Final Vision Post # 4 - Project Submission, Challenges and Summary

Final Project

I am super excited to have created a library website for my school and to finally have it done. This is something that I have wanted to do for a very long time, but never had the vision, opportunity or even the knowledge of how to go about creating a website.

Here it is...my Weebly Library Website: http://qgelibrary.weebly.com/

 

By creating this website, I am advocating for the library as a place for everyone in my school community. I want people to know that the library is not just a place to sign out books,...it is so much more! Also, I want to show that as the teacher-librarian, I am here to help collaborate with teachers and support students and parents. They will hopefully see that I have the knowledge and skills that can be valuable to them.

I have learned a lot through this whole process of creating a website, as well as throughout this course. This course has been very inspirational in helping me develop my vision of a library website. Prior to this course, I would not have attempted to create a website, nor a blog, or even acquired the knowledge needed to create my own blog and/or website. Therefore, this course has taught me a lot of things, such as, how to create a blog, how useful Twitter is for my Personal Learning Network and so much more.

I am extremely grateful to have a wonderful and supportive LIBE 477 PLN to learn from and share ideas. I have learned so much from all of you, so THANK YOU!

Creating this website was challenging because it's something I didn't think I would able to successfully complete. Using Popplet helped me to organize my ideas and set up my vision for the website more clearly. At the beginning of the project, I had so many ideas of what I wanted to add, but my thoughts were all over the place. Once I was able to organize my thoughts and plan out what I wanted to include, I felt better about doing this project. It really helped me to focus on knowing who my audience was for this final project.

As I have said before, this library website is a living project. In other words, this is something that I hope to continually add to as needs in my school community change. I am still debating with myself about what things I could still add. Currently, I am trying to make it as simplistic as possible to ensure accessibility is there. My fear is that if the website becomes too crowded with information and links that no one will want to use it.

Overall, this website is something that I am proud of. I worked hard on it and love the way it looks. Also, I was able to connect with my school district's Weebly education account, which helps with accessibility for my school community. I plan on introducing this website at our next staff meeting and our school's next PAC meeting. Also, I have added this link to our school's website and will be adding information about the library website to the school newsletter. Can't wait for everyone to see it and use it!