Well, this is my first journal entry for the School Library Boot Camp. Hopefully I am on the right track...
The first session was on the book Pure Genius by Don Wettrick. The book focuses on the idea of innovation in the classroom and 20% time. Honestly, this was the first time that I have ever heard of these ideas. I'm sure they have been out there for a while, but I have never come across them.
I truly did enjoy the book and found a lot of great ideas in there that I would like to implement in our library. Trying to sort through them to find ones that will be feasible in our schedule, with our time constraints, and getting our director and administration on board will be our hurdles. They should be minor hurdles, at least I hope...
I enjoyed discussing the ideas in the book with other librarians and teachers in the boot camp. There were a lot of ideas and angles that I wouldn't have noticed had they not brought them up.
The chapter that I enjoyed the most was the most was Chapter 2: Creating a Culture of Innovation and Leadership. I took a lot out of this chapter. The ideas on leadership could transfer to any job, and I really liked that.
I think that one of the biggest struggles that I will have implementing this idea in my library classes is technology integration. Teaching 4th and 5th graders, who might not be ready to tackle Twitter and other social media sites, puts restraints on integrating technology. I will have to coordinate with our new Computer teacher/integration specialist on some ideas that might work. Also, I think that I will struggle with time constraints. Only seeing students once per week for 40 minutes makes it difficult to cram everything in that needs to be covered. I'll have to get creative with my time management in the classroom.
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