While mostly geared towards elementary education, this webinar still had many aspects that will help secondary English education teachers like myself. For example, Dr. Cullen discussed many ways to get funding for books or even free/cheap books that I had not known about before; some of these ways included: grants, librarians/libraries, book festivals, Donor’s Choose, garage sales, and even retiring teachers. These methods of gathering books will help me create a classroom library and are easily accessible. Another thing that Dr. Cullen discussed was putting QR codes/links in the backs of books to provide resources for students; this is a great way to connect digital citizenship to some of the young adult novels that I’d like to have in my class and it would be very easy to do this for my students. Overall, the webinar was more helpful for elementary education majors, however, I think that there was a ton of useful information that is universally helpful among educators.
