September 22, 2009 - Monthly Librarian Meeting Agenda
1. Digital Literacy Conversation and what we did at the first collaboration Wednesday
2. Book fines - a final conclusive conversation that will be noted in the minutes. (I need closure.)
3. Any Destiny Issues to discuss or bring forward
4. Textbook manager thoughts and the future
5. District Tech Plan update
6. Barcode scanners - ordering procedures modified
Agenda and Notes
Wednesday, September 2 - First day of school
Regular start no Collaboration Time
Monday, September 7 - No school
Labor Day observed
Wednesday, September 9 - Collaboration Time begins
late start.
Thursday, September 24 - 3:00 PM - Librarian’s meeting in the Tech Lab at the ESC.
Thursday, September 24 - 4:30 PM - District Technology Committee meeting in the Tech Lab at the ESC.
3:00 PM meeting was 6-11-09 in the Tech Lab at the ESC
Sorry I didn’t post an agenda before the meeting but I thought I would take some time to cover the main points of conversation.
1. Kris will send out an end of the year email with all the pertinent information for staff. Please take the time to help staff understand the issues that will help us have an easier start of the year. In particular, please do not move phones, computers or printers if at all possible. Keep them all plugged in and turned off. Setting them aside on a counter is better than putting them away. If anything needs to be moved, we feel best if we move it. We have been planning with maintenance to assist them with moves necessary for floor cleaning and other work.
2. Ron talked about our desire to have all your projector lamps and projectors sent up to Tech Services. Since it is our goal to completely support projectors with one day turn around on any issue, we could use your spares to help the efforts to provide loaners when necessary. The combination of centralizing these resources will enhance learning and teaching across the district.
3. The big loss next year will be our United Streaming videos. Due to costs, it is impossible to continue to support this service. Ron will send out a district-wide email with details.
4. JB explained the conversation he has been having with Principals regarding the budget reductions. The notes for that discussion are posted here.
5. Finally, the library materials budget seems to still be in place so far. It would be half the amount of this year. Since there are no hard numbers to work with, it was agreed to wait until September to discuss the spread for school at our September meeting.
For teachers interested in learning about fair use and the use of media in the classroom the Center for Social Media at American University has some excellent video explanations of fair use. The video I’ve embedded below offers an explanation of fair use as it relates to creating remixes. In addition to the video embedded below the Center for Social Media offers documents about best practices for online video. The Center for Social Media also offers video examples of best practices.
Photos 8 is a great place to find thousands of images that are in the public domain. These images can be used in any way that you and your students see fit. There are twenty-two categories of images of which the largest collections are of animals, birds, and sunsets.
I learned about Photos 8 through a great blog post on Making Teachers Nerdy. I encourage you to read that blog post for more public domain image resources.
Applications for Education
Other than using images of your own creation, using images in the public domain is best way to create a digital presentation. Using images in the public domain means that you don’t have to worry about what is or isn’t fair use or do you have to Creative Commons attributions.
There was a time when books, newspapers, magazines and journals were the prime source of content and information. It was always your move! navigating the authority maze, enjoying slow reading of (limited) information sources in order to gain a knowledge base that matched a particular curriculum outline.
This was when content was king and the teacher was the sage on the stage.
Now communication is the new curriculum, and content is but grist to the mill that churns new knowledge. Why? I came across a few good reads this week that set me thinking and wondering about the changes that we must support in our teaching and in our library services. Read the rest of this entry »
Location ESC Tech Lab
Time: 300 PM
Agenda
A couple of weeks ago I shared a post about Wesley Fryer’s presentation Copyright for Educators. If you haven’t seen the presentation, I highly recommend viewing it. While Mr. Fryer’s presentation is great, it is an hour long and probably a little bit more than you can or need to share to with students that are just beginning to learn about copyright. That’s where this excellent video from the Temple Media Education Lab comes in handy. This three minute music video provides a good introduction to fair use.
Applications for Education
This video is good for introducing students and colleagues to the basics of copyright and fair use. The Temple Media Lab provides an excellent collection of case studies, FAQs, and lesson plans for teaching about fair use of copyrighted materials in education.
Here are some related blog posts that may be of interest to you:
The End to Copyright Confusion
Creative Commons Explanations and Teaching Materials
The Story of the Obama “Hope” Poster
Twitter is a free communication and social networking tool which allows you to convey short messages of up to 140 characters to your circle of friends via the Twitter website, SMS, email, IM, or other Twitter client. Messages appear not only within your profile on Twitter, but are sent to your community of followers who have signed up to receive your updates.
Often referred to as microblogging, this new phenomenon has caught on with over 300,000 users on Twitter alone including Barack Obama and John Edwards. Twitter recently made the cut as one of Time’s Best 50 Websites of 2007. Librarians are using it to communicate at conferences and events and to keep up with developments in the field, and libraries have begun using it to promote their services.
Check out some of these great how-to guides which will have you twittering in no time:
Screencasts:
Libraries are just starting to test the waters with microblogging applications, but there are already examples of libraries using Twitter.
Case Studies:
Library Twitter Accounts: