What Quigley Elementary Library has to Offer
My focus this week is to continue to develop my final vision by elaborating on my ideas, scope and direction. After reading fellow classmate's final vision blog posts, I started to rethink my own vision. My initial thoughts were to create a library blog, however now I am thinking of creating a library website with a link to a library blog. Also, my target audience was originally geared more towards teachers, now I would like to make the library website for our whole school community of teachers, staff, students and parents. I want to create a library website that can be easily accessible and easy to navigate around. Therefore, I took the idea of using Popplet from Jen Lane to organize the menu headings and subheadings for my library website.
Now that I have a clearer idea of what direction I would like to go with my final vision, I have a more focused rationale.
My rationale for this project is to provide a source of information to everyone at Quigley Elementary School about the Library, such as, what's happening in the library, who's in the library, new books, why libraries are important and also, research information, including digital and media literacy and links to web tools and anything that will be useful for all teachers, staff, students and parents of Quigley Elementary School.
Elaborate on your audience, their needs, and how your final project is going to address this goal: I would like teachers to have a place to go and find out about digital and media literacy, about inquiry-based learning, about web 2.0 tools, etc. Also, a place for teachers to see how valuable the library is to teachers and students. For students, I want them to be able to see what is happening in the library and how to be a part of it. For parents and staff, they can use the website to help with projects, homework and see everything the library has to offer.
Why a website? I am choosing to do a website rather than just a blog for my final vision project because I wanted to make it easier for everyone to navigate through all the information that I wish to include. Also, our school district uses Weebly for schools and teacher websites. I have never used Weebly before, but I know that many teachers in my school district have their own Weebly classroom sites and I like how they look and are easy to navigate around.
References:
Lane, Jen. (2015, November 11). Vision Post #1: A Virtual Library Learning Commons. Schoollibraradventures. Retrieved from: http://blogs.ubc.ca/schoollibraryadventures/2015/11/11/vision-post-1-a-virtual-library-learning-commons/
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A good post that reviews your goals and is flexible in design and scope to meet the needs of your intended audience as you are building it. A good direction, useful format, and strong need all guide your final vision. This weebly site sounds very valuable to your school community as its is realistic, familiar and approachable. Looking forward to the final product!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of a website, but it sounded a little complicated (I don't know HTML coding, etc.), so I've decided on a blog with multiple pages/tabs. But I'm interested to hear about your experiences with Weebly, and seeing how your project turns out. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing how your site progresses! It's so great that we can share ideas in this forum to build the best resources possible for our communities.
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of using the same kind of website for the library that the district and teachers use, will make it easier for students and parents to navigate. It will also help you because you will have support from other teachers while you build your site.
ReplyDeleteYes, the idea of using a format that the staff and students are familiar with is a definite bonus, and by working through the process while building your website means you will be better able to support them too. There is a lot of research that goes into learning something well enough to create the site you are working on, good for you. I look forward to seeing the end product.
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