I am in the classroom for one last session, and on the last day of my last mandatory campus residency for my program. That is bittersweet. I have really enjoyed the peer-to-peer face-to-face interaction. Getting together and talking about the class, while sharing a drink or just watching each other present and being inspired by how great some people are going to be as librarians.
Like this summer it has been a lot of fun to chat with the newbies, get to know what is bringing them to SU and the field, and encouraging them, and let them know that however overwhelming it feels right now, they will feel so much better in just a year. I have ended up reflecting on how much we have picked up in the past year, the technologies and concepts that I am so comfortable with now, when just last year I might have never heard the term.
It was however interesting to reflect how much the sequence you take classes in affects what you get out of a class. For me a lot of this residency has been spent as basic review of lots of things I learned in other classes, and I wish we had just concentrated on the motivational lesson planning section (the piece I am taking this class for and we get nowhere else in the program), and left the integration of technology and collaboration stuff out of it or for online, since we talked so much about it other classes. However for those starting the program, it isn't review but introduction.
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