The best thing I did this year was to jump into blogging. I started a
blog for my library to communicate with parents (and others) about
what goes on in our library. I blogged every week and detailed what
each class did that week. I was amazed at the response from parents.
They loved it! Working in the library can be kind of a quiet part of
the school program and having this blog was the best "PR" I could have
ever done. The best comment I got from a parents was, "I had no idea
you did all those wonderful things in the library!" The kids loved it,
too. We did some video book reviews and posted them on the blog. As
of today, there have been almost 5,000 visits to the blog from all
over the world! My students were very impressed with the "reach" of a
blog and understood why it is such a powerful thing and something to
be treated with ethics and respect.
I started a Library Skills blog for library skills lessons with my 5th
and 6th graders who have laptops. Not only did it make using the
laptops for lessons so much easier, the students really respected that
I would blog. We also started a Research Blog so that they could
learn to post and comment in an ethical way.
For my last post of the school year I put some links to summer reading
lists. Many parents have already thanked me for that.
My principal thinks all this is truly wonderful and sees me as an
innovator and a very valuable resource at the school. (Always good
when talks of budget cuts come along......)
Have a wonderful summer!
Janet Pedersen
Librarian
Cold Spring School
Santa Barbara, CA
jpedersen@coldspringschool.net
blog:http://csslibraryblog.blogspot.com/
website:http://www.coldspringschool.net/component/option,com_uhp2/Itemid,98/task,viewpage/user_id,83/
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold,
that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the
better." ~~Barack Obama (from a speech to the American Library
Association June
25, 2005)
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