Lost in the Final Visions

Via Pexels

This course has been eye-opening in more ways than one. On top of all the amazing learning opportunities working through the modules, and reading everyone’s blogs have given me I have also learned some valuable lessons in how to get work done while dealing with a teething infant.

My final vision project wraps up a huge learning process for me. I am generally not one to put myself out there online, and now I have a blog, a reactivated twitter account, and a you tube channel. This may not seem like much, but it is huge for me right now. I have been able to see what a valuable experience sharing your work is to others, and I look forward to continuing to learn this way. Starting this course, I wanted to continue learning how to be an active and valuable teacher-librarian. Upon completion of this course (about half way through the diploma) I feel I have made some big strides in this direction, and have a better idea about how to continue this journey going forward. So, below please find the Tutorial Videos that are my Final Visions Project. 

Via Giphy

 The following videos are very, very basic tutorials meant to help engage my elementary educational community to our ERAC databases, as well as our online catalogue through Destiny Discover. They will be uploaded to my library website page and I intend to use them in the library during introductory lessons, as well as promote them among staff and students.

The Destiny Discover video covers the most basic step of finding the icon from a non-library computer, to searching a title of a book, and finally how to place that book on hold if it is not available. It seems simple, but these are the questions that I spend a huge amount of time answering over and over again for students. If it is successful, I think this may be the most valuable tutorial I will ever create. Especially as I intend to put it on the desktop of every school computer. Every. Single. One.

Destiny Discover "How to Find a Book"

These ERAC videos are equally simple as to their instructional content. I have chosen to highlight the World Book Kids searchable database, as well as World Book Student as these two are more broadly usable across the curriculum for primary and intermediate classes. I am hopeful that by making these videos available, staff and students will begin to access these great databases and explore further on their own. If these videos are well received I would like to extend this type of introduction video to the other ERAC databases, as well as some more in-depth tutorials.

World Book Student "How to Search a Subject"

World Book Kids "How to Search a Subject"

References

"Destiny Discover." 2017. https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/ui/53486/

"World Book Kids." Worldbookonline.Com, 2017, http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/Home.

"World Book Student." Worldbookonline.Com, 2017, http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/home