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Thursday,
March 17 • Lincoln West
Moderated by David
Hoffman, Editor, MultiMedia
& Internet@Schools & Robert
Lackie, Rider University |
OPENING
KEYNOTE
New Internet Literacies for Teachers
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Will Richardson, Supervisor
of Instructional Technology, Hunterdon Central
Regional High School, Flemington, NJ
A host of new Internet technologies are changing
the way we find, manage, and distribute information.
From Web logs to Wikis to RSS to online bookmarking
services, the possibilities for collaboration
and sharing are almost limitless, as are the
ways students and teachers can benefit in
the classroom. In his second I@SEast opening
keynote, veteran classroom teacher and technology
supervisor Will Richardson will share an overview
of the tools being used to foster this new
literacy and a framework for integrating them
into teaching practices.
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Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Computers
in Libraries Exhibit Hall
10:00
a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
| LEVERAGING
THE INTERNET, PART 1 |
SESSION
S101
Tips
for Designing Effective Library Media Web
Sites
10:30 a.m. –
11:15 a.m.
Sally
Brewer, Associate Professor, Library
Media & Technology, University of Montana,
Missoula
Donna Baumbach, Director,
and
Matt Renfroe, Webmaster,
SUNLINK, Orlando, FL
This session will provide practical tips and
suggest tools that you can use to make your
school library media center’s Web site
provide reference resources and services,
support teaching and learning, and promote
information literacy and student achievement.
By the end of the session, you’ll be
able to:
• Identify the important
elements of a good LMC Web site.
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Highlight valuable electronic resources through
the site.
• Use your Web site to
market LMC programs and services.
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Understand how it can support teaching and
learning.
• Understand how it can
promote information literacy.
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Understand how it can promote student achievement. |
SESSION
S102
Link
Checking: A Better Way to Search the Web
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Paul Barron, Library
Manager, University of Mary Washington College
of Graduate and Professional Studies, Fredericksburg,
VA
Research indicates that Web page links are
analogous to citations and that authors link
to the best Web pages within the same category,
thus creating a small Web—a community—between
pages of similar topics. Once a great resource
is located, additional Web searches may not
be necessary. In this session, you’ll
discover how to save time looking for other
useful Web sites, and you’ll learn complex
Boolean and domain-limited link-checking techniques
using Yahoo!, AltaVista, and cool Web tools
such as Touchgraph—which graphically
displays links to a site—and Thumbshots—which
visually compares link checks of two search
engines. |
Lunch
Break — A Chance to Visit the Computers
in Libraries Exhibit Hall
12:15
p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
| MAKING
TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES HAPPEN |
SESSION
S103
Creating
Online Student Portfolios: Action and Reflection
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Athena Maikish, Co-Director
of Technology, National Cathedral School,
Washington, DC
See and hear how a middle school class created
online portfolios using Macromedia Dreamweaver.
You’ll receive a brief overview of Dreamweaver,
a timeline and a plan for development, and
exposure to many real seventh grade sites,
all of which will prepare you to help teachers
accomplish the same feat with students at
your school. |
SESSION
S104
Linking
Books and State Standards of Learning: The
CONNECTIONS Database
2:45
p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Anne McCracken, Education
Specialist, Library,
Sarah Hopwood, Education
Specialist, Library, and
John Zipperian, Software
Engineer, Fairfax County (Virginia) Public
Schools
CONNECTIONS is an online database that helps
teachers, parents, and others working with
children to select books that reinforce the
Virginia Standards of Learning. The presenters
will give you an overview of the history and
purpose of CONNECTIONS, followed by a demonstration
of the features of the site. They will share
information and technical requirements so
that you may create a similar database for
your state. |
Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Computers
in Libraries Exhibit Hall
3:30
p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
SESSION
S105
The
Shongololo Interconnectivity Project
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Joy Rosario, Deputy Chief
Education Specialist, and
Lunga Molapo, Chief Education
Specialist, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education,
South Africa
The Shongololo Interconnectivity Project is
a library-based online e-mail project involving
and connecting 20 developing/disadvantaged
schools in deep rural KwaZulu-Natal in South
Africa, 20 technologically developed urban
schools in the same province, and 20 schools
in and around Manchester in the U.K. In describing
the project, the presenters demonstrate how
it has helped bridge the digital divide and
encourages cultural exchanges nationally and
globally using very limited resources. They
hope to grow the project to include interested
schools in the U.S. and Canada, so learn how
you can be a part of it as well. |
Reception
— Computers in Libraries Exhibit Hall
5:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. |
Friday,
March 18 • Lincoln West
Moderated by David
Hoffman, Editor, MultiMedia
& Internet@Schools & Robert
Lackie, Rider University |
| RAISING
YOUR PROFESSIONAL SKILL SET—AND PROFILE! |
SESSION
S201
National
Board Certification for the LMS: What It Is
and How to Get It
9:00
a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Pam
Nutt, Media Specialist, McGriffin-Spaulding
School System, and School Board Member, Henry
County (Georgia) School System
Are you thinking of going through the
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
certification process for library media specialists?
Do you want to know what to expect and how
to prepare yourself for the tests and the
writing samples? Learn how to be successful
the first time around from someone who’s
been through the process. Passing the National
Boards is an honor and, depending on your
state, can be very financially rewarding. |
SESSION
S202
Data
Gathering: Why You Need the Numbers, How to
Get Them, and What to Do with Them
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Mary Alice Anderson,
Lead Media Specialist, Winona Area Public
Schools, MN
Data gathering, data-driven decision-making,
and accountability are today’s buzzwords.
Library media specialists take note! Data
provides the information needed for advocacy
and gaining program support. Data is a tool
for program and job survival; it can be used
for strategic planning; it’s essential
when presenting information to others; it
provides numbers that administrators and school
boards can readily understand; and it adds
to your professional credibility. In this
session, long-time MultiMedia & Internet@Schools
columnist Mary Alice Anderson presents case
studies of successful datagathering initiatives,
practical tips for making data collection
routine, and suggestions for making sure the
data is quickly accessible. Sample templates
will be available. |
Coffee
Break — A Chance to Visit the Computers
in Libraries Exhibit Hall
10:45
a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
SESSION
S203
Technology
Training in the Library—From Desktop
Dinosaurs to Tablet PCs
11:15
a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Marge
Johnson, Library Department Chair,
and
Jennifer Rooker, District
Technology Consultant, Hinsdale Township High
School District 86, Hinsdale, IL
This session is a case study proving that
successful staff development is not a “one-size-fits-all”
solution. When 350 teachers received tablet
PCs in a districtwide initiative, it was the
library staff together with the technology
leadership team and the administration who
helped integrate the new technology into the
curriculum. The goal was to personalize instruction,
respond to requests for technical demonstrations,
and promote collegiality. The move to tablet
technology was a 7-year journey. Learn how,
along the way, staff development was refined
and adapted to the changing needs of the teachers
as dictated by the changes in technology. |
Lunch
Break — A Chance to Visit the Computers
in Libraries Exhibit Hall
12:00
p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| LEVERAGING
THE INTERNET, PART 2 |
SESSION
S204
Free
and Fee-Based Online Science Resources for
the K-12 Community
1:30
p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Robert Lackie, Associate
Professor—Librarian, and
Robert Congleton, Assistant
Professor—Librarian, Rider University,
Lawrenceville, NJ
Searching the Web may seem an easy task. Just
type in your terms and look at all the results—until,
of course, you are engulfed in your hits,
drowning in the inevitable consequences of
a bad keyword search. A more efficient, viable
alternative is to search combinations of superb
free Web directories/portals and free/fee-based
vendor resources, with an emphasis on quality
over quantity. This presentation and accompanying
material will assist in your important, continuing
quest to develop stimulating additions to
traditional K-12+ science curricula. You'll
learn about a variety of free quality K-12
science Web resources and survey and explore
favorite K-12 free/fee-based science/education
databases. In addition, the presenters will
introduce you to a 5-step method for evaluating
Web sites that will help both you and your
students. |
SESSION
S205
Using the Internet
to Increase Information Literacy Skills
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Sheila Gersh, Director of
Technology and International Projects, Center
for School Development, City College of New
York
Here’s an opportunity to broaden your
understanding of how to use the Internet to
boost information literacy skills and enhance
classroom instruction. Through examining a
wide variety of Web sites, other resources,
and projects, you’ll learn how to create
activities to engage your students in, for
example, inquiry-based collaborative learning,
while developing their information literacy
skills and teaching them to use the Internet
in an efficient, effective, and safe way. |
SESSION
S206
Blogging@Schools: What
It Is, How It Works, and Great Ways to Use
It
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Susan Herzog, Information
Literacy Librarian, and
Catherine Tannahill, Assistant
Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University,
Willimantic, CT
Lara Zeises, Young Adult
Author, Bringing Up the Bones and
other titles, Wilmington, DE
Blogging has rapidly become the newest essential
tool for the savvy educator. And you don’t
have to be a “techie” to do it.
Susan Herzog and Catherine Tannahill will
help you learn to use Weblogs, or “blogs,”
to communicate with students and parents about
library programs or new book acquisitions
… or whatever else you want. They’ll
demonstrate how you can publish and archive
student work and more, showing you a wide
variety of educational blogs along the way.
Our second presenter, Lara Zeises, will add
her perspective as a young adult author, about
using blogging to connect with teens and to
help them find a safe outlet for expression
and a sense of community. She’ll talk
about how she discovered blogging and what
she and other authors write about in their
blogs. |
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