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It’s time for an\u00a0Action Plan update! \u00a0It’s far past time, really, but second term went by in a flash and it’s hard to believe we’re in the “home stretch” of both the school year and of Cohort 21. \u00a0Not that our journey as Cohort members will end as the school year does; this powerful, innovative and resourceful professional learning network is with us for life #blessed<\/p>\n
Our second F2F gave me some great tools to conceptualize my project and the third F2F at MaRS really helped me refine my idea. \u00a0It has been fabulous to twitter chat, Google Hangout, and irl collaborate with those of you also working on literacy and cultivating a love of reading in our students. \u00a0Just to name a few: shout outs to Amanda Lupo<\/a>, Brent Hurley<\/a>, Melissa Ramon<\/a> and Ashley Bailey<\/a>.<\/p>\n My Action Plan arose from the insight that “readers’ advisory” [the technical term librarians use for the task of recommending books] is often more powerful when done peer-to-peer. \u00a0How, then, to leverage students’ voices in readers’ advisory to foster a lifelong love of reading?<\/p>\n One of the limits of librarian-led readers’ advisory is that there’s only one of me and I’ve only read so many books. \u00a0Augmented reality (AR)<\/a> can change all that. \u00a0With the use of Aurasma, we’re able to overlay the physical environment with digital tracings to create a landscape of crowd-sourced readers’ advisory. \u00a0Using iPads, our Grade 4 students will film themselves giving book reviews and this digital layer of information will be added to the physical books. \u00a0The book cover will become an embedded marker for the iPad camera so that when the camera “sees” the book cover, it will play the book review.<\/p>\n We’re currently finishing up the content of our book reviews and about to start filming. \u00a0I’m hopeful that I’ll have an almost-finished project to share at our final (tear!) F2F. \u00a0In the mean time, I’d love to hear if anyone has used AR in their classroom and how y’all are planning to share your Action Plans at the end of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s time for an\u00a0Action Plan update! \u00a0It’s far past time, really, but second term went by in a flash and it’s hard to believe we’re in the “home stretch” of both the school year and of Cohort 21. \u00a0Not that our journey as Cohort members will end as the school year does; this powerful, innovative … Continue reading “Leveraging Student Voices”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[16,12,9,17,14,15],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-action-plan","tag-augmented-reality","tag-collaboration","tag-readers-advisory","tag-reading","tag-samr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"imgres-1\"](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/73\/files\/2015\/03\/imgres-1.jpg\")
<\/a>As a librarian, it would be an understatement to say I enjoy cataloguing, classification, and the organization of information. \u00a0As such, our second F2F about frameworks for tech integration really helped me conceptualize my project in terms of the SAMR model<\/a>. \u00a0SAMR helps us assess how deeply integrated and embedded our use of tech is. \u00a0At the transformational level, technology is used to modify and redefine tasks. \u00a0My Action Plan uses the augmented reality app, Aurasma<\/a>, to change the way students share book reviews and recommendations.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/73\/files\/2015\/03\/ho-chi-minh-augmented-reality-300x171.jpg\")
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