Pray Tell, Librarian

Information, information, and more information. One feels overwhelmed.   The times demand librarians to devise, create, implement, engage, magnify, - transcend!  It's a lot to take in.   This course enabled me to  utilize  this boon.  It facilitated the change of perspective to something tangible, malleable, and something that can be tailored to favor particular student groups.  It gave me direction, ideas, and provided a forum to share these ideas with others.  Along with that, this course created a controlled environment to truly immerse myself in the methodology, philosophy, and practicality of simple things like images (Instagram, Snapchat, Comics, Cartoons), sound (Soundcloud) and videos (Vine, Snapchat, Screencast-O-Matic, Jing, Animoto), and social media (Twitter and Facebook). There are others, but now I have the opportunity to create lessons with intent. Yes, students have these technologies at their fingertips already. ...

Teens, Social Media, and Technology Overview 2015 Lenhart, A., K., & Page, D. (2015). Teens, social media, and technology overview 2015. Pew Research Center . Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/ With so much technology available at the touch of a button, it is easy to be entertained.  However, it's also just as easy to become overwhelmed and even bored.  The overload of technology doesn't deter teenagers from engaging constantly.  Most teenagers have access to some sort of social media and technology every day. According to this article, Facebook is not dead.  One can deduce that a healthy amount of teens is still using Facebook. The face that almost half use it is comforting for a librarian who want to use it to market and create advocacy for the library.  Furthermore, almost as many teens use Snapchat .  This is something else librarians can capitalize on to promote learning and inco...

Teens, Technology, and Romantic Relationships Lenhart, A., Smith, A., and Anderson, M. (2015). “Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships." Pew Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/teens-technology-and-romantic-relationships/  As I opened up the letter on the bus to the district academic meet, my nervousness grew. I couldn't help to feel a flutter in my heart because I knew what it meant.  It meant that Sam Mitchell liked me.  What's more - it meant that he wanted me to know.  I opened the letter and saw three drawn squares, that squares that I had wanted to see.  I checked yes, I wore the "girlfriend" title with pride. We never held hands, nor did he every walk me to class... but we were an item.  Oh yes, that we were. And then slowly, a while two weeks later, things had changed.  Sam Mitchell didn't feel the same way.  He wrote me a letter, with a proper salvation and closing, to break up wi...