[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My first full-staff professional development day at Eminence Independent Schools was a Design-Thinking Challenge! This place is awesome! Our challenge was to build a boat out of cardboard and duct tape. We built them at school and took a bus to a local pool. Some designs were more successful than others![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/fz4Pc-NoaBY” css_animation=”right-to-left”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
This was a day of professional learning that some fellow Oldham County librarians and myself organized this past summer. We had over 300 attendees! I created this WordPress website and some Google Forms to help organize the event.
PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator 2015
I applied and was named a PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator. It was a great experience which included numerous online workshops with some awesome guest speakers. Thank you KET and PBS for providing this opportunity and for the many valuable resources for our teachers and students. Insider Louisville Post – December 14, 2015 KBSA Post – October, 2015 Kentucky School Library Media News – Spring, 2015
edcampKY
Thank you to Kentucky Teacher and Brenna Kelly for this writeup of the very first edcampKY in 2014.
Prezi
This is a Prezi that I used for talking points when I was a guest speaker for an EKU graduate level class in educational technology for Dr. MaryAnn Kolloff. We discussed tools and resources and how some are geared towards students, other teachers, and the librarian.
Sierpinski Triangle
I helped these students create an alternative project for some math concepts they were exploring. I loved that I only had to show them the basics of Prezi, some video techniques including the green screen, and some tips on writing a script. Then they took off! Here is their finished project.
New School = New Library
In 2008 I was lucky enough to help design a new school library from scratch. I created this in Sketchup (CAD/3Ddesign software) before the school opened to get a feel for how the library would look and to plan on where to place books and resources. It was so cool being able to show Locust Grove Elementary students, parents, and teachers what the library would look like well before we were able to open the doors.
LMS Handbook
I helped to create this wikispaces wiki to help provide a central location for resources for our district’s library media specialists. We found it nearly impossible to keep printed binders updated each year, and as new librarians would join us, this space made it much easier to share and collaborate on common concerns and projects. fou
Library Map
I created this map for my first school library website at Camden Station Elementary. I wanted to be able to show it to students on our “large” TV! Ha! (Please excuse the typos)
Poetry Quest
I’ve been working on transferring my “portfolio” of projects over to my new site. This poetry project was one of my first websites that I created for students at Camden Station during Poetry Month in 2004! It’s fun to look back on this stuff, as awful as it may look or read, broken links and all… Camden Station Poetry Quest