Hi, Earl and all!
I love the idea of the Ken Burns style video and feel it has excellent
potential. I have been working on advocacy for about 10 years now and I
would like to strongly suggest an alternative approach to the content.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's a
duck.
If we want to be regarded as educators/ teachers, then we need to sound,
look, talk and act like educators. Instead of a video showing things
that people already have stereotyped images of us doing (opening boxes
of books, shelving books, cataloging books, repairing books, etc.),
focus the video on meeting w/teachers, teaching, grading, doing lesson
plans, reading our National Standards, working on Web pages, assisting
students at the computer, and these types of activities. To address the
idea of collection development, maybe have images of librarians with
curriculum guides and reading through stacks of review materials.
Think of the PERCEIVED expertise involved in the former activities
(opening boxes of books, shelving books, cataloging books, repairing
books, etc.). The average person thinks that you don't need any
expertise to do these things. Some of those activities actually are
things many of us did as student library helpers in middle or high
school. Many of the things are the types of activities that contribute
to professionals being replaceable.
This is a great opportunity to educate; let's send a message that helps
people shift rather than reinforce their paradigms.
--
Sincerely,
Deb Logan
Librarian/Media Specialist
Mount Gilead High School
Mount Gilead, OH
MAILTO:jd3logan@bright.net
http://www.deblogan.com
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