My career goal is to become an elementary school librarian. I focused my search for blogs written by elementary school librarians. I tried all four of the search engines provided for us in our module. I tried the Google and Yahoo search engine links first because I familiar with them. I did not find any blogs that were of interest to me using them. I then tried Technorati and found a blog I liked on the first try. I used elementary libraries as my search criteria. The blog Voices from the Inglenook interested me because it is one I can relate to easily as an elementary school teacher and what I aspire to be as a teacher librarian. The blog does offer an RSS feed and it also has a Visitor's Map and FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed.
The blog author Janet Reid is the school librarian for Cold Spring School in Santa Barbara, California. She writes about the lessons each grade level is working on each week in the library. She even has students write book reviews and posts video blogs of students reading their own book reviews. She has many links posted and I found a few other blogs I found interesting. Ms. Reid is very adept at writing and posting blogs. She also has a blog for library skills and research skills. The blog Cold Spring School Library Skills Blog has assignments posted that include library skills for students to complete and respond by writing comments. The blog The Research Blog is for research projects posted by the students of Cold Spring School
Here is an excerpt from the blog Voices from the Inglenook
News From the Library--January 25, 2010
Third Grade--In order to learn about the literary concept of plot, third graders heard Tomi de Paola's enchanting book Adelita. Before reading the story I asked the students to summarize the plot of a Cinderella story which they did easily. Then as we read Adelita we compared and contrasted the difference in this Mexican version.
These three blogs are excellent examples of a superb teacher librarian.
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