ASM LLC

FINAL PROJECT - A DIGITAL BLOG SHOWCASING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING It has been made clear to me over the years that my own learning never stops.  As soon as I try to settle in to complacency, or worse yet try to be an expert, I am humbled by all that I do not know.  Sometimes that reality hits me with a moment where I realize I know the least in the room, other times it is a grade received on an assignment when I thought I did so well, and then there is the constant movement in education to improve the way our students learn.  It truly is an ever vibrant profession.  I have learned that the flashiest ideas are not always the ones I want to adopt.  Sometimes they are, but not always and that is okay.  The project I chose for this class is very personal to my own journey as a teacher librarian.  It embraces many of my mentors' ideas that I have been connected with over the last five years in the library learning commons and in the two decades I h...

AUDIENCE The school community.  Parents, teachers, administrators and board members. PROJECT To participate in a spiral of inquiry around indigenizing the LLC.  Document this endeavour as well as future learning initiatives on the school based website. RATIONALE With the technology we have today it makes sense to share the learning that is going on in the library learning.  "We can raise the teaching profession by sharing what works, by taking the best of what we do and hanging it on the virtual wall.  Many would argue that is is now the duty of teachers to do so." (Richardson, 2012) The weekly website continues to be a place where students and teachers can come for practical information like a weekly blog about the happenings in the LLC, the schedule, & programming information.  Using the school based website to document the learning on the learning page takes the sharing of information one step further academically. Making t...

retrieved from Catherine Nickerson's personal files PROPOSAL To document the learning and thinking of the role of a library learning commons onto the learning plan page of the school's website.  http://www.asm.sd23.bc.ca/Pages/default.aspx#/= By engaging in the school's learning plan page it will broaden the scope of the current AS Matheson LLC website.  https://catherinenickerson.weebly.com PURPOSE To continue the work being done in the LLC last year around communication. Last year I engaged in communication with parents, the community and the TL community in the Kelowna area with a video outlining the work being done in the ASM library learning commons.  You can see the video above. As I engage in a spiral of inquiry around how to indigenize the LLC I hope to use the learning plan page as a digital artifact to communicate and reflect upon the process. ACTION ITEMS Arrange a meeting with the vice principal to be taught how to blog on the district...