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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...

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...

  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...

       blog images - - Image Search Results (yahoo.com)       Hello again! For this post, I will share what I discovered on a blog that features storytelling. In order to locate such a blog, I first looked through the blog sites that our professor had provided in the Resources section on Blackboard. Although these sites are interesting, they are different from what I had in mind. I wanted to find a blog that includes information about storytelling and tips for storytelling, especially in regard to doing so with older children and teens. I find working with teens and young adults very interesting, and I would like to work in a public school library at the secondary level. After searching on Google for a blog with these requirements, I finally settled on the blog titled Storytelling Notes by Priscilla Howe. This blog is part of her personal website https://www.priscillahowe.com (Howe, 2023).  After looking at her website, its various tabs,...

     Story Props – Developing Storytelling – Mothering A Rainbow            Hi again! For this post, I have decided to do a reflection on my storytelling experience using props that I completed last week. This was my second attempt with storytelling, and I must say I was not very excited to do this activity. I had enough trouble with simply holding a book and showing the pictures when I did a read aloud for my first storytelling experience. I could not even fathom holding a book to read the text and show the illustrations as well as incorporating props at the same time. I knew it would be a difficult task. In order to prepare for this activity, I watched the excellent examples of student work that our professor provided in Blackboard. These past students did amazing work and were great in showing me different options on how to use props as part of storytelling. In the first video I viewed, a woman read a book aloud as she pulled out various a...