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  Artificial Intelligence      Hi again! In Module 9 this week, we learned more about Artificial Intelligence (AI). I admit that I am not that familiar or comfortable with AI and have only used it a few times in the past. For example, I have used ChatGPT to help me better understand assignment instructions from previous professors in our program. I copied and pasted the instructions from the syllabus or module and asked ChatGPT to put them in simpler terms and more concrete steps. The few times that I have done this have yielded very helpful results. I was pleasantly surprised.      Since I have limited experience with generative AI, I wanted to try out one of the exercises presented by Ethan Mollick in the YouTube video for this module (Global Silicon Valley, 2024). After I finished viewing the video, I first visited the website www.moreusefulthings.com that Mollick provided at the end of his lecture. Looking through the many prompts he...

  Blog post #4: Assistive Technology         Hello all! I really enjoyed learning more about assistive technology and Universal Design in Module 7, and I was excited to come across Coverveil - a digital tool that “adds a color filter over your screen and over any application you are using” (East-tec, 2025, para. 1).   Name and link to tool: Coverveil   https://www.east-tec.com/colorveil/ .   I was interested in finding such a tool, as two siblings at the middle school where I worked last year relied on a plastic overlay on top of their computer screen. They experience vision problems resulting from albinism (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2013). I believe Coverveil will be a valuable tool for them – one that does not require them to carry along a separate plastic sheet, and one that is easily customizable to their color preference. I think that it could be a game changer for them!   How to locate, access, and use Coverveil: -  ...

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set      Hi again! I selected the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set as the technology hardware I wanted to examine for its teaching and learning capabilities. Since my eldest daughter is a member of her high school robotics team, I was able to get access to this set. Her team uses LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Sets in their community outreach programs to teach coding to elementary and middle schoolers. Since I honestly did not have any idea what this set was all about or what it was capable of doing, I first did some exploring on my own at  SPIKE™ Prime – STEAM Set - Grades 6 - 8 | LEGO® Education . The Product Description on that webpage states : The LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set, part of the LEGO® Learning System, is the go-to STEAM learning kit for grade 6-8 students. Combining colorful LEGO building elements, easy-to-use hardware, and an intuitive drag-and-drop coding language based on Scratch, the SPIKE Prime STEAM set cont...

                                                      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...

       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...