Team+7+Workspace


 * Table 7- Middle schools**

Top 3 concerns: 1. Make sure all students are readers and have access to books 2. Bigger picture of libraries important to school, community and country 3. Alligned Library Standards through K-12

From Administrators: 1.Everything schools do, ultimately revolves around the State mandate that we cover 3 Rs. 2. Make sure ALL students are proficeint

Washington schools cut 50%- 3 moms spoke up and took advocacy to the state leg. and beyond.
 * Introducing "The Moms":**
 * Know specifically what you want.
 * Be positive and don't whine.
 * We're not advocating for your mamma's library. The world has changed!
 * Is our education system preparing kids for the future and the information landscape they will reside in?
 * Liscence to flourish!!

Obama- Education Blueprint- March 21010 Local districts can get funds based on inovations.
 * Study skills, using technology effectively
 * Family and community engagement, after school programs
 * Tackling resource disparity, achievement gaps, foster equity
 * High quality digital content- digital portfolios
 * Experimental learning, fostering creativity.

Social networking a great world for authentic learning- think, reflect, opens a world community. Students will be doing work that calls on multidisciplinary skills, team building, problem-solving.
 * Learning to change- changing to learn!***

Parent group answer to "What do kids need to know?": "Instead of teaching abstinance, teach safe surfing!"


 * Working Lunch Videos:**

1. Wizard of Apps video 2..Wallwisher Project Van Meter, Iowa- Web 2.0 tools in action! 3. Survival Checklist for Libraries Lawrence Gonzalves 4. Actual before and after photos of changes in a school library from money raised by parents- community grants. Physical changes, tech. changes, stats to support increased useage. 5. Using Web 2.0 tools in shcools. 6. Collaboration!! 7. What makes a Library a Library??
 * Be adaptable, don't be in denial
 * Thnik Plan and Do
 * Look for silver lining
 * Take action- do something
 * Be a rescuer, not a victim
 * Be an independent thinker
 * Count your blessing- whining doesn't work
 * Focus on the children- we are the guardians of the future

Charrette Solution-oriented, innovative group of people

Today's Objectives:


 * Five Relationships:**
 * 1) Administrators
 * 2) Paretns
 * 3) Teachers
 * 4) Administrators
 * 5) Students

"Focus on things kids can't get anywhere else in the school."
 * Six Foundations:**
 * Website- it's your calling card
 * Physical Space- very important!
 * Emerging Technologies
 * Portals- view to what is being learned- showcase student work
 * Lookout- who is looking at what it **should** look like- "This is what's on the horizon." Leaders
 * Conduit- it is NOT an option NOT to collaborate

Be thinking about what needs to change in your library in terms of strategies, systems, structures, policies, practices, procedures


 * Our group:**
 * Spent most of our time with the first step in the First Foundation: **Websites**
 * We looked at each others websites and looked at Joyce Valenza's Library Website
 * IT student fellows
 * Getting admin and staff to use webpage
 * Make website priority to reinventing the library through a virtual space
 * Make the web page a destination for students, teachers, admins, parents
 * Other group ideas:**
 * Twitter- challenge- give it just one week- will change your life- "Learned more than a docorate program"
 * Webcam in every classroom.
 * Community go wifi- every kids have a lasp top for school and home
 * Language links on library website
 * Student-run tech team
 * Not school, not home- "Third Space"
 * Teacher Tech workshops run by students
 * Treasure Valley Coffee cap. machine in library
 * PSAs made by HS students to introduce 21st Century ideas to "stake-holders" (parents, legislatures, etc.)
 * Power of Possibility video disc to show the good sides of tech
 * PSAs made by HS students to introduce 21st Century ideas to "stake-holders" (parents, legislatures, etc.)
 * Power of Possibility video disc to show the good sides of tech

How will your participation today make a difference in the world??

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