I really liked all of the tools we had to peruse this week. All of them had great options for the library setting, as well as across curriculum. I liked Big Huge Labs for this name badge, because I thought it would be a really creative way for the students to introduce themselves to one another and point out one thing they were passionate about or willing to share with others in the classroom. Library specific: They could be printed on labels and worn during library orientation, or stuck to posterboard in the library entrance to allow students to learn about others they may not know! ImageChef had a word mosaic maker, which brought my thoughts right to concrete poetry. English teachers could use it to have students recreate poetry they enjoy or create their own! Library specific: I thought it would be useful to use that during poetry month and encouraging creativity in students! Finally, I thought FoldPlay would be useful in creating a booklet that had pictures of different elements of a novel that students have read for Language Arts or History classes. They could dedicate pages to characters, setting, conflict, important events, and theme. They could use pictures to depict those elements and share them with others to promote reading that book. For any course, it could be used to introduce a prominent figure in a flipped classroom. Library specific: I thought it could be very useful for librarians to use student recommendations for others in reading, or and maybe share during read-aloud of that book.
