Hello Again Friends!
Here we go! It has been a very busy and very cold winter. Spring is here and I am ready to dive right back into our cool tools program! I am determined to make the most of the time we have left together! Thing 2: Photo Sharing has been a wonderful exploration. I am not the best photographer and I rarely remember to bring a camera around. Hopefully with my smartphone and using these awesome photo sharing websites I will be more motivated to share my library world with the school community.
I decided to explore Instagram. I have an account that I started but never use. However, almost all of my friends and family rave about the photo sharing site. While it is on the social side of photo sharing, it has become so popular that I believe that it will be most beneficial to learn more about. Teaching high school students is a balance of finding what technology they are passionate about and creating learning opportunities that capitalize on those interests.
My Instagram username is @kmingham24. I have a profile picture, but I had not added any photos besides a profile picture. Since it is spring and I am down on Long Island with family I decided to take a walk and try to see signs of spring. I posted the pictures on my instagram. Take a look! I hope that you are all as excited for spring as I am!
With April being poetry month I would love to work with the Book Club or my regulars to create book spine poetry photos with students. I am not sure if Instagram would work best, but I would also like to create a Shelfie Display. Teachers, administration, students and staff will take a picture of their home book shelf and a selfie and then students will have to match the bookcase with it's owner.
Ultimately, I will create a CHS Library account in order to keep my personal photos from the professional ones that I take in school, but by navigating through my personal account I will be that much more prepared to start one for our library. The advanced features like simultaneously posting on Instagram and Facebook is awesome for making marketing the library easier. Two birds with one stone :0)! I really do love the possibilities of using photo sharing in the library. Thank you for checking out my Cool Tools blog. Check out this link at the picture that I posted :) https://instagram.com/kmingham24/
Wahoo Spring!
Glad you said you were on LI! I saw you flower pics and was very jealous. :) Nothing in bloom here in Albany yet. Great ideas for photo activities for your library.
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