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Exploring Uses for Nooks: eBooks and Beyond
Join two media specialists, school and district levels, present our combined experiences implementing Nooks. We will cover instructional ideas, programs that have worked, as well as managing and maintaining the Nooks and their associated ebooks, apps, and other content. We will emphasize extending Nook use into a reading response and sharing tool. Time for Q and A included, along with devices with sample books and apps. Handouts in electronic format.
Joanna Gerakios, Pitt County Schools
Kellie Williams, Northwest Elementary School
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High
Presentation Strand: Reading, Technology
Room: North Main B
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
The Unwritten Research Paper
Today's students have so many options for demonstrating mastery concept. Why limit them to just a research paper? Come learn new, engaging, and interesting ways to offer students alternate avenues for showing they are learning. Leaving paper & pencils behind, try some interesting assignments that will not only add to your teacher's tech toolbox, but will engage your students!
ALL resources are available at Cathy's wikispaces here.
Questions?? email Cathy Jo at cathyjonelson -at- gmail.com
Cathy Jo Nelson, Dorman High School - Spartanburg District 6
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, Professional
Presentation Strand: Technology, Library Promotion
Room: North Main C
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Keeping Lit at the Core
How can we keep recreational reading a priority when Common Core focuses on nonfiction? Come learn how librarians can be champions for reading AND support the Common Core.
The Book Whisperer: Guess My Lexile
Common Core Standards and the School Library Media Center
Nerdy Book Club: Now That's What I Call Books
What's My Genre Quiz from Ed Wilkie Middle School
The Eliterate Librarian: Tamara's blog
This Shelf Reserved: Monique's blog
Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Book Count, and a Blog: Jen Chesney's blog
Monique German, Powdersville Middle School
Tamara Cox, Palmetto Middle School
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High
Presentation Strand: Reading
Room: North Main D
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Common Core in the School Library
The Common Core State Standards presents challenges for both teachers and school librarians as districts move toward implementation. The Common Core actually relates to many aspects of the AASL Learning Standards and can be an effective way to reach out for collaboration opportunities. Participants will explore how the Common Core relates to the school library curriculum and will create a collaborative lesson plan that utilizes both standards.
Sandra Andrews, UNC-Greensboro
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, Professional
Presentation Strand: Reading, Professional Development
Room: North Main E
Powerpoint presentation- Common Core and the School Librarian
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Using EasyBib for Effective and Ethical Research
EasyBib is a powerful online research tool which helps students evaluate source credibility, avoid plagiarism with interactive citations, and organize research utilizing note taking and outlining components. A PowerPoint presentation with online demonstrations will highlight EasyBib features and student success with higher critical thinking. Handouts will be provided.
What does EasyBib do? (Source: EasyBib.com)
Katy Hill, Vance High School/Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Janet Jones, Harding University High School/Charlotte Mecklenburg-Schools
Audience: Middle, High
Presentation Strand: Technology, Information Literacy
Room: North Main F
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
The Three Amigas Present the 2013 NCCBA Nominees
Is your la biblioteca so boring that your students are ready for a siesta? Join the Three Amigas for the 2013 North Carolina Children's Book Award nominee presentation. Music, drama, prizes and hand-outs will be provided. What a fiesta of fun!
Debbie Archer, Ellis Middle School
Lisa England, Frank Morgan Elementary School
Vicki Stanfield, retired WSFCS
Audience: Elementary
Presentation Strand: Reading, Library Promotion
Room: North Main G
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Comics and Graphic Novels: From Core and to Curriculum
This presentation highlights the ways that comic books can be used to support curriculum and strategies for encouraging use by classroom teachers. Examples of lesson plans that used with students and resources that would be helpful for generating ideas will be shared
Sarah Stanley, St. Timothy's School
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High
Presentation Strand: Reading, Library Promotion, Professional Development
Room: Ayers
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Creating Global Learning Communities Through Collaborative Partnerships with your School Library Media Center
Are your students global thinkers? Participants in our session will walk away with a toolkit of online resources to help embed global concepts into daily instruction, while promoting diversity and cultural awareness. Emerging technologies and media content, used to bring the world into North Carolina schools, will be presented.
Elizabeth Husketh, NBCT, Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet Elementary
Tracy Bell, NBCT, Southern High School
Sheila Matlock, Lowes Grove Middle School
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High
Presentation Strand: Reading, Technology, Global Connections
Room: Ardmore 1
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Modest country-girl, Tia Chur, moves to a rough neighborhood outside Charlotte, North Carolina. Her hopes for success seem unattainable. An unexpected encounter with the sassy, city-girl, Leah Brarian changes everything. Discovering they have more in common than anyone imagined, they work together to overcome their nemesis, Will Itterate. Interactive workshop/discussion presenting collaborative successes between SLMC and classroom teacher.
Angela Newton, Sadler Elementary School, SLMC
Becky Perkins, Sadler Elementary School, 5th grade teacher
Audience: Elementary
Presentation Strand: Reading, Technology
Room: Ardmore 2
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Online Resources in the Classroom
Topics covered in this session include sources for online print and multimedia materials to support the Common Core and NC Essential Standards, and guidelines for using them ethically. Sharing of copyright issues and questions is encouraged.
Dan Sparlin, NC WiseOwl Webmaster
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, Professional
Presentation Strand: Technology, Common Core
Room: Ardmore 3
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Teens in Translation: The Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Come learn about a different resource for secondary reading: the Batchelder Award, given to publishers of books translated into English. Learn about the latest winners and honors, making connections to support the secondary curriculum and to encourage adults to make the global connection in their leisure reading.
Sue C. Kimmel, Old Dominion University
Audience: Middle, High
Presentation Strand: Reading
Room: Gaines 1
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Roman Adventure and the Common Core
Historical fiction, well-written and researched, leads readers into the experience of an earlier time. The NCDPI-recommended curriculum for the novel, Getorix: The Eagle and the Bull, set in ancient Rome, will be used to illustrate the application of the focus of the Common Core Curriculum for sixth grade. CD Handouts.
The CD handout for this presentation will include the following:
Getorix’s World, by Sandra Horton & Judith Geary, the curriculum to accompany the novel, Getorix: The Eagle and the Bull, Celtic Adventure in Ancient Rome. This curriculum includes plot summaries, historical background, factual and discussion questions based on the text, maps and timelines of the Roman era and activities based on Roman history and Roman life. (100 pages) Complete text.
Handout on the Essential Standards, Analysis of the Common Core Standards for sixth grade Language Arts and Social Studies matched with springboards to address those standards found in the text of the novel, Getorix: The Eagle and the Bull.
Draping the Toga, a PowerPoint presentation.
The Socratic Seminar, an activity based on topics and questions from the novel text and from the parallel study of the historical era.
Judith Geary, Appalachian State University
Audience: Middle
Presentation Strand: Common Core Curriculum support
Room: Gaines 2
Friday, 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Meet the Author: Kelly Starling Lyons
In a multimedia presentation, author Kelly Starling Lyons shares the history behind her books including One Million Men and Me and Ellen's Broom, and discusses her publication journey. She also gives a peek at Tea Cakes for Tosh, her forthcoming PB, and offers Classroom Guides and other hand-outs.
Kelly Starling Lyons, Children's Book Author
Audience: Elementary, Middle
Presentation Strand: Reading, Multicultural
Room: Terrace 3
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