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  Digital Accessibility in the Library Source Image: US Department of Education ALSC Blog When reading the materials this week about accessibility in the library, I was reminded of Chen (assumed name). Chen is a young boy whom I met when he was in 2nd grade. Chen had a challenging road ahead because he had limited sight.  Even though I was a substitute teacher and was not given Chen's exact medical condition, I could tell that while Chen was a bright and kind boy, what he needed most was that websites, the documents, the books, all the learning materials needed during the day to be accessible to him. Watching Chen, day in and day out, made me realize how important it is that our schools and libraries be accessible to all children at all times. It is that accessibility that makes us a democracy and the library a universal educator. For Chen, this accessibility meant that his classroom work computer was enhanced with a tool that allowed him to zoom in and out of the material the...

COPYRIGHT FOR LIBRARIES Image source: bytescare As librarians, it is important to understand the implications of work copyrighted by authors and which we share with our customers. Why must we always give credit when we cite work we are present to customers? how is it that customers can copy only a certain percentage of printed books? how does a library make sure that its clients understand their responsibilities and the library's responsibility when it comes to copyrighted material? Such are the questions we will find answers to in this section. I first came across the idea of libraries and copyright issues when I was doing a Storytime at my public library.  As a children's Associate, we use a lot of information that we have not created such as music, books, pictures etc... In our team, there was a woman who always made sure she wrote, the author's name, the singer's name, the illustrator's name etc...This piqued my interest. I knew that if I had been the author of ...

  ACTIVE LEARNING METHODS Source Image: Apprendoo I was to be a substitute teacher in a 5th grade class and I was nervous. The instructor had shared his plans with me at 7:45 am and I was still looking it over and trying the connect the projector for the morning meeting when the 5th graders started trickling in. Thank God they had two specials that day: PE and Music. Looking over the plans, though I noticed that in social science, we were to discuss the Transatlantic Slave Trade. And then I had an idea. I would use an active learning method to deliver the course today. Source Image: Anabaptist world and Met Exhibition and Museum of Fine Arts Boston Students today learn differently. Gone are the days when concepts were expounded in a one-directional way. The days of mental mathematics, daily dictations, and memorization. The modern student must learn with images , concepts, and collaboration. The scholastic method of learning with its “rational discussion and clear understanding”...

What is PLN? “Image Source: Teaching and Learning for Social Workers A PLN is a professional learning network. It is a network of individuals, a community that can help you grow personally and in your profession. One can think of it as a trusted group of “friends”, from whom you take and give back in return. This is not an idea that is new to social media or to education. But with the advent of social media, it has become particularly easy to create and belong to a PLN and this allows us a peek into the relationship between teaching and learning.   Authors like Dr. Trus t   highly encourage educators to belong to or create a PLN in order to enhance their social, affective, cognitive and identity growth.  While authors like Rheingold caution us about social media conversation etiquette .  It seems to me that belonging to a PNL would greatly address the current teacher crisis and shortage existing in the educational field in addition to ensuring that the material ...

 

  A CURATED LIST OF RESOURCES FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN SEEKING TO LEARN FRENCH, ENGLISH OR SPANISH Image Source: Word United 1. Books written For French, Spanish and Italian Learners "Bonjour, Butterfly" by James Mayhew (picture book) "T'choupi: Le Premier Noël de T'choupi" by Thierry Courtin (early reader) "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (classic) "La Oruga Muy Hambrienta" by Eric Carle (picture book) "Pablo y el Pájaro Mágico" by Patricia Schaefer (early reader) "Cuentos de la Abuela" by Ana María Machado (collection of stories) "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi (classic) "La Storia del Gatto e del Topo che Diventarono Amici" by Luis Sepúlveda (storybook) "C'era una volta un Re" by Franco Cosimo Panini (fairy tales) 2. Application to help learn French, Spanish, and Italian Duolingo : Offers gamified lessons and practice. Rosetta Stone Kids Lingo Letter Sounds :...