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Teacher librarians are standing on the brink of a fantastic opportunity to make themselves indispensible within their schools. With hundreds of new libraries and thousands of student laptops currently being rolled out to secondary schools, this is the perfect opportunity for teacher librarians to embrace technology, develop a Professional Learning Network, upskill and become leaders in e-learning.TRANSCRIPT
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Teacher librarians are standing on the brink of a fantastic opportunity to make themselves indispensible within
their schools.
With hundreds of new libraries and thousands of student laptops currently being rolled out to secondary schools, this is the perfect opportunity for teacher librarians to embrace technology, develop a Professional Learning
Network, upskill and become leaders in e-learning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZyUaQvpdc
Blogs – Joyce Valenza, Buffy Hamilton, Judy O’Connell, Anne Weaver, Will Richardson
Read professional journals – ACCESS, SLAQ newsletter, QUICK, ISTE journal
Attend PD opportunities
Get involved in the School Library Association
Sue Waters
http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo
Each year, The Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The annual Horizon Report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less
Electronic Books
Mobiles
Time to adoption: Two to Three Years
Augmented Reality
Game-based Learning
Time to adoption: Four to Five Years
Gesture-based Computing
The full Horizon Report can be downloaded from
http://www.apo.org.au/research/2011-horizon-report
• Recommend educational and research apps (425,000 iphone apps so far!)
• Recommend ereaders, ebooks and audiobooks • Allow students to search the catalogue • Use QR codes to take users to instructional podcasts and
videos • Develop an ‘Ask a Librarian’ service • Promote citation creation • Promote database access • Use Twitter and Facebook for marketing • Use SMS alerts for marketing
“Local classrooms to get dose of augmented reality” http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/classrooms-to-get-dose-of-augmented-reality/story-e6frgakx-1226147361664
Ikea augmented reality app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4nnLti-72A&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Principals now want a teacher librarian who is a curriculum and technology leader, an innovator and a mentor.
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General Capabilities Literacy Numeracy Information and communication technology (ICT) competence Critical and creative thinking Ethical behaviour Personal and social competence Intercultural understanding
Cross-Curriculum Priorities Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
Are you actively engaged with your teachers to develop deep, critical
thinking in your students?
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http://cflora638.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/roles-of-the-school-librarian/
“If you call yourself an information professional, you have to be a professional in the information landscape of your time.”
(Source: Joyce Valenza)
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Thumb - strength of character Establish pre-eminence (the you who shows up before you show up) Pointer - FOCUS 'Follow one course until successful': know your outcomes, take action, find what works and what doesn't, re-align until you achieve outcomes Middle - brand Who are you? What do you stand for? Are you who you say you are? Standards, benchmarks Ring - relationships 10% interested in working with you, 30% might, the rest probably won't ever Little - little things that count (what you do that others don’t) It's all about them. What is your core story? '90 sec elevator pitch'
Who is your audience? What is your focus? What is the core thing you want to get across?
Re-align and re-focus to achieve your outcomes. Trump & Kiyosaki 2011, “Guide to developing your Midas touch” in The Midas Touch, Plata Publishing, Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCuGvsThEw
Inhibitors:
Time, knowledge, workload, teachers, staff skills, principal, IT dept … OR
IS IT YOU?
Research something your teachers might use
Look for something that might be useful to TLs
Showcase something you have done with students and teachers
Run a workshop/segment for your local TL network group
Write an article for the School Library journal
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Glass half full
Boundless energy
Capacity for optimism
Love what you do and do what you love
Switch on a smile
Find answers rather than negatives
Get rid of
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Shelving
Cataloguing
Covering and processing
Overdues
Stocktaking
Quiet libraries
Tidy libraries
Don’t do library aide tasks – otherwise you will be replaced with an aide!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zzPBbXjWs
As information specialists, libraries cannot afford to be
perceived as ‘missing the boat’ in delivery of information, or our clients may decide we are
irrelevant to their needs.”
(Source: Joanna Witt & Michelle Turner,
Charles Darwin University Library)
“Mobilization of information in society is impossible to ignore...
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http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/digital-marketing-strategy/why-dont-many-companies-blog/attachment/global-mobile-data-growth-forecast-by-region/
Moore’s Law – technology is doubling every 24 months
“Australia has the world's highest per capita use of mobile phones.
By 2013, more internet searches
will be done on smartphones than desktop computers.”
(Source: Tony Keusgen, Google Australia)
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/smartphones-to-overtake-
desktops-for-internet-20110602-1fi1y.html
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Will they be searching the high quality information that you provide?
http://winksite.com
“...few mobile Web sites are as user friendly as an app, even when they’re from the same publisher. The better apps also keep some or all of the data on your
phone or tablet, avoiding data charges, and they’re formatted to take advantage of your device’s dimensions and technology.”
“Libraries in general can no longer wait for
patrons to come to them, but must reach out to their patrons in
new and innovative ways.”
Mobile = 40% of all tweets (Source: KPCB on 10 Mobile Trends)
200MM mobile active users vs. 50M in 9/09
2x more active than desktop-only users
(Source: KPCB Top 10 Mobile Trends)
http://www.news.com.au/schools-launch-facebook-exam-page/story-e6frg12c-1226147319694
http://www.techxav.com/2010/03/19/if-facebook-were-a-country/
Australia’s population in April 2011 = 22,669,000
• Has 130 friends
• Makes 8 friend requests per month
• Spends 15 hours/month using Facebook
• Visits Facebook 40 times/month, and spends 23 minutes/visit
• Is connected to 80 organizational Facebook Pages, Groups, and Events
(Source: David Lee King, TSC Public Library Manager)
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http://www.facebook.com/TGSLibrary
http://www.facebook.com/tigslibrary
Trinity Grammar
The Illawarra Grammar School
“A small but growing number of libraries are beginning to apply mobile technologies to provide new services or to enhance traditional services. In doing so these libraries are making themselves not only more available but also more
relevant to their users.”
(Source: Helen Partridge, QUT)
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Ellyssa Kroski – http://www.slideshare.net/ellyssa/libraries-to-go-mobile-tech-in-libraries-presentation
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Getting information off
the Internet is like
taking a drink from a fire hydrant
(Mitchell Kapor, 2007)
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First Male Pregnancy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=7ECAVxbfsfc&gl=US
“Connecting with what other people are reading”
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http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=5336d87dc92371f38918
“Connecting with what other people are writing”
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
http://sdst.libguides.com/newtools
http://livebinders.com/play/play/77617
http://www.netvibes.com/tigslibraryjnr#Library
http://libguides.brisbanegrammar.com/libraryhome
• Put in intense effort for a few years in an area where you will make a difference.
• New game plan – 'Your rhetoric must resonate with your audience' - find your pathway of connection from what you do to who you are working with. • Begin with the end in mind.
(Source: Karen Bonanno)
http://www.slideshare.net/ASLAonline/profession-at-tipping-point
1 minute / day / week = 167% improvement / year 5 minutes / day / week = 3778% improvement / year
(Source: Dr Marc Dussault)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCvEoAnhBI
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