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Help me? Share effective practice in school library sitesJuly 8, 2008 Dear readers:I am frantically trying to update my presentations for the coming year. This round of new stuff begins next week at the November Learning Conference in Boston. And duh. After hours of poking around, it occurred to me I was conducting my research in a very 1.0 way. I really need to rely more on the wisdom of the group. Please help me. In your comments share your examples of best practice in school library websites. What are you doing that is really reaching learners? Helping teachers? How are you making effective use of new 2.0 tools? How are you promoting reading online? How are you being there for your community in just-for-me, just-in-time ways? I promise to share (and open) my updated wiki with everyone as soon as it is even somewhat ready for primetime. Please share like crazy. Please share in a hurry. Thanks! Posted by Joyce Valenza Ph.D on July 8, 2008 | Comments (16)
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Jeni commented: I cannot be the only one surprised that the November conference in actually in July! If I hadn't clicked on the link, I wouldn't have known why you wanted it quickly - I thought you were just preparing ahead! To answer your question, I am attending a Reading workshop this summer and immersing myself in literacy vocabulary and concepts. I'm reading as many blogs by classroom teachers about good books as I can find. They do have a different perspective than librarians. I think elementary librarians need to know about "touchstone texts" and other buzz terms in reading.
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Robin commented: I'll be at the November Conference, and am looking forward to hearing your speak! My best practices are driven by my RSS feed - the best ongoing professional development ever. Staff development in tech and Web 2.0 are critical, and persistent faculty outreach. Successful tools have been NoodleTools, wikis, VoiceThread, Skype and Nings. Am working with ePals to make connections supporting a One Book One School reading incentive program built around A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. See you in Boston!
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites joycevalenza commented: To misquote a line from Jerry Maguire: Give me the links! (Please, :-)
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites SANDRA CARSWELL commented: If you want links to our library websites, mine is ccisd.esc11.net/99120618141227170/site/default.asp
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites brenda branson commented: We're doing summer book book clubs using videoconferencing programs, Wiziq, and so far it has been very successful. If you're interested, I've written more at brendab.edublogs.org. Also, next year we're going to do reading challenges instead of a "reading incentive program." We've come up with a Fav Five Nonfiction book challenge, a Series Book Challenge, and A to Z Reading challenge. More on this at readingchallenges.edublogs.org
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites brenda branson commented: We're doing summer book book clubs using videoconferencing programs, Wiziq, and so far it has been very successful. If you're interested, I've written more at brendab.edublogs.org. Also, next year we're going to do reading challenges instead of a "reading incentive program." We've come up with a Fav Five Nonfiction book challenge, a Series Book Challenge, and A to Z Reading challenge. More on this at readingchallenges.edublogs.org
July 8, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites JANE LOFTON commented: After learning about VoiceThread from you at AASL, I started recording some VoiceThread booktalks, encouraging my book club students to also, and embedding the latest one in my library webpage. I also embedded each of them in a blog to create an ongoing booktalk resource. The webpage is at www.lvusd.org/lcms/library and the blog is linked just below the embedded booktalk. I need to get more students to participate next year to make it a really worthwhile resource, but I am hoping that it's a start. (Just this morning, I sent an email to your ning about an article I wrote on this same subject. Check that email and the article for more details.)
July 9, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Sue S commented: This is not a library website but might be something of interest to you: BookGlutton.com
July 9, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites joycevalenza commented: Yeah! This is exactly what I needed! Thank you Sue and Jane and Brenda and Sandra and Jeni and Robin! Please keep your ideas coming.
July 9, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Mary Woodard commented: There is an elementary librarian in my district who has taken off running with Web 2.0 tools since completing our Learning 2.0 Through Play program (learning20thruplay.blogspot.com). She has links to two blogs, a podcast page and a research wiki on her library web site (www.mesquiteisd.org/library/smith)
July 10, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Barbara Merritt commented: I have used Google docs a couple of times and loved it. One time was with a second grade class. We compared the weather, particularly temperatures, at the same time on the same day in March (after reading the book "On the Same Day in March" about weather around the world) when we were studying weather and climate. The kids loved it!!
July 10, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Barb Jansen commented: 1. I host virtual office hours to help teachers (who may not know answers about resources or citing) and kids. Students can use the IM (Meebo) widget to contact me directly through the webpage (library.sasaustin.org/contactUs.php). This has proven valuable to kids—not quite on their radar but we are getting there. Probably 10% of the class uses it.
July 10, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Barb Jansen commented: I should add that the assignment pages and wikis that I mentioned above are the one-stop shopping for the students after we instruct the students on all components. We don't just provide the page without the necessary instruction. Typically, the teachers introduce the topic and task and I take it from there, teaching and reviewing any skills the students need to access and use the info sources and communicate their results. I also assess any of the products resulting from my instruction such as bibliographies, notes, web evaluations, presentations (the teacher assesses the content). The assignment pages (wikis and webpages) offer rubrics, examples, and anything else students my need for further reference. It also serves parents well and those students who were absent.
July 11, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites joycevalenza commented: Thanks, Barb! Boston will hear all about the photo contest, the cool wiki units, the IM service. You'll be even more famous!
July 17, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Gina Webster commented: Here is a link to my media center site: wsfcs.k12.nc.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=1165. We're a NC Impact Model School for Media and Technology. We focus on integrating media and technology across the curriculum. From the media site you can access our collaboration wikis, which we use as a planning tool when we develop interdisciplinary units with teacher teams. You can also access my online consideration file form that I use to provide a place for students, teachers and parents to make requests for the collection. The Book Nook Blog link on the site houses book review blog entries written by students and staff members at our school. We've also been focusing on using digital storytelling/podcasting, problem based learning, and blogging as products to promote research and critical content reading skills. I can give you specific examples of lessons if that's helpful. Currently, I'm developing a professional learning community zone on the site and creating a new wiki zone for students using Scrapblog (www.scrapblog.com). I was inspired by your Glogster wiki, although I was hesitant to use Glogster due to a couple of images that may be inappropriate for middle schoolers. I know my students will follow the auto link and discover the content quickly. I wanted to achieve similar design results without worrying about the image content. I hope this helps.
September 28, 2008
In response to: Help me? Share effective practice in school library sites Patty commented: Hi Joyce,
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