C. Smith's ISCI 761 Blog

  Hi, Readers! It is time to say goodbye to ISCI 761! It is hard to believe another semester has come to an end on my journey in the MLIS program at the University of South Carolina. ISCI 761 has been one of my favorite classes I have taken in this program. I have learned so much, but I cannot wait to share what my biggest take away was during this semester.   There were so many takeaways from this semester that I could go on and on, but I am not going to do that to you. I will just tell you about my favorite one. My favorite takeaway from this semester is being able to take all that I learned this semester and build a school library website from scratch. I learned that it takes a lot of work to develop a website that is user-friendly, but I am so glad that I was able to build one while being able to have feedback from Professor Thore as well. This is an experience that I have definitely learned from and can take with me into a school library in the future. It was ...

  Hi, Readers! This week we have been looking at how Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality can be integrated in school library settings. One of the Augmented Reality games I have found to be interesting is Pokémon Go. The reason why I was interested in this program is because right now I teach second grade, and they seem to be a little obsessed with Pokémon. Therefore, I wanted to know more about Pokémon Go to see if it would be a good thing to use within a school or public library setting.     (The Pokémon Company, n.d.) What is Pokémon Go and how do I get it? From reading about Pokémon Go, Pokémon Go seems to be a spin off of the old Pokémon game I used to play as a child.   This game let kids play by collecting cards with Pokémon characters on them.   In this program instead using real cards to collect characters from a store or trading cards with friends, you can now use an app and collect Pokémon characters that actually look alive out in the real...