SPRING TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Lifelong Learning Center, Norfolk

National Library Week
April 15-21, 2007

National Library Week is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries, librarians and library workers and to promote library use and support.

For your National Library Week toolkit, go to: www.ala.org/@yourlibrary

EXPLORE THE INQUIRY LEARNING/PROCESS

ESU #8 Media Center has the following materials on “Inquiry Learning/ Questions” for your classroom use.

DS2028 Authentic Publishing for Grades P-6: Inquiry in the Library, 31min. PI
Visits the school library, where students are encouraged to explore topics and questions for a writing piece. Includes suggestions for research activities, prewriting, and investigation, and connects these suggestions to cross-content applications. The DS are videos that may be downloaded to your computer.

BK2818 Engaging Readers and Writers With Inquiry 2007, A
What makes a good relationship? How does flight influence behavior for humans and birds? Is it ever permissible to lie? Reframing our units and lessons with questions such as these makes learning exciting for students. Wilhem debunks the myth that teaching through inquiry is hard. He shares ideas for turning state standards into engaging questions that propel students toward deep understandings. For use with grades 4 and up. By Jeffery D. Wilhelm

BK2719 Inquiry Learning Through Librarians-Teacher Partnerships 2004, A
Challenge your self and teachers to build learning environments that focus on real issues and critical themes. Build a strong case for the central role of the library media specialist in implementing curriculum changes into your school. Discover three vital concepts: Inquiry as a critical approach to learning; Student

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Guest Speaker (Available at Norfolk workshop only) Dr. Pasco is the coordinator of Library Science education programs at University Nebraska Omaha. She was a front lines teacher and library media specialist for 24 years, and has been the recipient of awards for teaching and service in both K-12 and Higher Education areas.

WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Nebraska Author, Dennis Vossberg traces the Hector Dixon family from his early days as a slave in Virginia, and his wife’s harrowing escape to the North as a young girl, through his writing of Hector’s Bliss. You can go directly to the author’s page: http://www.hectorsbliss.com
It's an exciting new historical novel about a small band of black homesteaders, mostly ex-slaves, who settled in northern Wheeler County, Nebraska, near Goose Lake after the Civil War.

iPod’s Have A Place In Schools
This session will cover iPod “how to” and give ideas about their use in your schools.

PowerMediaPlus
A session to review PowerMediaPlus, a state-of-the-art digital media solution to easily integrate standards-based multimedia into your school and curriculum. With PowerMediaPlus, all teachers and students in Nebraska will have access to 3,200 videos, 21,000 + core concept clips, 6,000 curriculum-oriented audio files, 5,000 print resources, and an unsurpassed collection of 25,000 photographs, illustrations, and clip art images.

MediaNebraska
This session will review the mylearning Community Group, MediaNebraska. This online group, is a comprehensive site to discover content for 21st Century literacies - Visual, Media, Information, Multicultural and Electronic Media specialists in Nebraska have access

to the site, which includes websites, discussion and files to support incorporating multiple literacies in the classroom.

Align to L.E.A.R.N.S.
This session will review the online site used by classroom teachers to evaluate titles (video and digital) held by the Educational Service Units in Nebraska. The reviews can be searched and read to determine best choice for titles aligned to Nebraska standards.

NetTrekker
Hands on demonstration for a Search Engine tool. netTrekker's controlled indexing takes the fear out of Internet searches. For example, students doing a netTrekker d.i. keyword search on “kittens” will find a variety of websites + images relating to baby cats. This does not always happen with other search engines! It also features: Over 180, 000 safe, reliable student-friendly websites; Image Search over 84,000 images; Costumized Billingual / ESL websites and resources; website readability measures; Dictionary / Translation Hot Key.

Nebraska Author Joie Taylor who is a media specialist from Columbus, Nebraska discusses her book “Information Literacy and the School Library Media Center”. This book is an overview to teaching information literacy skills beginning with a history of the development of the usage of the term. Chapters include: Collaboration; Flexible Schedule; Process Learning; and Assessment among other important topics.

Let’s Hear From You
Success stories - Brag - Share a Tip - Teacher Librarian Partnerships - scheduling 2:30 - 3:00 - Grant opportunities

Register online at ESU #1, www.esu1.org or call 402.287.2061. Cost: $20.00 (School will be billed after workshop)