Week 3, Thing 5

Wow! I have been playing around with my dying digital camera for a number of years and felt fairly competent at uploading and organizing my photos on the family computer. I even backed them up on an external hard drive. Flickr is something else entirely. I found myself keeping several windows open ... the instructions for the assignment, the blog, and Flickr. I'm still not entirely sure what linking Flickr and Blogger did ... although my test communication worked quite well, but perhaps I need to do some more exploring.


Though I cannot call myself an expert, I can say that I successfully uploaded six photos to Flickr, tagged them all with "Schoollibrarylearning2.0" and wrote descriptions. I felt a bit disjointed and not always sure I was following the right path (where are those bread crumbs when you need them), but I did it!


I also uploaded two photos (from my C drive) to this post. This is a view of the Southampton Road School Library and shows parts of our Biography, Reference and Early Fiction sections. You'll also notice the gorgeous alphabet banners which were produced as part of an "Artist in Residence" program. Each banner was designed by a classroom (how lucky we had 26 that year) and the letters are made of a patchwork of fabrics as each child brought in a swatch from home.


Southampton is a busy library! This year, our SmartBoard Classroom is in full swing which means we often have two full classes using our space. Several years ago, the library was redesigned with the intent that a portion of this extremely long rectangular room would act as a teaching space. The tables in the space were purchased with an eye toward flexibility and may be configured in many different ways to accomodate individual class needs.