NCSLMA Conference 2018

We all know how critical it is to teach students how to find and evaluate sources, but teaching them how to cite, organize, and use those sources is just as important. Since EasyBib has discontinued its school licensing, many of us have been searching for something to take its place. Enter NoodleTools --- a strangely named but powerful tool at a reasonable price. Come and see what this all-encompassing tool can do for you and your students.

Click here to download a copy of my presentation so you can edit it and use it to present to faculty and other stakeholders.

Click here to get an editable copy of the Google Slide presentation to show students how to set up a NoodleTools account.

Participants will learn how to connect with others using their webcams! This is appropriate for elementary and middle school but can certainly be modified for high school. Participants will learn about Mystery Skype/Hangouts, Skyping with Scientists/Authors, as well as collaborating with other classrooms across the world through a virtual environment. Resources will be provided with a google slideshow/google docs linked to my presentation. 

Makerspaces can provide powerful learning opportunities for our students. Awareness of inclusion of all students and their abilities is incredibly important. In this session, Heather Moorefield-Lang will share a variety of examples in which librarians are including culture, abilities, appealing to different ages and genders, as well as expanding general awareness in makered activities. Bring your own ideas and examples to share!

Want to get your middle-schoolers engaged and excited about what they are learning? Join us as we share how we did that, by using project-based learning and incorporating technology skills into our lessons. We will share sample lessons, examples of ways to incorporate clubs into your program, and how to utilize community members/high school students to benefit your program. (Hand-outs will be available.)

My Smore Presentation

Looking for great websites and apps? Then this is the interactive session for you. Join Heather Moorefield-Lang for a fast-paced session on digital and online tools. Be ready to leave with an exciting new batch of resources to share! Make sure to bring your favorite device to the session!

Wanting to collaborate and partner with classroom teachers and lessons and just not sure how to get your foot in the door? Join us as we discuss successful collaborative projects and partnerships through the eyes of a Media Coordinator and Classroom Teacher. Participants will walk out with project ideas, activities and ideas to build collaborative partnerships with classroom teachers and engaging activities that will not only spotlight the Media Center program but student learning.

For my presentation, I will share with teachers various technology units that they can complete with students. The projects presented include Age of Exploration, Non-Fiction Choice Board, Book Snaps with can be completed with fiction or non-fiction book, a menu choice board about the French/Indian War, a rock cycle project, World War I stations, circuits, the periodic table, and a book bento project that can be done with any book fiction or non-fiction. As I present the various technology infused projects, I will introduce the tool or tools used in the project. I will allow teachers an opportunity to explore the tool briefly before moving on to the next project. I plan to discuss the free and paid portions of the various tools.

This workshop will showcase a collaborative project between Mrs. Laws, an art teacher at Eastern High School and Mrs. Sumner, the EGHS School Library Media Specialist. This collaborative project teaches students how to create Book Origami, a sculptural practice of folding book pages to create word art or images in print. While doing so, though, students use Web 2.0 tools to take pictures throughout the folding and then upload these pictures to Windows Movie Maker to create stop-motion-animation videos of the entire process. They learn OneDrive to store and share photos, Windows Movie Maker to create the actual video, and QR code generators to use in their final display around the library, linking their video for students to view next to their final projects. The workshop itself will teach school library media specialists the full project—including how the collaboration began, where to find materials, and standards used. Afterwards, the first 20 participants will learn how to create Book Origami themselves using books and patterns provided that they can take home with them!