Blogshare #2
Introduction
The blog I’m sharing this week is
called The Library Voice.
The author of the blog is Shannon McClintock Miller. She is a district teacher
librarian from Iowa. In addition to being a librarian, she is a speaker,
consultant, and author. She has received multiple awards for her work including
awards from ISTE, AASL, and SLJ. Miller also works for Capstone and regularly
promotes their products on her blog and Instagram. Along with her blog, Miller
has an Instagram account where she shares about her personal life as well as
making posts pertaining to libraries. She recently created a new website where
readers can learn about her and find resources that she created and makes
available. One of the big features of her blogposts is choice boards. She
shares choice boards multiple times a month to help students and teachers with
finding information.
Blog 1
The first post that I want to
highlight is from October 15, 2023 and highlights digital
citizenship week. This post seemed especially relevant considering the rise
in technology use in elementary students and the need for education about
digital citizenship. Miller shares choice boards with readers that are broken
down into K-2 and 3-6. It was nice to have them broken down because the needs
of 1st graders are very different than the needs of 5th
graders. The choice boards shared websites, videos, and activities for
different grades all related to digital citizenship. The highlighted resources
include Commonsense Media, Peeble Go, PeebleGo Next, and Capstone. This is
definitely a post that I have bookmarked for future use as a teacher and
librarian.
Blog 2
The second post I have chosen to
highlight is from October 9, 2023 focuses on forming partnerships
between the school library and the public library. In this blog Miller
shares how her school library and public library partner together. She also
discusses creating logos and marketing materials to promote the partnership and
how she uses those materials. She provides instruction and guidance on using
Canva to create stickers, bookmarks, posters, and other marketing materials
that she uses in the promotion of the partnership. This was very informative
because these instructions and information could be used in other aspects of
the library not just in promoting partnerships with the public library.
Blog 3
January 19, 2023 Miller wrote a blog
that centered on 2nd
graders sharing their stories and research on Martin Luther King Jr. She
started by sharing the choice board that she made for Martin Luther King Jr.
research. It contained videos, books, and websites students can use for their
research. This ensures that students are visiting sites that are reputable, age
appropriate, and contain valuable information. Miller then shared about her
visits with various 2nd grade classrooms and how they were using the
choice boards in their research. She also shared how they used the information
they collected to create their own stories using PeebleGo Create. Finally she
shared some pages from the students created books for readers to view. I teach
elementary school currently and hope to be an elementary librarian, and this is
an activity I could definitely see myself using in the future.
Blog 4
The final post I am going to share is from December 23, 2022. This post is day 23 of 25 days of digital tools and apps. During each of the days of this series, a guest librarian shares a digital tool. The guest librarian gives a description, uses for librarians and uses for students about the tool they are sharing.
This particular day they are highlighting Buncee/ PeelbleGo Create. They share a short video and some information about the uses of the tool. Near the end of the post is also a choice board with the numbers 1-25. Readers can click on a number be taken to the digital tool that was shared on that day of December. This post was very helpful in sharing many digital tools that I had no experience with.
What I’m Reading
This week I’ve been reading a
variety of comedy books. I love reading funny books for several reasons. One of
course is because who doesn’t love a good laugh. The other reason is kids LOVE
books with humor. Books with humor always keep children engaged and listening
to the story (not to mention the sweet sound of kids laughing!). I chose the
books I wanted to read by looking at a few online lists of humor books
published in the last 3 years and searching Destiny. When I searched I chose
humor as one of the criteria and also narrowed the date range to the last three
years. As you can imagine I got a lot of results. I chose about 10 to grab from
our school’s library shelves and also grabbed a few from the lists I had viewed
online. I chose 7 of my favorites from the ones I read to share with you.
***All book images from www.amazon.com and all other images from https://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/***
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