Librarian Days 2008
Workshop Descriptions & Presenter Bios
Prospecting in American Memory – Digital Primary Sources: Stake your claim in the American Memory Collections by using a research tool that helps students “mine” the collections for keyword “nuggets” that will focus their searches. Discover the “rich veins” of resources for teachers, including lesson plans and “activity ideas for using the collections to develop critical thinking skills.”
Donna Levene: Donna B. Levene is a retired teacher/librarian with a Masters in Library Science from the University of Denver and a BFA in piano. She was a teacher/librarian at Overland High School and Homestead Elementary School in the Cherry Creek District. Her participation in the 1999 American Memory Fellows Institute at the Library of Congress sparked her interest in primary sources and culminated in the publishing of American Musicians Making History which contains a series of lesson plans that use American Memory digital resources to trace the influence of music on American history.
American Memory – Digital Primary Sources: New Primary Source Lessons from the Library of Congress: Explore three hot off the presses companion lessons from the new pre-Columbian America exhibition Exploring the Early Americas. Investigate a 1507 world map, voyage maps that chronicle a journey by Sir Francis Drake and a Mexican codex from 1521.
Sherrie Galloway: Sherrie retired in 2007 after serving as a Grand Junction teacher for 30 years. She has been a Media Specialist since 1990 and a recipient of the Exemplary Library Media Program Award in 2005 from the Colorado Association of Libraries. Sherrie's Mt. Garfield Middle School Library received Power Library status from the Colorado Power Library Project from 2001-2005. She was the Educator in Residence with the Library of Congress in 2005-2006 and has returned to Washington D.C. for the 2007-2008 school years.
Cell Phone Technology: Can You Hear Me Now? What They're Doing On Their Phones When They're Not Talking: The image of the teenage girl talking on the phone for hours has been around as long as there have been teenage girls and phones, but cell technology has totally changed the rules. Of course they could talk on the phone, but why talk when they can text? IM? Surf the web? Check movie times? This 2 hour workshop will demonstrate a variety of uses for cell phones, and help teachers and librarians understand the appeal of mobile devices. We'll also discuss potential applications to teaching and learning.
Shelly Drumm: Shelly is a librarian and long-time technophile. She earns her living as the Emerging Technologies Trainer for BCR, located in Aurora, Colorado. Prior to landing that fabulous gig, she worked the front lines at reference desks of all sorts, including community colleges, research universities, career colleges, and public libraries. She has a Master of Arts in Information Resources & Library Science from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Clickers, Wikis, Podcasts and Blogs: Learn how to use interactive technology to jazz up your lessons and take learning to a higher level. You will explore the use of wikis, podcasts, and blogs in the classroom, and find out how easy and simple it is to use eInstruction clickers to manage assessments in a variety of contexts. Classroom resources and lessons will be provided.
Michelle Pearson: Michelle Pearson is a History and Language Arts teacher at Hulstrom Options School in the Adams 12 school district. She is the recipient of
several fellowships which have focused on the design of primary source lessons for the White House Historical Society, PBS, Walden Family Playhouse, and the National Consortium of Teaching Asia. She was recognized as a member of the Gannett News and USA Today National All Teacher Team in 1999.
Michelle has a B.A. in History, Geography, and Historic Preservation from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her publications and projects include a lesson collection based on the journal White House History, and the recent book Historic Sacred Landmarks of Denver. She designs lessons as a volunteer for the White House Historical Society, National Park Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Kelly Jones-Wagy: Kelly is a Social Studies teacher at Fort Lupton High School in the Weld County Re-8 district. Currently in her second year of teaching, she integrates primary source learning and technology daily into her classroom, including PowerPoints, Wiki's, Blogs, Primary Source Research and CPS Clickers. Kelly has a B.A. in History and a minor in Social Studies Education from the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Google Searching and Google Earth
Gayle Bradbeer: Gayle Bradbeer is the distance support librarian at Auraria Library which supports the students, staff and faculty of the University of Colorado at Denver, Metropolitan State College and the Community College of Denver. She graduated from Rice University and holds a M.S. in Hydrology from the University of Arizona and an M.L.S. from Emporia State University. She has taught on library research techniques for more than 10 years. She teaches this workshop from extensive experience in library and data research techniques and in analyzing the results both in her hydrology career and as a reference librarian.
Chris Jennings: Chris brings over a decade of experience in digital media production and instructional design. In 1996, he began as a Subject Matter Expert for the Trusted Global Advisor network communication system. At Corporate Express, Chris worked exclusively on Knowledge Management initiatives and was a founding member of Corporate Express University. At WestNet Learning, Chris began by bringing online course development in-house and streamlining the development process by implementing two separate Learning Content Management Systems. Chris worked as the assistant director for An Adventure of the American Mind (now TPS-CO), and was instrumental in the lasting success of the program. This success also provided Chris with a job at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. where he worked as a Program Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Finally, Chris is a PhD candidate at the University of Wyoming’s Education Technology program.
Destination Denver--Political Conventions a Century Apart: Learn how to navigate through today's free, virtual editions of the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post, and Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection. Explore how to motivate students through 21st century technologies while comparing and contrasting national elections and Denver political conventions one hundred years apart (1908 and 2008.)
Mary Johnson: Education consultant; former Library Media Specialist with Eagleview Middle School, Colorado Springs, Academy School District 20; Library of Congress American Memory Fellow; TPS-Colorado Alumnus; trainer and consultant for the Collaborative Digitization Program and Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection; author of Primary Sources in the Library: A Collaboration Guide for Library Media Specialists.
Jill Armstrong: Jill has worked in Newspaper in Education for over 30 years. She designs and maintains the award-winning PostNewsEducation.com website and helps to provide online curriculum for teachers. In addition, she handles youth content for both The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, including Colorado Kids, The Mini Page, and serialized stories. She also started the Colorado Stock Market Game and served as SMG Coordinator for 16 years.
Dana Plewka: Dana joined The Denver Post as Newspaper In Education Manager in June of 1999 and now manages the Post-News Educational Services Department for The Denver Newspaper Agency. The agency oversees all non-editorial functions for both The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News.
Dana founded the NIE program at The Fresno (CA) Bee in 1984 and served as the Educational Services Coordinator there until her move to Denver. She has helped start up new NIE programs in California, Colorado, South Carolina and Wyoming, and has presented NIE and educational workshops in 15 states and in Canada and Bogotá, Colombia.
Join the Revolution: iPods in Your Library: Thinking about joining the MP3 player and iPod revolution? Come hear about our trials and successes setting up a listening station in our Teen Zone. We'll help you outline all the pertinent steps, including budgets, security, rotation, and popularity. Feel free to ask questions or bring stories to share.
Erica Segraves: Erica is a Young Adult Librarian at the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library in Broomfield, CO. She earned her MLS and an Information Management Certification from Emporia State University.
Gigi Yang: Gigi is the Manager of Young Adult Services at the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library. She earned her MLS from Emporia State University.
On the Pulse: Evaluating and Adapting Consumer Technologies for Library Use: This session covers how trends are formed and suggests the use of popular consumer retail trends to revitalize your service offerings. The presentation discusses using the media to become trend-savvy, and how to adapt consumer trends to library products and services. Information will also be shared on how to recognize patron usage and attitude changes in your library, and gauging the appropriate reaction. Bring your ideas to share!
Dodie Ownes: Dodie is an information services consultant, working with publishers, systems vendors, and other library vendors to identify needed services and products for the library marketplace. She also writes several columns and newsletters for her clients, including Remarkable Reads (part of SLJ's Extra Helping newsletter), and NoveList RA News and School News, and will be launching a SLJ newsletter specifically for YA librarians in March 2008. Dodie is also active with the CO Association of Library's Adult Services and Readers Advisory Interest Groups. Her library experience includes stints with U of Chicago, DePaul University, various ILS vendors, CU-Denver, and Reed Elsevier.
Second Life
Chris Jennings: Chris brings over a decade of experience in digital media production and instructional design. In 1996, he began as a Subject Matter Expert for the Trusted Global Advisor network communication system. At Corporate Express, Chris worked exclusively on Knowledge Management initiatives and was a founding member of Corporate Express University. At WestNet Learning, Chris began by bringing online course development in-house and streamlining the development process by implementing two separate Learning Content Management Systems. Chris worked as the assistant director for An Adventure of the American Mind (now TPS-CO), and was instrumental in the lasting success of the program. This success also provided Chris with a job at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. where he worked as a Program Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Finally, Chris is a PhD candidate at the University of Wyoming’s Education Technology program.
Social Networking: TheirSpace: Using Technology to Reach Your Students Where They Already Are: This 2 hour hands-on workshop will take a look at some exciting ways that teachers and librarians can take valuable information and push it to our students where they already hang out. We'll explore ways to makeMySpace an educational resource, and learn about some other cool tools with relevance to teaching and learning along the way! Topics covered will include MySpace, RSS, and iGoogle.
Shelly Drumm: Shelly is a librarian and long-time technophile. She earns her living as the Emerging Technologies Trainer for BCR, located in Aurora, Colorado. Prior to landing that fabulous gig, she worked the front lines at reference desks of all sorts, including community colleges, research universities, career colleges, and public libraries. She has a Master of Arts in Information Resources & Library Science from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
21st Century Learning: Gen D – the generation that has grown up with digital devices in a digital culture will be competing for jobs in a digital global work environment. How do we provide them with skills and tools to compete for 21st Century Jobs? John Kuglin will demonstrate a learning environment that removes the historical boundaries of time, distance, location, and resources! The presentation includes technologies featuring a 21st Century Context using 21st Century content along with innovative solutions surrounding the Department of Education’s recent TIF – Teacher Incentive Fund – grants. Participants will be motivated and inspired to reach and teach students using a bridge to the future constructed of 21st Century concepts and technologies.
Stevan Kalmon: Stevan Kalmon is Coordinator of the Council on 21st Century Learning, a newly formed organization dedicated to promoting and influencing how educators help children prepare for their future. Before working with the Council, Stevan was Coordinator for Information Literacy and Technology in Denver Public Schools and Senior Consultant for the Education Technology Center at the Colorado Department of Education. He has published and presented frequently on topics related to 21st century learning, professional development, and online learning. Stevan is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, teaching classes in technology leadership and instructional design for 21st century learning.
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