As librarians, we have many components of our jobs. It is our job to develop and maintain the collection, continue relationships and collaborations with staff, connect students with the right books, advocate for what we do to our administrators as well as the rest of the stakeholders, keep up with a makerspace, and the list …
Continue reading Makerspaces: My Favorite Part about Being a Librarian
Happy Library Week, friends! Our school recently hosted a site visit for other staff in our county to come observe our students and staff using their laptops and observe how 1:1 has changed education at our school. I walked around with some staff who asked great questions and were eager to hear what we had …
Continue reading How 1:1 Made Me a Better Librarian
In a conversation with a teacher the other day, she remarked how much she enjoyed seeing "student stuff" around the library. I kind of laughed and wasn't really sure what she was talking about; of course we have the forgotten agenda, an occasional lunchbox, and the renegade pencil case, but she mentioned things I didn't …
Continue reading Building Community through Student Ownership
When I was younger, I think around elementary school, my friends and I would make these origami things for our fingers - we called them fortune tellers. The outsides usually had colors, like red, and you would open and close your fingers based on the number of letters there were in the word your partner …
Continue reading Makerspace on the Road: Beginning English and Origami
I absolutely love that my library's makerspace has been able to serve our Beginning English class this year. See this post from October about our first lessons! For a variety of reasons, we haven't been as consistent about having monthly lessons in the makerspace as we first intended. This month, we were determined (that, and …
Continue reading Beginning English, Makerspace, and Purpose
When I first was planning my makerspace, I set a goal for myself to find at least 3 ways for each subject to use the makerspace in the standards/lessons they already teach. Well, while I was far from reaching my goal, some really great ideas came out of that brainstorming. One of them was working …
Continue reading Conversational English in the Makerspace
Today I have a grand total of 8 students in our makerspace after school. With the exception of two students working together on stamping and crafts, everyone is working on their own project. A smattering of projects: One student is making a helmet from parts of a paper box and aluminum foil, another is creating …
Continue reading Makery Things (A quick post)
Happy back to school! I know most of us have been back for a while, but oh man, I feel so drained after school for most of September. There's so much going on: launching clubs, processing new books, meeting & getting acquainted with new staff, and oh yeah, that minor detail called orientation. Since my school …
Continue reading Orientation, Making, and Welcoming Everyone into the School Library
Like you most likely know, I am a huge advocate for my library, students, and staff. Being in the classroom for many years really brought to light the variety of experiences, abilities, and wealth students bring with them to school each day. It is the teacher's responsibility to take all of those and ensure all …
Continue reading Making a Makerspace (and why my students need one)
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