AASL National Conference speakers announced November 26, 2008
Posted by Melissa Jacobsen in : AASL News, AASL2009, Conferences , add a commentdanah boyd to address school library media specialists at AASL 2009 National Conference
danah boyd, the “high priestess” of networked social media, will keynote the AASL 14th National Conference & Exhibition, “Rev up learning @ your library,” November 5-8, 2009, in Charlotte, North Carolina. danah boyd is an internationally recognized authority on online social networking sites with unique and controversial perspectives on how America’s youth are engaging in sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. Read the full press release.
Marco Torres to wrap up AASL’s four-day national conference
Marco Torres will deliver the closing remarks for AASL’s National Conference, “Rev up learning @ your library.” A high school social studies teacher in San Fernando, California, Torres is focused on helping students become engaged in learning and acquire the skills they need to thrive in our 21st-century digital culture. Torres sees digital media as the tools of liberation for people who have lived in comparatively disadvantaged situations. Read the full press release.
Deadline approaching! Submit proposals for concurrent sessions at AASL National Conference
Don’t miss the deadline to submit a proposal for concurrent sessions at the AASL 14th National Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 5-8, 2009. The theme of the conference is “Rev Up Learning @ your library.” The conference will offer a number of 75-minute peer-reviewed concurrent sessions. As in previous conferences, program content must address any or all of the three areas of responsibility as identified in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning:
- Learning and Teaching
- Information Access
- Program Administration
The National Conference 2009 committee encourages proposals that aim to inform conference attendees of the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. Proposals can be submitted and edited using an online submission process. The deadline for proposals is Monday, December 1.
Showcase your school library media program November 19, 2008
Posted by Melissa Jacobsen in : Check this out! , add a commentShowcase your educational leadership. Be a NSLMPY winner.
Each year, AASL honors the best in the school library media world as National School Library Media Programs of the Year. Through this award, sponsored by Follett Library Resources, each winner in the category of school or district will receive $10,000 and the high distinction of being a NSLMPY Award winner. Each year, an award is given to two single schools and one district. The deadline to apply is January 2, 2009.
Less than two weeks left to submit proposals for concurrent sessions at AASL National Conference
Don’t miss the deadline to submit a proposal for concurrent sessions at the AASL 14th National Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 5-8, 2009. The theme of the conference is “Rev Up Learning @ your library.” The conference will offer a number of 75-minute peer-reviewed concurrent sessions. As in previous conferences, program content must address any or all of the three areas of responsibility as identified in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning:
- Learning and Teaching
- Information Access
- Program Administration
The National Conference 2009 committee encourages proposals that aim to inform conference attendees of the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
Proposals can be submitted and edited using an online submission process. The deadline for proposals is Monday, December 1.
OIF Seeks Reports of Book Challenges in 2008 November 17, 2008
Posted by Laura Pearle in : Hot Topics , add a comment(posted on behalf of the OIF)
http://blogs.ala.org/oif.php?
With the end of the year approaching, the Office for Intellectual Freedom will be compiling our yearly list of most frequently challenged books. We collect information for our challenge database from newspapers and reports submitted by individuals and, while we know that many challenges are never reported, we strive to be as comprehensive as possible in our records. We would greatly appreciate if you could send us any information on challenges in your library or school from 2208.
Challenges reported to ALA by individuals are kept confidential. When requests come from the media or others regarding the details of challenges to particular materials, we report only the state, type of institution and reason for the challenge. (Check out the OIF site for more about what constitutes a challenge or ban and ALA’s role in tracking challenges.)
To report a challenge, you may fill out the online challenge database form, or email the information to Angela Maycock at amaycock@ala.org or call (800) 545-2433 x4221. To ensure that we don’t double count a challenge, we will cross-check your report with existing entries in the database.
If you have any questions at all, please be sure to contact us. Many thanks!
New Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Media November 14, 2008
Posted by jhurd in : Hot Topics , add a commentAnyone working in libraries knows the confusion among faculty and students regarding the relationship between copyright, fair use and educational practice. The Center for Social Media recently released their Code of Best Practices, a guideline “that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.”
From their website:
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education outlines five principles, each with limitations:
Educators can, under some circumstances:1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use.
2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded.
3. Share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded.
Learners can, under some circumstances:
4. Use copyrighted works in creating new material
5. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard.
You download the document and find an excellent informational video here.
Become an AASL follower on Twitter; Submit a proposal for AASL National Conference November 12, 2008
Posted by Melissa Jacobsen in : AASL News, AASL2009, Community , add a commentJoin AASL’s newest social networking site for members
AASL recently added another venue to its social networking offerings for AASL members. Are you a follower? Check for AASL the next time you are on Twitter to stay connected.
While we are it, have you joined AASL’s group on Facebook, yet?
If not, be sure to look AASL up the next time you are there. Search for the
“American Association of School Librarians.”
Submit proposals for concurrent sessions at AASL’s 14th National Conference
The deadline is approaching to submit a proposal for concurrent sessions at AASL’s 14th National Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. The theme of the conference is “Rev Up Learning @ your library.” The conference will offer a number of 75-minute peer-reviewed concurrent sessions. As in previous conferences, program content must address any or all of the three areas of responsibility as identified in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning:
- Learning and Teaching
- Information Access
- Program Administration
The National Conference 2009 committee encourages proposals that aim to inform conference attendees of the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
The deadline for proposals is Monday, December 1. Proposals can be submitted using AASL’s online submission process.
Tweeting YALSA’s Lit Symposium November 10, 2008
Posted by Wendy Stephens in : Conferences , add a commentIf Ranganathan’s old saw about every reader having his book is true, perhaps the 2.0 corollary is that every content creator has his application. I think I have found mine in Twitter.
I didn’t get Twitter for a while. It seemed mostly about alerting people when you were delayed in what airport or specifying exactly at which Starbucks you would spending the afternoon. But I liked the way that institutional users like YALSA and SLJ were using it to alert followers to blogs updates, and I found enough good stuff from my tweeps to keep me checking in daily…and it turned into a handy way to save and share my own links to sites or photos. Twitterers, you can “follow me.”
So I was a half-hearted twitterer, but this weekend, I tripled my updates over the course of a few days. How? As part of the AASL 2.0 Task Force, I have spent some time talking and thinking about how to make the AASL conference in Charlotte “more 2.0″ — working on ways to establish tagging schemes ahead of the event, recruit content creators for backchannels, and publicizing these ways of participating at a distance for those who can’t travel to attend the conference. You will definitely be hear more about that before next November.
I decided to gear up for Charlotte by practicing tweeting from YALSA’s literature symposium in Nashville over the weekend. I consulted with @lbraun200 and @librainiac to establish an official hashtag (#yalsalit08) on the conference wiki and started typing frantically from the first session Saturday morning…quickly connecting via http://twemes.com/yalsalit08with @yoyology and @hipstrlibgrl, and the dozen or so other people who chimed in over the two days. The only downside was that us tweeps tended to attend the same sessions…so I didn’t get to use twitter to virtually “sit in” on the other sessions as much as I had hoped.
The telegraphic transcription of “tweeting” a conference reminds me of nothing so much as my long-ago career as a newspaper features writer. Of course, another career as an English teacher has led me to tweet almost exclusively in complete sentences, not the twitter norm.
I took my tweets from the conference and sorted them in excel to produce a chronological symposium experience blog which I stored on a Google site …much easier to access than the few sheets of paper I had invariably used for notes, which would disappear into my desk never to be seen again. So the tweeting experience made the whole symposium “sticky” for me in a new way. Tweeting an event makes you analyze, filter, and restate the main themes from the fabulous presenters in real time and keeps that content in a static form for consultation over time. And, as Linda Braun presented in her symposium session “Reading, It’s Not Just Books Anymore,” Twitter can be used in instruction for collaborative authorship.
Twitter might just be your 2.0 application, too.
AASL News November 5, 2008
Posted by Melissa Jacobsen in : AASL News , add a commentDoes your school library media program have what it takes to be a NSLMPY winner?
Each year, AASL honors the best in the school library media world as National School Library Media Programs of the Year. Sponsored by Follett Library Resources, each winner in the category of school or district will receive a $10,000 award and the high distinction of being a NSLMPY Award winner. Each year, an award is given to two single schools and one district. The deadline to apply is January 2, 2009.
Join us at the AASL Premidwinter Institute
AASL will offer the School Library Advocacy Institute during the ALA 2009 Midwinter Meeting. Led by Deborah Levitov, the institute will be held Friday, January 23, in Denver, Colorado. AASL members can attend the institute for $189. In tough economic times, all will benefit from the resources and strategies to help launch your school library’s advocacy campaign.
Win a special screening of The Tale of Despereaux
SLJ is awarding one lucky winner a special pre-screening for 200 attendees of the holiday 2008 movie The Tale of Despereaux. The sweepstakes ends December 1, 2008.
