Friday 5th October

Article – Conversations

Author – The True Adventures of a High School Librarian Blog

Posted - Friday, September 28, 2012

Located -  http://educationrejuvenation.blogspot.com.au/

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This blog just outlines the importance that sometimes you have to actually talk to people you work with. They might surprise you. This librarian works in a school library and the school offers a subject she had no idea what it actually was or did. So she took herself and spoke to the teacher who ran the program. She found out what the program was and how the library could help with resources. Then later another conversation took place when she was installing software onto a teacher’s computer and found out the teacher was intending to step out of his normal comfort zone of teaching and was going to try different things, including using different types of technology in his class teaching. Again the librarian found out how she could help and what resources they had available. She was amazed that having two different conversations with teachers she worked with would have such a positive response. And a more fulfilling role to play.

Sometimes knowledge comes from the logical places if you think about it. The library is not just the four walls that surround it. Especially in a school. Teachers have an amazing range of knowledge and should be used by the library to get the best out of both.