I chose Brownsburg Public Library in Brownsburg, Indiana.  You can visit their website at https://www.bburglibrary.net/ .  I found out about this library via Robbi Caldwell’s article in American Libraries journal – volume 52, issue 5.  Ms. Caldwell’s article is titled, “Summer Reading Realities:  Many libraries are entering round two of summer reading in a pandemic.” …

I visited my alma mater, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, better known as Virginia Tech. Please follow this Canva link to visit the heart of Virginia Tech: Newman Library.

Follow this link to view my 5th grade digital unit about netiquette.

The articles by Snelling and Moen made me excited to embrace coding as a librarian. When I left teaching six years ago, a maker space was being installed in the library at the middle school where I worked. I never got to experience it, but I could see the potential that it had as it…

I used QR Creator to create the above QR code, because I liked that I could upload an image to create a custom background. I’ve never seen a QR code like this before, and I really appreciate that it’s a possibility. This has great uses for the classroom or library, where you might have several…

Genial.ly looks like a terrific website. I am most interested in the tools to create interactive quizzes and games. I love that there are a lot of templates and themes to choose from, as most websites that offer customizable games only have a couple to choose from. I played around with it for awhile, and…

When I was a teacher, I had my middle school students use Animoto to create a persuasive commercial for a charity of their choice. We raised money as a class, presented our commercials, and voted on which charity should receive the funds. It was a terrific project all the way around, largely thanks to Animoto….

For my podcast review, I chose the episode “Tech Tool Roundup” by the podcast “The Librarian’s Guide to Teaching.” This 48 minute podcast outlined a variety of popular websites and apps that are available for librarians to use in the classroom. In addition to detailing their basic functions, the hosts also outlined the pros and…

Voki was fun to play with, though I was disappointed to go through the entire sign up and creation process just to find out at the very end that only paid subscribers can embed their content on a WordPress blog. I wish that I could add a pause between the setup of my joke and…

Upon reading the assignment prompt, I immediately thought of literary genres. At the beginning of every school year, I would teach literary genres, as I found that many of my students had a difficult time distinguishing between similar genres such as science fiction and fantasy. I thought that creating an infographic that shows the difference…