Media+Specialist

=**Cool Tools for Learning: Media Specialists**=
 * Facilitated by: Julie Coiro**
 * Room: Wachovia**


 * Powerpoint Slides**


 * Wonderings, Issues, and Concerns - post your thoughts [|here]...**

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 * Topics for Discussion**
 * **Sharing a Common Language with Reading and Language Arts Teachers**
 * [|New Literacies Model of Online Reading versus Big 6 Information Literacy] (Coiro, 2005)
 * **What Should Library Media Specialists Know About The Common Core**?
 * [|American Library Association's 21st Century Learning/CCSS Crosswalk] and [|ALA's 21st Century Learner's Lesson Plan Database] and AASL 21st Century Learning Standards [[file:AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf]]
 * **Connections to Other Standards for Digital Literacies**
 * [|Literacy with ICT (Manitoba): A K-12 Developmental Continuum]
 * **[|Reframing the Library Media Specialist as a Learning Specialist]** (Zmuda & Harada, 2008) [[file:ReframingLibrarianLearningSpecialist.pdf]]
 * **Library Media Specialists at Literacy Leaders** (Amanda Buckley, 2011) [[file:ABuckle_LibraryScience.pdf]]
 * **Four Corners and The Case for Wikipedia**
 * [|Wikipedia: Neutral Point of View]
 * Exploring The Talk Tab: [|Aspartame] and [|The Holocaust]
 * What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About New Literacies: [|Part 1] and [|Part 2](by Henry Jenkins)
 * collective intelligence, judgment, networking, and negotiation - "what it's like to work together in a knowledge-generating culture"
 * [|A Teacher's Guide to Wikipedia]: guide to basic terminology, usage, and details
 * **Curating Personal Learning Environments with Students**
 * [|7th Grader's Overview] of PLE's and Symbaloo in Science Class
 * [|Seven Things You Should Know About PLEs] (from Educause)
 * [|XtraNormal parody chat between Personal Learning Environment (ELE) and Learning Management System (LMS)]
 * Creating Pathfinders: Moving from more traditional formats (e.g., [|ipl2 Pathfinders]) to [|Discovering History Project]
 * **Transforming the School Library Into A Learning Commons**
 * [|School Libraries as Knowledge Building Centers] (David Loertscher and Carol Koechlin)


 * Resources for Library Media Specialists**
 * [|21st Century Information Fluency Project] and [|Scoop It Compilation of Resources]
 * [|A Few Good Scoops for Librarians](compiled by Joyce Valenza)
 * [|Teacher Librarian Ning] (hosted by Joyce Valenza)
 * [|A Media Specialists Guide to the Internet]
 * Ipad Apps and Bloom's Taxonomy: [|Kelly Tenkeley's Table,][|Kathy Schrock's Table], Silvia Tolisano's [|Digital Learning Farm] and [|Bloom's Taxonomy]
 * [|ReadWriteThink]
 * [|Wonderopolis] - The Wonders of Each Day
 * [|Quadblogging]
 * [|Project Look Sharp: Media Literacy]
 * [|How To Do Research] (by the Kentucky Virtual Library)
 * Information and technology livebinder (compiled by Gail Holmes)
 * [|Project-Based Learning - Am I Doing It Right?]

Notes from the session: Standards
 * Essential Standards (NC Library Media - for students) - presented a new version in 2011 - on the NC public schools - ITES)
 * Collaborate with content area teacher - Essential Standards (all other curriculum areas) and CCSS for Math and Reading
 * Professional Standards (new evaluation practices - still up in the air)

Evidence that you are making a difference?
 * Share the template that you use in your school - be able to provide STUDENT EVALUATION:
 * Connected to Impact V - Collaboration Toolkit that guides and prompts for evidence;

Opportunities to share/network/collaborate across our schools?
 * DPI initiative - Gail Holmes will try to set up a beginning for this
 * asking for types of forms that library media specialists could share/exchange/archive
 * make space for "things to share" and "things to need

Start your own conversations/collaborations with this wikispace!