In addition, I've finally gotten a chance to read the articles about hipster librarians, and check my work email, and my library moodle page. I've even made progress on one tech encyclopedia entry. This weekend definitely had some great moments of accomplishment.
Maybe I'm getting back into the swing of things for this class. It's not as though I stopped working on it/ for it (I haven't), but the immediate thrill of the blog is gone. Now it's time for consistency, follow-up, regular maintenance. Like reading shelves, it can be necessary but daunting. And once I'm off the track for a while, where do I start in getting back on?
One of my classmates, librarygirl101, suggested that the library teacher should send daily tech emails to teachers. Perhaps this would be a great service, but I can honestly say that finding a new tech advancement to daily email about would be a challenge for me. In addition, I don't know if I could succeed with that kind of regularity. Last year, I did send messages to teachers, regarding new materials and new databases, but not daily. I tried for every quarter, and felt lucky to get that much done. Now that I've finished my first year in a school I can honestly say, the first year is a bear. There is so much I wanted to do that I still haven't done, and so much that landed on my plate that I had no idea would be there. Perhaps the best advice I got before starting was from my mom who said,
"don't do anything in the first year you won't be willing to do in the future."It's another version of first impressions stick, I suppose, but it's helpful to remember that a base can be created and built upon, but much of the first year is about establishing the base.
I want to write more on RSS feeds and my impression of Google docs, but I feel they need their own entry. I figure this is enough for now. Also, I put a twitter feed on my blog page when trying to arrange a podcast badge for a friends show, and I want to take it off, so I should do that now.
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What about once a week. It doesn't have to be big and impressive. Simply something like, "This week's great tech find is..." Then you add one thing you heard about recently. Teachers don't need to know that it's not new to you. It's just new to them.
perhaps I will do that this year, or every other week--once for tech stuff once for print stuff...so they don't think I'm trying to be a technology person, since we have a Tech dept of sorts.
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