[LM_NET] GEN: NYS and Saratoga area states-Joyce Valenza pre-conference at NYLA

[Sara Kelly Johns <sarakellyjohns@YAHOO.COM>]

If you need to get in gear with new technologies for your library program, here is 
a great opportunity to work with Joyce Valenza for a whole day in Saratoga on 
November 5. I have seen parts of this at conferences and can't wait to see it all!  
Sara

CE-G: New Landscapes for Learning: Web 2.0 and the Virtual Library
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM / SLMS / .6 CEU credits $100. Register for the CE and/or the 
conference at http://www.nyla.org

 “Web 2.0 meets Information Fluency: Designing Projects for 21st Century Learners: 
An Update” will be addressed in the morning. To be most effective, citizens of the 
future will need to creatively blend several relatively traditional skills with 
emerging information and communication tools. They will need to practice those 
skills in an information landscape that is genre-shifting, media-rich, 
participatory, socially connected, and brilliantly chaotic. Examples of effective 
practice, learning-centered projects that foster information and exploit the 
potential of Web 2.0 for learning will be presented.

“Open the Door: Let 'em In--School Library Web Sites: Interacting with the 21st 
Century Learner” will be the focus of the afternoon. Our libraries should now have 
two front doors: physical and virtual. The effective virtual library can be a 
vibrant knowledge management tool for the entire school community. Inviting young 
users in and functioning as engaging space for learning, sharing and celebrating 
student work. Practical ideas for building student-centered virtual 
libraries--whether html or Web 2.0-based will be presented.

Speaker:
Dr. Joyce Valenza is the high school librarian at Springfield Township High School 
(PA) and the author of Power Research Tools and Power Tools Recharged for ALA 
Editions. She is a Milken Educator and an American Memory Fellow. Super Searchers 
Go to School, was published by InformationToday in 2005. Her Virtual Library won 
the IASL School Library Web Page of the Year Award for 2001. Joyce is active in 
ALA, AASL, YALSA, and ISTE and contributes to Classroom Connect, VOYA, Learning and 
Leading with Technology, and her blog, Never Ending Search, a discussion of 
information fluency, teaching, and learning in the 21st century. is featured on 
School Library Journal. Com. Joyce speaks regularly about issues relating to 
libraries and thoughtful use of educational technology.  


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Sara Kelly Johns

Immediate Past President, AASL

Associate Editor for AASL Community, Knowledge Quest

Lake Placid Middle/High School LMC

34 School Street

Lake Placid, NY 12946

518-523-2474, ext. 4132

FAX: 518-523-4861

johns@northnet.org

SaraKJohns@aol.com

 



"Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson

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