Friday, October 28
Collaboration: The Cornerstone of a Successful Library/Technology/Classroom Partnership
Need a fresh perspective? Looking for some practical tips for encouraging greater collaboration between the library and classroom while meeting the needs of 21st century learners? Learn practical tips for building and enhancing a successful partnership between your librarian, technology specialist and the classroom teachers that will encourage collaboration and excitement. Hear how one school went from limited collaboration to having teachers clamoring to collaborate and incorporate technology and research into their already jam packed schedules.
Presenters: LaDonna Littlejohn and Ashley Dusek
EBooks: Answers from the Field
Floyd Pentlin and Christopher Harris, members of the ALA Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content (EQUACC) and the ALA Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) EBook Task Force will provide updates from these two groups as well as examples from the field. Learn about the impact of the Harper Collins eBook limit decision, the new licensing models being explored, hardware reading devices, and more. Find out what your colleagues are doing with eBooks around the country and learn how you can begin a similar eBook program in your library. The session will also include many opportunities for questions.
Presenters: Floyd Pentlin and Christopher Harris
Using the Bookstore Model of Classification in an Elementary School Library
This session will explore the collaboration between the St. Vrain Valley School District and Mackin Educational Resources to pilot the bookstore model in place of the Dewey Decimal System in its newest elementary school library. This presentation will include the background, the process from the school library and vendor point of view, data collected to date, and the struggles and successes experienced along the way. Time will be allocated for questions on this controversial topic.
Presenters: Holli Buchter, Deann Hoff, Ryan Thomas
Social Networking and the School Librarian
This session will provide an overview of how to integrate social networking tool into both the library’s teaching and learning program and the library’s communication program. The session will provide real world examples of how to successfully use social media and Web 2.0 tools to communicate and network with a wide variety of stake holders and how to utilize these technologies for professional development as well.
Presenter: Steve Baule
Be Internet Savvy: Creating an Internet Safety Program at your School
Internet safety: Too much information and not enough time? This session will provide a K-8 Internet safety curriculum with sample lessons and resources that will enable you to create a tailor-made curriculum for your school or district. Tips for successful Internet safety parent nights and staff presentations will also be shared.
Presenters: Lisa Weinstein, Amanda Kuzminski, and Mary Ann Curran
Project ENABLE: A Program to Train School Librarians to Provide Effective Library Services for Students with Disabilities
Project ENABLE is a professional development program for increasing librarians understanding of the information needs of students with disabilities and their ability to provide effective services, adequate facilities, and appropriate resources and technologies to meet those needs. The presentation will include a report on the impact of the training program on educators across New York State and on the development of a freely-available Web-based training site for librarians nationwide.
Presenters: Ruth Small, Renee Franklin Hill, William Myhill, and Kristen Link
Working with RDA: Cataloging Advances for School Libraries
Presents the national RDA test results and discusses the implications for RDA implementation in school libraries. Provides the correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats: monograph, electronic resource, AV, etc. Strategize implementation options and vendor interaction. The program encourages interaction with the attendees through in-session development of a portfolio of MARC records in RDA format.
Presenters: Barbara Schultz-Jones, Shawne Miksa, and Richard Hasenyager
Nooks and eBooks: How They Look in a High School Library
How do Nooks and ebooks fit into high school library collections? Downers Grove South High School Library has successfully implemented the Nook and eBooks into its circulating collection. The librarians will share their journey of how acquiring Nooks meant exploring their impact on collection development practices. Descriptions of everything from first wondering about how it can work to discovering the impact on student reading will be presented.
Presenters: Colette Schmidt, Mindy Null, and Kimberly Pakowski
The Global Learning Resource Connection
Learn how to redefine your school library as a fundamental 21st century service provider of resources and tools that enable the creation and support of individualized student learning plans. Explore how content providers are connecting the dots between library systems and learning management systems resulting in large collections of rich resources correlated to state and national standards. Witness how the emerging Web 3.0 moves libraries into the classroom to support new teaching methodologies thus improving student learning outcomes.
Presenter: Diny Golder
Graphic Inquiry: Dynamic Differentiation and Digital Age Learning
Learn to differentiate with technology-enhanced graphic tools and resources. Build authentic learning environments through object- and place-based inquiries. Illuminate projects and nurture digital citizens. In this session we’ll explore ways to combine content from various subject areas such as language arts, science, social studies, and math with information and technology skills and strategies to meet diverse learning needs and address Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
Presenter: Annette Lamb
“School Doesn’t Have to Be So Boring”: Transforming Reading Instruction Through Gaming
Come experience how school librarians and classroom teachers are transforming student engagement for struggling readers through the use of web based gaming.
Presenters: Deborah Svec and Louis Greco
Information Literacy: Turning the Page From High School to College
Information literacy is a 21st century skill. Librarians at all levels work diligently to ensure that all students have the skills necessary to identify an information need, find appropriate resources, and extract and use the information. In this session, the speakers will report on a study done with a group of Catholic high schools in the upper Midwest, which explores whether a gap exists between the information literacy skills expected in high school and college.
Presenters: Donna Nix and Marianne Hageman
QR Codes; Prezi; and SchoolTube; Oh My! Not-So-Traditional Reading Promotions for Digital Natives
Students of all ages still love to read; practicing librarians know this is true, despite rampant rumors to the contrary. While some believe that modern technologies will be the death of reading and the love of books, there are many ways to harness those technologies to enhance reading programs and services. This program will describe practical, easy-to-implement ways to use technology to promote reading and traditional library services.
Presenter: Sarah Searles
Research Curriculum Gymnastics: Using TRAILS as a Springboard to a FLIP (Freshman Level Interest Project)
Learn how a high school library used a standards- based online assessment tool to measure 9th grade students information literacy skills and then collaborated with English colleagues to create and implement a data-driven, scaffolded, inquiry-based research curriculum.
Presenters: Myles Laffey, Jared Friebel, and Julie Gedeon
Beyond the Basics- Sparking a Culture of Literacy Re-igniting Readers Within a Secondary School Setting
Learn how to develop a culture of readers in a secondary education setting by infusing literacy initiatives through collaboration with classroom teachers, administrators, and school librarians. Participants will learn how one school district promotes literacy through free reading initiatives, classroom instruction and the school library with the goals of students to begin to see themselves as readers and to recognize reading as a lifelong learning skill.
Presenters: Mary Moyer and Melissa Williams
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Outstanding Books for the College Bound is a reading list principally intended for students preparing for college and those serving them. This program will share strategies for creating programs that encourage reading among students, including booktalks of titles, incorporating the lists into summer reading and all-school reading programs, and ways to share the lists with faculty. We will also present additional reading encouragement suggestions, from displays and handouts, to online catalogs and websites.
Presenters: Angela Carstensen and Priscille Dando
Turning the Page: After Hours in the Library Media Center
Three high school librarians collaborated to create a public relations program, for after-school hours that expose students to real world situations and applications, such as field trips, multi-media productions, community based programs, poetry slams, workshops on social media skills and resource learning stations. This workshop will provide public relations strategies that high school library media specialists can use to attract reluctant learners which are designed to ignite passion for literary exploration and technological options.
Presenters: Media Daniels, Sheila Howard, and Kathryn Weaver
Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE): Now Empowering All Learners!
A school librarian and the coordinator of Michigan eLibrary demonstrate an open source system of online services and curriculum materials supporting Common Core State Standards. Session attendees will discover how the MORE project can be replicated outside of Michigan. Attendees will break into groups to brainstorm and report how online resources and comparable tools from other states can further inquiry learning. Ideas will be posted to the MORE edWeb site to encourage follow-up collaboration among attendees.
Presenters: Margaret Lincoln and Deb Biggs Thomas
Taken Off the Page: Reading Aloud as Professional Development
Join this interactive and rowdy session to read out loud, consider a diversity of texts, and experience first-hand the power of sharing texts out loud. We understand the value of reading aloud with students, but the 21st Century Standards cross the lifespan including ourselves and the teachers we collaborate with. Reading aloud is a powerful means for engaging professionals with ideas and texts. Join with us to gain strategies for making it happen in your collaborative settings.
Presenters: Sue Kimmel and KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson
Information Literacy, 21st Century Skills, and Teacher-Librarian Collaboration in Schools
MILI, the Metronet Information Literacy Initiative, is a school-year long training program in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area focusing on research, information literacy, web 2.0 tools, and teacher-librarian collaboration. Come hear about the program and learn about the wonderful things a teacher and school librarian have implemented in their classrooms, schools, and at the district level because of what they learned in MILI. You’ll leave with ideas you can try in your own schools.
Presenters: LeAnn Suchy, Jean Doolittle, Maureen Monroe, and Guillaume Paek
New Strategies Using Online Multimedia Materials to Strengthen Readers Connections to Books
Join us in transforming readers connections to books and authors by infusing online, multimedia materials into K-12 library and reading activities. We ll hear from award-winning authors, and the participatory audience, as we explore video interviews, book readings, ready-to-use novel units, and even something so brief as an author saying his or her name – all of which provide personal connections to literature that bring the reading experience to life for students, teachers, and librarians alike.
Presenters: Heather Jankowski and Nick Glass
Incorporating the 21st Century Learning Standards for Authentic Student Learning: A Collaborative Social Studies Example
Collaboration is only truly worthwhile when it produces a lesson that engages students in 21st Century Learning. A middle school teacher-librarian and a social studies teacher share their collaborative experiences that led to an authentic project that incorporates content standards, 21st century learning standards, technology, and community involvement and results in an authentic product for other middle schools and community centers.
Presenters: Marilyn Heath and Karen Ambrose
Plagiarism and All that Comes with It
Are your students excited to learn about plagiarism and copyright? Let’s face it, the topic can be rather boring. Students know that they can use anything they find in a book or online for an assignment as though it were their own. The internet is free and trying to get students to give proper credit can be challenging. Using online sources a sample course presents a sample lesson on these topics in an interesting manner.
Presenters: Sharon Smith and Danielle Dunn
Breaking the Barrier for ELL Students: Beginning a Native Language Collection
The population of our English Language Learners is growing at a rapid rate. Staying true to the Common Beliefs in AASL Standards can be difficult. Research shows that success and proficiency in one language contributes to the success in another language. We need to empower our ELL students by providing them with native language books that are age-appropriate. This workshop offers background justification and practical strategies for beginning a Native Language collection for K-12 students.
Presenter: Cathi Fuhrman
Saturday, October 29
Apps United: Advocate Your Program Through Google Apps
Advocate your program by creating an interactive platform through Google Sites. Incorporate myriad Google Apps such as Groups, Calendar, Docs, and Moderator to disseminate and collaborate on information in your school and community
Presenters: Danielle Dunn and Danielle DuPuis
History Day Library Coalition: Connecting HD Students and Teachers with Library Resources
Twin City area libraries of all types offer a variety of programs and events for teachers and students involved in Minnesota History Day. In 2010, the libraries and Minnesota History Day created a coalition to document the events and create blueprints to facilitate replication in other regions. The panel will describe these programs and how they can be replicated.
Presenters: Jennifer Hootman, Ann Walker Smalley, Mary Schoenborn, JoEllen Haugo, and Naomi Peuse
L4L in Action – “Ideas Worth Spreading”
Taking a page from the successful TED conference format, this “snapshot session” features an elementary, middle school, high school, district-level, and library educator practitioner sharing how each has been able to embed the standards and guidelines into their delivery of instruction and service, using strategies and materials from AASL s Learning4Life (L4L) Implementation effort.
Presenter: Karen Gavigan
C3: Creating a Climate of Collaboration
Do you want to collaborate with others on your campus, but don’t know how? Where is the time? How do we get together? What can we do to work together with so many obstacles in our way? This session provides practical advice, strategies, and tools for facilitating collaboration among teachers, librarians, and educational technologists.
Presenter: Len Bryan
Divergent Convergence: Learning in a Transmedia, Cross-Genre, Multimedia World
Graphic novels are merging with digital comics and students are building their own animated stories and subject area reports to share on the web. Learn to immerse learners in a transmedia world of information where divergent resources like websites, books, audio, and video converge. Examine new ways to think about accessing information, creating student projects, and preparing young people for a technology-enhanced life. Build learning experiences that promote active learning and 21st century skills.
Presenters: Larry Johnson
Finding Our Place: Librarians and Response to Intervention
Does Response to Intervention (RTI) shut out school librarians or provide opportunities for them to become indispensable? This workshop invites school librarians and others to discover what RTI is, how it has functioned in some Missouri Schools, and how librarians have participated in this highly collaborative, student centered, research based, and funded program. Follow the conversation at #AASL2009rti.
Presenters: Patricia Antrim, Jennifer Robins, Sandra Jenkins, and Floyd Pentlin
Take the Lead: Be an Effective School Library Leader
After a short presentation on the Mansfield University School Library & Information Technologies Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant project to recruit and mentor school library leaders, participants will engage in an interactive dialog with participants to strategize on: effective practices of school library leaders mentoring leadership dispositions initial preparation on leadership and advocacy research findings on best practices on effective leadership in school library programs advocacy for student learning and academic achievement
Presenters: Cynthia Keller, Larry Schankman, Barbara Stripling, and Debra Kachel
Understanding by Design (UBD) and Standards for the 21st-Century Learner: A Winning Combination for Writing Library Curriculum
Wondering how to write elementary school library curriculum using the Standards for the 21st Century Learner? Find out how the Bellevue Public Schools in Nebraska developed a K-6 curriculum using McTighe’s and Wiggin’s Understanding by Design model and the Standards. You’ll leave with a basic understanding of how you can apply the model at your own school and an actual document you may be able to use as a starting point.
Presenters: Terry Osborn, Elizabeth Agar, and Kate Bischoff
Linking Virtual Libraries and Information Literacy to Enhance Student Learning
Information literacy skills highlighted in a virtual library keeps research at the forefront of student learning and teacher instruction. Information literacy web sites, appropriate for a virtual library, will be shared with participants in the workshop. Handouts will include an annotated list of web sites appropriate for a virtual library on the subject of information literacy. This workshop will offer creative ideas on how to present information literacy skills in a new and innovative approach.
Presenters: Betty Morris and Stephanie Griffin
Dispelling the Myths of Copyright Law
Copyright law is not always easy to interpret and is often the source of much confusion for school library media specialists. Continually, the educational enterprise is bombarded with over-reaching interpretations of copyright law, leading to an artificial and unnecessary limited use of educational material. This session will help to separate fact from fiction and give you the tools to establish confidence in interpreting copyright law for yourself.
Presenters: John Eye
Read It! Write It! Share It! A Poetry Month Workshop for Your Library
Bring poetry to life in your library with this classroom and library-tested poetry workshop. See and hear poetry read aloud, then brainstorm and write an original poem using graphic organizers. Share your new poem with a peer editor, then revise it and share it again in an open mike “poetry jam.” Take this workshop back to your library and use it for Poetry Month in April.
Presenters: Anastasia Suen
Opening the Digital Treasure Trove – EDSITEment!
Join an exploration of the resources available through EDSITEment, the National Endowment for the Humanities website for K – 12 educators and a Verizon Thinkfinity consortium partner. Discover how EDSITEment opens the best of humanities content to school librarians. Find resources designed to engage your students, enhance critical thinking, and promote connections between humanities scholarship and the classroom. Program Specialist and former school librarian Shelley NiTuama will guide participants through this treasure trove.
Presenter: Shelley NiTuama
Tag — You’re It! – Becoming Visible and Vital
Is your light hidden under a bushel? Do you feel no one knows what you do? Learn to brand your program and bring it front and center. Let all your stakeholders know what makes your program invaluable. Send a carefully crafted message that shows why the school library program is unique and indispensable. Create your elevator speech and tailor it to your audience.
Presenter: Hilda Weisburg
The Right Stuff: Assessing Dispositions of Successful Library Media Specialists
What characteristics contribute to the success of a library media specialist? Come to this session to discuss the development, field-testing and implementation of instruments and procedures for assessing the dispositions of library media specialist candidates. A six-year assessment timetable, tied to the Minnesota Board of Teaching competencies, and assessment strategies will be shared. Conference participants will have an opportunity to complete the self-assessment instrument created by this project.
Presenters: Marcia Thompson and Merton Thompson
Reading for Themselves: How to Get AND Keep Students Reading Through Book Clubs
It’s 7:45 am, an hour before school starts and your classroom is overflowing with students who want to talk, about a book, that they have read for fun! How is this possible? Come to learn about the success of an innovation grant winning high school book club, 11 years old and running strong.
Presenter: Sara Swenson and Martha Cosgrove
A Discussion About Crossing Borders: “Dewey” Level School Library Collections?
This session will focus on the need for school librarians to actively resist the practice of re-organizing school library print collections by reading level, in order to enable students to meet the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The presenters, from the BC Teacher-Librarians Association and the Washington Library Media Association, have made principled stands for students freedom to read. Tools, resources, and examples will be shared.
Presenters: Heather Daly, Moira Ekdahl and Craig Seasholes
Helping Students Manage the Research Process: The Research Project Calculator
This session will introduce & demonstrate the Research Project Calculator, a web-based, interactive tool to help students and teachers manage the research process. The RPC breaks down the research process into five steps to help navigate research process. Students use the RPC to receive email reminders of deadlines, manage their research notes online, & more. Teachers will find useful lesson plans, evaluation tools, rubics, & other supplemental materials. Bring a laptop to experience the RPC hands-on (optional).
Presenters: Jane Prestebak and Matt Lee
Teaching Teens: Supporting Adolescent Learning Through the Library
How can librarians support teen learning in the face of increasing standards and outside distractions? How can we help develop college-ready students who can critcally read a text, connect ideas across disciplines and apply their learning to real-life situations? Staff from the New York Public Library give examples and lead participants through explorations of engaging youth with citizenship through, demistifying complex texts for teen readers and integrating youth generated content into the learning experience.
Presenters: Janna Robin and Christopher Shoemaker