{"id":3958,"date":"2020-08-18T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:55:37","slug":"school-librarians-stepping-up-during-virtual-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/school-librarians-stepping-up-during-virtual-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"School Librarians Stepping Up During Virtual Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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School librarians and school libraries are essential<\/a> in school buildings today. What happens when schools go virtual<\/a>? School Librarians step up<\/a>! How<\/a> can you as a School Librarian step up your virtual learning<\/a> game? Besides staying abreast of school library news<\/a> and blogs<\/a>, staying connected<\/a> with your school community is fundamental<\/a>. School Librarians are reimagining<\/a> school library services<\/a> for distance<\/a> learning from elementary<\/a> to high school<\/a> with innovation<\/a> and staying at the center of solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Digital resources<\/a> for school librarians during virtual learning<\/a> abound, from \u00a0virtual learning tips<\/a> to digital tools<\/a>. School Librarians are setting up virtual libraries<\/a> using a variety of methods<\/a>. They are connecting<\/a> with students, curating<\/a> resources, promoting reading<\/a>, partnering<\/a> with public libraries,\u00a0 keeping maker culture<\/a> alive, and collaborating<\/a> with teachers. The versatility of curation tools like Wakelet<\/a> allows School Librarians<\/a> to do much more than post lists of resources, enabling them to create library newsletters, digital stories, and student reading journals<\/a>. School Librarians are virtually encouraging reading in a variety of ways like promoting ebooks\/audiobook<\/a>s,\u00a0 virtual book talks<\/a>, running virtual book clubs<\/a>, doing reading treks<\/a>, creating books<\/a> with students and teachers, and creating<\/a> trailers, book talks, and teasers of their own and with their students.<\/p>\n

Along with providing library services virtually school librarians are of course teaching<\/a> remotely using a variety of resources<\/a> and tools<\/a>. Lessons<\/a> are taking a variety of forms around familiar topics, like using Library of Congress<\/a> resources to teach primary sources. The pandemic<\/a> has created new opportunities for teaching media literacy<\/a> using current news. Teaching digital citizenship<\/a> and research<\/a> skills beyond Google<\/a> has never been more important than while school is virtual, including the creation of formatted bibliographies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

School Librarians are shining<\/a> during virtual learning, but I would like to offer some final tips. Make sure you practice self-care<\/a>. Join virtual learning communities<\/a> to stay connected, learn something new, and bounce ideas off of other School Librarians. Seek out virtual learning opportunities like the TeachersFirst OK2Ask<\/a> series. And, as always, make use of the TeachersFirst blog<\/a> posts and classroom resources<\/a> to help both teachers and students succeed in the classroom and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School librarians and school libraries are essential in school buildings today. What happens when schools go virtual? School Librarians step up! How can you as a School Librarian step up your virtual learning game? Besides staying abreast of school library news and blogs, staying connected with your school community is fundamental. School Librarians are reimagining … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[214,219,75,218],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-media","tag-remote-learning","tag-school-librarian","tag-school-library","tag-virtual-learning"],"modified_by":"Karen Streeter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}