Thank you to the team from Yarra Plenty for their help over the last couple of months. My approach to the program has been sposmadic at times due to time constraints. When time has allowed I was able to complete a couple of the exercises at once.
At times it has been a challenge to learn these new skills which the younger generation can learn quite quickly. I was at a meeting with a couple of colleagues of a similar age and we were talking about Twitter. All 3 of us had just started to use it, but did not fully understand it. We gave ourselves some homework to try and work out how to folow each other on Twitter. There was much laughter and sharing of our experiences. We did think that the younger generation if they were listening in to our conversation would have been lamenting our lack of knowledge.
To me the best part of this process over the last couple of weeks has been the support from colleagues and the ability to laugh at my slowness in uptake of a new technoology.
I am in the process of reading the "School libraries and teacher librarians in 21st century Australia" report and it makes for some compelling reading. As a profession we are ageing and not being replaced by qualified staff. One part of the report reflects on professional development and that some 30% of teacher librarians/librarians take no part in professional development. This is for a variety of reasons, foremost being having to personally pay to attend an activity and secondly not being given time release to attend. I am very grateful that I am one of the lucky ones who is supported in my school with wonderful opportunities for professional development.
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