Extended Sessions

Unline concurrent sessions, extended sessions must be selected and paid for when you register for conference. Summaries of extended sessions on Thursday and Saturday are listed below, or you may also print the pdf document.

Presenters: Click to jump to information about each.

Abilock

Bateman

Battisti & Benedetti

Buzzeo

Freeman

Johnson -
E-Books

Johnson- Research

Jones

Murray

Schmidt

Sharp

Simpson

Sorensen

Presenter Materials: All presenters are encouraged to submit their handouts electronically, or a link to a web page on which they have handouts. View currently submitted Presenter Materials.

Hospitality Room: All presenters, speakers and authors are encouraged to use the(VIP Suite B) during the conference. Its a good place to prepare, wind down, find water and goodies, leave items safely.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008 - AM and PM
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Judy Freeman: Book promotion and Books Kids will sit still for
Teachers and librarians are always looking to add to their core collection of memorable books to read aloud or with their students, searching out those titles that will turn their kids into lifetime readers. In this workshop, Judy will pull together her personal list of memorable favorites from the past year. She will show and tell the ways she has used them to inspire children through curricular tie-in activities including storytelling, creative drama, Reader's Theater, poetry, songs, writing and illustrating, and booktalking for grades K-6.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
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Debbie Abilock: Who Knows What … and How do We Know It?
Students make judgments about authority in their everyday lives, but don't necessarily transfer this to school tasks. We'll investigate trust, expertise and authority in the real and online world and devise ways together to teach our students (and faculty) to be shrewd and skeptical learners.

Patrick Jones: Connecting with Reluctant Teen Readers
One of the co-authors of Connecting with Reluctant Teen Readers (Neal -Schuman, 2006), Jones will present a workshop filled with tips, titles, and techniques for attracting reluctant readers. Participants will learn why some readers are reluctant readers and what are the best materials to reach reluctant readers. In addition, they will share best practices for reaching reluctant readers, and discuss reading motivation ideas.

Doug Johnson: E-Books, E-Kids, E-Flat! Three trends schools will ignore at their peril
This workshop explores three major changes being evidenced today: 1) the prevalence of ubiquitous digital information sources, 2) the defined attributes of a "Net" generation, and 3) the rise of a global economy. Each change will be discussed along with strategies that schools and educators can use to stay relevant in their students' lives. Fore-warned is fore-armed!

Peggy Sharp: How to Use the Best Books from 2008 in Your Program
An overview of the best new books with specific strategies for making books and reading relevant and motivating as well as ideas for getting students engaged with series, graphic novels, and more "traditional" fiction and non-fiction in an interactive presentation.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Jerene Battisti & Angie Benedetti: "You're Invited:" A Feast of New Literature for Teens
Whet your appetite with this feast of new books for teens and the readers who love them. Divided thematically, this menu presents new fiction and nonfiction for middle school, junior high, and high school readers - including fantasies, biographies, historical and realistic fiction and fun nonfiction books. Each participant will take away an annotated bibliography of approximately 100 titles, an understanding of recent trends in publishing and plenty of great stories to share.

Toni Buzzeo: Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships to Improve Student Achievement
Collaboration is the mandate of library media specialists! Examine the levels of instructional partnership, your place on the Library Media Taxonomy, and the next steps that will take you beyond your current practice into ever-more-successful collaborative practice while trouble-shooting and overcoming the collaboration roadblocks littering your path.

Doug Johnson: Designing Research Projects that Kids (and Teachers) Love
This workshop reviews Bloom's Taxonomy in light of designing research projects, offers strategies for teachers to determine the best places in the curriculum to integrate resource-based projects, and suggests ways technology can be a motivating factor in information processing. The workshop allows time for participants to practice revising traditional research projects and create and use some authentic assessment tools.

Patrick Jones: Connecting with Reluctant Teen Readers (repeat of morning session)
One of the co-authors of Connecting with Reluctant Teen Readers (Neal -Schuman, 2006), Jones will present a workshop filled with tips, titles, and techniques for attracting reluctant readers. Participants will learn why some readers are reluctant readers and what are the best materials to reach reluctant readers. In addition, they will share best practices for reaching reluctant readers, and discuss reading motivation ideas.

Murray, Janet: Lead Your Students to Achieve ICT Literacy Standards
This presentation will demonstrate the correlations between AASL standards, NETS (national educational technology standards) and national academic content standards, as well as the ICT Literacy skills defined and tested by ETS. Library media specialists who collaborate with classroom teachers to target standards in the context of curriculum-based research projects help their students acquire information-processing skills that contribute to lifelong learning.

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Saturday morning, October 11, 9am - 12 noon
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Teresa Bateman: Book Repair
This session will provide tips & techniques for repairing those valuable items in our libraries. Session will require audience participation. Attendees should bring books in need of help.

Aaron Schmidt: Libraries and the Read/Write Web: A Strategy for Engaging Students
The Read/Write web has changed the way information is created and distributed. Schmidt will discuss how libraries can use aspects of Web 2.0 to engage their students with things like weblogs and podcasts. Check out his Walking Paper blog at http://www.walkingpaper.org/.

The Conference Committee regretfully announces that this session has been cancelled. Please select another extended session, or attend concurrent sessions on Saturday morning.

Carol Simpson: I Didn't Do It! The Role of the School Library in Student Cheating and Plagiarism

Patty Sorensen: Get Up Close and Personal with OSLIS 2.0 and EBSCO Research Tools.
The Oregon School Library Information System or OSLIS (http://oslis.org) rolled out its 2.0 version this past spring and EBSCO recently introduced some EBSCO 2.0 tools. Join us as we explore these resources in depth.