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Bongiorno_Cameron_Post #1 (comparison of AASL and ISTE Standards)

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                                                      Standards      Hi everyone! Welcome to the Bongiorno Blog!     For this post, I will discuss aspects of the National School Library Standards created by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL)   and the ISTE Standards created by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).            Mary Lou O’Connor, an elementary school librarian, mentions both sets of standards in her article Now serving…an appealing menu of digital literacy tools and resources (2019) in which she introduces the choice menu she designed based on the AASL National School Library Standards. O’Connor (2019) states “I created the menu to provide a handy resource that includes links, information about grade-level appropriateness, and descript...

Bongiorno_Cameron_BlogShare #2 - Looking Backward Blog

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       Blogger Icon - - Image Search Results (yahoo.com)      Hi again! I hope that everyone is doing well! For this post, I will share another blog that I find useful as a future librarian and hope that you do as well. In my first blogshare post, I highlighted a blog about storytelling created by the professional storyteller Priscilla Howe. I did learn a great deal from her posts, but I wanted to find a blog about being a librarian this time around. After several searches on Google, I came across the Looking Backward blog ( https://lookingbackward.edublogs.org ) created by Barbara Paciotti (2023). The title at the top of her blog immediately caught my eye: Looking Backward - No Sweat Library Lessons & Management That Works (Practical Answers to Questions You Didn't Know to Ask). I felt like she was directly speaking to me since I still feel a bit like a fish out of water in some of my graduate courses - not knowing what  questions I should be...

Bongiorno_Cameron_Free Choice #2 (reading reflection on programming)

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Library Programming https://www.cobourg.ca/en/home-and-property/Program-Registration-and-Guide.aspx      Hello again! Before I begin my Reading Reflection on library programming, I would like to give you some background information about myself. I am currently in my second semester of pursuing my Master of Education in Library and Information Science. I have thoroughly enjoyed the courses that I have taken thus far and have learned so much. I am definitely more comfortable with my knowledge about young adult literature, especially the different genres, children's literature, and the foundations and values of this field. Through this Storytelling course, I have become more confident in my ability to choose more appropriate stories to share and in my knowledge about the importance of the hook and timing, among many other relevant details and facts. Even after all that I have learned throughout my graduate courses, I am most afraid and wary of program planning for the librar...

Bongiorno_Cameron_Storytelling reflection (Free choice from Week 11)

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free choice image - - Image Search Results (yahoo.com)            Hi again! This week's post will be a reflection on my storytelling experience from week 11 in our course. For this storytelling experience, we were allowed to choose which type of storytelling we would like to do - storytelling with a book (a read aloud), interactive storytelling, storytelling with props, or storytelling without a book. I was excited to have the chance to choose the storytelling type because I could select the best one for me. I t was a no-brainer.   I was going to do storytelling with a book. From my past storytelling experiences, I found this type to be the easiest and least stressful to perform and record. Now, I just had to carry out the steps to complete this storytelling assignment.      My first and main concern was finding a great book to use for this experience. Since I did not have the luxury of attending a Scholastic Book Fair at my youngest dau...

Bongiorno_Cameron_Reading Reflection 2

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  Digital Storytelling The World of Digital Storytelling | by Kyle Klocke | Medium      Hello again! My blog post today reflects on the reading I did this week concerning digital storytelling. I have to admit that I am not very familiar with this type of storytelling and am not certain that I have ever created a digital story in my years of teaching or in any of my graduate courses. The closest thing to digital storytelling I may have done is when I created a PowerPoint presentation of my vacation to Mexico for my Spanish II classes. The students were learning about the difficult concept of describing an event in the past using the preterite and imperfect tenses. To help them with this, I put photos from my trip on slides and then added text below the photos to describe the setting, situation, or event that included the correct use of the preterite and imperfect tenses. I used a SMARTboard to present the slides. Smart Board Blank No Projector Clip Art at Clker.c...