Don’t Know Much About… Faking it Through the Reference Transaction While Sti...Don Boozer
2014 Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences: "How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb? I don't know, but I'd be happy to look it up for you." Even when a patron asks a question in a topic for which a librarian has no idea where to start looking, our colleagues usually do a good job of finding the information needed. As information professionals, however, we need to sometimes be open to taking the circuitous path or thinking outside the box to find that information. This fast-paced, one-hour reference boot camp will look at challenging reference questions, some strategies for fulfilling those requests, and ways to keep your patrons happy and coming back for more.
Don’t Know Much About… Faking it Through the Reference Transaction While Sti...Don Boozer
2014 Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences: "How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb? I don't know, but I'd be happy to look it up for you." Even when a patron asks a question in a topic for which a librarian has no idea where to start looking, our colleagues usually do a good job of finding the information needed. As information professionals, however, we need to sometimes be open to taking the circuitous path or thinking outside the box to find that information. This fast-paced, one-hour reference boot camp will look at challenging reference questions, some strategies for fulfilling those requests, and ways to keep your patrons happy and coming back for more.
I am very excited about this presentation. At first I planned to include background information, images, and a poem by each author. As I researched the Romantic Poets I found youtube vidoes as well as audio presentations of the poems being read. This pushed me to learn how to embed video and audio links so my students can now hear a poem by each author being read by a professional. Hearing the poems read well as the students read the words in the presentation will make such a positive difference in the student appreciation and understanding of both the poems ad the Romantic poets. I had several problems uploading this presentation. I followed instructions on the slideshare site and converted the PPT to a pdf file. Hopefully this does the trick and allows me to upload this presentation. This is my fifth try.
After creating my Romantic Poets powerpoint I was excited about my newfound skills and decided to try them out in creating another PPT. We will be reading The Things They Carried, a novel dealing with soldiers in the Vietnam War. I began thinking about poetry and song and social protest and decided to create a PPT that would educate my students on the Vietnam War as well as on social protest. I was able to link youtube videos and create a PPT that will give my students a clear understanding of what was going on here at home, in some cases, during the Vietnam War. I believe this presentation will help my students understand the novel better.
This PPT went through several revisions. I worked and worked on finding the best, most representative images wanting to create memorable pictures for my students. I shared the PPT with my mentor who commented on how much she enjoyed the presentation and how soothing it was. At that point I realized that adding music would improve the presentation. I searched through my entire library of music in an effort to find music that best fit the presentation. I struggled and finally learned how to add more than one song to a presentation. I am very proud of my final creation and believe my students will enjoy learning about symbols in literature as they view this Power Point presentation.
This presentation does not have any "bells and whistles" as the content does not lend itself to such. It does provide the students with the lit terms they need to know for both the course and the A P exam.
A slide show containing literary terms and their definitions. Students will view the slide show and listen to a lecture. As they view the slide show they will complete their handout which will be missing important information (the definitions). Students will then go on to apply these terms to the literature we read in this course.
PPT created by Kathleen Curran on Traditional Symbols in Literature. The slide show will be accompanied by a lecture. Students will have a handout with the symbol listed. They will take notes on what the symbol represents as they view the slide show and listen to my lecture. The next step will be having students find these symbols in literature we read in class.
2. Rules for this unit:
• Be respectful of everyone. Think before you speak.
• Acknowledge that everyone is beautiful.
• Do not put down the ideas or beliefs of others.
• Guard your words. Run them through the filter of your brain before they reach your
mouth and spill out.
4. What was the message of the video?
Was there a lesson to be learned?
Write a response to the video discussing the
message. Three sentence minimum.
Share your response with your elbow buddy.
Be prepared to be called upon to share your elbow
buddy’s response.
Discuss.
5. 1. Think of what you consider beautiful in a person. Write down five
attributes that you see as defining beauty.
2. With your list circulate around the room.
3. Speak to your classmates and write down five attributes that you
hear from others that are not on your list.
4. At the end of this activity you will have a list of at least ten
attributes .
Your list should look like this:
What do I consider beautiful? What do others consider beautiful?
7. What does
beauty mean to
you?
Choose one of the following
quotations.
Write down the quote and the
name of the author.
Write a response to the quotation
you chose (3 sentence minimum).
8. Quotations on Beauty
• “Everything has its beauty but not everyone
sees it.”
• “Beauty is only skin deep, but
ugly goes clean to the bone.” • ― Confucius
• “I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’
― Dorothy Parker embarrassing and confusing. If I do an
interview with photographs people
desperately want to change me - dye my hair
• “No matter how plain a blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe.
Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know
woman may be, if truth and everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt.
honesty are written across her But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d
never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do
face, she will be beautiful.” with protecting the Hermione image. I
wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually
think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about
― Eleanor Roosevelt saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a
short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’
My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less
you reveal the more people can wonder.”
• ― Emma Watson
9. Close your eyes and
listen to this song.
Describe the singer. What do
you think he looks like?
11. Did Israel look the way you imagined?
Is Israel “beautiful” by today’s standards?
Why or why not?
What are your standards for beauty?
Are they yours or have you been brainwashed
by the media?
What is beautiful?
12. They say beauty
is in the eye of
the beholder.
Different cultures have different
standards of beauty.
15. flaws 3rd person singular present, plural of flaw
Noun
A mark, fault, or other imperfection that mars a
substance or object.
A squall of wind; a short storm.
Verb
(of an imperfection) Mar, weaken, or invalidate
(something): "the computer game was flawed by
poor programming".
16. What are your flaws? Write
about a flaw that
concerns/bothers you. Of
course, not a flaw that you
don’t want others to know
about. I will share one of my
flaws as an example.
17. I don’t like my hair. My hair is thin and stringy and rarely looks good.
Every day I am surrounded by young ladies with beautiful.
Thick, flowing hair which is a constant reminder to me of the
inadequacy of my hair. I become envious when I see Pantene
commercials with shiny, flowing, sleek, long hair. I wish my hair would
grow longer and thicker and that I didn’t have to work to make it look
good. My hair is definitely one of my flaws.
18. I was sad
because I had no
shoes until I met
a man that had
no feet.
Why are we so hard on ourselves? Why
don’t we appreciate what we have?
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oman&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&rls=en
19. What are your flaws? Write
about a flaw that
concerns/bothers you. Of
course, not a flaw that you
don’t want others to know
about. I will share one of my
flaws as an example.
20. What are your flaws? Write
about a flaw that
concerns/bothers you. Of
course, not a flaw that you
don’t want others to know
about. I will share one of my
flaws as an example.