Scholarship Reports

SCSU course IM 621 Summer Session 2018 by Courtney Walsh / KMS Elementary and KMS High School

I completed the course Reading, Listening, Viewing, and Selection for Children through St. Cloud State University during summer session 2018. I plan on completing my Information Media masters and IM 621 is my first step in doing this. During this course we learned, discussed, and presented on the following topics: evaluating Pre-School through sixth grade [...]

Realities360: AR, VR, and Simulations for Learning by Kate Borowske / McFarland Library, Southwest Minnesota State University

Realities360 was an entire conference on using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) for learning. It was held in San Jose, CA and sponsored by the eLearning Guild, an organization that includes higher education, but consists primarily of trainers and instructional designers in the corporate environment, e.g. Medtronic, Apple. There were a handful of [...]

LibTechConf – Library Technology Conference by Emilirose Rasmusson / Marshall-Lyon County Library

I attended both days of the Library Technology Conference (LibTechConf) at Macalester College this March. This was my third time attending, though my first time in several years. As usual with conferences, the sessions were a bit hit-and-miss as to whether they were applicable to a rural public library, but the discussions during and between [...]

What’s New In Children’s Books by Theresa Nysetvold / Murray County Central

This workshop was a high energy day that mainly reviewed newly published children's books for K-6th grade. Deborah Ford is a nationally recognized librarian, teacher and presenter. If you like Camp Read-A-Lot you would love this workshop. The 150-page resource book is gold! She has included reviews of books, ideas for digital learning, general hints [...]

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