Sherry's+Notes

ELA TEKS
co-teaching, student support, purchasing ancillary - dont become it increase academic achievement Tie the research into another TEK Grade 1 - Science, Fairy Tales (creative dramatics)

Easy, open-ended questions - Why would you want to move to (a country)? - can be done in one lesson

Why should I come to the library? we have to make sure that our teachers, principals, etc know the answer. create lessons that go with the bluebonnet list Kids love the picture book lessons, so they listen better

English I Writing TEKS - focus on persuasive paper process (taught in classroom and extended into library) go into English planning periods - open lines of communications, build relationships to weave research into classroom

research goes beyond K-12 - workplace application - boss might come ask you to get info on something and then give a presentation start collaboration early in the year - students start a folder at the beginning and add to it all year. blending skills and research into regular classroom instruction

middle - memoir older years - paired texts (fiction and non)

Genres are helpful to librarians to help with purchasing. Everytime you're doing a story time using a picture book, you're reviewing a skill. Inferencing and visualization, math, etc...don't say storytime, say doing a lesson!

aligning school library program - look at what other schools are doing.

super 3 in big 6 - choosing a district-wide model so student have consistency

Vertical Alignment Document - get it and print it off. - read reading and research area - what works of literature are they supposed to be using, what are the skills they need - become familiar with the TEKS at your grade leve

www.englishspanishTEKS.net - https://www.englishspanishteks.net/

Wednesday - April 14
Suzanne Lyons and Janice Newsum - Houston ISD
 * Name that Book Contest: Motivating K-12 Readers**

Also known as Battle of the Books Houston ISD tradition - 20 years multi-level competition using preselected book titles. Teams respond to quotations from the books or questions about theme, characters, setting or plot - all respond to the same questions. Questions are read aloud to the students, they have to listen - only the audience gets to SEE the question

start with state reading lists - get recommendations from contestants students read between 35-40 books. get the lists at the end of the previous year's contest

teams have regular meetings to prepare. campuses have mock contests to prepare for the district wide competition. might be considered an elective in middle school. teams of 6 students and one alternate. Might start with anyone who wants to participate, then narrow it down to the final 7 students.

community support - B and N, book vendor participation, parents, local business sponsorship, judges from community and central administration

K-2 students get book covers and show the title, 3 and up write name of book on whiteboard. have rules about spelling and punctuation, etc.

have a media element - for those not participating, they can create a book trailer or something

Wolk, Steven, "what should students read?" Phi Delta Kappan (vol 91, No 7) April 2010 http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v91/docs/k1004wol.pdf

website - HISD Name That Book

Access Database for questions

Book Trailers - Making students want to read! Librarian created, student approved! Critique this - booktrailer example - not real flashy - ppt slides (no transitions) graphics weren't great, music didn't fit the mood, text was really boring and hard to read, too wordy, didn't focus on the book Pro: nice and short
 * Digital Peeks - Naomi Bates, Northwest ISD**

Keep this critique in mind as you start creating booktrailers of your own

Have to find a book you like - one that entices you. Have you ever read a book you thought - "I could see this as a movie!" - that's the book you want. easiest genres to do - mystery, suspense, supernatural fiction (schooltube.com/user/naomibates)

Make a list - on paper - the things you're going to put in a book trailer: emotions, character personalities, places, symbolism, denouement - the high point where you're going to cut the trailer off, voice (are you going to be the character? or tell the story?), predominant items such as colors, items, types of writing (diary).

finding images - takes three or four hours. one book trailer (10-15-20 images for typical images) create a folder - store everything in the same folder http://creativecommons.org/ - only use the green - click Find Use attribution in Properties part of image file

think in short spurts - if you write too much, you will lose the audience (have to think about a reluctant reader at your school). you don't have to write on every single slide - image can tell the story too

Most important part - the end. DO NOT GIVE THE BOOK AWAY! have to think rhetorically - will it work out, will she stay alive, end with a powerful final image

Step five takes two hours - when you make your first one, be prepared to take 7 or 8 hours. start with animoto or photostory Movie Maker - third hardest program to use when making a movie trailer might want to think about purchasing if you're a serious book trailer maker - sony platinum movie studio is a good one

animoto.com/education - free, all-access pass for 6 months (then go do it again) If you don't have an image, you can select from their collection - they have some good scenes - you don't have to credit images found in animoto. They have video clips too. 3-step process - simple as that! full account, you can put a spotlight on every single image Not her choice for book trailers - you supply everything, but they do the creative work. text is also limited

Movie Maker 4 step process timeline - advanced storyboard - simple

best way to make a book trailer is in 5-second increments first slide - title, author, created by - that's all you need

title animations - zoom in, zoom out, fade slowly- don't want to use too much the most pleasing colors to a person's eye - black on white

video transitions - dissolve, fade

video effects - ease in, ease out

digitaljuice.com

freesound.org - only look for WAV files workshop111 library

Dr. Kaye Bray - TWU (area - school library and technology) Valerie Hill, MLS, Lewisville ISD (elementary)
 * School Librarian Communication through Social Media**

Roles of school librarian
 * teacher/collaborator
 * resource locater
 * communicator (via email, social networking, webpage)
 * leader on campus - active on committees, etc
 * professional development provider
 * innovator (come up with new and better ways to do things)
 * global perspective
 * love to learn
 * technology integration - have to be leader in using technology in our instruction, so we can help other teachers and administrators integrate it as well
 * doesn't work alone - works with everyone in the school

current "buzzwords"
 * media literacy - process of analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of modes
 * transliteracy - ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms - sign/oral - digital social networks - not just print
 * virtual reality - computer simulated environments - real or imaginary
 * augmented reality - a live direct or indirect view of real or real world environment enhanced with technology- mixed reality - kids' day to day world is an augmented reality

Old - Treasure box - library houses everything New - help people navigate sea of chaos of information

changing hierarcy of information info comes from the bottom up - anyone can create a website or put things on youtube - too much info - leads to change in role of librarian

Blogs - Joyce Valenza, valibrarian, Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian), Naomi Bates

Wikis - everyone can collaborate at one time, in one place - have to branch out and figure out new ways to use what we know how to do - can't use LC or Dewey on a wiki

education - top priority is security - leads to lock down of a lot of social media places School Web - open access MOODLE platform - kids can talk, share stuff, etc in safe environment

Mashups and Repurposing

all about getting material to the students - don't have to worry about protecting our libraries - 21st Cent School Librarian - using social media to market our books (ex librarything) blogs, book trailers, book review online, linking from library webpage to eBook collections (google books), links to downloadable audio/text books, playaways, ebook readers, working with students to create booktalks and book trailers (give them incentive to read, take ownership by creating content), presence on facebook, timely library messages on Twitter Myspace, Ning, Linked In, Meebo, http://www.communitywalk.com/, social bookmarking tools

Too many tools? Identify purpose first - then choose the tool

Apps and icons - different way of sharing information - different kind of literacy

Children about 14 years old - entering virtual worlds in huge numbers - evloved out of MUDs and MOOs - KZero has a report about virtual worlds and kids - kids are familiar, so we need to be familiar too

Avatar - http://www.sitepal.com/, http://myavatareditor.com/

http://www.clubpenguin.com/

Virtual Worlds are beginning to evolve into a world we can use for education - for adults - Second Life (allows user to join group with a common purpose and create content); for kids - Whyville

Why? Cost effective, synchronous or asynchronous, creative and imaginative, unique for each user, collaborative, not limited by distance

What are teachers and librarians doing? Historical Simulation (Jamestown, the Alamo) Science Projects (Tsunami or Space Flight) project on a Smart or Promethean board media literacy and transliteracy

Reaction Grid - open source virtual world

PBS has a group of teachers that are working in Second Life - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/04/setting_up_shop_in_second_life.html

Meaning takes precedence over form. Just because you can make an animated GIF file, doesn't mean you should! do have to be aware of the tools so we can utilize them for the best

International flight museum - take field trips in Second Life!

Virtual recreation of Dewey Decimal System