Blogging for Librarians

I decided to use blogger.com because I am already familiar with it from previous semesters. I have used this blogger to do book reviews for other Sam Houston State University classes. By being able to use it frequently, I feel very comfortable with using this blog.

1. For the first blog, I decided to follow Abby the Librarian (http://www.abbythelibrarian.com). On her blogger she shares her love of books for preschool students as well as crafts that can be done with that unit. She also shares ideas for over the summer and personal things that she is doing like the 24 in 48 challenge! I decided to follow Abby the Librarian because I love the ideas she has. I love to instill a love of reading in pre-kinder and kindergarteners!

2. For the second blog, I am following Lauri Fortino's Frog On A (B)log (https://frogonablog.net). Her blog is filled with new books she catalogs into her library as well as book reviews. I love the idea of having a blog to share the new books with her patrons. While she doesn't write reviews for each book, she does post summaries from the cook itself. I decided to follow Lauri Fortino because she shares new books that I may not have heard of. This will be a great resource to use when I become a librarian! 

3. For the third blog, I am following Sal's Fiction Addiction (http://salsfictionaddiction.blogspot.com). Sal's blog is filled with primary and young adult book reviews! He reads and writes reviews about books he reads which he calls his reading an addiction because he loves reading so much! I decided to follow Sal's Fiction Addiction to be able to read reviews on books I may want to purchase for my future library!

4. The fourth blog I am following is The Absolutely True Adventures of a School Librarian (http://www.nikkidrobertson.com/search?updated-max=2017-10-15T15:22:00-04:00&max-results=7). This blog is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Nikki Roberston shares her love for the library, ideas, happenings in her library, and digital ideas! I am following Nikki Robertson's blog to help with the digital aspect of school libraries that are often overlooked. I know I am going to be able to find TONS of ideas from this blog!

5. For the fifth and final blog, I decided to follow Library Patch (http://www.librarypatch.com). The author, Sonya Dykeman, has been a librarian for 8 years and blogs about holidays, library ideas, and more! For instance, her most recent blog post was about summer reading ideas. She also posts freebies and how to become a library detective. I decided to follow Sonya because I believe this blog will be a great resource when I become a librarian! 

My TUMBLR: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/vivalacorie




Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 28, 2017 at 11:39 AM

    I think it says something positive about Blogger.com that everyone in this shadow course chose it for their blog platform! I enjoyed looking at the blogs you referenced and am especially excited to look into The Absolutely True Adventures of a School Librarian and Sal's Fiction Addiction. Thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Screen-O-Matic, Instagram, Flipagram

Screen-O-Matic, Instagram, and Flipagram Hi there! This week I've been using Instagram, Flipagram, and Screen-O-Matic to learn how to use them effectively in teaching or in the library! Now, I used to be an Insta-fanatic and uploaded everything to it! However, I downsized my social media usage and Insta was the first to go-right before SnapChat. So, I am fairly comfortable with Instagram and it's uses. I can however see myself making on and sharing photos from the library. As of now, I use an app called ClassDojo so I share the classroom pictures that way. Flipagram was a new app but I enjoyed it. I love the fact that you can add and edit the mini-videos. On my flipagram account, I went into our library and filmed about the book fair. I can see myself using this to share the happenings going on in the library as well! Lastly, my son and I have been using Screen-O-Matic at home (because he's trying to go viral on YouTube--he only has five subscribers though HA!). It was
Read more

Cartoons

Image
Toon Doo Toon Doo was so fun to work with! You have the options to do different layouts! You have quite a few options of backgrounds, props, characters, and voice bubbles! The thing I really enjoyed was that you can change where the voice bubble is! So for instance, I was able to add a second voice bubble and put it to the side of the character instead of on top. I decided to have some fun and do a Christmas themed cartoon and rewrite the "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Christmas song! Students will love the options and experiences that they can gain with Toon Doo! You have the option to save, print, or email to yourself. It is very easy to use! Pixton For Pixton, I decided to do one over that librarian no one wants to be! Yes, you know, the one that should've retired 20 years ago!! These can be used in SO many ways and I am glad that I'm getting this exposure to all these wonderful apps. This one was one of the easiest to use. When you clicked "nex
Read more

Online Book Communities

Image
Online Book Communities Good Reads Because I have never used GoodReads or knew how simple it was to create shelves, I only created two shelves. I created one for Picture Books and one for Young Adult books. The more I used GoodReads this evening, the more I realized that I could've very easily created more shelves to give a more organized look to my shelving. There are advantages of using GoodReads are that it's easy to use, students would be able to use this website easily to sort the books that they've read or want to read, they have a wide selection of books, and creating shelves is very simple. I don't have any disadvantages at this time. I did click the wrong buttons a few times and placed a book on the wrong shelf, but it is very easy to change the shelves if you do mis-shelf a book! My fourth grade son sat with me and wanted to shelf a few of his favorite books and he was able to do it with minimal instructions from me. That helps me gauge how easy
Read more