Databases

My school district has the EREC package, but I as I posted on the discussions, I feel it is not being used to its potential. This would be my fault as I have not promoted it the way it should be. I feel I have spent this past 6 months just catching up with IT at my job. I now have a very successful blog for my library that is getting lots of use. Over 1600 hits since January. I now have the students on board with using the blog as a good homework tool and resource. Before this term I was not too familiar with blogs and wikis and other online databases. We are a small school that tended to shy away from IT, but a few of us have taken on the lead in trying to change this.

I also posted in the discussions about a couple of interesting online databases:
Factmonster and Infotopia. Factmonster is great for homework and info and Infotopia is a place for safe database searching for kids. The students are now using these and the others on my blog. To view that blog for the other sites go to:

http://erringtonlibrary.blogspot.com or google Errington Library

The next step in the game for me is to get the teacher on board with using the resources the district has paid for and given to us. My job over the next little bit (now that the term is over for both classes) will be to spend some time learning a little more about the online services from EREC and all the possibilities and then spend some time talking to the staff about them.

This is actually starting on Friday morning as I will be speaking to my staff about a webpage called "Enchanted Learning" that I learned about this term from either you (or my other class) and I will be giving the staff a chance to have a look about the webpage and see if this is something that us as a staff would like to purchase.

I feel like I am on the right track. I have really caught up with the trends in library and I am moving in the right direction. Instead of being a follower in the industry in my district I now am starting to feel like I am in the position to become more of a leader which is something I am really looking forward to doing and enjoy doing.