THING 9 DATABASES AND SEARCH TOOLS

I checked out most of the links in thing 9.  I plan to try out the saving feature that is now available in gale products to google drive.  I had forgotten about the way back machine.  I also appreciated the google tricks and the 6 Steps to Teaching Students to Search.  I plan on using and sharing the 15 must have google lesson plans to teach Students effective Search Skills with the other librarians in my district.  I did try out some of the google lessons and didn't do as well as I thought I should have!  For this assignment, I put the kid friendly search engines off of my page:

https://sites.google.com/a/schalmont.net/jefferson-library/home


I have enjoyed this class.  I have completed ten assignments and would like to continue but realistically I have a great deal going on right now and I don't think I will have the time.  I look forward to taking your class again next year.  I loved the organization and I loved learning new things that have helped me in my job.  It is really hard to get technical support at my school.  Most of the time I have to do a work around.  The information that is available in this class allowed me to succeed at working around the technology limitations of my school so that there are more tech opportunities for kids.  For example, I used to use the voice thread and didn't realize that you had to pay for it so it stopped working and I couldn't get anyone to help me with that.  I learned about movenote in your class and switched to that.  When I had trouble with that, I was able to switch to screencastify another tool that I learned about in your class.  Every day I have students who want to do the weekly library update and now they are able to.

THING 8 SCREENCASTING

I read all of the information posted in this assignment.  Since we use google chromebooks at school, I decided screen castify was the best choice.  I have used google hangouts in the past.  I decided that I wanted to do something that I could use so I made a slide show about how to use the on-line catalog to access EBOOKS that were currently available at the library with a specific reading level range.  I had fun doing this and I think the product I came up with will be useful to students and faculty at my school. I must confess it will help me as well as often I forget how I did something and don't feel like spending the time to reacquaint myself with the process.  The link to my product is here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxP7Yj1HGRPKOEdNWEZodmtPdTA/view

I also made this available off of my webpage:

https://sites.google.com/a/schalmont.net/jefferson-library/

THING 7 AUDIO TOOLS

I read all of the information posted in THING 07 Audio Tools.  I used movenote in an another assignment.  I use movenote to record student recordings of short booktalks and to update parents about what we are doing in the library this week.  I have had some trouble lately getting the video to come up. Unfortunately, I had the same problem when I went to use flipgrid.  It would not recognize my video camera as being there.  Right now I have I have a test run located at:

https://flipgrid.com/b6421b

But it does not have a video.  I had our tech person look at this as well because it is the same thing at school, the camera is not recognized.  My suspicion is that the Tech Director locked it down.  I plan to start another flipgrid account with my personal gmail account to see if I have the same problem.  In the end, I spent a great deal of time on this but much of it was with technical difficulties.