make it work_iste_june2011

Karen KliegmanSchool Librarian

Searingtown Elementary SchoolHerricks UFSD, Albertson, NY

Adjunct Prof., LIU Graduate SchoolNBSLSNBSLS School Librarian ofSchool Librarian of

the Yearthe YearGoogle Certified Teacher

…Tales of aReality TV Addict

This wasn’t supposedto happen to ME!

How Did I Get On ProjectRunway?

(At least I’m not on TheCelebrity Apprentice!…whew!)

You’re fired!

Let’s go to the reference section…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP7zGF6orAI

Sturm und Drang

Storm and stress; dismay.Storm and stress; dismay.http://www.blog.bluehourphoto.com/index.php?showimage=210

When did educators become the enemy????

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/17/us-newyork-schools-

idUSTRE72G7D320110317

consternationHorror that confounds theHorror that confounds the

faculties; dismay.faculties; dismay.

SharingSharingthe painthe pain

OUCH!

Bottom Line

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AmbivalentHaving mixed, uncertain, orconflicting feelings about

something.

Image used with permission:http://www.christinelarsen.com/sketchbook/2008/04/ambivalence.html

Budget Cuts

Staffing Cuts

Anti-Educatoratmosphere

Misconceptions aboutthe vital role SchoolLibrarians play!

christinelarsen.com

Superintendent Marc Bernstein says,"Other avenues to explore, especiallywhen evidence is lacking, include...in thisInternet age, eliminating the antiquatedrequirement that all high schools have atleast one full-time librarian and aminimum number of books." I say, theonly thing that is antiquated is Mr.Bernstein's view of school librarians andthe function of school libraries!

Ugh!

It’s very tempting to become a

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We are fighting for our lives!

And for our students’ lives, too!

CircuitousNot direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight

line or course to a destination

http://www.rebels-by-bus.net/2010/02/walking-the-labyrinth-at-harmony-hill/

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How do we do

MORE with

LESS?

What’sgoing toPULL USPULL US

UP?UP?

mitigatemitigate

To make less severe; toTo make less severe; toalleviatealleviatehttp://www.mitigateglobal.com.au/page/mi

tigate_global_blog.html

Tip #1:

http://designsdefined.blogspot.com/

Visibility

Branding

Create a BrandIdentity

Define Your Brand’sVision

Use Your Website to BUILDYOUR CREDIBILITY

Tip # 2: TARGET

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Wix.com

Newsletters

Issuu.com

Say what?

CaucusA meeting of persons belongingto a party; a group of people,often within a larger group.

You ain’tgonnalearn

what youdon’t

want toknow.

“Black Throated Wind,” Bob Weir &John Perry Barlow

http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/

http://edukindle.ning.com/

We have to ask ourselves…

How are we building our own

learning networks?

How are we

modeling our learning

for our students?

We need tobe sure thatour studentsknow how tobuildlearningnetworks aswell.

PROMOTE AND INVITE THE CsINTO YOUR LIBRARY

Creativity

Collaboration

ConnectingContributing

Critical Thinking

Controlled Creative Chaos

Enable students to use varioustools to hatch an idea!

• Wikis• Blogs• Podcasts• Screencasts• Vodcasts• VoiceThread• Mindmaps• Google Docs• Google Maps, Earth• Nings• Skype

Promote a Remix Culture• In a remix culture, digital objects are meant

to be changed, rearranged,rethought, juxtaposed,

discussed and shapedshaped…

Not just consumed.

"It is not the strongest speciesthat survive, nor the most

intelligent, but the ones mostresponsive to change."

~ Charles Darwin

Why do we have to talkabout doing things

differently??

Driving a Race CarAnalogy:

• When you drive a racecaryou're not looking whereyou are, or at the nextturn, but as many turnsdown the road as you can.

• The idea is looking atwhere you want to be, notlooking at where you arenow, but looking down theroad as far as possible.

-Mark Wagner, Google Teacher Academy

Let’s ask an expert…

(No, not TimGunn!)

Tip #3: Best Practices

(A/K/A:Manifestofor 21stCenturyLibrarians)

“Some aspects ofemerging practice arenon-negotiablenon-negotiable.”

http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/12/03/a-‐revised-‐manifesto/

What We Know…

Library Guides…

READING: different containers

LEARNING

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LEARNING: Digital Expression

Teleconferencing: SKYPE an author!

“You continue toconsider andrevise your

vision and feedit with

imagination.Think outsidethe box. Heck,

there is no box!”

Tip #4: Transformative Questions

School Librarians Wear ManyHats

• Information Specialists• Social Media Specialists• Technology Specialists• Book Specialists• Electronic Media Specialists• Apps Specialists• Web 2.0 Specialists• Media Literacy Specialists• Ethics Specialists• Advocating Specialists• Cloud Computing Specialists

SLMS ofYear

GoogleCertifiedTeacher

SIGMS TechInnovationWinner

GrantWriter

Blogger

Multipleawardwinner

Etc., etc.

GIVE YOURTHINKING AN

THINK ABOUT WHAT A LIBRARYIS…

THINK ABOUT WHAT A LIBRARY IS…

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Embed Your Program WhereIt COUNTS

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CALL IT WANT YOU WILL

Break through your barriers

You can be a superhero, too!

SUPERHERO

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“The illiterate of the 21st century willnot be those who cannot read and write,

but those who cannot learn, unlearn,and relearn.”

~ Alvin Toffler

[email protected]

Twitter: @kkliegman

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