TCEA 2017 & Snapchat

I always like to talk about TCEA right after I attend so I don't forget all the fabulous sessions.  I went to 9 sessions and presented 1 this year.  Lots of relevant information which overwhelmed me greatly... but in a good way.

The sessions I attended (with links to the presentations)

• Augment Your Classroom with AR Apps
• 1,275 Badges Later: Changing PD with Digital Badges
• Virtually Reality (presentation not available)
• Becoming the Social Media Librarian
• Sharing your Story is a Snap
• The Best of Tech You Thought You Knew (presentation not available)
• App Smackdown
• Student-Centered, Blended Learning with GAFE
• Teach Students, Not Subjects: Memes & Movement

The session I co-presented with my fellow librarians was called The Library After Hours.  We talked about our family events we hold in the library during the evening of the fall open house and the spring Texas Public School Week.  Funny enough... many of those events are in this blog which helped us remember what we did for this presentation.

Here is a picture of us with our good friend, Bill Young, former librarian and employee of Duncanville ISD.  He was there to help us set up our presentation because we came with lots of props. Thanks, Bill!

Whether or not you were fortunate enough to attend this conference,  all of the TCEA 2017 handouts can be found here...  http://www.tceaconvention.org/2017/handouts/

Out of all the sessions I attended, I really enjoyed the one about Snapchat (Sharing your story is a Snap).  Karen has tried to entice us onto Snapchat before, and I actually downloaded it onto my phone at one point in time. After this presentation about using it in the classroom, I see us doing a lot of the same things here in the library.  So I actually created an account, but I haven't had time to figure it out yet. Having said that, I am collecting the resources I plan to use while learning more about this app.

Here are all the things I have started to gather on Snapchat to learn more about it and how we plan to use it in the library. https://www.pinterest.com/tahaneyj/snapchat-in-the-library/ 

This is definitely going to be a work in progress and who knows... it could be our next presentation.

Thanks for stopping by!