More than just books

“The library is not just an information center. It’s always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.” 

ET2 also known as Educational Technology is a subject taken by Education students (by me). It is about the systematic method and applying technology to teaching aide. Educational Technology 2 has its objective like the other curricular subjects. I will enumerate the objectives of EdTech 2 (given by our professor)

 - EdTech2 is concern with Integrating Technology into teaching-and-learning.

- EdTech2 is focused introducing, reinforcing, supplementing, ang extending the knowledge and skills to learners so that they can become exemplary users of Educational Technology

- EdTech2 involve a deeper understanding of the computer as well as hands on application of computer skills.

- EdTech2 aims to infuse technology in the student teachers training, helping them to adapt and meet rapid and continuing technological changes, particularly in the thriving global Information and Communucation Technology (ICT) environment.

Impressive objective aye? I think it will help the educational system to be improved by of course with the guidance of our teachers. Teacher need to guide their students to the use of technology. Systematic Instructional Planning Process should be applied to know how effective is the learning outcomes of the students. I learned a lot from Educational Technology 2. Involving the teaching strategies by motivational activities for the students. Constructivism is also stressed in Edtech2, it will help the students to be a emergent and effective learner.

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere.”

Book Sculptures by Allison Glasgow

I am a life-long bookseller and avid reader. I began making these book sculptures when struggling to come up with a gift for my boss, celebrating the ten year anniversary of her bookstore. There was no book I could give her that she hadn’t already discerned, so I decided to take a favorite book of poems and reconfigure it into a tree. Dismantling a book is not done without consciousness. Books are precious items. All the books used in my art have been loved and read, and are chosen because of their particular worth. Taking apart text, line by line, I like to think I am reading these books in a different way. Words take on different meanings when isolated or spun into a physical form. These art pieces are an attempt to read words as objects.

Campaign Library in Morąg (Poland) to encourage reading - “The book lives … really!”.