AASL @ ALA 2009 Annual Conference
July 9-15, Chicago
AASL Programs
Saturday, July 11
- AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in a Read/Write Web Classroom
- Teaching Social Networking Skills to Pre-Service School Librarians: A Panel Discussion
- Minors' Rights in School Library Media Centers handout available!
- Copyright for Librarians K-12
Sunday, July 12
- AASL's Top 25 Web Sites for Teaching and Learning: Categories, Criteria, and Collaborative Strategies
- Closing the Gap: Making Information Literacy Seamless Across K-16
- Wiki - the Ultimate Collaboration Tool
- Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers handout available!
- Serving Students along the Autism Spectrum
- Speak Out! Influence Legislators about Programs for Youth in School and Public Libraries handout available!
- Web 2.0 meet the Standards for 21st-Century Learner
- The Best of the Best from University Presses: Books You Should Know About handout available!
- Global Citizenship: A Role for School Librarians?
- How to Obtain Federal Funding for Your School Library Media Center cancelled!
- Dynamic Duos
- Making Virtual Reality-Based Library Services Real for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
Monday, July 13
- Comprehending Our Role in Reading for Learning: Serving All Our Learners
- Finding the Leader Within You: Empowering School Library Media Leaders handout available!
- Jumping, Jiving, Singing and Drama in the Elementary School Library handout available!
- Reading Outside the Box: Collaborating with Graphic Novels and Audio Books
AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in a Read/Write Web Classroom
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 am
McCormick Place West W-470a
Join National Board Certified School Media Specialist, Susannah Tamarkin, in a discussion of wiki and remote-server word processing software as used in the collaborative curriculum project Critical Thinking for Bioethics. Participants will investigate the skills, learning dispositions, responsibilities, and self-assessment strategies outlined in the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner as they appear within a Read/Write web curricular context. The Read/Write web is an emerging instructional tool that enables collaborative environments for content teachers, school media specialists, and students to share and assess inquiry work products. Supporting materials may be found at http://ithsnyclibrary.wikispaces.com.
Presenter: Susannah Tamarkin, NBTC EC/YA Library Media
Audience: School Library Media Specialists 6-8 and Library Teachers
Teaching Social Networking Skills to Pre-Service School Librarians: A Panel Discussion
Educators of School Library Media Specialists Section (ELMSS)
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:00 am – 10:00 am
McCormick Place West W-192b
Participants will learn:
- the range of social networking skills taught to new and pre-service librarians across the country
- possible ways to implement skills and technologies to implement social networking skills in K-12 school libraries
Presenters: Gail Dickinson, Lesley Farmer, Judi Moreillon, Linda Underwood
Audience: School Library Professors and Adjuncts, and School Library District Leaders
Minors' Rights in School Library Media Centers
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
McCormick Place West W-470a
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Learn the legal rights of minor students using school library media centers in the areas of access to information, Internet searching, use of Web 2.0 technologies, the right to read, confidentiality of library records, and meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Presenters will differentiate between public and private school library media centers in terms of how the First Amendment and federal and states laws apply to minors. Two library media specialists will provide examples of situations involving students’ rights in public and private school libraries, and attendees will have ample opportunity to question and engage presenters in a dialogue.
Participants will gain:
- Knowledge of the legal rights of minors using school library media centers in the areas of access to information, Internet use, use of Web 2.0 technologies, the right to read, confidentiality of library records, and meeting the needs of students with disabilities.
- An understanding of the differences between public and independent (private) school library media centers in terms of how the First Amendment and federal and state laws apply to minors
- An understanding of the convergence and divergence between minors’ legal rights and ALA policies including the Library Bill of Rights and its interpretations.
- An opportunity to engage in dialogue with presenters and others in attendance.
Presenters: Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom; Lee Ann Lowder, Associate General Counsel, Chicago Public Schools; Barbara Stripling, Director of Library Services, New York City School Library System; Barbara Weathers, school librarian, Duschesne Academy of the Sacred Heart
Moderator: Helen Adams, Mansfield University
Audience: All School Library Media specialists and Administrators
Copyright for Librarians K-12
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
McCormick Place West W-192a
An overview of Copyright and how it applies to school environments. Information includes historical background, protections provided, public domain, orphan works, Copyright owner’s rights, fair use, TEACH Act, and more.
Presenter: Maria B. Kardick
Audience: School Library Media Specialists k-12 and Administrators
AASL's Top 25 Web Sites for Teaching and Learning: Categories, Criteria, and Collaborative Strategies
AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Task Force
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 am
McCormick Place South S103b-d
Do you know which are the best Web sites to support curriculum development and inquiry based learning? The new AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner promote inquiry learning, so wouldn’t it be a powerful strategy to have a handful of Web sites to entice your teachers to collaboratively develop inquiry-based curriculum? Join the AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Task Force at this interactive session to learn about innovative, authoritative curriculum Web sites. Information, strategies, and ideas will be captured and posted on the Task Force Wiki; sharing and learning will continue after the conference session.
Presenters: Pam Berger, Nancy LeCrone, Elizabeth Deskins, and Linda Friel
Audience: School Library Media Specialists 1-12, Independent Schools, and Administrators
Closing the Gap: Making Information Literacy Seamless Across K-16
AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 am
McCormick Place West W-190b
The verdict is in: information literacy is a critical skill for 21st century learners. This session will open with a presentation showing the alignment between ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner. This will be followed with short, showcase presentations highlighting effective collaboration between K-12 and higher education library personnel to bridge the information gap. The session will close by sharing resources to facilitate similar collaborative efforts, including a presentation about the committee’s toolkit.
Presenters: TBD
Audience: School Library Media Specialists k-16, and College/University Instruction Librarians – Master/Undergraduate
Wiki - the Ultimate Collaboration Tool
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 am
McCormick Place West W-470a
Wikis are a free 2.0 tool for the educator, facilitating communication between colleagues and students even when separated by space or time. This workshop will show you how to create and promote wikis as a toll for collaboration within you community.
After this workshop, you will be able to:
- construct and design a wiki using one of the free wiki programs available;
- demonstrate the use of wikis to fellow educators fro use in classroom group projects; and
- prepare and utilize wikis to facilitate collaboration with other educators and other public entities in order to optimize resource sharing.
Presenters: Kelly Depin
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-16, Independent Schools, and Administrators
Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
McCormick Place West W-181
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Despite the emphasis on fiction for leisure reading in school, many reluctant readers are often more drawn to reading nonfiction. Are you revving up your nonfiction readers? Expand your nonfiction repertoire as 18 authors booktalk their latest work. Panelists include award-winning and acclaimed authors April Pulley Sayre (Vulture View), Kelly Milner Halls (Albino Animals), and Carla McClafferty (Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium), as well as many additional prolific or brand-new authors. Their booktalks, plus new ones crafted by audience members during the presentation, will be yours to take back home to excite your students about reading nonfiction.
Presenters: Rebecca Hogue Wojahn, Sharon Mitchell, Lisa Albert, Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Amy Hansen, Suzanne Lieurance, Katherine House, Kelly Milner Halls, April Pulley Sayre, JoAnn Early Macken, Gwendolyn Hooks, Jeri Chase Ferris, Laura Crawford, Anastasia Suen, Wendie Old, Patricia Kummer, Carla McClafferty, Carmella Van Vleet, Christine Taylor-Butler
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-12 and Independent Schools
Serving Students along the Autism Spectrum
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
McCormick Place West W-175b/c
High functioning students with Aspergers syndrome, as well as those with more profound Autism, deserve the best library service possible. The purpose of this program is to help librarians, particularly those in school libraries, to serve this challenging population. Increased early detection and behavioral support for more children along the Autism spectrum, as well as increased societal awareness of this brain difference, make this a timely topic.
Participants in this program will:
-gain basic understanding of the Autism spectrum
- learn about the social and educational challenges of students with Aspergers
- discuss how school library programs, services and collections could best serve students along the Autism spectrum
Presenters: Alison Ernst and Ernie Cox
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-12 and other librarians serving children, interested in exploring library service to autism spectrum youth patrons
Speak Out! Influence Legislators about Programs for Youth in School and Public Libraries
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
McCormick Place West W-185
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An interactive (audience participation) approach to teach strategies and techniques of influencing law makers.
Presenters: Emily Sheketoff and Stephanie Vance
Audience: School Library Media Specialists
Web 2.0 meet the Standards for 21st-Century Learner
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
McCormick Place West W-187
The panel will demonstrate five Web 2.0 tools, highlighting the features that support our new standards. At tables, groups will brainstorm and develop how these tools can be used to support inquiry learning and report out. The moderator will record these ideas in a wiki designed for future growth. We hope to be able to share this session with 2.0-style—Ustream and have others Twitter in. As a wrap up, we may go into Second life and discuss the same tools with some librarian around the country/world (pre-arranged).
Presenters: Joyce Valenza, Pam Berger, Wendy Stephens, Christopher Harris, Lisa E Perez, Jeff Hastings, and Robin Williams
Audience: Library Media Specialists K-12, Library Media Specialist Educators
The Best of the Best from University Presses: Books You Should Know About
The American University Press Books Selection Committee
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
McCormick Place West W-194b
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Twenty-five to thirty University Press titles will be presented by a panel of PLA and AASL-member librarians. Titles will represent those featured in the 2009 University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, an annual collection development bibliography produced by the Association of American University Presses in coordination with the AASL’s American University Press Books committee and PLA’s University Press Book Reviewers Community of Practice group. Book subjects will include art, literature, history, multicultural studies, political science, and memoirs. A raffle of all books presented will be drawn at the end of the program.
Presenters: TBD
Audience: School Library Media Specialists 6-16, Independent Schools, and Administrators
Global Citizenship: A Role for School Librarians?
Task Force on International Relations appointed by Past AASL President, Sara Kelly Johns
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
McCormick Place West W-178b
This program will present the results of the Task Force for International Relations as it pertains to:
- The development of a toolkit of ideas to promote global understanding in the school library media center.
- Exploring the use of technologies to link schools and school library media specialists around the world.
- Identification and promotion of opportunities for exchange and international travel for school librarians.
- Development of ideas for promotion of International School Library Month.
Presenters: Johan Koren, Judith Repman, Linda Veltze, Rocco Staino, and Charles O’Bryan
Audience: School Library Media Specialists k-16, Independent Schools, and Administrators
How to Obtain Federal Funding for Your School Library Media Center
CANCELLED
Dynamic Duos
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
McCormick Place West W-186c
The goal of our workshop is to promote collaboration/curriculum development between a campus librarian and teacher. By modeling several available online resources that are funded through the library media program and various district offices, we encourage the integration of those software tools that are readily available to campuses via the Internet or district licensing. We then provide a collaborative learning environment away from the campus allowing the teacher and librarian to plan, develop, and demonstrate their unit, with the ultimate goal being campus implementation. Our role as facilitators provides “just in time” support and guidance throughout project development.
Presenters: Diane Sidoroff and Lucas Loughmiller
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-12
Making Virtual Reality-Based Library Services Real for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
McCormick Place West W-175b/c
- identify effective professional development technologies
- share best practices in using a virtual reality environment to deliver professional library services
- share information about effective practices in administering a virtual reality-based library services program
Presenters: Lisa Perez and Christie Thomas
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-16, Independent Schools, and Administrators
Comprehending Our Role in Reading for Learning: Serving All Our Learners
Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 am
McCormick Place West W-470a
“Every reader her book,” yes, but can she read the book, and will she comprehend what she reads? Our students require specific reading strategies for proficient comprehension of content area informational text. This is true for ELL, special education, and for all our students. We have specific evidence of expectations from higher education faculty. Leave no aspect of the library program unexamined. From resource selection to access to learning, let’s learn about comprehension and instructional strategies that will best serve all our future information literate leaders. As models of intellectual coherence, we need to redefine our role as instructional consultants.
Presenters: Gail Bush, PhD, Professor, Reading and Language and Elaine Buch, Ph.D., Director, Addison Trail High School Library Media Program
Audience: School Library Media Specialists 7-12, Public Librarians, ELL and Special Education Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Administrators, and Instructional Designers
Finding the Leader Within You: Empowering School Library Media Leaders
Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 am
McCormick Place West W-175b/c
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In this program we will present the ways in which the school library media specialist is already performing as a leader within the school setting; ways in which the school library media specialist can change in order to become a leader within the school setting; and we will learn how to recognize school library media specialists as leaders within the school setting in regards to connections, relationships and student achievement.
Presenter: Evelyn R. Bussell
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-12
Jumping, Jiving, Singing and Drama in the Elementary School Library
Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
McCormick Place West W-178a
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How can you make children’s literature come alive to address multiple intelligences? How can you assure that children will LOVE coming to the library and associate these good feelings with books? Come join this experiential workshop and take home lots of ideas on how to infuse your library lessons with multi-sensory experiences for children. We will move, sing, draw, use puppets, learn story stretches and ways dramatic play can impact executive function (imagination, making choices, etc.).
Presenter: Susan Stone
Audience: School Library Media Specialists Pre K-4
Reading Outside the Box: Collaborating with Graphic Novels and Audio Books
Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
McCormick Place West W-178b
- Connect literature for youth to AASL’s student learning standards, 1.1.6. (Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g. textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning); 4.1.1. (Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth).
- Relate “other” formats to curricular ties so that school librarians can collaborate with teachers to include alternative formats in campus curriculum (AASL’s Strategic plan—to cultivate librarian leadership in developing curriculum).
- Learn how to use these alternative literary formats to encourage creative reading responses (AASL’s student learning standard 4.1.8., Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning).
Presenters: Janet Hilbun, Jane Claes, and Paula Griffith
Audience: School Library Media Specialists K-12
