Introductions: Jennifer Dillon, Kath Butler, Julie Hiltz, Nancy Perkins, John Milburn, Jessica Schneider, Connie Brasier, Ellie Baehr, Elaine Harmon, Okle Miller.
FAME sessions. Discussion about dates for the next few FAME sessions. AASL, our national conference, is in Charlotte, NC next year, Nov. 4-8.
Jennifer Dillon shared Donna Baumbach’s wiki for Web
2.0 resources. The address is http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com
We looked at Wordle,
Elaine showed a widget that came through Amazon
that she used to make a FTR feature on her school website. We also looked
at a free 30 sec video maker called Animoto.
Upload your still pictures and choose from the site’s copyright free
music. Video can be posted on your website for free.
Kath Butler shared some geography tri-fold work that she
has created for students who visit the media center when they are dispersed
from absent teachers’ classrooms. She is able to hand them fill-in-the
blank forms they work on when they are in the media center. Samples were provided:
Norway and Italy.
Julie Hiltz threw out some questions and issues from FAME.
Legislative Update—Bob Cerra said that people being active and vocal
about their opinions regarding school library media is being noticed. Our
budget has been cut at the state level. Should HASLMS consider a Tallahassee
trip to talk to legislators?
Julie will pursue organizing a trip to Tallahassee for January to support
the FAME platform in discussion with legislators.
AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner—this is the new document
that replaces Information Power. (There were some issues that precluded AASL
from using the name and format of Information Power for this 3rd edition).
Download the overview of the S21CL at http://Ala.org/aasl/standards
Nancy Perkins shared lessons on the computers she uses with
4th and 5th grade students.
What happened on my birthday? Students use bookmarked sites to read online
and explore websites.
Webquests—sources for short webquests (can be completed in 1 or 2 library
sessions) . Nancy shared animals and habitats. Nancy has used the content
links from the website below and then creates her own worksheet activities
to go with the content.
www.todaysteacher.com
Innovative Teaching Concepts is the name of the group. Click on the Webquests
link.
John Milburn shared the Comic
Book Project. Started by a teacher in the Bronx, $6 per student, comes
with lesson plan and planning pages, etc. Kids create their own comic books,
then you send them in. The CBP posts the kids’ comics online.
PPT about genre….. he will send it to us. ? Also a bingo board where
kids are encouraged to read among various genre.
School-wide book clubs—John went to the Just Read Florida conference
last summer and learned about school wide book clubs. He is doing one now.
Kids choose which club they want to join (by genre). They don’t meet
in groups, but kids read to meet criteria, win prizes etc.
Library Town—a series of lessons John has used with students to connect
social studies and library skills. Map skills connect to library location
skills. Idea from Library Sparks.
39 Clues books. Rick
Riordan and other authors are doing this series of 10 books. You solve clues
with the main characters. Go online and use the clues to solve the mystery.
When you go online you have to do a task to earn the “clue”. Math,
geography, video game things etc. We discussed a number of strategies people
are using for helping kids use the clue cards that go with these books as
they are reading the books in the series.
Connie Brasier shared the website Vocabulary.com
The creators made a ton of money in the stock market, so they made this great
website and it’s all free. There are word lists, worksheets, vocab that
goes with books.
Kath Butler shared how she uses small clips of video from
Discovery Education Streaming. There is some debate about whether we are able
to use this.
www.teachersdomain.org
Connie shared this site from the National Science Foundation, and NOVA. Clips
of video to use as background and pre-reading.
Ellie Baher shared her unit on skeletons. She did this lesson
with K and 1st grade students. We talked about how cool it is that Ellie does
lesson plans with the standards listed. This goes a long way for sharing how
her lessons impact the classroom curriculum.
Ellie’s school is also doing a service project collecting can tabs for
Shriner’s Hospital. The hospital collect tabs and recycles them. The
tab weighs almost as much as the can but takes up less space. The hospital
sells the aluminum as a fundraiser for their programs.
Okle Miller shared PowerPoint game tools. Wheel
of Fortune PowerPoint class spinner. She also has Jeopardy
and Password (vocabulary review.
Have the kid who is guessing sit with their back to the screen. The rest of
the class gives clues. How fun is THAT!) Okle has the games
all zipped and will send them to us. Hollywood Squares game, she also
shared her Battle of the Books
PowerPoint.