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Students + Evidence = Impact! October 27, 2007

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Presenter Debra Logan

Deb started out with some background about working with students and finding out from them whether what the library did was useful. Leading to “When students speak … everyone listens!”

Outline of the presentation
Evidence Based Practice
*improve practice - came from Medicine
*based on research national but also needs local data
*Deb likes the word Mash-up putting the data together i.e. national report on college students research, correlated with where it was introducted etc locally

*Recommended article School LIbraries & Evidence: School Library Journal August Sept 2003
Deb likes Backwards Design from the book n”Understanding by Design”

Assessment
*What data
*How to collect the data
**pre, during, post assessments
**Tests, quick questions, passports — something I learned, how use, what worked, what made better? Use old catalog cards!

**Surveys, statistics, lesson plans
**Photos, Sample projects, Portfolios
*Managing Data
**Analysis and Storing

Motivaing students
Caveat, not sure I got everything here as I had to leave the room for a bit
*Use the data collected and share withstudents
**Quotations, Anecdotes, Annual Reports, Newspaper articles

*accept the negative comments

Building support-advocacy
*PR (not the only or most important)
*Marketing
*When someone speaks up for you
*back to When students speak… everyone listens

This is the second workshop by Deb that I have attended and both were very worthwhile. Deb has some books available, worth a look (Linworth).

Debbie Stafford

Collaborate With Mathematics Teachers Using Statistics, the Web and Multimedia October 26, 2007

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Presenter
Peter Milbury
Library Media Teacher/Consultant
California Learning Resource Network

Daniel Sours - Math Teacher Chico High School

This afternoon session highlighted and modeled collaboration between Library Media Specialists and Teachers. Peter and Daniel both worked together seamlessly for the presentation, but explained how this collaborative project grew from an idea by the classroom teacher to a full collaboration project.

The project — math students preparing a project using statistical data collected from web sites, then preparing graphs using the data, then preparing a powerpoint presentation of the data in different formats. The different graphs show data with different “equations” such as exponential, quadratic.

These gentlemen were happy to share the website developed for this project
http://www.csuchico.edu/~pmilbury/collaborate-mathematics.html

Web resources useful for the project;
statistics resources from Peter’s school web site

http://melvil.chicousd.org/ss20.html this page is no longer being updated so another site to use;
California Learning Resource Network clrn.org

A very enjoyable informative session.

Debbie Stafford

21st Century Facilities Design for Library Media Centers

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Steven Baule Presenter

One of the first things that impressed me, this presentation was done by a superintendent indicatind an administrator who knew something about libraries. As we went through the session he proved this to be true.

The second thing that impressed me, this was a FULL house indicating that school libraries are still being designed and hopefully built.

And ther was a third, Mr. Baule acknowledged that libraries will still have books and will need shelving.

The session was full of good ideas, most of them the kind where “you already knew that but needed reminded”.

Some I “collected”;
Extended shelving for reference, where you can pull out a shelf and lay the item down to read.
Seating, plan seating to accommodate one class per LMS + 1 (one class working with teacher or, one class working with LMS)
Square tables are better for flexible grouping
Allow for wireless but keep “wired” because still faster
Don ‘t buy signage until after the library is built, do some “test signs” THEN buy

This was a GOOD session, one that I wished could have been a half day session like the one I attended on this topic on Wednesday. It would have been a good companion session, this once gave practical tips which people could then use in looking at the floor plans.

There was a list of resources at the end of the presentation;

National Clearning House on Educational Facilities www.edfacilities.org
KQ website www.ala.org/aasl/kqweb/kqbackissues.html
Doug Johnson’s list of facilities www.isd77/k12.mn.us/resources/dougwri/buildingquestions.html
Facilities Planning for School Library Media and Technology Centers Linworth publishing

Debbie Stafford

All Students Really Can Do Research Without Copying

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Session presented by Virginia Morse
web site where you can purchase her book and other materials
www.iimresearch.com to buy the products

This was my second choice session but my first choice was canceled. Turns out that was GOOD thing! This session was great! Even though the presentation focused on elementary so many good ideas for students doing research were presented that could easily be adapted to high school level.

Summary
Plagiarism - Students don’t know and Parents don’t know

Brainstorming section
What skills do students need to conduct research?
Reading
Selection
Summarize
Question
Evaluate sources
Organization - outline — create something new

Inferences
Taking notes

Ways to prevent Plagiarism
*Use a process (model) and **grade a process (model)
Understand what plagiarism is
Resources
Products (use a variety of) State FLOAT
Poem on famous person

The model highlighted here;
Independent Investigation Method: The Model
Group Process Basic Level - teacher models each step
Group Process Proficient level - same skills but independent

Some ideas for product that came out;
Romanopoly make a monopoly board about topic
State Float along with state report
Benefits of natural disasters?

Notes, cave man language, shopping list

The seven steps
Topic make a hook, Class concept map, student concept map, do a research see slide 17, glossary of words on topic
Goal Setting, search strategy, goal setting form see slide 20 show teacher question, generate student questions (use question cubes, roll cubes then format question use one or two of the cubes.
Research, read, vocabulary, NO plagiarism (book Robert Harris, cartoons on plagiarism) slide 27, slide 29 directions for note taking slide 31 Easy as ABC, note fact grid
Organizing
Goal Evaluation
Product

Presentation

Questions - spotlight questions, flood light questions, thin and thick questions

So much to process so heading out for a cup of coffee.

Debbie Stafford

Did you Celebrate?

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Celebrate Conference, a session to acclimate newbies to the World of AASL, took place from 12:30 - 1:30 yesterday. If you weren’t there, you missed some great conference going advice, as well as an opportunity to hear from AASL’s leaders (like Cyndi Phillips, Sara Kelly Johns, Rocco Staino, Jay Bansbach, Joyce Valenza and others).

Some of the advice?

Laura Pearle