As I wind down on my internship at The Community Library, I am excited to be finishing some aspects of the Leadership program. I am sad that I will no longer be corresponding with the other leadership students but am pleased to lighten up on the work load. I will be staying at The Community Library as a volunteer several days a week and plan to continue preschool story hour for both HeadStart and the community and Character Education story hour. I am looking forward to helping plan Summer Reading Program and already am planning several teen programs to teach how to create movie maker videos as well as Prezi. I am excited about acting on a suggestion I received, looking into getting a grant to provide free Skyping for families of servicemen. I am also going to work on updating resources for homeschooling families.
I created a Prezi to demonstrate many of the activities completed during my internship. I still need to practice more but was able to include videos from Movie Maker and will try again to include a video with sound.
Prezi.com/wsrfpis06nef/internship-presentation/ Learning to use Prezi was easy and will be a useful tool to use with older students. I look forward to showing the teens at the library how to use it.
Tomorrow I am attending another workshop for Reading Advisory Service with Neal Wyatt. I am looking forward to getting a handle on that "never-ending to-read pile" that I seem to have acquired during the last few months. Booklists, American Library, Library Sparks and Knowledge Quests have been piling up and I have vowed to make time for at least 30 minutes of professional reading every day. I also have a pile of articles suggested by members of LM_NET, printed over the last few months that address the benefits of a certified LMS in schools. With declining budgets and part time positions, I need to be armed with resources that will help convince administrators of the importance of a full time LMS in every school. As I finish my certification requirements, I know I will need to be up to date on issues concerning school libraries. It is a challenge I feel prepared to accept.
