Once Upon a World Awards: Promoting Books with Messages of Tolerance and Understanding Saturday 8 AM

The early bird gets to hear about outstanding books that have been honored by the Museum of Tolerance. I will be sharing these books with you along with some lesson plans that you can use in your library or share with your teachers. This past year I was one of the judges for the new Once Upon A World Award for Young Adults. The first book to win that award is Jeanette Rankin: Political Pioneer by Gretchen Woelfle. The book that won the 13th annual award for younger readers is Surfer of the Century: Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe. I will talk about both of these books along with the others that have been honored and the program sponsored by the Museum to help promote a better world using literature.

Social Bookmarking The One Web 2.0 Tool You Can;t Live Without -- Saturday, 3:15 pm

Once you get started with bookmarking tools like Delicious, Diigo, and Furl, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them. You can easily share your favorite online resources with students and teachers. No Web-design experience necessary. Also, learn how to use social bookmarking with your students to boost their information literacy skills.

Miranda Doyle, Teacher Librarian,  Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic ms, San Francisco USD

Weebly Websites: Fast, Free, Fun!

Want to make a really great school library website but aren't sure how? Can't afford web hosting? Don't know HTML? Weebly.com offers an easy way to create attractive, advertising-free websites with links, pictures, videos, attachments, contact forms, and more. See sample sites and watch as a demonstration site is created.

Miranda Doyle, TL, Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic MS, San Francisco USD

Anna Koval, TL, Casa Grande HS, Petaluma City Schools

Screencasting 101

Screencasting -- also called video screen capturing -- is a way of recording everything you see on your computer screen -- including mouse movements and typing. You can even add songs and voice-overs. Screencasting is a wonderful Web 2.0 tool that more and more teacher-librarians these days are using to reach and teach students.

Anna Koval, TL, Casa Grande HS, Petaluma City Schools

VoiceThreads: Connecting with Students Online is Easy Using VoiceThreads --- Here is a link to the handout for my presentation, and a link to a "commercial" explaining my session on Friday at 3:30 P.M. --- Jane Lofton

Making Connections between the Printed Word and the Digital Environment 7–12 

In 1999 Eliza Dresang published Radical Change, a look at how the digital world

impacted the print-publishing world. What books in the past 10 years have broken

barriers in format and content? We will look at how the print world has mimicked the

media and how the media has responded to the growth of the Young Adult market.

Read Dresang's updated article on Radical Change.    Session Handout

Making Connections in Your Information Space All

Technology

Overwhelmed by information? How do you manage your information space? A look at the tools designed to help you manage your digital information space: iGoogle, social bookmarking, RSS readers, list-servs, and the possibility of unplugging.

 Information Space Handout.doc