Tuesday 20 December 2011

ETL503 and EER500

It was very ambitious to have enrolled in both EER500 and ETL503 over the Summer Semester at CSU.  With trying to fit in Christmas break ups for three work places, as well as my husband's, all the end of year celebrations for the children's schools, family gatherings, friends get togethers, ordering school books for next year and getting the Christmas tree and lights up while completing two 2,500 word assignments was, in retrospect, mad. 
I learned a lot from the ETL503 assignment about the importance for teacher librarians of knowing the curriculum. The librarian at one of my schools wisely suggested starting with an area of interest, so I looked at the art book collection on the shelves, and decided to visit the art teacher.  He was trying to write a study guide for a new year 10 subject, Studio Art, and need to think about resources.  So I offered to help.
It was a little off centre looking for art resources, because they were hard to  find on the usual selection tools like ebscohost and SCIS, so I turned to the National Library and to University selection catalogues. A fortuitously timed excursion to the Ian Potter Gallery gave me the opportunity to source items from the art gallery catalogue and online teaching tools they create for schools and teachers.
EER500 was also really interesting. Discovering the framework around methods for research and the wide range of educational research that is being conducted was quite a journey. Choosing something I am interested in - reading and ESL students - as well as finding the research done by another student into study habits and social networking sites was enjoyable.
Now that the assignments have been submitted, there is only worry about the grades.
Now to the next module reading and assignments!
Merry Christmas!
Lisa Tabone

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