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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.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZyUaQvpdc

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Blogs – Joyce Valenza, Buffy Hamilton, Judy O’Connell, Anne Weaver, Will Richardson

Twitter

Read professional journals – ACCESS, SLAQ newsletter, QUICK, ISTE journal

Attend PD opportunities

Get involved in the School Library Association

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http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/

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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

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• 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

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“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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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/

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“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

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Inhibitors:

Time, knowledge, workload, teachers, staff skills, principal, IT dept … OR

IS IT YOU?

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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

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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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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

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“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?

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http://winksite.com

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“...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.”

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“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)

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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

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• 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

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“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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“Connecting with what other people are reading”

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“Connecting with what other people are writing”

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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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