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https://umich.app.box.com/file/400582835697 (Once you are on the page, you must download it from the right hand corner and watch it on the quick time player). Hello, my name is Stacia Serafin. Welcome to my screencast assignment for class 643. Today, I wanted to explain how to make a photo album on an iPhone. The reason why I chose this topic is because I have been getting questions lately on how to make an album. For certain jobs you may acquire in the future you might have to take photos and submit them from your phone to your employer. For example, if you are a counselor you may have to take photos of your client and your clients living conditions or it could be an internship where you are taking before and after photos of a project. There are three different ways you can make and share an album. Option one is useful when you already have some pictures on your camera. Option 1:  Click on photos app go to ‘all photos’ Select (right hand corner)  select pho...

Well, the flu FINALLY caught up with me and had me bed-ridden for two days straight. I haven't had a sore throat in ages but this one was a duzy... even right now I'm in a little bit of a hazy mindset. I wasn't able to make it to the last class either due to freezing rain, however I did read the article  National Council of Nonprofits’s Code of Ethics for Nonprofits. I have worked very closely with a nonprofit in the past that has time to become established and well known, so they already have their set of rules and ethics clearly marked for staff. However, I understand where NCON is coming from when they are saying that for a new nonprofit you should post your values in a public space so people truly know what you are all about. Nonprofits are tricky when it comes to interacting well with the public because people do not always know the point of the business. Having your mission statement and ethics out for everyone to know is vital to the success of the business. The non...

Welcome to blog post number 2; the saga of the remote classroom. ...alright, its most definitely not a saga. In fact, I really enjoyed the remote classroom idea. The vibe that it gave off to me, though, was very 'online class-esque'. In the past, I have loathed having online classes. I liked the concept, but the actual execution for me was not good at all. For example, two summers ago to fulfill my foreign language requirement for undergrad I took an online Spanish class. The reason why this was so terrible was that I consistently forgot that there were quizzes due every Sunday and it was hard to regularly check when homework was due because there weren't reminder emails. My Spanish final was also basically a Skype call (much like how the BlueJeans website worked) but it was scary for me because we were required to have our microphone and video camera on. I do see how online classes overall are very beneficial, especially for non-traditional student usage. The reading b...

Hello!  My name is Stacia (Stay-Sha) and people think I'm weird for wanting to be a librarian. I attended Siena Heights University for the last four years and worked behind the desk in the library during that time (warmly being known as 'that library girl'). Everyone thought I was going to become a famous singer or go save the world full time, not only during the summer, but alas, the joke's on them. I've been learning that I love kiddo's in any age group so I decided to mix a couple of my passions into a job which was handily already made up; Youth Services Librarian. For the past two years I have run youth mission trips in Joplin, Missouri and Lorain County, Ohio. These moments have changed me greatly but they have also opened up a vast doorway of possibility and learning. I have met beautiful friends and people I now call family but I have also had the task of understanding that people (namely people ages 12-20) have different learning styles, something I am...

For the last two class periods, we have had mini-lessons taught by our classmates. I've honestly really enjoyed seeing how everyone has been able to fit so much information into just a short twenty minutes, but they have all been doing such a wonderful job. The mini-lesson that has really stuck with me though has been Eric and Packy's lesson about content management and managing personnel. I'm not sure exactly why, but all of the sections that they talked about was information that I had never heard before or had never thought of before so it was really interesting! It's really fascinating to me to learn about the reasoning behind how managers decide to hire someone (probably because that is what is happening in my current situation [looking for a job]). Packy and Eric really had a well-rounded discussion about hiring but also the possible reasons someone might get separated from a job. Chapter 14 about user experience was a really interesting chapter to read through....

Well, unfortunately I had to miss class once again due to sickness and not wanting to spread nasty germs around. The main focus of this class was to present our team made lib guides. Since I was not there to present, I recorded myself doing a little presentation of my own for the media portion of our youth resources lib guide. In that, I talked about our three different sections of media: Non fiction and fictional book recommendations and youtubers who have influenced the gay community. Finding book recommendations for gay teenagers is really easy since the GenZ generation is so open with their sexuality and some specific books stood out, such as Simon vs. The Homosapien Agenda and other books that have been made into movies. I also discussed how the non-fiction book selection (specifically on addressing educational topics) were very slim. We were able to choose some book selections by already well-known public speakers, such as Ash Hardell, and integrate those into our book recommend...

Last week we were able to walk downtown to look at the lit up books that paved Liberty street! I though that this was such an interesting art project that they turned into something really beautiful. Seeing all of the people there as well was something really awesome to be a part of! Even though this was not technically part of the class plan for the night I thought it was really eye-opening for us (especially since this is a class about the library) to see how these books in the street touched so many people.  That was at our break time and for the rest of the class we discussed reader’s advisory: What it means and how to participate in it. Reader's advisory is basically when you give a patron a book recommendation. The term 'reader's advisory' sounds so much more daunting then just book recommendation, doesn't it? The two main things that I took away from class this day was the fact that reader’s advisory can be applicable to academic libraries and book recomme...