"Stop asking me to commit Copyright Infringement!!" "Hey, could you make this into a poster for me? Thanks! :) Attached: BadlyCompressedTeacherMemeOfDubiousOrigin.jpg" I average 2-3 such emails a week in my school, and with over 50 educators in the building, you can imagine the work piles up. There's a certain temptation to just powering through the endless print orders- sometimes I just want to turn off my brain, fire up my poster maker, and get print whatever cruddy, badly artifact-laden images I've been sent, so that I can move on to more substantive work. I don't, though. My mother was a school librarian, and one of the big tips she gave me as I started my own career was to ALWAYS be careful of copyright. Teachers, she said, are constantly overworked and often looking for a quick solution- and just as often undereducated on Copyright and Fair Use. This was never an indictment of teachers, of course- just a simple acknowledgement of fact: Teache...
One of my primary preoccupations as a librarian is with access and equity. Having worked my whole career thus far in a high-poverty district, I understand better than many the absolute necessity of ensuring that all students have equal opportunitie s to develop skills and access resources, particularly when those students find themselves faced with no home internet, uncertain housing, and food insecurity. As the ISTE blog (Valenzuela, 2022) notes, “As a digital society, we’ve widely accepted the notion that rights and freedoms of expression, beliefs and pursuits are for all. Unfortunately, for some, this is just lip service.” In essence, everyone *wants* to believe that technology is the great equalizer, providing complete and perfect access to information for everyone . My own school district, in fact, follows this philosophy, using a 1 :1 laptop distribution model; every single student in the county is issued their own, personal laptop for...
Hello, All! My name is Jack Burch, and I'm currently enrolled in ISCI 761 with you! My pronouns are He/Him/His, and I work as a high school school librarian in West Georgia, right on the South Carolina border. I am deeply passionate about literacy and the transformative power of technology, and so I'm extremely excited to be taking this course, where I hope to learn a lot of new ways to integrate current technology into my library programming! As for favorite tech tools, I really love using Canva- I made the banner above with it, along with a little art done by a friend- The cute orc you see is Yd'Garr, a character of mine (who is also a librarian)! Yd is a character I made for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, well before I began my journey with Library Science; so I guess my fun fact is that I've been playing tabletop RPGs for more than 10 years at this point, and am a huge fan of collaborative storytelling. I'm looking forward to working with you all!!...
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