Weir Having Fun in the Library

  Video and Podcast Journey (and TikTok love it or hate it?) Wow! This week was fun, challenging, aggravating, and empowering all at the same time. The week began by trying to find videos and podcasts to fit a lesson standard. Instructional videos were fairly easy to find while it was difficult to find videos with the quality and length for the grade I was searching.  Podcasts were much more challenging to fit into a curriculum standard.  I'm still not quite sure how to fit them in especially with time constraints already in place.                Classmate suggestion:  use podcasts as part of center rotations.  I also spent many hours trying to figure out how to use and post to TikTok.  I had seen it before and ultimately had deleted my account because of the time suck it created.  I created a new one specifically for the library and know that with the next generation of parents coming through the school it ...

  Using Appsmash in the library This week I went down the rabbit hole of using appsmash as a way of introducing students to apps and tools in order to create an organized and safe space to learn and connect apps.  Using Symbaloo     Here students can get an overview of all of the apps and tools they need for their assignments as well as get a quick glance at a dashboard of predetermined links.  Similar to bookmarks students can create an Appsmash (webmix) for personal links, school links, or even game links.  Several of the pre-created webmixes I found also had links to their own personal library catalogs, libguides, and  This was a great way to start a learning board for the classroom or library.  Upon creating a board I was given existing helpful tools and space to add my own.  Additionally, I could view and save pre-created webmixes for any topic I wish.   I also felt that this was a great way to introduce myself to some new apps...