Heather's Happenings

 Blog #6 - 3D Doodler Pen            This is a picture of the 3D Doodler student kit.  It shows 4 yellow boxes that contain blue 3D pens, and orange box with the different colored plastics as well as a green teachers kit.   Here is a video of our recently bought 3D Doodler pens.  I was inspired by others to buy this set for my library.  I can not wait to use it and implement it into our library! Lesson Plans for  3D Doodler 3D Learning Pack

 Blog #5 - Cyberbullying This image that has a girl sitting on her yellow couch with her computer reading harsh words like "you are a looser," "no one likes you," "UR fat."        Bullying can be identified as a repeated behavior that intends to cause harm to people of lesser  power (Faucher, Cassidy, & Jackson, 2015).  These actions from the bully can be overt and convert,  physical, verbal, psychological and cyberbullying.  I was fortunate to grow up without the last type of  bullying, cyberbullying.  Back in the day, there was bullying, but we did not have phones or   computers.  If you were going to pick on someone, usually someone around you would know about the  problem because  it was fact to face because it was either physical or verbal.      What surprised me so much about this weeks module is how easy it was to bully someone via text,  emails or social media.  There are...

Blog #4 - Adaptive Technology Resources This is an image with a red background with a cursive "S" and cursive "O" in the middle           An online digital tool that I wanted to share is called Storyline Online.   Even though it is not labeled  as an assistant device, I feel that it can help those with disabilities.  Storyline Online is a free resource  that reads popular children's books aloud.  These stories are read aloud by some familiar faces who are  either actors, politicians, television stars, or musicians.  You can locate this source online 24 hours a  day.  You can also download the app on your phone so you can truly take it anywhere.  You can find  books that are listed alphabetically at the top of the page.   Here is an example of a reading     After reading Dr. Copelands article, School Librarians of the 21st Century, Hints for Selecting and  Evaluating  Assist...

                              Ozobot robot moving on a line through a city acting like a car Blog 3 - Technology Hardware       Our world is everchanging being a librarian in the 21st century.  We are not only expected to have  collections of books that reflect our community or schools, but we are also responsible for  implementing new technologies.  A piece of technology hardware that I explored is Ozobots.  Ozobots  are small robots that follow lines, detect three different colors, and can be programed using visual  codes.  They can be coded two different ways.  Students can draw lines with different color (black, red,  green and blue) markers.  These robots can interpret these colors that tell them different commands  depending on the sequence of the colors.  For example if you draw a line that contains red, green, r...