Diary of a Blog: Listening to Kids in an Elementary School Library

Blogs are a great way to express how you feel about a certain idea or topic. This article talks about a librarian who used blogs in her library to answer questions she wanted to know about her students. She asked them questions like what they liked to read, what web sites were their favorite, who their favorite characters where, what genre they liked to read, what books they wanted to add to their collection, and many others. She used her blog to get responses from both the students in her school and the faculty. Some of the issues she was faced with throughout the duration of this blog were minor. One of the issues she had to deal with was some students “pranking” her blog. She didn’t let this get in the way of her blog. She just simply made them non-public so everyone wouldn’t see them.

I feel that this article just goes to show once again that if there is a will there is a way. This particular teacher didn’t let something such as students “pranking” her blog get in the way of her utilizing this great resource. Also, after reading prior articles, she would have benefited from setting up clear classroom technology rules and even a terms of use policy. These were both mentioned in one of the other articles that I had read and posted on in a previous blog.

Cowan, J. (2008). Diary of a blog: Listening to kids in an elementary school library. Teacher Librarian,

35(5), 20-26. Retrieved September 15, 2009, from Research Library Core database.