Last class - July 21st

We had our last class on the 21st. We gave our facilities presentations. That went well b/c we only had two to do. We had a few PR projects to finish up on. All of those were really good and everyone had some great ideas. Another thing we started were the Resident Expert presentations. Our group went second. We volunteered really quick b/c we knew we wouldn't have anything else to present after that!! The first group's went way over hour long so we felt like we had to rush our presentation. Plus we didn't just want to read out a bunch of facts. The first group played a Jeopardy game on the requirements of getting a license for Librarians. That was very informative!! I think I need to start studying for the PRAXIS now!!

Last Resident Expert Meeting

Tonight our group met for the last time to go over our power point presentation for Professional Ethics. I think we're going to have a great presentation. I like working with Jerri for projects. She has done a lot with this project. She is the one that scanned all of our materials into qwaq and finished up our resource guide. Rebecca was in our group as well. She made our copies of all the handouts for the presentation. I hope we get to present tonight so I will be finished with everything!!

Last Class Tuesday July 7, 2009

During our last class we met with Librarian Gerry. She is the librarian over the state or something like that...she works through UNC..I think. I should have wrote that part down. Anyways, she gave us a powerpoint about the library as a facility and gave us the top ten key areas to a good library. I wrote them all down, but many of them I would not have thought about being so important. There is really a lot to think about when planning to build a library or remodel a library. For our next assignment we were split into two groups and we have to remodel or make changes to a library. We chose Rebecca's library and she works at Chesterfield Elementary. She sent us pictures through email today. It looks like a really cute library. I hope you she has some changes in mind! We are meeting Monday before Dr. Rob's class at 3. So we'll see...


Also my Resident Expert group put together our links for our teacher guide. We met with Dr. Nita last week and she said everything look great, but we needed something that teachers could use. We each came up with three more links and wrote annotations for each of them and then emailed them Jerri so she could compile everything.

PR project

I have everything done for my PR project. I had to make a display board that would go in the front of the school that is more or less informational on our Multicultural Day Celebration. I used a lot of bright colors and I printed out block letters on the computer. Then I had to cut all of the out. I made a sign that listed all of the cultures studied and made an example of an interest letter to parents. I also found some pictures of different passports from the different countries that are to be studied. I copied and pasted them onto a word document, printed them, then cut them out. I think the board looks great and is not too cluttered.

Qwaq Meeting with Librarian Geri

Well I'm glad I waited to do this blog because it wouldn't be a very nice blog if I had done this right after our meeting with Librarian Geri. I could not get the Qwaq program to work correctly for my computer. I think many of us kept getting knocked out of the program and we had no clue what was being said by Librarian Geri. I think we should have just went to the AET zone because we all know it works on our computer. All I know is that she did a presentation on resource guides. My computer is so slow with the Qwaq program. Once I finally got the room up, my avetar wouldn't move anywhere, then when it did move, everything eventually froze causing me to exit the whole program. Technology can be really frustrating to me. It is not something that I get super excited about and I sortive dread that part of being a librarian. I know how to email, and I can usually figure things out and get things to work again, but the other night was a nightmare. Anyways, I don't have anything to write about what I learned, just a few complaints. Maybe better luck next time.

Resident Expert Meeting

My group for the resident expert meeting met this afternoon before our 5020 class. We were able to finalize our professional development for our ethics presentation. Our powerpoint looks great. We add a few things and took away a few things. Everything is cited and ready to go! Rebecca is going to make some copies of our skit and copies of our handouts. I don't think we are going to have to meet again for this project. It feels really good to be finished with this project. I am working with a great group!

PR Project Update

Yesterday my group, Tina, Vern, Crystal, and I met at CopperBean in Hickory to talk about our project. We knew we wanted to do a multicultural literacy theme but we weren't sure of the details yet. We were able to get everything planned out. Vern is going to make a powerpoint that will be for the teachers that we plan to introduce our literacy program too. This will include most of the timeline that Crystal typed up. And basically explaining everyone's roles. I am going to make a display board that will go in front of the school that telling everyone about the upcoming project and I will write a letter of interest that will go home with parents as well. Crystal is going to make a photostory of different pics found from the internet of various animals and cultural things about the different countries that we will explore for the multicultural day. Tina is going to make an example of what a display board might look like for one of the countries booths that will be set up on multicultural day. I think we have a really good plan and it will be easy for anyone to pick up and use. I don't think we will have to meet anymore between now and July 7th when it's due. I'm glad I was able to work with responsible people for this project!!