Claire-ity Unveiled

     My partner and I used a variety of tools to create our podcast including Zoom, Podbean, and Garageband. We wanted to record our own voices for this podcast, but we live pretty far away from each other, so we thought Zoom would be the best option. The great thing about Zoom is that after the meeting is recorded and it downloads, it downloads as a video and audio file separately. This was perfect in our case because I took the audio file only and edited in Garageband. I had never used Garageband before, but I have a Mac and it was easy to understand. I'm sure I could've done a better job if I had known more, but it was easy to cut out audio and add music where need be, and I would definitely recommend it to people with Macs. Lastly, I sent the finished file to my partner where she then took it and uploaded it to the Podbean platform, which provided the HTML, making it an ease to imbed here in the blog.       Out of all the platforms, Podbean was per...

To create an AI generated newsletter I used ChatGPT. The initial prompt that I used to create my newsletter was as follows: "Create a newsletter for a high school librarian that includes hours of operation, contact information, a booklist for young adults, and an upcoming meet and greet event. Make it fun and optimistic" Along with the following edits: 1) "Add in more upcoming events and a reading challenge of the month" 2) "Add a small description of each book on the recommendations list" 3) "Make the newsletter pretty"      The newsletter actually did come out very nice and detailed. I liked that once AI generated the newsletter the program opened it up in a split-screen format. That was beneficial because I was able to make my own edits on the small things that wouldn't take up a lot of my time, such as dates and times, and could still prompt ChatGPT to create bigger edits such as adding or deleting events and adding book description...

     Five years ago I was hired at New Caney High School, which is located in the North Houston area, for my very first teaching job. This was in August of 2020, at the end of COVID where the students and staff came back online for the first 3 months and then with masks for the rest of the year. Being a first year teacher, this was particularly difficult and I wasn't able to really know what it was like to be a teacher. Now however, I finally feel like I have enough experience to truly understand what I'm doing and how best to reach the students at New Caney. The majority of the community here is in a lower socioeconomic status, hispanic, and have different cultural norms. After all these years, I do my best to take these differences into account when teaching and attempt to be a little more understanding when it comes to due dates and making up missed assignments.      Beginning with the environment of the school, my school is old. It's the oldest in the ...