TASLA 2nd Afternoon Session Training Librarians

Training new librarians

in Ft. Bend...they attend a summer course on electronic resources or information literacy as a participant because they will be expected to teach one of the course during their first year.

new librarians have separate meetings (similar to ours) in addition to regular monthly meetings

Dallas ISD...summer sessions 5-6 days, unpaid in fall 4-7:30, unpaid various courses cover a variety of classes

Overview of Librarianship--photostory format instead of a course.

have “notebook” as they receive info..put it in their notebook

Northside ISD...mentor program

established librarians did a think tank of ideas...

application process for the mentors...principals had to give permission so there would be no surprises

6 meetings with mentors/mentees $200 stipend

monthly checklist for mentors

orientation for mentors...create goodie bag for mentee

Denton ISD...

new program this year (based on Garland’s program)

5 days of training...3 unpaid days in summer, 2 during the year

veterans come in to talk about different topics

this is a day in the life of ....

how do you match a book with reluctant reader

database training

Round Rock ISD...

new librarians workshop 1 day unpaid

what kinds of things are on their mind?

contract between mentor/mentee

they have 4 meetings with each other...list of what to talk about each time

online manual with instructions

acceptable use , copyright, book selection are covered before school on the training day

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training library paraprofessionals

Title 1 requirements

that Book Woman...the traveling librarian

uses Raganathan’s 5 laws of library science to generate discussion

Make Them Smile---customer service from Todaro

weeding

management of students -- routines

book selection

TASLA 2nd Morning Session Part 2 Book Awards

Exploring State Book Awards - Janet Hilbin & Jane Claes

49 states have some kind of an award now...190 awards given, not including recommended reading lists...Mississppi is only one currently not giving one

does not include Lone Star, Tayshas type lists

some go back 60-70 years!!

children had some voice in nomination, selection or voting for winners

Bluebonnet is one of largest...used as collection development tool in the state

criteria for nomination varies greatly! purpose is more standard...encourage reading!

Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Award 1940

Kansas had first individual state award 1952

of 95 looked at

21 by adults only

11 chosen exclusively by children

rest are adult selections with student selection of winners

often winners of big awards like Caldecott, Newbery can not be nominated

since 2004:

Eragon 21 awards

Twilight 16 awards

Lightning Thief 16 awards

Tale of Despereaux 15 awards

Loser 12 awards

only picture book with 10 or more My Lucky Day had 11

in total 450 books received awards..76% of the books only got one award (vast majority being picture books)

question: how many have been banned...not sure, but thought only 3-4

top 5 winners are all considered fantasy/science fiction, magical realism

25 have add movies made or are in production

Kehert, Clements, Gutman are top winners but have never won national awards

only 5 awards given exclusively for nonfiction, but 41 non fiction books have won various awards

27 books about dogs won 47 awards

8 adult titles won 19 awards

this data can be important for collection development

they have be thru selection process

trends in student reading

librarians not necessarily using this info

they are publishing this in a book (Linworth) to be out in the fall Coast to Coast: Exploring State Book Awards by Janet Hilbin and Jane Claes from the beginning to 2008

there will be some author interviews included ..they talk about impact on them and how they feel about kids reading

Guess what! Lunch!

TASLA 2nd Morning Session

Reminder: live blogging = typos!  more links to come

k12 Databases program review -- Marti Rossi, Region 20

all the wonderful online training materials including videos that can be embed on your own pages

survey results were positive regarding the successful use of the materials...opportunity to have things they could not otherwise have.  here is the link to all the materials regarding this resource

http://web.esc20.net/k12databases/training.html

the graphs of usage will be added to the tasla wiki so they can be used in resource discussions.

TEA Report (no link available on wiki at this time)

Anita Givens, Karen Kahn 

good budget session for the agency at this point; however next go round may be different.

technology allotment was funded

k12 databases continuation of funding

TxVirtual School Network   20 million for 2 years

professional development dollars

HB 3:

changes to high school graduation plans

recommended/distinguished plan  4X4 is still there...6 electives, 5 electives of r distinguished

fine arts at middle school has been added as requirement

career/tech courses....what courses could count for 4th yr. math and science

opportunities for librarians to assist middle schoolers make decsions on what to take in high school based on future plans...

HB120, 136, 3643 all talk about prek education and full-day prek classes

must pass 5th, 8th grade TAKs to be promoted, can be retained at parent request

Funding  HB 3646...

added are these parts:

SB 197 personal financial literacy responsibility course for students...banking!

SB 199 provide training to teachers on financial literacy so they can work with students

SB175 top ten percent change for UT

lots of changes in health curriculum...impact on library resources?

HB4294 

textbooks, e-textbooks, instructional materials, tech equip

use textbook money to select electronic materials and equipment to use

possibly will be vetoed

HB 3646 

affects Virtual school network

funding for online courses will be the state's responsibility instead of students

count for ADA even if at home...pays district that proves course and district that must provide equipment to have courses...helps with 4X4 in small districts

HB4294 computer lending program...agency can provide computers for home

also having access until 7:00 3 nights a week!!  impact on library...be thinking about this

HB1332

holding students responsible for electronic materials/equipment just like print textbooks

CHANGES

new curriculum website

several empty spots for positions...especially in math

science TEKs PD being set up

Tech Apps writing team to be set up 

Texas College & Career Readiness program

new tech apps will start being reviewed in the fall...this IS something librarians should be involved with

Federal Update

58 million from stimulus..addition to what state normally gets

Target Tech in Texas (T3)....21st century classroom grants

collaboration, one ELA target should be part of application

target focus area FOR libraries...learner-centered technology and info access (Tx School Library Standard III) for info:  t3@tea.state.tx.us

Other Funds for Technology

NCLB website is good source

performance measures can be found on OMB website

GPRA...

percentage of school personnel who meet their state technology standards..librarians are a part of that count (librarians SHOULD be filling out star charts on themselves?)

percentage of students who meet state technology standards by end of 8th grade.

end of this portion...it is break time...more networking!

TASLA Session #3 biblios and Speedgeeking

Remember: this was live blogging...there will be typos!!

David Schuster from Plano is talking about biblios.net and how it could be used to create a state-wide database for all our records that could then be searched and downloaded!  He is demoing how records can be created and edited...of course we could import what we already have!

It sounds like something that could be possible. The discussion even went to thinking this program might be an alternative to things like Marc Magician.....now, no one in my district get too excited.  We are NOT changing anything at this point!!!!  This is a discussion of possibilities only.

There was also some discussion about ownership of the records and even parts of the records vs ownership of the database where records reside. This part hurt my head. Marc records are just records, for goodness sakes. Oops, my opinion is creeping in!

Back to biblios.org -- it lives outside the firewall! That is a good thing.

The rest of the afternoon was spent in SpeedGeeking...a smorgasbord of 10 Library 2.0 tools...Animoto, Glogster, Flickr CC, flip camera, netbooks, ipod touch, kindle & sony reader, ning, voice thread,shelfari.

I did an Animoto  of the learning that was going on.

Ok, now on to more networking... the f2f kind...over dinner!

TASLA Speedgeeking

Groups of library administrators enjoying quick looks at 2.0 tools

TASLA Session #2 Peggy Rudd TSLAC / Second Life

This crazy picture will not move right now...it is part of the Second life discussion below...do you know who it is ? Answer below!! :-)

TSLAC Report:

Peggy is giving us the annual report ...the state of libraries speech so to speak!

Legislature info/results

increased funding for K12 databases...keep what we have and expand

state-wide catalog plan...share our info..as librarians do naturally

Not successful!

thought we had 2.5 million dollars but did not move forward

people are still plugging away to bring about success.

creative budgeting (federal $) should protect the databases for now.

may have to scale back on support and training part which are important, but it may have to happen. 

more training comes more comfort

technology pupil allotment will help in some ways.

TEA, Higher-Ed got lots of stimulus $. wish some could have come our way.

maybe some resources from TEA could go into the database budget.

eligibility for k12 has not changed. can't expand to private schools..that did not happen.

they will continue to have to work thru service center program to get best price.

in 2010...TexShare database, k12 database bid will occur

since $ resources did not increase, probably won't increase database resources

k12 databases and teacher prep

this was the 2n

d most requested wish after funding

trying to get info to decision makers in the schools..they need to be aware of the importance of the database

online course...State library site

services to librarians tab

Everyone Wins When School and Public Libraries Work Together

she talked about the state Library of Texas....some can't connect because of district restrictions. maybe larger k12 libraries could add their records

NEW TOPIC

SECOND LIFE  http://www.secondlife.com

we saw A Starry, Starry Night presentation..actually saw the site being built...that was pretty cool! (o btw, she just said it is not there anymore!!)  there is a video of it.

Look who is here in Second Life at the ALA site...Barry BigBoots  (sorry, I shook as I took the picture)

Othe virtual worlds for kids

Habbo Hotel..teen

Webkinz..little kids

Gaia Online ..teens

Ty girlz 10-15 girls

machinima...machine + cinema; filming inworld

Why Second Life?

ALA has an island

another event

The Bookbinder's Ball...annual event

book discussions go on all the time...in the Reader's Garden

a book she talked about Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

global collaboration

California Library Assoc has had some

used Animoto to show us a virtual tour of one the events...good way to show it off (as youknow, I love Animoto!!)

virtual classrooms

feel the sense you are in the room with others at the same time!

the land of Lincoln...the details of the school room

sandboxes are available in SL for learning

she tried to show us around but of course, technology did its usually trick! but I will link ot her presentation later and you can see lots of "stuff"

p.S. forgot to mention..we still have those important breaks called ...eating !!

we back channeled this conversation at http://todaysmeet.com/TASLA

we hope to have an archived copy if it later...cross your fingers!

TASLA Session #1 21st Century Educator

Remember these are ROUGH notes...P.S. it was very good and fun...will do some linking later!!

Kim Cofino, International School in Bangkok

http://mscofino.edublogs.org/ Always Learning

This is being done thru Skype and she will demonstrate screen sharing as well.

The power of personal learning networks...

The Networked Teacher...

traditional tools AND 2.O tools

PLN or PLE

24-7 learning

immediate responses/feedback during the learning process

can include personal interests as well as professional interests

interconnect but the groups of learners can change

global connections are possible

you have to build your own PLN, a community happens--you join that

it is your responsibility to go out and get the info and learning ---it DOES take time

Evolution of an educator

pre-PLN wasa time of isolation, a few colleagues

a list of books that was her start (Warlick, Richardson, Wikinomics, Long Tail)

K-12 online conference was another first that got her started

reader

forming groups...and the personal connections that can be made

collaborations of a ling distance nature came next

joining communities (nings)

constantly connecting...Twitter

where are you in your evolution

Grow your own PLN

The steps she would follow if she could do it all over again...

start small...can’t do it all at once..

start with one tool like readers (RSS)

learn by lurking

it comes to you...you look at it on your own time

you find your little group...you don’t have to follow everyone

social networking

professional connections in Facebook maybe...broaden your connections

start sharing ...thru a blog!

develop your online identity...being anonymous is not always in your best interest...

personal conversations...with things like Skype

personal connections even long distance

online conferences...2nd Life and other events

as structure or unstructured as you want

be connected constantly...Twitter

tidbits of info over time tell the story of this person

she talked about Flickr Creative Commons as the primary source for her pictures because she has permission based the CC

She also talked about a site where you can select only things that can be shared  search.creativecommons.org

Presentation Zen...book for making presentations better

Here Comes Everybody (The Power of Organizing without Organizations)...another book she recommends

Back Channeling at TASLA

The annual administrator conference for library leadership ...TASLA starts in just a few minutes. If you want to follow along in a back channel .... click this link, put up a name and join us!

http://todaysmeet.com/TASLA

We are using the service that we can save the info.

Let's hope I'll be successful at doing that...yes, this is my first time!

028.162 Bluebonnets 2009-2010

For your viewing pleasure!

004.165 MacBook Pro: Grab That Screen Shot

Slowly, but surely, I am getting more comfortable with MY fabulous MacBook Pro...I have spent one session at the Genius Bar (needless to say I was NOT the genius in the conversation) and got to spend two days with a Mac trainer trying to absorb as much as possible and remember as much as I could on how the Mac acts differently from the PC.

I have trouble with the smallest, most insignificant things with technology quite often and I continue to be flummoxed by the smallest details of  the Mac as well. Thought I would go out of my mind trying to easily copy URLs...duh, 1, 2, 3 clicks, command-copy!

Ok, now to the main purpose of this post. You know HOW much I love to use screen shots and how fun I think it is that on a Mac, you actually get to hear the camera "click!" In case you are missing the screen shot key from the PC keyboard, on the Mac it is command-control-3.

BUT if you really intend to use the screen shot, that is a whole 

other story! After piling up a bunch of junk on my pretty, clean desktop that were totally useless (on several occasions), I FINALLY clicked Help tonight and read about GRAB...an application that allows you to select the portion of the screen you want before clicking and allows you to save your shot in the format of your choice in iPhoto.

So ridiculously E-A-S-Y! Why do I insist on making things difficult? Help is on a computer for a reason!

GRAB is now is now a permanent resident of my Dock.