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You Want Me to Do What? The Role of the School Library Media Specialist in the Teaching of Reading
Friday, November 6 - 9:30 to 10:45
Sandra Andrews and Linda Gann
Media Coordinator roles in reading:
*Model reading
*Read alouds (for all ages)
*Books on tape
*Repetition
*Give them books they want to read
*Context clues
*Note taking skills
*Collaboration with teachers
*Curriculum Mapping / Integration with classroom instruction
General Notes:
*Media Coordintors need to be involved in Reading Training
*Books need to bring excitement
*Students need books they want to read
*Students need free choice in book selection
*Before reading the book, pull out vocabulary
Strategies for Reading:
*Model
*Integrate / Collaborate
*Collection Development
*Engage Reading
*Pleasure, knowledge, Ideas
*Environment
*Read Nonfiction and Fiction
*Involve Parents
Marketing the Media Center: How to Create a Plan to Rev Up Learning @ Your Library
Friday, November 6 - 9:30 to 10:45
Cynthia Schmidt
Marketing the library means:
- Getting attention
- Motivating patrons to use the library
- Getting them to use it repeatedly
Collect data:
- Put traffic counts on webpage and in library
- Sign ins
- Getting feedback from collaboration
- Surveys
- Collection mapping and analysis
- Suggestion box
Strategies:
- Make yourself visible
- Establish a library mission (1-2 sentences w/measurable goals and objectives)
- Be proactive
- Target various populations (grade levels, subject areas, student groups, special areas)
- Analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and potential threats (turn threats into opportunities)
- Displays and posters outside the library as well as inside (cafeteria, front office, hallways, etc.)
- Book talks on school news shows or announcements
- Staff resource fair with activities--one per day for a week, drop in after school, drawing tickets for each one completed. (For example, demo on a new system, new books just in, resources available in various subject areas)
- Look at store displays and see what catches your eye--try to do unusual eye-catching displays in the library.
- Appeal to the different senses--play music, for example.
- Think about the ways you communicate--what works? what doesn't?
www.marketingthemediacenter.pbworks.com
Designing Space for the 21st-Century Learner
Friday, November 6, 9:30a – 10:45
Margaret Sullivan
Media Center, new name Dynamic Learning Facility. Library is an active space, will be noise present. Learning is not always quiet.
Consider what your biases are: you, architects, school administration, school boards, parents or community members.
Why do biases develop by the previous groups mentioned above? Because of education models, life experiences, training and education background, demographics, and history/family.
What is a 21st century learner? “Twenty-first century learners are always on, always connected.” They need information skills, thinking and problem solving skills, personal and workspace productivity skills.
A, E, I, O, U – Styles of Learning
Activities: What are they doing? Brainstorming, reading, teaching, etc.
Environments: Where is it taking place? Location, noise, senses involved
Interactions: With whom are they interfacing? Talking, collaborating
Objects: What are they using? Chairs, Tables, Keyboard, Projectors, etc.
Users: Who are the users? Classes, Teams- What is the demographic data?
Information Gathering: Interviewing, Shadowing, Fly on the Wall, Note-taking, Physical Traces
Schools in the New Millennium: How are they teaching? Independent Study, Peer Tutoring, Collaborative Small Groups, One on One learning with the teacher, lecture format, project-based learning, technology based with mobile computers, distance learning, student teaching, performance based, seminar style,
Community service, social/emotional, art based, storytelling, hands on learning,
To start design off, start with Zone planning. Use small circles to show how much the space will be used, and for what. Discuss what spaces need circles, smaller or larger, or need additional circles.
New spaces need movable areas to accommodate different functions of the space. Kids can multitask- it is the adults that have the problem learning and paying attention.
Europe, students stand up to work- useful crank tables.
Retrofitting School Library Spaces for the 21st-Century Learner
Friday, November 6 - 11:30 to 12:45
Margaret Sullivan
Books:
The Power of Reading by Stephen Krashen's
The Dumbest Generation by Bauerlein
The Meaning of the 21st Century by James Martin
The Language of the School Design by Nair and Fielding
Design of Media Center should address:
*Activities - What is happening? - Reading, teaching, eating, writing, storytelling
*Environment - Where is it taking place? - noice vs quiet
*Interactions - Talking, seeing
*Objects - What is being used? - Tables, chairs, projectors, keyboard
*Users - Who are they? - Groups, Individuals, Demographics
Implementation and Impact: The Big6 Applied to Tests and Standards
Friday, November 6 - 11:30 to 12:45
Michael Eisenberg and Robert Berkowitz
General Big6 teaching strategies:
- Make the example task fun and relevant to the group you are teaching (for example, How do you find out if somebody likes you? What kind of pet should I get?)
- Add a self-evaluation to every big assignment (If you could do this over again, what would you do differently and why?)
- Focus on learning a certain step with an assignment (you don't have to do all of the Big6 steps with each assignment).
- Have the rubric evaluate the process rather than just the product.
www.info@big6.com (Lots of free resources here.)
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Friday, November 6 - 2:15
School Library Media Specialist Role in Reading
Friday, November 6 - 2:15 to 3:30
Technology-Enriched Literature Circles
Friday, November 6 - 4:00 to 5:15
Terence Cavanaugh
*Select members
*Assign roles
*Assign or choose reading selection
*Select dates
*Help students prepare roles
*Act as facilitator
Students should pick book or give them a choice (Read Chapter 1 of several books, booktalk, etc)
Technology Roles:
*Vocabulary elaborator
*Background researcher
*Web researcher
*Literary expository
*Graphic illustrator
*Media hunter
*Graphic Organizer
*Mapper/Tracker
Create Graphic Organizers / Diagrams:
Use Google Maps and GoogleEarth to map location to setting of books.
Let's Go! Google Earth and GIS Resources Across the Curriculum
Friday, November 6 - 4:00 to 5:15
Larry Johnson
Educators can apply for a free version of Google Earth Pro.
Explore the various layers on Google Earth (several cities have panoramic bubbles of famous landmarks).
Use the pushpin tool to create tours for your students. Many tours have already been created and posted by educators.)
Sites:
Google Ocean
Social Studies activities:
What trails led West? Speculate why each trail was taken, using geographic images as evidence.
View concentration camp sites.
Language Arts:
Compare or look at the movement during these Great Depression literary works: Out of the Dust, Grapes of Wrath, Bud Not Buddy. Grandfather's Journey, Ellis Island, Angel Island.
Look at sites for the following books: Make Way for Ducklings, Tar Beach.
Lit Circles--one job could be finding geographical areas named in a book.
Google Lit Trips
Cousteau Site
PBS Teachers: Enhancing 21st-Century Learning with Online Community & Teaching Resources
Saturday, November 7 - 10:15 to 11:30
Donelle Blubaugh and Sara Reibman
Resource Roundups w/pdf files of resources can be downloaded and sent to teachers.
Activity packs are also available.
Beyond Paper and Pencil: 21st Century Tools for 21st Century Skills
Saturday, November 7 - 1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
Ashley Paddock and Michal Hope Brandon
http://beyondpaperandpencil.pbworks.com/
http://paddock.edu.glogster.com/glog-7092/
- Have students create glogs (online posters) with links and embedded videos on a topic. www.glogster.com
- Use MovieMaker to have students create movie trailers for books (including bibliographies in the credits)
- Students can create digital portfolios using PhotoStory, recording sound with Audacity or digital voice recorders.
- Put podcasts on your website with student book recommendations.
- Create Facebook pages for book characters. Students can create pages for different characters in a book and have them interact--friending each other, signing up for groups, pages, and causes they would be interested in joining, leaving each other messages that relate to what is happening in the book, creating photo albums, etc.
- Do collaborative essays on Google Docs (teacher can view history of revisions and see who did what and when they did it).
The New Library: How the Convergence of E-Media, the Internet, and Digitally Native Patrons is Changing School Libraries
Friday, November6 9:30-10:45
Marlene Woo-Lun, Mary Barbee, Paula Ford, Ellen Duecker, Carrie Jo Parmley
* Mary Barbee from Gwinnett Co. Georgia
Media Specialist should be teaching and when he/she is not, they are supporting those who do.
* Paula Ford from Jurupa Unified School District Riverside, Cal.
Collect data on the number of teachers you collaborate with and on the number of students who worked on those units--that is data that you may need
* Carrie Joe Parmley from Tyler, Texas
a new version of the Colorado research shows an increase in test scores of 20% when there is collaboration between the teacher and the media specialist
Interactive Media Resources for the 21st Century Classroom
Friday, November 6 11:30-12:45
Daniella Quinones
*3-5 minute video segments from PBS, NOVA, etc.
*registration is free
*can organize your folders into groups
*sourcewatch.org determines site accuracy
*email her and she will send you a DVD for reading/writing suggestions for 5th grade and up
Start Your Student's Engines with SMART Boards in the Media Center!
Friday, Nov. 6 2:15-3:30
Julia Davis
AASL's Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning: Best Websites for Educators
Friday, Nov. 6 4:00-5:15
Pam Berger, Laura Warren-Gross, Heather Moorefield-Lang, Linda Friel, Nancy LeCrone, Liz Deskins, Vicki Builta
*all these sites are free
*the Landmark sites are authoritative and revelant to the curriculum--they are tried and true but are not interactive
*the Bestlist sites are interactive