meets the needs of a particular community? Training teachers, XO, or perhaps it is the simple mobile phone that is
the best option for these remote villages?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw
Just quickly, as I have gone on too long about the vast amount of information
out there about technology in all nations, I wanted to share my thoughts about
developing nations relying on donations and weeded books from developed
nations.I am okay with quality books
being donated, however serious thought needs to be taken to ensure the books
are appropriate both in regards to language and culture of the country.Plus, books must be in good condition and
newer. I do not feel weeded books from my library should go there.If they are garbage to me, why give outdated
or poor fitted books for others to deal with.Giving an outdated atlas with countries that no longer exist, border
changes, or without a new territory in it means the teachers and students need
to figure out which part of the book is up to date and which is not.They deserve better.
References
Cares, D. (2018). Dubai Cares. Retrieved from
http://www.dubaicares.ae/en
Ghana Starts Africa's First High-tech Interactive Distance
Learning. (2018). Retrieved from
https://www.voanews.com/a/ghana-africa-first-high-tech-interactive-distance-learning/3179512.html
Khan, S., hasan, m., & clement, c. (2012). Barriers to the
Introduction of ICT into Education in Developing Countries: The Example of Bangladesh.
Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED533790
Livingston, S. (2016). Classroom technologies narrow education gap
in developing countries. Retrieved from
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/08/23/classroom-technologies-narrow-education-gap-in-developing-countries/
ME to WE | Products & Experiences that Make an Impact. (2018).
Retrieved from https://www.metowe.com/
One Laptop per Child. (2018). Retrieved from
http://one.laptop.org/
The Varkey Foundation. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/
Trucano, m. (2014). Promising uses of technology in education in
poor, rural and isolated communities around the world. Retrieved from
https://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/education-technology-poor-rural
Vu, P. (2014). Availability and Use of Digital Technologies in
P-12 Classrooms of Selected Countries. Retrieved from
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/itet/article/view/17933/17904
I cannot agree more that teacher librarians are looked
to for everything from evaluating and acquiring new resources to developing new skills.I like Barbara Braxton’s blog on the 500 Hats
of a TL, as our role is certainly becoming quite varied!My favourite way to share what I learn
with colleagues is through collaboration with them IN their classroom.I get to connect and learn with
students.It also allows me to share the
new technology or learning strategy with a teacher as they learn to use it,
which I hope gives them the confidence to be able to try it on their own the
next time.If lucky they may even collaborate
with another teacher and the ripple effect will take over!We have a technology crew (District
Technology Innovation Coordinators) in our district with each having a family
of schools that they connect with, introduce new technology to, and help with
guidance and expertise.They,
thankfully, see the value in a TL position and like to train us with new
technology with hopes we can go back and share with everyone.
Last year they gave every TL a set of
microbits for their school, if we attended the workshop on how to use them!I have placed an emphasis on building teacher
relationships the past 4 years plus getting to know the needs of my learning
community and I hope this helps me be able to share out these kind of new ideas.
As far as my admin goes, mine is energetic, supportive,
and forward thinking. We ran into each
other at our last pro-d day where we were at an innovative education
conference. We spent our whole lunch
hour bubbling with excitement about plans for the school with our newly
acquired ideas. I am not sure I will be
able to keep up with her, but together we share, plan, and support new ideas
and our visions for the school.
To be honest, I think I have more I need to be doing than I am actually
doing to be more responsive to the needs of my fellow educators, staff, and
parents. I do think a library website
with lists of tools and links to resources and teaching ideas would help meet
professional development of staff.
Having it all organized in one easy to find place would at least give
staff an idea of what is out there!
Videos on how to incorporate technology into their class would give them
inspiration I hope. I like this quote
from7 Reasons Why Digital Literacy is Important for Teachers:Digital literacy
doesn’t require that teachers become experts, but it does require that they
understand the digital tools that can unlock their deeper teaching potential. Although I have emphasized mutual
respect and trust with colleagues in the past, this year I can spend more time
helping teachers on HOW to use resources with the redesigned curriculum and
help teachers’ exploration of curriculum topics and competencies. I think it is important to gain input from
staff in regards to areas we need to explore further. I have always wanted to get a library
committee together that would include staff, parents, and students to create a
solid vision for our space and to discuss areas requiring improvement or change.
I have done well at weeding the student library
collection but not the teacher resources.
This week’s assignment has me thinking about how I could handle this. I am thinking I will put on display teacher
resources at a staff meeting. When it is
my turn to share I can remind teacher to browse the resources and ask them
which they use and then discard those that no one is using. Once that is weeded we can then look to see
what areas we would like to see broadened.
I came across Anna Crosland’s great idea to get books circulating. I could do this with teacher resources and our
regular collection:
Retrieved from: https://twitter.com/crosland_a
To continue to be responsive to the needs of my educational
community, I plan to carry on being receptive and available to teachers’ needs,
continue to model my own personal inquiry and improve and share my own teaching
skills. I will continue to bring in
experts or skype with them where my expertise cease. I’d like to follow the Working with Colleagues, A Guide for ICT Mentors as it states that a TL is to provide colleagues with training, support,
and advice, and collaborate with them as they move towards more effectively
integrating ICT into their teaching and learning (2002, P.14). Okay, so this article dates itself with the
older model computers on the front cover, but some great nuggets of advice in
the write up like how to assess the needs and interest of teachers and setting
personal action plans. One other piece
of advice I took from it was to start small and build on success (2002, p.23),
as you can start to feel overwhelmed with so much one is trying to do!
In addition to starting
small, I think it is important to work at the comfort level of each colleague. Edutopiahas some good ideas on how I can work with teachers
with the tools they have or are willing to use.
For example if you only
have one computer in a room, I can offer a bite size option such as: starting a
collaborative blog, curate resources, build a google site to house class
content, or record screencasts for providing onscreen instruction.
retrieved from: http://500hats.edublogs.org/
Finally, we have revived our TL LSA and this means we have
the opportunity to share with each other, but also a chance to start a TL
mentor ship program to work together with newer TLs.
References
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