In today´s world, we are connected to each other with lightning speed, but how do we leverage this connectivity to increase student and professional learning? The purpose of this day is to connect with experts through web-based and traditional forms of videoconferencing and to increase awareness of tools that can improve teaching and learning. While this day is geared toward Library Media Specialists, it is pertinent to any K-12 educator or administrator.
Keynote
Director´s Cut: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education
Allow your students to make real-life connections to their learning...literally. Have them become part of the show. This session will focus on ways to use digital storytelling as an important instructional tool in any content area. Educators can capitalize on all the digital assets available to them through the web to create powerful stories in accessible programs like Google Earth, PhotoStory, MovieMaker and iMovie.
Breakout Sessions
Videoconferencing: Library of Congress Online!
Judy Graves
Take a guided tour of the Library of Congress Web site! To help you take advantage of the wonderful primary sources you will discover, sample the Library´s services and resources, including Ask A Librarian, Today in History, Portals to the World and more!
Incorporating Digital Tools in the School Library
Mary Schwander, Rebecca Kelly, Karen Hornberger
Learn how you can effectively use Web 2.0 and Social Networking tools to improve your library services. We will demonstrate various tools, which can be used for library instruction, professional development and public relations.
Discoverystreaming Refresher
Lance Rougeux
Explore the new features of Discovery streaming and explore ways that these powerful tools can support the library and contact area curriculums.
Videoconferencing - Gingerbread Man Program
Center for Puppetry of the Arts
Join us for this adapted professional development session of the Gingerbread Man Program. During this program, students witness the classic tale of The Gingerbread Boy come to life with brilliantly colored shadow puppets. The story is narrated and performed during the first part of the program. Led by the program presenter, students make their very own Gingerbread Boy Shadow Puppet during the second half of the program. This is a great holiday program and is recommended for the elementary level.
Safari Montage Refresher
Judy Boswell, Access Fiber Solutions
Destiny v 9.0 and Safari Montage
Judy Boswell, Access Fiber Solutions
Learn how the Safari Montage System is now integrated with Destiny v 9.0. Marc records for your Safari Montage content can be loaded into your Destiny v.9.0 system and the titles will appear in the search results, along with results for books, videos and links to other databases or web sites on the search topic. All MARC records include a URL link to the SAFARI Montage title on your system.
Google Earth (Tentative)
This session will provide a brief look at creating Google Earth Literature Trips. We will explore the functions of Google Earth that allow us and our students to create literary trips around the world and how we can locate already-created content on the web. You will leave this session excited about how GE can support learning your library!
Destiny Refresher
Cathleen Miller, Follett
Join us for a refresher on Follett�s Destiny Library Manager, just in time for the product update scheduled for November.
Videoconferencing: Witness to History (Tentative)
Arizona Memorial Museum Association
Not everyone can visit the USS Arizona Memorial personally. The Witness to History Videoconferencing program provides students and educators on both a national and international level with a unique and invaluable distance learning opportunity dedicated to the history of December 7, 1941. Through firsthand accounts, artifact examination, and expert historical interpretation the events surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack come alive for students.
