Using carefully curated digital content to support younger and different learners while promoting collaboration with teachers and library services
The library’s online presence can enable a TL to reach a wider audience and to provide direct links to the wide variety of resources that we know are out there but sometimes remain hidden to our users.
Providing targeted resources assists in relationship building between Teacher Librarians and teachers. There are several platforms to assist with this. This presentation will encourage those with paid platforms to make better use of them and those without paid platforms to discover alternatives and move forward from traditional emailed and paper pathfinders.
LKSW 2024 - Penang
Barbara Reid (Philip)
Retired
20 mins.
WHY?
What you are already doing…
Hints
WayBack Machine
Be careful with passwords -
what will you make public?
Features to look for
Discoverable
(Public? Can share a direct link?)
Clear indexing
Easy to edit
Variety of media embedding
Cost effective
Reporting features (broken links)
Community sharing
Integrates with LMS
Reusable assets
Effective links to collection
Bonus features
Chat function
Scheduling / Booking
Ability to recover and preserve data
Updated when?
Friendly URLs
Dealing with digital debris
Survey
Design for purpose
Books for teachers to share with students (EAL)
Linked audio / hard copy books (EAL & LS)
Dyslexic font (Pathfinders in Oliver)
Decodables Links to online books (Parents and Staff)
Events - Author visits, new resources, promoting change
Topics - one to too many - Target a whole Grade level - Collaborate with teachers
Collaborate with students Keep it local & promote all your research tools
Pathfinder Heroes