Open Mic Night with Joyce Valenza & Moderator Gwyneth A. Jones - The Daring Librarian

On December 5th , Joyce Valenza and Gwyneth Jones shared their top discoveries of the year.

Additionally, dozens of other teacher/Librarians shared their faves and help build an interactive resource book.

View the slides from the crowdsourced google doc which highlights important tools.

Teacher Librarian Virtual Cafe for September 12

Back to School Special: nearly 100 participants from around the nation
A casual discussion to generate ideas on how to build school allies, support new teachers & become indispensable to admin & staff at the beginning of every school year. Featuring how Google tools (forms, docs, & presentation, and more!) can supercharge the library program & classroom throughout the school year. For Teacher Librarians, 
How to connect with students and your community:  tips for sharing with your staff
See the Back to School Special Wikispaces page


Ideas from Gwyneth Jones-- aka The Daring Librarian, a middle school teacher librarian, an award winning bloggr and one of Library Journal's Movers & Shakers 2011: 

• Quick animation on Go Animate! for library orientation.
• Community Crowdsourcing with Google Forms
• Student produced book reviews - on Google forms which is published on a wiki
• Trouble shooting wiki - to help students with "how do I...." frequently asked questions
• Library blog:  use of Edublogs; see the Daring Librarian Blog - share with students, parents & librarians
• Like us on Facebook even if your school blocks Facebook
• Twitter style book reviews with 140 characters which can also be posted to a Google form
• Stay up on pop culture, e.g. Angry Birds, Glee, etc so you can stay relevant with students
• Create give-aways for your teachers: e.g. PPT with homemade graphics to give to teachers to customize to make their own back-to-school PPT
• Parents please scan me - put a QR code out their to your resources on parent night
• How-to-tutorials:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/info_grrl/sets/72157625298744518/

Tiffany Whitehead - librarian from Baton Rouge

• We have to change the perception of the librarian
• Create a welcoming space in the library; students need to feel comfortable
• You can do a lot with a little
• Bring in lots of toys; students love to play, e.g. puzzles, rubric cubes
• Engage students: Destiny Quest - interactive library catalog; let your students interact
• Use Google docs for scheduling classes in the library - meet each teacher where they are
• Offer help on Windows 7 - use of a wiki for help
• Tech Tuesday videos - 5 min video tutorials that teachers can use on her own YouTube channel
• Make parents an ally 
• Facebook page - fight for a fan page with the parent organization & update it with important information for parents.  If there is a will there is a way!
• Connect with grandparents as volunteers
• Comic Life - Jing -Screen shot videos for Tech Tuesday tutorials.  Go Animate - Promotional videos. These are tools to create your library presence. 
• librariantiff@gmail.com

Crowdsourcing:  Open Mike Night coming up, led by Joyce Valenza.

Crisis Webinar on TLNing!

for teacher-librarians and other educato

Don't miss the next TLNing Webinar hosted by Joyce Valenza.
Location: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/dropin.jnlp?sid=lcevents&password=Webinar_Guest
Organized By: Joyce Valenza

Event Description:
Monday April 19 - 8:00 pm. EST
7 pm Central time

Special Guests: Chris Harris and Buffy Hamilton
Hostess: Gwyneth Jones and Carolyn Foote

It's the most exciting time to be a teacher librarian. The opportunities for learning have never been more rich. The studies prove the value of the role of strong school libraries in student achievement. Yet, the pink slips are flying. Where do we go from here? Led by Buffy Hamilton and Chris Harris and moderated by Gwyneth Jones and Carolyn Foote, this webinar is a crisis planning session for moving forward with purpose! Please join us!

TL Cafe events, the first Monday night of each month.
Visit the Elluminate room: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/dropin.jnlp?sid=lcevents&password=Webinar_Guest
(allow around 10 minutes to login!)
Further information: TLVirtualCafe

See more details and RSVP on TLNing