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Final Reflections on 5391 01 I have final reflections about my time in LSSL 5391.   As the semester went on, I was just thinking about being a supporting role with our Instructional Technology Specialists on campus.   Come to find out last week, our district has deleted those positions, so guess who gets to pick up that role?   The librarians!!   I am not a librarian yet, but I did offer my principal my services to help teachers integrate technology into their lessons while I still teach my elementary Art job.   I now can offer some of these applications, platforms, or suggestions from your blogs as well.   I hope you continue to add to yours as I hope to continue to add to mine.   My personal opinion on the technology platforms are as follows: Blogs and Blog Readers What excited me most was the different blog types.   I want to add more ideas and really take time to find a blog that represents me more and learn how to a...

Podcasts are great ways to reach a wider audience with audio platforms that can be recorded, saved, and published by students, teachers, librarians, or anyone who would like a vocal presence to share their passion or mission.  I have reviewed and evaluated Soundcloud, Audioboom, PodBean, and podomatic podcast platforms with my favorite suggestion and educational podcast for educators. Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/pages/contact Features since 2008, Soundcloud has helped many users with podcasts, music, demos, and tracks.  The sound is very clear with the ability to add stats to the submissions to see how many listeners are interacting with their podcasts around the world.  Soundcloud can also be used for music listening, and if students create a piece of work on Soundcloud, others can comment on their work.  A possibility for use by librarians could be to help students if they were wanting to practicing sharing music and wanting feed back on...

Collaborative Lesson Planning

ToonDoo Evaluation of the site:   http://www.toondoo.com/  There are a variety of images for students to use.  Very vivid and colorful images is probably the reason for the slow downloads.   Downloading a template took a long time, over an hour.  I didn't even get to save my comic strip.  I was lucky to save it as a Pdf to place in this blog but no link.  I think it would be ok for students to use at home with the understanding that the images will have to be saved along the way.  Small projects and teaching the students how to take screen shots may help if the downloads take a long time as I have experienced.   Example of a comic strip I created with ToonDoo. Not as easy to create with ToonDoo.  The colors are very vivid and options for characters are in abundance.  Saving the ToonDoo was a chore.  There was a lot of time wasted for the "paint to dry".  I never received a link and just took a scr...

YOU TUBE, ANIMOTO, AND QR CODES Fun ways to reach out to a greater audience with videos created by your or your students is describe in the following blog post.  Students watch YouTube videos and remember the information and share it with their peers.  What would happen if you are the students created relevant information in a fun and exciting way.  Students may actually be your subscribers.  If other students were talented with public speaking and theatre, you may be able to use them to reach out to library participants.  Animoto and QR codes reach out to students as well.  Read on to find out ways to use all of these three platforms in conjunction with your library or classroom. YouTube Comparing videos from other libraries was fun.  I think YouTube has a place and a purpose for meaningful interactions.  Below are a few in my opinion that would be helpful in a library situation and some that students would gravitate towards....