Thursday, October 27
Opening General Session with Nicholas Carr
4:00 – 5:30 pm CST
Prolific and nimble thought-leader Nicholas Carr shares his perspective on what has become a highly controversial topic in the learning community. Based on his most recent book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Carr will speak on the intellectual and social consequences of the Web: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Friday, October 28
Transforming Learning for Today’s Students: Libraries as Sponsors of Transliteracy
8:00 – 9:15 am CST
Explore how school libraries can support students transliterate practices in an inquiry driven, participatory learning environment that scaffolds students’ abilities to navigate traditional and emerging information landscapes as networked learners who engage in collaboration, content creation, and conversations for learning through multiple mediums. We’ll explore how transliteracy is an umbrella for how people are using multiple literacies — traditional (text, information) and emerging (digital, new media, privacy) — to access, share information, and create new meaning.
Presenter: Buffy Hamilton
Turning the Page to the Future: Using Web 2.0 Tools and 21st Century Learning Standards to Engage Students and Enhance Learning
10:15 – 11:30 am CST
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate an easily replicable project using Web 2.0 tools. Step by step collaboration between social studies teachers, librarians, eighth- and eleventh graders in a study of “Forming a Society” will be demonstrated. Students heard Life as We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Through research, group discussion, and problem-solving, students presented a final project that explained their understanding of forming a society in the face of chaos.
Presenters: Nancy Baumann; Lysha Thompson
The School Librarian and Copyright in the 21st Century: Using Digital Media and Obeying the Law
1:00 – 2:15 pm CST
Presented by the author of Copyright for Teachers and Librarians in the 21st Century (2011), this presentation addresses copyright and new formats and equipment which may be available in school libraries: hand-held devices, such as iPads and playaways; blogs; wikis; Pod-casts; Nings; Second Life; special interest networking (e.g. Shelfari, GoodReads); Moodle, Skype, and similar digital communication tools; social bookmarking; web syndication; video streaming; digital gaming; and open-sourcing. Flow charts are used to demonstrate copyright compliance.
Presenter: Rebecca Butler
Do We Need Books in K-12 School Libraries?
3:15-4:30 pm CST
Cushing Academy Library eliminated its huge book collection over the last year, turning that library into an all digital facility. Other independent schools have chosen different ways to meld cutting edge technology into traditional book collections, including the Learning Commons model. Speakers will discuss how administration was involved in these changes on their campuses, and consider broader questions for the school libraries: how can schools best consider the balance of digital and print resources for the most successful student achievement.
Presenters: Dorcas Hand, Tom Corbett, Alison Ernst, Frances J. Harris
Saturday, October 29
School Libraries and Cloud Computing: Roles and Possibilities
8:00 – 9:15 am Central
Discover how libraries can benefit by moving to cloud-based computing applications and what role librarians can play when staff and student productivity tools become hosted.
Presenter: Doug Johnson
Empowering Students through Self-Assessment
10:15 – 11:30 am Central
Power learning involves students assessing what they are learning and being able to determine the quality of their learning. In this session, discover and exchange self-assessment strategies that might be used with K-12 students engaged in activities that foster the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
Presenter: Violet Harada
You’re Going to Make It After All: A Road Map to Becoming Your School’s Technology Leader
1:00 – 2:15 pm Central
School librarians know that their changing roles require them to master many new skills-including a host of technology and information literacy skills to stay competitive in their field. Sometimes the task of knowing where to begin can be quite daunting. Attend this session to overview a road map of steps that you can take to assume the status of technology leader in your school regardless of your current skill level.
Presenter: Lisa Perez
Closing General Session with Mimi Ito
2:30 – 4:00 pm CST
Mimi Ito is an international expert on how people use mobile technologies and new digital media in their everyday lives. Coauthor of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media, Dr. Ito has researched a wide range of digitally-augmented social practices, including online gaming and social communities, the production and consumption of children’s software, children’s play with new media, and peer-to-peer learning.