Reader's Corner

C. C. Winn High School is my home campus and I absolutely LOVE being a Maverick. This is a picture taken last year when our football team made history and earned the Co-District Champions.  Believer by Coach Valero

Screencast- A couple of my professors at SHSU have incorporated How To Videos into their lessons and I always wondered what program they used. For some reason I thought it was something only accessible to professors, but what was I thinking? When I read up on what  Screencast-o-matic was, I was thrilled and concerned at the same time. For some reason I thought it was going to be difficult and not user friendly. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that it was rather simple. And I love it! As a matter of fact, the screencast I created will be used by my students the next couple of weeks since we are about to start research paper. For the screencast I chose to do a tutorial, please be kind, this is the first time I do one! The tutorial is to show students how to navigate the resources that our school distsrict provides for our students free of charge. The first one I covered was Follet Destiny, our OPAC catalog. The second thing I covered was our access to Britannica Online w...

Upon reviewing different sites to create Infographics, I decided to choose Piktochart. I played around with the other options but found that for some reason, Piktochart seemed more user friendly and I felt as though it had more options. For my Infographic, the topic I selected from The Pew Research Center was Online Harassment. Within my Infographic I shared my views on the topic, as well as my views on the site itself. Here is the link to my Infographic on Piktochart: Online Harassment Piktochart

Facebook As to what I saw on a couple of school library pages, such as Mission High School Library, many of the posts are about school events, the team's football game updates and such. In addition, it hi-lights teachers and students at the campus to encourage others to visit the library. It focuses on particular books at a time, the one currently being Harry Potter . In a way, this is a great advantage to promote the different and special events that take place in the library. I can see myself doing this to encourage the visits of patrons and to advertise books of the months and such. I feel this is a great way to promote new acquisitions or suggestions. However, a setback I believe to be is that it is quite easy to get carried way and just post news that have little or nothing to do with the library itself. I believe that if that aspect of it is kept under check, then there shouldn't be a problem with any of this.  Twitter Kathy Schrock @kathyschrock The fol...

Lucky Inoreader The feed reader I selected is the Inoreader . The reasons I chose it are simple. One, it is easily accessible through the Web, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. I believe that accessibility is crucial and not worrying about whether or not I will be able to access it from any type of device is definitely a determining factor. To be frank, I had no idea what a feed reader was and so I had never used one before. My second reason is that I don’t want to have to create accounts using programs/services, etc. for a class and just forget about it later. I am actually taking in everything that I am learning so that I may continue to use it in the future. One of the characteristics that I found useful is that it is considered the best for long-term content archiving. I don’t want to add a bunch of links on here that I will never use again. And lastly, I am a visual person. If I don’t like the way something looks, if it is not aesthetically pleasing to the eye, it will not catch...