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Successful Library, Technology and Classroom Collaboration Kim Lawing, [email protected] Ann Vyoral, [email protected] Linda Erwin, [email protected] Jessica Wright, [email protected] We CAN All Get Along

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Successful Library, Technology and Classroom Collaboration. We CAN All Get Along. Kim Lawing, [email protected] Ann Vyoral, [email protected] Linda Erwin, [email protected] Jessica Wright, [email protected]. Aransas County ISD . Title I 3,331 Students 5 Campuses Property rich - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Successful Library, Technology and Classroom Collaboration

Kim Lawing, [email protected] Vyoral, [email protected] Erwin, [email protected] Wright, [email protected]

We CAN All Get AlongANN: Intro, you can leave, miss the bags, info on wiki on your bookmark1

Title I 3,331 Students 5 CampusesProperty rich Low income families51% at risk 56% White 37% Hispanic61% economically disadvantaged

Aransas County ISD ANN: 2

ACISD helped their teachers go from thisANN: 3

theClick on the word Generation to start the video Web Site StoryGenerationNet To thisANN: 4

It all started with a conferenceANN: Conference, LMAT, administrators5 then a committed groupLMaTLibrary Media & TechnologyANN: 6Develop and integrate media services and resources within the ACISD community. LMaT Collaborative Mission Statement:

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Sharing the vision: Create an awareness of current media services and evaluate existing and new resourcesLINDA: Now it was time to share the vision. Our goal to create an awareness of current media services and evaluate existing and new resources addressed the need to keep services and resources fresh on the minds of our staff.

8 Sharing the vision

Tech Tuesday/ Tech Thursday

Centered around needs of staff

Focused on strategies that improve student performanceLINDA:We created Tech Tuesdays and Tech Thursdays these are site based monthly training sessions open to all staff. Each campus determines whether the training is mandatory or voluntary. Some are held after school and at our secondary school during conference times Topics are centered on the needs of the staff, from the novice to the expert. The focus is on helping our staff become better teachers, counselors, secretaries, administrators, managers of time and resources. The focus is not on the PowerPoint or the word processing but on teaching activities/strategies that help improve student performance while getting hands-on practice using the software or equipment.We acknowledge that adult learning is different from student learning. We want our staff to feel empowered, to leave with something they can use right away that will enhance student performance. What we dont what is for staff and teachers to feel pressured or burdened with just another staff development."9 Sharing the visionWorking togetherSchedule training dates that work with campus calendarDistrict wide baseline training District and teacher web page in September STaR chart - October

LINDA:Working together with Kim Lawing, our district Instructional Technology Coordinator, we scheduled training dates, with administration approval, that work with each campus calendarEach new school year, district wide baseline training is offered. In September, staff learns how to utilize the district website, and create or update teacher web pages. These sites and pages are important resources in communicating with the community, parents, students and staff. In October, staff updates and submits their STaR chart, which is an important resource for our administrators, to see how far we have come and where we need to go.

10 Sharing the visionTailor additional sessions to the needs of each campus

LINDA:Additional monthly sessions are tailored to the needs of each campus. Examples include: Learning how to set up and use blogs to communicate with a class Using digital camcorders and digital cameras to share a student project Literacy ideas using Movie Maker and Photo StoryTime management using Microsoft Outlook calendar reminders, appointment toolsExcell for record managementThe training is designed to support individual teacher growth and development. Sometimes it is just planting a seed, an idea, or overcoming a fear of trying something new. By having a scheduled date, teachers know they can come back and add to their knowledge base. We also leave ourselves open and available to help them where they need it in the classroom. Teachers and staff are encouraged to share what they know. Sometimes this happens between two teachers, or in a small group, or even teacher lead technology training.

If collaboration is challenging on your campus or district, design to make it happen in baby steps. Plan a small project every 6 or 9 weeks and build from there.

11 Sharing the visionYALSA. http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2010/09/25/30-days-of-back-to-school-teacher-librarian-collaboration-tips/Tailor additional sessions to the needs of each campusMost of all, .the purposes of collaboration are to improve student learning outcomes and to grow with your colleagues as teachers.

LINDA:Tips for CollaborationThere are many books, resources and links that can give you tips for collaboratonOften teachers and students dont see Library media specialists beyond the role of storyteller and checking out resourcesWe are co-teachersJoin the learning community/ Go where the teachers areThink Big, start smallCollaboration works both ways what can teachers and colleagues do for youAlso remember that some teachers will not collaborate with you, its not their way. Thats okBring something new (or new to your campus) and useful to the tableMost of all, .the purposes of collaboration are to improve student learning outcomes and to grow with your colleagues as teachers.Lets look now how we stepped off campus and extended our program even further.12 Planning committee: a unified vision

Extending the vision: Media FairKim: ACISD Media Fair

Media Fair A Successful Model for Professional Development The Media Fair is designed for all District employees so that they may attain proficiency with the tools of technology. Aransas County ISD personnel must be trained on many and varied technology applications to perform technology related job duties. The result of this training is increased efficiency, an informed workforce, improved work flow and increased staff morale. The Media Fair sessions support the academic mission of helping faculty find innovative ways to use technology to achieve their teaching goals. Session are scheduled to draw on expertise, from each campus, in both technology and pedagogy, assist faculty with projects, share information across the district about effective practices and examine the effect of technology on teaching and learning.

Planning committee - create and populate committees.

Select a Theme

Speaker

Shirts for Presenters and Co-presenters 13 Media Fair is designed for all district employees so they obtain proficiency with the tools of technology.

Needs survey Call for presenters Session ScheduleProgramFacilities Food Door Prizes Presenter meeting Extending the vision: Media FairKim: ACISD Media Fair

Media Fair A Successful Model for Professional Development The Media Fair is designed for all District employees so that they may attain proficiency with the tools of technology. Aransas County ISD personnel must be trained on many and varied technology applications to perform technology related job duties. The result of this training is increased efficiency, an informed workforce, improved work flow and increased staff morale. The Media Fair sessions support the academic mission of helping faculty find innovative ways to use technology to achieve their teaching goals. Session are scheduled to draw on expertise, from each campus, in both technology and pedagogy, assist faculty with projects, share information across the district about effective practices and examine the effect of technology on teaching and learning.

Planning committee - create and populate committees.

Select a Theme

Speaker

Shirts for Presenters and Co-presenters 14Media Fair

Kim: Needs Survey

Call for Presenters - session title, description, session length, skill level of participants, campus grade level, hardware needs, name of co-presenter, shirt sizes

Presenter/Trainer meeting- send a message to the presenter, asap, to inform them they have been selected. At the meeting they will receive their room assignment, shirt, session stickers and they will have time to work with the equipment in the room as they practice thier lesson.

Session participation stickers - each session will have 30 stickers for the attendance cards. If a trainer does not have enough stickers then they will write their session name on the attendance card with their initials.

Session Schedule - use campus teachers as trainers and as assistants. It is recommended that every session have an assistant.Expect a project from the session -assignments build in accountability so they will participate.

Prizes -provide donation prizes, ask local businesses and group smaller donations into theme baskets.

Participant bags program, schedule at a glance, session attendance card, door prize ticket for opening ceremony, gift (thumb drive), sharpened pencil

Session Attendance Cards with campus map on back each session assistant will handout a participation sticker at the end of the session to be placed on the participants card.These cards are collected at the end of the day for door prizes and CEU.

Help desk - an adult assistant with NHS or Student council students during each session.

Lunch -provided for all.

Reflection/Evaluation - completed at the end of the last session before participants leave.

Participants will turn in their Session Attendance cards and wait for the final door prizes to be drawn.

Session Attendance Card: Keep track of your card. You will be given those in the morning. After each session you will receive a sticker to put on yours. These will be turned in at the end of the day, along with your evaluation. This session card will be used to give you credit for attending all day. There will be no sign in sheets.15

Media Fair

Kim: Facilities - in close proximity. Labs, classrooms and laptop carts

Food lunch provided, water and snacks available between sessions, keep on campus

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Kim: Help Desk: Visit the help desk if you have questions. It is located in the commons area near the office.Door Prizes will be awarded through out the day. Make sure you write your name on the back of your ticket and put it in the prize box. Your ticket is in your bag.Session Attendance Card: Keep track of your card. You will be given those in the morning. After each session you will receive a sticker to put on yours. These will be turned in at the end of the day, along with your evaluation. This session card will be used to give you credit for attending all day. There will be no sign in sheets.Go green! If you plan to take notes, you can do that on-line. Just sign in to every computer that you use, save your notes to your H-drive, and make sure you sign out when you are doneFood: We will have granola bars, coffee, and water in the morning, and lunch will be provided for everyone. Plan for the follow-up day: Remember that on Tuesday, you are being given day to practice what you learned. During your training on Monday, keep thinking how you can use what you learn the next day to produce or fix something in your area.

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Classroom Results: Align media services K-12 to support curriculum and provide students with 21st century skills.Jessica: All of the mission statements and goals and professional development and committees mean nothing if they do not reach the students in the classroom. What we have next is a collage of sorts to show you some of the different settings that were impacted by our media initiative.18

Classroom ResultsInter-campus virtual classroomsJessica: In this picture.students are engaged by Middle School students through video conferencing curriculum based activities.Additionally increased the number of virtual professional development opportunities for teachersTech Tuesday high school Skyped with middle school.

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Classroom ResultsVaried modes of communicating from school to home.Jessica: Kindergarten students create Valentine letters in MS Word to take home to parents.High school and middle school students have increased communication through email. Social networking has become a huge part our students lives but with so many stipulations trickling down from the state, our district has decided to put time into our own social network to be used by students and teachers. This program imitates the design of Edmoto (facebook look-alike for teachers) but creates a safe environment for teachers to talk to students in their web friendly setting.20 Classroom Results

Varied final product design.Jessica: Using Animoto, we have offered students an opportunity to represent their self selected books in a manner that utilizes the video, audio and verbal.

This can be found at the elementary and secondary levels across contents.

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Students practice new ways to compile information.Jessica: Students in 8th grade history classes compiled a database in Access to be used as a year long resource to reinforce US History TEKS.

Students collaborating with each other

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Online study resources for the classroom and the home.Jessica: Preparing for a government test, high school seniors utilized Quia where they received immediate feedback on quick response Q&A.

These study resources online provide inexpensive and sometimes free methods that students can use not just in class but as home as well. Teachers and media specialists are working together to locate these resources weekly and then sharing with their colleagues in our Tech Tuesdays. We almost always walk out with something new to try.

23 Classroom Results We are Going Green!

Jessica:

This Food Science and Nutrition class at the high school used Glogster to create posters .. Featuring Rachel Ray and Ace of Cakes owner Duff Goldman.With the high volumes of online products, teachers have become comfortable assessing student work right off the screen. Additionally, our media specialists and teachers have increased the number of projects they post online avoiding all of the printing involved in assigning large tasks. We have cut out the need to print instructions, processes, rubrics and resource guides by posting our assignments on our Research Central site borrowed from __________. We stole this idea, by the way, from TLA a few years back. _______ granted us permission to use their design. It made its way back into the hands of our teachers.

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Increased high levels of engagement as we target our 21st Century learners!!Jessica: Teachers turn a dry lesson into an engaging interactive learning experience.

Furthering our quest to prevent plagiarism, librarians and teachers collaborated on a copyright lesson using Blabberize.com at the middle school.

25Ann Vyoral - [email protected] Fulton High School, Librarian/Media Specialist

Linda Erwin - [email protected] Bay Elementary, Librarian/Technology Teacher

Kim Lawing- [email protected], Instructional Technology Coordinator

Jessica Wright - [email protected] Fulton High School, English Teacher/Subject Area Coordinator

Successful Library, Technology and Classroom Collaboration

We CAN All Get AlongThank you

26Link to wiki: http://tcea11.wikispaces.com/

ACISD Curriculum Showcase http://tinyurl.com/ygsscc3

Pirate Tech Animoto http://tinyurl.com/yfok8yv

Doug Johnsons Comments http://tinyurl.com/yl26vng

ResourcesJessica:

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http://tcea11.wikispaces.com/

282930Aransas County ISD Media Fair click for the Animoto

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An Explosion of IdeasPirate TechARANSAS COUNTY ISDClick to start the slide33