TL Crisis Webinar April 19 2010- notes by Anne Weaver

http://readingpower.wordpress.com/

Watch and listen to the Webinar here

http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/Crisis_Webinar

Crisis Webinar
Chris Harris pres http://www.slideshare.net/infomancy/crisis-webinar-41910-harris Blog -
http://schoolof.info/infomancy/

Libraries about turning information into knowledge

Train kids to teach themselves

1 Cuts will happen

• Advocacy not enough – telling others what they can do for you
• Marketing- telling others what you can do for them (see Seth Godin)
• All need to be leaders
• Must explain what we do

2. Don’t be an easy target

• Don’t have a no, negative approach
• Focus on instruction, inquiry, connections and standards for the 21cy learner

3. It’s probably too late now

• Build for next year, plan for now
• Be indispensible, especially to students to increase achievement and meet student
needs

4. Increased achievement
• Communicate to Principal often and in bits
• Do things that work

Applying the Principles of Epigenetics for a (R)evolution in School

Librarianship
Buffy Hamilton pres http://www.slideshare.net/buffyjhamilton/tl-cafe-crisis-webinar blog
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/

Epigenetics – (anti Darwin) genetic change can come quickly and we can control it.

1. Make Library practice transparent to the world

• Visual representation of library program e.g. flickr- living archive
• Data – monthly library reports, showcase student learning
• Share practice via social media
• Embrace instructional leadership – Buffy spends 90 % or her day with staff and
students on instruction

2. Create and nurture a participatory culture

• Multiple modes of learning and multiple modes of literacy e.g. Henry Jenkins
• Rethink what collection means look at Library and self organization
• E-books, mobile readers – liberate tools they already have, gaming, digital equipment
• Information evaluation and social scholarship via research pathfinders
 • Value inquiry, engagement and collective intelligence – Media 21 project
http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com/media21capstone-buffy, wikis
• Active reflection and metacognition
• Digital citizenship and ethical use of information (copyright)
• Scaffold alternative ways of representing information, learning and knowledge-
multigenre elements, netvibes, igoogle, help students create their own learning
pathfinders, diigo, evernote, cloud computing, google docs etc
• Collaboration, leadership and social responsibility for shared knowledge construction

3. Build Your Collaborative tribe – through listening, sharing and risk taking
• Plant seeds of faith and action
• Make space for the unorthodox
• Poll everywhere- mobiles
• Expand our concept of collection and the containers for it

4. Energize your mind and spirit by tapping into the wisdom of the crowd and
growing your personal learning network
• RSS, zotero, Google goggles though flickr
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2010/02/09/future-google-goggles-people-recognition/
• Virtual conferences andwebinars, fact to face conferences, skype, face to face informal
gatherings, virtual f2f friendships

5. Embrace role as a Fearless Advocate for Intellectual Freedom, Equitable access

to all forms of information and multiple literacies
• Argue for tools with good instructional practice
• Students need opportunities for how to use social media appropriately
• Tie to standards
• Nurturing influences