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Computers in School Libraries • Friday, March 15 — Lincoln West

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Devising Powerful Curriculum Maps to Create E-Portfolios: 
The IT Team, Media Specialists & Mathematics Teachers
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Carmelita A. Santiago, Mathematics Teacher, Atlanta Public Schools
Discover the potential for Media Specialist/Teacher collaborations to devise curriculum maps that integrate core subjects and IT across the school community.  Identify the skills needed by students to create e-portfolios on the Internet that can be used with any content area.  Learn how to include parents from the school community to assist with implementing the new curriculum map as a resource to student achievement and success.
 

Finding International Resources on the Web
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Randolph Hock, President, Online Strategies; Adjunct Faculty, Lesley University Technology in Education Program
The K-12 environment is an excellent place to take extensive advantage of the “World-Wide” part of the WWW. Across much of the curriculum, there are Web resources that can add immediacy, depth, and new perspectives to student experiences. This workshop will look at factors to be considered when looking for non-US material, a collection of starting places for finding such materials, and how to effectively, and relatively easily, deal with special problems presented, particularly the language issues. On the last point, we will examine the critical factors in finding, viewing, and (roughly) translating non-English (even non-Roman-alphabet) materials.
 

Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 
 
 

Feature Presentation

The Big6: Technology Skills in Context
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Robert E. Berkowitz, School Library Media Specialist, Wayne Central School District, Ontario Center, NY & Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University
This well known speaker and author of many books, is a strong believer in the library media specialist as a key partner in the excellence in education. In this session, the Creator of The Big6, discusses the most widely known and used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. Used in thousands of K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and corporate and adult training programs, the Big6 information problem-solving model is applicable whenever people need and use information. The Big6 integrates information search and use skills along with technology tools in a systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information to specific needs and tasks. Learn more about the approach and how you can use it in your school.
 

Lunch Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibits
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
 

The Big6: Technology Skills in Context (continued)
1:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
 

Computers in School Libraries • Saturday, March 16 — Lincoln West

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National Certification for Library Media Specialists & Library Media Standards: Why, How, So What?
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Patty Sorensen, Media Specialist, Middleton Elementary School, Sherwood, OR
Why do we need National Board Certification for Library Media Specialists? Sorensen, who served on the Assessment Team for the National Library Media Specialist Certificate, explains the history, development, and process for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards’ Library Media Certification. She also provides hands-on activities to understand how the National Library Media Standards published by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and National Certification work together to provide superior professional development activities for accomplished library media specialists across the nation.
 

Power to the People: Film Making for the Masses
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Jane Prestebak, Librarian, Spring Lake Park HS, MN
Low-cost digital editing systems bring the power of the editing suite to the desktop computer, lots of desktop computers. Apple’s iMovie and other editing software for the PC such as StudioDV, let us provide our students with the power to create and communicate in the visual language that  dominates their world. Neither pen and paper nor keyboard and word-processing software automatically make our students writers, we need to train them to write. We also need to provide our students with knowledge of how the videographer selects and enhances what the audience sees on a screen. Let’s talk about how we can set up a digital editing lab that lets many students, not just one or two, work with film. Let’s provide our students with a film making process and inspiration in the art of film-making. We shall see the life and thought of young people and their ability to express that life and  thought through art as never before.
 

Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 
 

Library to Library: Sharing America’s Smithsonian
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Digital Projects Librarian, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Suzanne C. Pilsk, Cataloger, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
The Smithsonian Institution, both the museums and the Libraries, offer a variety of Internet resources for the public and internal researchers. Online exhibitions, digital collections, and electronic databases offer the potential for use in a K-12 environment. How best to bring these resources to students via school libraries is the topic of this session. We hope to bring students in more direct contact with Smithsonian resources by using the museum library as a bridge to the school library. This session is planned as a collaborative learning experience with the audience.
 

Lunch Break 
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
 

Those Dark Hiding Places: The “Invisible Web” Revealed
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Robert J. Lackie, Assistant Professor, I-Librarian & Faculty-in-Residence, Rider University Libraries
“If only I had known!” was the bitter cry of the searcher who relied just on search engines to search the Web. Although many popular search engines boast about their ability to index information on the Web, more of it (dynamically generated pages, certain file formats, and numerous databases) is becoming invisible to their searching spiders. Much of the Web is hiding information from us, but we can access this hidden content! Learn how you can reveal the secrets of these dark hiding places.
 

Using the Internet to Create Web-Based Lessons and Activities
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Sheila Offman Gersh, Director, Center for School Development, City College of New York, School of Education
Learn to Integrate the Internet into classroom instruction. During this session, participants learn how to “Internetize” their traditional classroom lessons, create online collaborative projects and create WebQuests that meet statewide learning standards and assessment criteria. They become familiar with the huge amount of resources on the Internet that are available for “Internetizing” classroom instruction. A Web site that has links to hundreds of resources has been created to be used during this session (and after). In addition, templates are used to create the final products.
 

Coffee Break
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 

Using the Internet to Create Web-Based Lessons and Activities (continued)
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.