Professional Development, Organizations and Associations

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Presented:

  • State of Hawaii School Library Services, April 8, 2021 Topic: Escape Rooms and Way More, part 2

    • State of Hawaii School Library Services, January 28, 2021 Topic: Escape Rooms and Way More http://bit.ly/EscNMore

    • State of Hawaii School Library Services, November 19, 2020 Topic: Pathways Adventures http://bit.ly/VirtLrnCollab

    • Maui County School Librarians' training, January 25, 2019 Topic: Breakout Rooms in the Library http://bit.ly/2MGjfg6

    • Hawaii Association of Middle Level Educators, January, 2019 Topic: Easy, Engaging Augmented Reality http://bit.ly/HAMLEpres

    • Schools of the Future, Honolulu, October 26, 2017 Topic: Using Augmented Reality in the Library http://bit.ly/SotFBkHks

    • Hawaii Statewide Librarians' training, August 10, 2017 Topic: Make Book Hooks in Augmented Reality with your students http://bit.ly/2scgqMZ and https://goo.gl/NZhr75

    • Schools of the Future, Honolulu, October 20th, 2016 Topic: Build Your Own QR Museum

    • Maui Makerspace Playground, December 3rd, 2016 Topics: Flextangle, Harmonograph and Coffee Filter Snowflakes

    • Google Rocks! Hawaii, multiple sessions: in addition to attending and learning, I am also a regular panelist and presenter

Attended:

    • American Library Association's Annual Conference in Washington DC, June 20-25, 2019; focused on emerging technologies sessions

    • HAMLE: Hawaii Association of Middle Level Educators, February 20, 2019

    • Maui County School Librarians' training, January 25, 2019

    • Hawaii Statewide School Librarian Training, August 9-10, 2017

    • Schools of the Future, October 26-29, 2017

    • Integrating ebooks into your curriculum, July-Nov. 2017

    • Hawaii School Librarian Training, August 8, 2016;

    • Schools of the Future, October 20-23, 2016

    • Asia Pacific Children's Museum Conference, Honolulu, October 19, 2016

    • Schools of the Future, Honolulu, October 20-21, 2016

    • Google Rocks! Hawaii, multiple sessions, evening live Google Hangout sessions designed for Hawaii School Librarians and Technology Teachers, 2014-present

    • OER Commons, lesson plan database and wiki

    • Webinars on a variety of topics, including Learn360, Encyclopedia Britannica advanced user skills, publishers' webinars on new middle-grade books, Teaching Tolerance webinars, etc.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

  • AASL: American Association of School Librarians

  • ALA: American Library Association, and ALA Roundtables:

  • DK Publisher Advisory Panel Member, SY 2016-17

  • CBLDF: Comic Book Legal Defense Foundation (an anti-censorship group)

  • HASL: Hawaii Association of School Librarians

  • HSTE: Hawaii Society for Technology in Education

  • ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education

  • Maui Library Ohana (formerly Maui County Librarians' Association)

  • Maui Science and Discovery Center: on the board of directors

  • NAMLE: National Association for Media Literacy Education

  • YALSA: Young Adult Library Services Association

Professional Literature Subscriptions

    • American Libraries Direct, a semi-weekly library newsletter focused on library issues and advocacy

    • Booklist, a monthly publication of ALA that provides independent reviews of new books and materials

    • Intellectual Freedom Blog, a weekly eNewsletter of

      • The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association

    • Knowledge Quest, the quarterly journal of the American Association of School Libraries

    • School Library Journal, a monthly publication focused on library instruction, policies, issues, and trends

    • YALS, the quarterly journal published by YALSA