AASL 13th National Conference & Exhibition
Preconferences
Preconferences provide an invaluable opportunity for you to interact with nationally-known presenters and with your peers, mentors and partners in the same room. Preconference registration includes: for all full day workshops: Continental breakfast, box lunch, and breaks; for all half-day workshops: continental breakfast (a.m.) or break (p.m.).
Full Day Preconferences - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Half Day Preconferences - Wednesday, October 24, and Thursday, October 25
 AASL Advocacy Institute
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Presenters: Deb Levitov and Nance Nassar
Participants in the Advocacy Institute will receive information, resources and strategies that will help define advocacy and guide them in the creation of long-term advocacy action plans for their school library media programs. The institute will clarify the difference between public relations, marketing and advocacy and emphasize how each has a place in program planning. Participants will develop action plans that will help them work toward transforming passive stakeholders into active advocates for school library media programs.
AASL Advocacy Institute is presented in cooperation with the ALA Office for Library Advocacy.
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Library Media Specialist 2.0: Social, Collaborative, and Interactive Technologies
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Presenters: Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, Indiana University at Indianapolis
From blogs and podcasts to wikis and virtual worlds, everyone's talking about the dynamic technology tools, resources, and learning spaces available to educators and students through Web 2.0. Let's separate the hype from what's realistic, relevant, effective, efficient, and appealing for your library media program. Learn about options and the educational potential across grade levels and subject areas. Regardless of whether you're a beginner or expert, you'll find dozens of practical ideas to enrich the teaching and learning environment.
Dr. Annette Lamb has been a school library media specialist, computer teacher, and professor of education and library science. She writes, speaks, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes on realistic approaches to technology integration and information inquiry. She has authored over a dozen books on using technology in teaching and learning.
Dr. Larry Johnson has been a classroom teacher, middle/high school library/media specialist, university level instructional designer and media services administrator, and college professor. He has co-authored four educational technology books and is the primary author of the 42explore project.
Larry and Annette are a unique husband and wife team. After many years teaching, they sent their kids to college, sold the house, and moved into a 38-foot motor home. They've been "on-the-road" since 1999. Currently, they both teach online courses through Indiana University-Indianapolis using the satellite on their RV for high speed Internet access. Between the two of them, they offer eight online courses for teachers, technology coordinators, and librarians. They also co-author a regular technology column in the journal Teacher Librarian and maintain their popular website, Eduscapes.com.
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Assessing for Learning: Connecting the Library and the Classroom (SOLD OUT)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Presenters: Violet Harada and Joan Yoshina.
 Library media specialists can be key players in closing the learning gap, but we need evidence that our teaching makes a difference in student learning. Engage in a lively hands-on, minds-on session that addresses the following challenging questions:
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What is critical for students to learn?
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How do these learning targets connect with both content and information literacy standards?
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What will students say, do, or write to demonstrate their achievement of these targets?
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How do we know that students have achieved these targets? How do we know how well they have achieved them?
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What strategies might help us measure achievement?
Work with partners and teams in developing workable solutions and strategies that stress assessment as ongoing and integral to successful learning and focused teaching.
Violet Harada is a professor in the University of Hawaii’s Library and Information Science Program. Joan Yoshina is a retired school library media specialist currently residing in Olympia, Washington. They are co-authors of Assessing Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners and Inquiry Learning Through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Judy Freeman
 In an overview of current trends in children's literature, Judy Freeman will share some of her latest favorites, an eclectic and indispensable assortment of compelling titles no librarian can live without. She will demonstrate a variety of motivational, practical, and fun techniques to link literature with storytelling, booktalking, reading aloud, creative drama, music, writing and illustrating, comprehension and higher level thinking skills, research and reference projects, and other hands-on school library-based activities that bring children to books. This fast-paced half-day show-and-tell workshop will celebrate one reason you became a librarian in the first place--to help others discover the sheer joy of reading.
Judy Freeman is a well-known speaker, consultant and writer on all aspects of children's literature, storytelling, booktalking, and school librarianship. She is a visiting lecturer in the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she teaches courses in children's literature and storytelling. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the U.S. and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Judy Freeman's long-awaited all-new book, Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide (Libraries Unlimited, 2006) and its popular companions, More Books Kids Will Sit Still For (1995) and Books Kids Will Sit Still For (1990) are comprehensive resources for libraries and literature-based classrooms. Her book Hi Ho Librario!: Songs, Chants, and Stories to Keep Kids Humming is accompanied by her lively CD full of Judy's favorite fun book-related songs to sing with children (Rock Hill Press, 1997). Judy also writes the "Wild About Books" children's book review column for School Library Media Activities Monthly.
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Collaboration: The Key to the Future Begins @ Your Library
Thursday, October 25, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - noon
Presenters: Greg Byerly, PhD and Carolyn S. Brodie, PhD, Kent State University School of Library and Information Science
 Collaboration is teamwork and a whole lot more! This upbeat and practical pre-conference program identifies the keys to successful collaboration, the characteristics of a good collaborator and strategies to make collaboration work. Both seasoned and brand new school library media specialists will learn how to seek out potential partners and look for opportunities where they will be able to work together with educators in their building on information literacy instruction and in connecting information resources. This fast-paced workshop by two collaborators from Kent State’s Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education will share practical examples of successful teacher-librarian collaborations and provide creative solutions that lead to student achievement. Findings from a study on the characteristics of successful teacher-librarian collaborations commissioned by ILILE will be shared. ILILE is an award winning federally funded demonstration project.
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Copyright and Plagiarism - Teaching Ethics to Tomorrow's Citizens
Thursday, October 25, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - noon
Presenter:  Dr. Carol Simpson, University of North Texas School of Library an Information Science
Are the legal and ethical aspects of teacher librarianship driving you crazy? Do you think you have such a thin grasp on what constitute "best practices" in these areas that you are not ready to start teaching appropriate practice to your students and faculty? Relax! It may not be as hard as it seems. Learn about appropriate attribution, how much is "too much", and where to draw the line for young students, older students, and faculty.
Dr. Simpson joined the UNT SLIS faculty in August 1998 after serving in the public schools for 25 years. She currently teaches courses that lead to the school library certification, including cataloging, audiovisual production and school library management. In addition, she develops courseware for a School-wide class on Internet use. All her classes are taught in an online environment. In the School she specializes in preparing courses for the Web, and received the University’s Distributed Learning Pioneer Award.
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Designing School Library Media Spaces for Now and the Future: A Special Place for Reading, Thinking and Learning
Thursday, October 25, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - noon
Presenter: Dr. Thomas L. Hart, Library Media Facilities Planner and Professor Emeritus, College of Information, Florida State University
This pre-conference will provide participants an opportunity to develop skills and gain knowledge to plan a quality library media space to serve their current and future users. Dr. Hart will provide hand-outs with sample floor plans that correlate with aspects of his Book and the DVD to help with planning. Portions of the DVD will be shared to provide ideas for location and color schemes that last. The opening discussion and question period will be 45 minutes. Participants will be organized into compatible groups by level of school and types of users. A facilitator will be selected for each group. There will be a 20-minute break in the middle of the session and the rest of the time will be spent deriving solutions to individual problems and issues as the facilitators report.
There will an opportunity to interact with a facility planning expert and other colleagues to improve your skills in facility design and planning. The group planning time will give you a chance to pick other professionals brains to improve your own abilities in facilities planning and design. Even after the pre-conference you will have e-mail addresses from the facilitator and other participants so you can continue to gain help and ideas.
Participants should bring floor plans of their existing and/or planned facility.
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Urban Fantasy, Chick Lit, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks, and More: Young Adult Literature for the YouTube and MySpace Generation (SOLD OUT)
Thursday, October 25, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - noon
Presenter: Dr. Ruth Cox Clark, Associate Professor in the Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology within the College of Education at East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina.
Dr. Clark will share techniques for enticing teens to explore the new genres and formats available in recently published YA Literature. The workshop session will also address ways to update the secondary school media center to become the place to be, even for those teens who would rather listen to music on their iPods or surf the Net than interact with a book. Research on teen responses to booktalking styles, as well as booktalks for newly published YA literature titles, will be presented, accompanied by a bibliography of these and other recommended YA titles.
Dr. Clark teaches both children’s and young adult literature/materials courses in the MLS Program and has previous taught at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Sam Houston State University in Texas. Dr. Clark is the author of two booktalking titles: Tantalizing Tidbits for Teens: Quick Booktalks for the Busy High School Library Media Specialist and Tantalizing Tidbits for Middle Schoolers: Quick Booktalks for Busy Middle School and Junior High Media Specialists. She has presenting booktalking sessions at national, state and regional level conferences as well as conducted library media in-services on booktalking techniques. Dr. Clark writes a Reader’s Advisory column for Library Media Connection and has been a children’s’ and young adult columnist for Teacher Librarian.
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