OPENING KEYNOTE — Grabbing Attention: Keeping Pace with Readers & Technology
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
J. A. Jance, Author, The Edge of Evil & many J. P. Beaumont & Joanna Brady mysteries
With an M.Ed. in library science, experience in a K-12 library, and 35 books to her credit, popular mystery writer and author J. A. Jance shares where she gets ideas for her books — like the blogging journalist in The Edge of Evil, how she incorporates new technologies such as blogs into her material, and how she stays on top of what people want to read. Her stories are sure to stir your thoughts and stimulate new ideas for grabbing attention in your environment and keeping pace with your clients! |
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Coffee Break
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. |
Day One — Monday, October 23rd
LMSs on the Cutting Edge
MODERATED BY: David Hoffman, Editor, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, and
Susan Geiger, Librarian, Moreau Catholic High School |
Session S101 — The Evolving Librarian: Keeping Pace
with Students and Technology
10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Megan Arnett, Terry Kling, and Trish Barnard, Lee’s Summit High
School, Lee’s Summit, MO
School library media specialists need to be in the know when it comes to cutting-edge technology that affects teaching, learning, reading, and researching.
Three school librarians share how they evolved after attending Internet
Librarian 2005. They’re loaded with practical tips for implementing iPods,
blogs, personalized search engines, RSS, and wikis into the school environment
to assist your students and staff. Are you ready to start evolving? |
Session S102 — iPods, Audiobooks, E-Books, and More:
Empowering Reading Through Your Library
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lynne Webb and Nadean Meyer, Anacortes High School, Anacortes, WA
Today’s school libraries still promote reading and books, but the electronic
possibilities allow a merging of the ways students can use and enjoy books
and text. This session demonstrates how two librarians have been experimenting
with iPods, audiobooks, e-books, and readability of electronic text
to improve comprehension and to keep our students reading. |
Lunch Break
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. |
Day One — Monday, October 23rd
Go There, Do That!: Web-Based Resources and Tools
MODERATED BY: David Hoffman, Editor, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, and
Susan Geiger, Librarian, Moreau Catholic High School |
Session S103 — Taking the Classroom Global:
Online Tools for Global Collaboration
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Emily Kornblut, TIG in Education U.S. Program Manager,
TakingITGlobal, New York, NY
This session showcases Web-based tools, resources, and new ideas for
introducing students to global issues and integrating cross-cultural collaboration
into existing curriculum. The TIG in Education framework is applicable
to language, social studies, and art courses, with topics ranging from
peace and conflict to education, health and wellness, and the global economy,
as well as current events and issues. The content is flexible, easily personalized
by individual teachers, and standards-linked. During a tour of
TakingITGlobal in Education, Emily Kornblut will discuss the importance of
21st-century skills, including technology and media literacy, global awareness,
and cross-cultural skills, and she’ll offer specific steps for engaging
students using these resources. |
Session S104 — Bookhooks and the Collaboratory
2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Adrian Hoad-Reddick, St. John’s-Kilmarnock School, Breslau, ON
Bookhooks [www.bookhooks.com] is an award-winning Web site that allows
students to publish illustrated book reviews online. Teacher and site
designer Adrian Hoad-Reddick presents the site and its many complementary
resources—including an online style guide, vocabulary series, and
games. He will discuss the concept of the “collaboratory,” ideas for the
future of the Bookhooks project, and ways you and your students can participate
in it and/or implement a similar project of your own. |
Session S105 — Eureka! Public Domain Multimedia Sources
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Alix Peshette, Davis USD, Davis, CA
Learn how to tap into a wealth of public domain online resources that are
ready and waiting to be used in the curriculum. In this session, Alix Peshette
shows where to look for public domain, copyright-free text, images, and
video and audio clips. You’ll also learn how to read a Web site for use policies,
plus how to help students determine whether they can use an image
and how to cite one if needed. |
Session S106 — The Truth Is Out There:
Visual Literacy for the Digital World
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lesley Farmer, California State University Long Beach
In our digital world, images can be misleading. In this session, Lesley Farmer
shows how those images can be manipulated, and how students can learn
to be critical visual consumers. The session demonstrates the universal and
culturally contextualized theories/principals/elements of visual literacy and
suggests ways to incorporate visual literacy into the school curriculum. |
Exhibit Hall Grand Opening Reception
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Day Two — Tuesday, October 24th
Social Networking, Safety, and CyberEthics
MODERATED BY: David Hoffman, Editor, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, and
Susan Geiger, Librarian, Moreau Catholic High School |
Opening Keynote — The Wild, Wild Web: Online Bullies,
Predators, and Stalkers, Oh My!
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Jayne Hitchcock, WHOA (Working to Halt Online Abuse)—Kids/Teen
Division, Dover, NH
With the dangers of students putting too much information in their blogs,
profiles, and elsewhere online, educators need to know how to handle a situation
when it arises. Internationally recognized cybercrime expert and past
Internet Librarian keynote speaker Jayne Hitchcock will help you show students
how to change their online information to reduce the likelihood of
becoming a target of bullies, predators, and stalkers. And she’ll guide you
in helping students who are being bullied, harassed, or sought after online
via e-mail, chat, IM, etc. These tools are essential for every educator to know! |
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibit Hall
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Session S201 — Social Networking Sites and
Personal Information Engines
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Robert Lackie, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Social networking sites have become some of the most visited sites on the
Web in 2006. Millions of people, especially high school and college students,
have joined one or more, largely because of the interactivity between
users and the availability of profiles and contacts. But social networking
sites are not the only Web places to find “public” information on individuals.
In addition to the huge general-purpose search engines (Google, Yahoo!,
MSN), a wealth of “people finder” search engines are attracting a lot of publicity
due to their easily shared information. Robert Lackie will give you a
taste of the notable social networking sites frequented by high school and
college students (and others!), personal information search engines, and
general-purpose search engines providing publicly available data on many
of us—probably even you! |
Session S202 — Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds:
Good and Bad Behavior with Technology
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Mary Ann Bell, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Cyberethics is of growing concern in education as well as throughout today’s
society. In this session, Mary Ann Bell will discuss dominant issues and ways
in which teachers and librarians must address them. She’ll touch on modeling
ethical behavior; serving as information resources to colleagues; and
teaching students about what is right or wrong and safe or unsafe when using
computers, the Internet, and other digital devices. Cybersins notwithstanding,
Mary Ann’s positive message emphasizes the opportunities for good that come from technology as she encourages colleagues and students to
engage in digital good deeds in their school, work, and private lives. |
Lunch Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibit Hall
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. |
Day Two — Tuesday, October 24th
More Web-Based Resources and Tools
MODERATED BY: David Hoffman, Editor, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, and
Susan Geiger, Librarian, Moreau Catholic High School |
Session S203 — Teachers, Librarians, and Technology:
A Winning Combination!
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Carolyn Brodie and Greg Byerly, Kent State University, School of Library
and Information Science, Kent, OH
Substitute speaker: Stephen Abram, VP Innovation, SirsiDynix
The Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE), funded
by over $2 million in grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
(IMLS) and the U.S. Department of Education, is working to increase
collaboration between teachers and librarians using technology. ILILE has
sponsored both national and state grants to teams of teachers and librarians
to study the impact of K-12 information literacy efforts. ILILE now offers
a large collection of collaboratively designed lesson plans, subject pathfinders,
and other instructional materials that is linked to national and Ohio academic
content standards. Learn in this session how you can use ILILE in
your schools. |
Coffee Break — A Chance to Visit the Exhibit Hall
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. |
Session S204 — ALTEC’s Online Teaching and Learning Toolkit
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Erica Schaapveld, Advanced Learning Technologies in Education
(ALTEC) Consortia, Lawrence, KS
The Advanced Learning Technology in Education Consortia (ALTEC) is an
organization dedicated to developing free, easy-to-use, Web-based
resources to support educators and librarians. In this session, Erica
Schaapveld highlights a range of ALTEC’s Web tools that you can use—or
pass on to curriculum specialists in your school to use—to assist with writing,
science, video, assessment, and many more subject areas. Come and
see how easy it is to integrate technology into your classroom and library. |
Closing Keynote — Gary’s Latest Web Research Update
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Gary Price, ResourceShelf and Ask.com, Washington, DC
In a rapid-fire I@S West closing session, Web search guru Gary Price reviews
what’s happening with the major Web search players. He will also offer a
hearty helping of specialized databases, as well as tools that you and your
K-12 colleagues can use to make work online easier and more productive.
As anyone who’s heard Gary speak will tell you, you’ll leave his session
almost breathless and very up-to-date! |
TUESDAY EVENING SESSION
Scholarship in Chaos! Flying High on the Web? or in Free Fall?
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Organized by Barbara Quint, Editor, Searcher Magazine
Anurag Acharya, Engineer, Google; Thiru Thirumalai-Anandanpillai, Microsoft; Sharon Mombru, Elsevier Scirus
| Fifty years ago, the demands of an explosive increase in the quantity of sci-tech content posed a life-altering challenge to access tools. The response to that challenge ultimately led to the digital technologies we have today. Now, an explosion of delivery power in digital technologies could realize a dream of delivering all scholarly content to anyone anywhere in the world. But that same explosive power threatens to damage, even destroy, the traditional structure of scholarly publication. Will scholarly Web search engines replace traditional abstracting and indexing services? Will Open Access replace traditional publishers? Acting together, will the two replace academic libraries? A panel of players, including the people behind Google Scholar, Microsoft’s Windows Live Academic Search, and Elsevier’s Scirus, along with forward-looking representatives of traditional services, share their insights and answer your questions. You might even find out how to conduct a comprehensive author bibliography in the Third Millennium! |
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