First I want to say that Brian Cooley is an excellent speaker and instructor. He is pleasant to listen to, and he made it sound simple to make a podcast.
I could use podcasting as a method to connect with students, parents or teachers at the school in which I am a librarian. All kinds of things could be covered in a podcast I would record. Some could be instructional, some could be informational. They could have to do with library/reading related topics, or be for more general school topics, such as upcoming events.
It would be really fun to host student podcasts. I could do a class or workshop on making them, or just be available to help a student during their study hall, or after school. It would be a great way of getting students into the library.
Brooke
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I think that Brian Cooley is great too.
I don't mean to sound negative, but after completing my first practica I'm not sure how or when a library media specialist has the time to be creative and implement these awesome ideas.
Stacey,
I appreciate what you are saying. You have the onsite experience, and I just have a student's idealistic vision of what could be. Perhaps as a working librarian I could have as a goal to make one podcast per quarter or semester. However slow or small that may seem, it's bound to pull more people onboard. Some teachers may become interested in contributing periodically, or working together with me, to reduce the load and responsibility for each of us.
In what grade level was your practica? From my two fieldwork experiences, I saw that the elementary school librarian was much more busy, because she had classes scheduled back to back all day, except for one or two prep periods and lunch. The middle/high school librarians had some weeks in which classses came in most of the day, for which they were doing an initial lesson on day 1, then on subsequent days they helped the students with their research. Other weeks they had no classes scheduled, and they weren't as busy. From this example, I'd say that it would be easier for the middle/high school librarians to carve out time to do a podcast.
That tutorial was really interesting and made the idea of "podcasting" less murky in my mind:)
It could be a great activity for an SLMS to get involved in, if she had the time and/or the help.
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