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For this Pathfinder assignment, I opted to use Wakelet since I hadn’t had a chance to work with it throughout the semester. Towards the end of the assignment it decided to jumble up all of my cards…that was a bit frustrating and it took longer than expected to maneuver the tiles back into place. And it deleted a few! Also, I kept looking to see if there was a way to change with the layout, the theme, the fonts…I missed Padlet. Haha. Still, I was glad I had a chance to sample it.

My audience for this pathfinder was educators, library staff…those who work with kids…parents can also make use of it. The pathfinder I created is a guide on Anti-Racism in Children’s Books. I shared video from Professor Ibram X. Kendy to explain the importance of being antiracist in addition to Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop’s essay of books as mirrors and windows. There is a mix of video, articles, essays and book recommendations.

My collaborative experience with Google Slides as a free online presentation software was overwhelmingly positive! I’ve always been a huge fan of Google products, privacy be damned! With the exception of Google Circles. I have used Google Slides in the past but never in a collaborative way and not often, in all honesty. To be able to edit as a team on one presentation tool is valueable. The real time component is extremely beneficial. There were times where I would log in to work on the slides to find that my teammates were also working on the project which was great. We were able to share thoughts back and forth via the comment box. To be able to receive immediate feedback was beneficial as opposed to sending an email and awaiting a response. Additionally, I appreciated being able to give feedback on their work.

Other elements of Google Slides that I appreciated:

-Wide variety of templates

-Ease of use in formatting slides

-Revision history (it was beneficial to see what changes the other collaborators had made)

Powerpoint is great but I don’t have it on my laptop. And that is another huge win for Google Slides--the accessibility factor. It’s available for free to anyone with a Google account. Beyond that, it is easy to control who can view, comment on, or edit the Google presentations. In the past I have typically used Apple’s Keynote because I love Apple (and it’s on my Dock). 

The theme for my LIS 724 group’s interactive lesson was Copyright. Seeing that the three of us have experience in public libraries, we opted to maintain the same setting for a "Copyright 101" program, with the targeted audience being beginners looking for the fundamentals of Copyright Law. Initially, we struggled a bit in selecting the proper platform for our lesson (no thank you, pearltrees), but after some guidelines were provided by the professor, we settled on the digital learning platform "blendspace" due to the various interactive resources it provides. We hit the ground running, with Eileen and I looking for content that would be appealing and informative while Melton was gathering information to create a quiz. I would hope that I moved discussions along by asking questions that allowed for clarity in our goals. My goal was also to find interesting content such as the Disney copyright video and tools that we could share with our audience.  (Discussing my contributions is not a strong suit, but I will work on this!)