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 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 [...]
This was my first time attending the Library Technology Conference at Macalester College, and it won’t be my last. Both keynote speakers (Sarah Roberts – UCLA and Bergis Jules – University of California, Riverside) presented on very poignant topics that I had not thought much about previously but were very thought provoking. The first session [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This was my first time attending the LibTech Conference at Macalester College in St. Paul. The two keynote speakers presented topics that many of us don’t even realize or think about. Sarah T. Roberts discussed the many issues associated with Social Media and Bergis Jules shared the ethics of collection, use, and access to web [...]
2018 LibTech Conference was great. Our keynote speakers Sarah T. Roberts and Bergis Jules both really made me think about social media posting and the implications of each post, tweet, video upload, and more. The idea of commercial content moderation or CCM, a term Professor Roberts coined to define the field study around the large-scale, [...]
Another great year at LibTech! Both keynote speakers were excellent this year and made me think about topics in new ways. The first session I attended was led by Honna Veerkamp (St. Louis Public Library), who talked about ways to strengthen community partnerships. Honna has a very unique job (she's a Creative Experience Specialist) and [...]
For me, the Retreat was worthwhile for two reasons: 1. To hear Valerie Horton from Minetex speak. Not only was the topic valuable, but it was good to have her exposed to our situation, especially given that it was a small group and we got to chat more than a typical presentation like that usually [...]
SAMMIE gave me the opportunity to attend the 2017 Fall SRP Resource Fair in St. Cloud. There were 3 different sessions. The first one was for early childhood (birth-age 3), 2nd presentation was for school-age/tweens, and the final presentation was on teens/adult programming. Each section covered displays, passive and active programs, as well as hints [...]