This week I have experienced a range of emotions....from the, "I can do this!" to the, "I can't do this!" I have been juggling caring for 4 children, including 1 who has been sick on my own (my husband is away), work, house work, extended family commitments, life and trying to find time to study! Arrrgh!!!!
My thoughts.....
After completing some of the Topic 2 readings regarding the role of the TL I have discovered that my view of the TL role is very different to the direction of the TL role in the 21st Century. I am not going to attempt to justify or explain my view, it is what it is, (or what it was!).
I have had 9 weeks work in my K - 6 library in the TL role. From my experience and observations of the permanent TL, put very simply, I observed and experienced that the main role of the TL was to read a story to the students and to check out/check in books. Of course deep down, I knew that there was obviously more to the role than just the above, however I had no idea that the TL role was so extensive, challenging and capable of initiating such deep thought and reflection. I can see that my learning curve ahead is going to be very steep and so again I remind myself that there is no right or wrong starting point and we all have our own learning journeys to travel!
Kylie's TL Journey
Friday, 29 July 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
An Interesting Read!
I read the following in the SMH... loved it, related to it and wanted to keep it somewhere that i wouldn't lose it, so here it is in my blog!
There's no substitute for books
July 21, 2011
Opinion
HECKLER
There are days when I can barely keep my eyes open because I've been up all night with my nose in a book.
There are days when I read instead of cleaning the house. And I've been known to cancel on friends because I'm close to the end of a novel.
It's cheaper, apparently, and you don't even have to leave the house.
Despite the attraction of not leaving the house, I find online shopping unsatisfying. It's not that I lack fingers or a technical brain, but rather that I feel consistently nervous about giving out my credit card details online.
I do not want Amazon to keep a record of what I am reading. I do not want special-offer spam.
And I do not want to wait a week for the next instalment by Alexander McCall Smith to arrive in the post, potentially battered by heavy-handed post people and bad weather.
Besides, I want to hold a product before I spend money on it. I want to measure its size and weight, and I want to test how it feels in my hand. I like to make purchasing decisions with all senses engaged.
This is also how I want to read.
How will my e-book hold the red wine I spilt when I read about the union between Elizabeth and Darcy?
How am I to take my e-reader into the bath? What if it runs out of battery at the beach, or gets sand in it?
I have 20-20 vision and an iPad, but so far combined they don't a reading experience make. Sure, I can consume the story, but the story cannot consume me.
For one thing, my iPad is made of metal and plastic. It absorbs nothing: not coffee, not biscuit crumbs, not the large sigh I let out at the end of a particularly satisfying narrative.
And falling asleep on my iPad, I have discovered, isn't nearly as comfortable as flopping my head into a paperback.
The iPad smells of metal and plastic.
My books smell of wood and ink. I write notes in the margins. I underline things. While I can also do this on my iPad, I cannot capture the feeling that is made obvious by my shaky handwriting and thick red pen.
Books hold the memories we make when we read them, immortalising our experiences within their pages. Without pages, where do the memories go? Facebook?
Faith Sands
Illustration by Dinalie Dabarera.
I CONFESS: for at least 27 of my almost 33 years, I have been a reader.There are days when I can barely keep my eyes open because I've been up all night with my nose in a book.
There are days when I read instead of cleaning the house. And I've been known to cancel on friends because I'm close to the end of a novel.
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I'm an addict. So you can understand my horror at hearing all this talk about the demise of the bookselling industry and the death of the book. People are buying online and using e-readers.It's cheaper, apparently, and you don't even have to leave the house.
Despite the attraction of not leaving the house, I find online shopping unsatisfying. It's not that I lack fingers or a technical brain, but rather that I feel consistently nervous about giving out my credit card details online.
I do not want Amazon to keep a record of what I am reading. I do not want special-offer spam.
And I do not want to wait a week for the next instalment by Alexander McCall Smith to arrive in the post, potentially battered by heavy-handed post people and bad weather.
Besides, I want to hold a product before I spend money on it. I want to measure its size and weight, and I want to test how it feels in my hand. I like to make purchasing decisions with all senses engaged.
This is also how I want to read.
How will my e-book hold the red wine I spilt when I read about the union between Elizabeth and Darcy?
How am I to take my e-reader into the bath? What if it runs out of battery at the beach, or gets sand in it?
I have 20-20 vision and an iPad, but so far combined they don't a reading experience make. Sure, I can consume the story, but the story cannot consume me.
For one thing, my iPad is made of metal and plastic. It absorbs nothing: not coffee, not biscuit crumbs, not the large sigh I let out at the end of a particularly satisfying narrative.
And falling asleep on my iPad, I have discovered, isn't nearly as comfortable as flopping my head into a paperback.
The iPad smells of metal and plastic.
My books smell of wood and ink. I write notes in the margins. I underline things. While I can also do this on my iPad, I cannot capture the feeling that is made obvious by my shaky handwriting and thick red pen.
Books hold the memories we make when we read them, immortalising our experiences within their pages. Without pages, where do the memories go? Facebook?
Faith Sands
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/theres-no-substitute-for-books-20110720-1hov3.html#ixzz1SnKlnfCt
Monday, 18 July 2011
Discoveries!!
Firstly, I now realise that the reason for this blog is to share my learning journey throughout my completion of my Bachelor of Education (Teacher Librarianship) which I officially started on July 11 2011.
Secondly, I have discovered that everyone is going to read this blog, or at the very least have access to it!
Combined with the above, weekly readings and computer exploration (I say exploration because I am constantly finding things that I didn't realise I was looking for!) so far it has been an epic (my 10 year old son's favourite word at the moment) journey of learning and discovery!
I am a first time blogger and this whole blogging experience while new and exciting is also a little daunting and unsettling. I am both intimidated and inspired by the blogs that my fellow colleagues have created, so I remind myself that we all have different starting points for this same journey and that I need to take one step at a time, one day at a time if i am to enjoy my journey!
Secondly, I have discovered that everyone is going to read this blog, or at the very least have access to it!
Combined with the above, weekly readings and computer exploration (I say exploration because I am constantly finding things that I didn't realise I was looking for!) so far it has been an epic (my 10 year old son's favourite word at the moment) journey of learning and discovery!
I am a first time blogger and this whole blogging experience while new and exciting is also a little daunting and unsettling. I am both intimidated and inspired by the blogs that my fellow colleagues have created, so I remind myself that we all have different starting points for this same journey and that I need to take one step at a time, one day at a time if i am to enjoy my journey!
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