2017 Networking Summit Sessions

Session 1: 10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

1. School Library Media Coordinators and the Digital Learning Competencies – Kathy Parker (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   The North Carolina Digital Learning Competencies go into effect in July 2017. Are you ready to support your teachers and each other as you implement the DLCs? This session will take a look at the DLCs through the lens of school library media coordinators. It will be an interactive session so please bring a charged computing device.
2. Nearpod VR “Show Your Students the World” from Inside Your Classroom – Jane Sasser & Amber Gutierrez (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will share tips and best practices on how to use Nearpod VR in your media center, and will focus on the Common Sense media lessons for cyber bullying, digital reputation, research skills, digital ownership, online privacy and security, and self-image and identity.
3. Community Partnerships: Working Together – Jenny Wells & Jennifer Finlay (Interest Level: Middle, High)
   Do you need to increase your book circulation? Are you looking for new reading materials? Community partnerships are the answer! Wells and Finlay will share how they have successfully implemented an e-book partnership between a public and school library. This session will include the public library side of student privacy, opt-in versus opt-out forms, student ID numbers versus library cards, and working with principals, teachers, parents, and students. Attendees will share what they have learned, discuss what has worked well for them, and their struggles when partnering with public libraries and other community organizations. Attendees are highly encouraged to be a 1:1 school and bring an electronic device.
4. Curating and Adapting Open Educational Resources – Jeanne Hoover & Heather Seibert (Interest Level: High)
   Open Educational Resources (OERs) are growing in popularity across education. Not only do OER reduce costs for students and schools, but they also allow teachers and librarians to adapt them to fit the needs of their students. However, it is difficult to wade through all the available resources to identify quality materials for students, which are key to successful implementation of OERs. In this session, we will discuss curating materials for students using various rubrics and best practices. Attendees are encouraged to share their experiences with OERs and share tips for evaluating and organizing appropriate materials. Additionally, the group will explore Creative Commons licensing as it relates to reusing and adapting educational materials to customize them to meet the needs of your students.
5. Collaboration & Breakout EDU – Jennifer Baker (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   Jennifer is the high school Media Coordinator in Pamlico County Schools and Anne, who will be making a video appearance, is the 3rd-5th grade Media Coordinator. Despite working with different age groups, they team up quite often, and will share ideas and successes from their collaborative activities. Recent Breakout EDU sessions with a 5th grade science class, high school agriculture, and the high school and elementary SLMCs will be discussed.
6. Web Your Way to Creating Virtual Field Trips – Teika Clavell & Mary Ellen Oxendine (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   Now you can take your class on an adventure without leaving your classroom! Technology can enable students to experience the world through a guided, content-rich environment that garners engagement and learning on a whole new level- and you do not need a one-on-one learning environment to do it!
7. Adventure is Just a Green Screen Away – Cori Burroughs & Donna Currie (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will teach you how to bring your students’ writing and research to life using green screen technology. You and your colleagues will write your own script and go on a fun adventure. Be prepared to brainstorm ideas you can take back to your schools! These ideas will be centered on elementary lesson plans but can be modified for middle and high school.
8. Engaging Students with Stop Motion – Penny Williams & Lisa D. McElwee (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   Stop motion animation is perfect for getting students engaged.  Students who are involved are more likely to learn, remember, and stay focused. Creating an experience that engages students is not easy to accomplish, especially when there is competition from various other sources of digital media. By using stop motion, students benefit from being involved with explaining how something works and it can be used across the curriculum.
9. Not Another Research Paper or PowerPoint Please! – Angela Finn & Dr. Rhonda Zayas-Palmer (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   Gone are the days of research paper after research paper as student products. Today’s librarians are creative and adaptive when collaborating with teachers to make student learning more interesting and authentic. Whether it is a skit that demonstrates proper Chinese etiquette in social situations for a Mandarin class or letters to local government officials to influence city planning decisions in World Geography, basic research skills are still a necessary part of student learning. In this session, we will discuss ways to take long-standing curriculum topics and put a new spin on how students demonstrate their learning.
10. Reader-Leaders: Keeping Students at the Center – Joyce Deaton (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
    This session will demonstrate how we can put our students, our most prized stakeholders, at the center of library activities in order to generate a culture of reading. Deaton uses her own experiences working with student workers and Sean Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens to utilize student assistance beyond the circulation desk. The session also touches upon other ways we can “do more with less” in our libraries and attendees should come prepared to share their ideas on the subject as well as thoughts on the limits of volunteer helpers and allowing students to “lead the library.”

Session 2: 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

1. Cover-To-Cover Questions: QR Codes – Natalie Brown & Kevin Roberts (Interest Level: Elementary)
   Find out how students are using critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity (4 Cs) to get excited about reading! Our students use various technology to retell a story and then link their creation to a QR code in order to share with others. This session will share how the facilitators’ have watched their students grow in their excitement for reading, and attendees will have the opportunity to share how they are encouraging and engaging their students to use the 4 Cs as we continue to dive into the 21st century!
2. Increase your Geography IQ through Maps and Games – Vicky Mahoney (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle)
   Participants will learn how to use a variety of maps to teach problem solving skills, visual literacy and spatial awareness. How to integrate maps with literature, find many digital resources to support the curriculum and geography games to use in the media center will also be covered.
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4. Let’s Find a Grant for You! – Sara Levin (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   Attendees will use curated lists of grants from around the world to find one which is right for you and your school. Attendees will work together to begin the information gathering process and start working on the application. This session will rely on all present to ask, listen, and advise as we work through the beginning stages of grant writing. The facilitator will also offer support and guidance to all who are interested after the Summit, and until your grant application is submitted.
5. Revive Your Library with Elementary Battle of the Books – Renee Gentry & Paula Farmer (Interest Level: Elementary)
   Do you need a program to entice your 4th and 5th graders to read or just need more resources about EBOB?  Then this is your session! We will discuss how to start an EBOB program, resources you can use, how to access the documents you will need, and a great source for e-books. Everyone who already runs an EBOB program will be able to discuss how their program runs at their school.  Handouts will be provided
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7. Are You Future Ready? – Sedley Abercrombie (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will introduce the Future Ready Librarians initiative released by the US Department of Education in June of 2016. The Future Ready Framework outlines eight (8) characteristics of what defines a school librarian as “Future Ready.” Attendees will get a brief introduction and then break into groups to investigate each characteristic further. Groups will collaborate to create a digital product to share the Future Ready Librarians message with their colleagues and district.
8. Information Literacy in the Age of Social Media and Fake News – Becky Frisbie & Laura Aldridge (Interest Level: Middle, High)
   This session uses the Information and Technology Essential Standards (ITES) to determine how we can help students improve their media literacy skills to differentiate between a solid, unbiased source and a “fake news” source. We will share what works and brainstorm new ideas for teaching these skills with an emphasis on the first standard, “Sources of Information: analyze resources to determine their reliability, point of view, bias, and relevance for particular topics and purposes.” Participants should come prepared to share ways they have collaborated to teach this standard, or help brainstorm better ways to teach these skills.
9. Bring Books to Life – Jacquelyn Ruffin-Pittman (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session focuses on finding new and creative ways to encourage students to read. Storytelling is one literary genre that can accelerate reading and promote positive social and academic skills. Sharing a story promotes the following: self-discovery, quiet solitude, self-identity, budding understanding, and creativity. Book talks are another way to interest a reader. Using creative ways to gather a reluctant reader can produce avid readers. Having student reenact a favorite scene from a book or rewriting a scene as a script to share with another Language Arts class are just a few ways to excite students’ interest in books.
10. ECU Storybook Theatre – Patch Clark (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
    In this session, participants will learn about stories from around the world and how they may have been adapted for the stage and celebrated in the classroom. Such classic tales as, “The Rabbit in the Moon” from Japan, “El Tunche, El Tunche” from Peru, “The Rooster and the Hen” from Russia and many more will be shared along with techniques for incorporating both Storybook Theatre and Reader’s Theatre techniques in the classroom.
11. Making Makerspaces Work in Elementary Media Centers – Margaret Sullivan Brannon & Nancy Cravey (Interest Level: Elementary)
    Media specialists are always looking for new ways to engage their students with problem solving and opportunities for creativity. Attendees should expect to learn how other media specialists have implemented these plans into their space and program in regard to funding, and what has and has not worked in the past. The facilitators will provide hands-on examples of makerspace activities.

Session 3: 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

1. Using VR and AR for Hands-On Instruction – Anitra Cook & Adam Moniz (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will facilitate how to use virtual and augmented reality technology to give students a hands-on learning experience. Participants will learn how this technology can be used to enhance student experiences through virtual field trips, collaborative learning, and self-directed learning pathways. Suggested apps, tips for successful integration and product information will be shared.
2. Collaborating with Classroom Teachers Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress – Sara Kennedy & Lisa Zekanis (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   Using the Library of Congress’ (LOC) Teaching Resources, this session will show how media/classroom collaboration has worked in our school to enrich our students’ study of history. Participants will engage in several activities that allow them to become familiar with the LOC Teaching Resources and how they can use them both in the library and in collaborative teaching opportunities within their school.
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4. Teaching in the High School – Robin Jordan & Kim Gugino (Interest Level: High)
   In the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Impact Model, Francis Bradburn outlined a curriculum for high school media assistants. Now, there are different 21st century skills, new NCDPI Information Standards, and American Association of School Librarians (AASL) standards.  How can we put all of these standards together and create a comprehensive new curriculum for media assistants in our own high schools?
5. Facilitating “The Talk” about Online Safety and Digital Footprints – Dorothy Black & Jenny Umbarger (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle)
   There is a delicate line when discussing online behaviors with students. How do you convey the seriousness without scaring them? How do you get them to understand that what they do online may have consequences they have never imagined? Attendees will discuss how we, as School Library Media Centers (SLMCs), can tell the story and empower students to be safe and good citizens.
6. 4 C’s in the School Library Media Center – Allison Long & Susie Hudson (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will look at specific and different ways to build your School Library Media Center around the 4 C’s – Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Creativity. These are all essential in building a program and facility that meets the needs of your students.
7. Technology Integration and Supporting Lessons with Green Screen – Sabrina Steigelman & Tammy Weller (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will focus primarily on the use of Green Screens in the classroom and how they can be beneficial to student learning. The Green Screen is inexpensive and only requires the use of one digital device. Furthermore, it allows students to take the lead in creating projects and teachers are able to pique students’ interest to create student-centered lessons. The Green Screen is also an easy way for teachers to approach the 4 C’s (Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity)!
8. Collaboration between School, Public, and College Libraries for Student Success – Joann Absi & Beth Kaylor (Interest Level: High)
   The New Hanover County librarians have built a strong collaborative network among local libraries (school, public, and academic) to the advantage of librarians and students alike. Students are allowed more resources, learning opportunities, and interactions with other students and librarians. Librarians are rewarded with an expanded network to discuss ideas, collaborate on activities, and to develop programming. In this session, participants will discuss how this model can be replicated in other communities. Attendees should come prepared to share and discuss collaborative efforts of their own.
9. Breakout EDU – Elementary School Style – Lisa Rose (Interest Level: Elementary, Middle, High)
   This session will focus on breakout games with an elementary school media specialist. Facilitators will share several examples of breakouts that have been beneficial in their own libraries and will also share mistakes (aka experiences). From funding, to storage tips, to games, the Breakout EDU community has a vast array of resources anyone can benefit from!
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