Season 2: 2020 - 2021

Register for Second Chance conference at NCSLMA.org

Sessions discussed:

• Advocacy & Marketing--

• Advocacy....It's for Every School Librarian, Crystal Joyce (twitter), Dr. April Dawkins (twitter), Faith Huff (twitter & tiktok) & Lila Morel

• Ain't No Mountain High Enough: How to Create and Advocate for Your Library!, Lila Morel and Faith Huff

• Marketing Your Library, Kathy Parker (twitter)

• Connect the Dots: Destiny Discover, Sharon Hart (twitter) and Heather Pennica (twitter)

• Joining Forces: How a Blended Media/Tech Program Enhances Student Learning, Chelsea Brantley (twitter) & Lori O'Neal

• Google Quizzes: Secure Assessments on Chromebooks, Katie Bogle (http://wonderscreate.weebly.com/and instagram)

• Slaying the Monsters: Evaluating Speculative Worlds of Color, Jewel Davis (https://jeweldavis.com/)

• Time-Saving Tips and Tricks, Katie Bogle

Guest: Ashley Sherman

• Twitter @ashermly; Instagram @librarianinlouboutins

• Frey Elementary School, Cobb County Georgia

• Frey Elementary Learning Commons

Links:

• Genius hour

• Stick Together posters

• Grocery bags into jump ropes tutorial

#TechPlusBookStudy: Join us for discussions and slow chats! Our first book study is on Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad

Books & Authors:

• Quarantine by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

• Book hangovers: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles; A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt; Winter's Tale by Marc Helprin; A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle; Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza; The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente

Tech:

• Stick Together digital posters

• PearDeck (website) and Orchard

• NCWiseOwl

• Carolina Navigators

Random links: Libby app; Laura's sprout bookmarks

PD opportunities: NCSLMA Winter Tune Up and NCTIES

Music: Lord Weasel by Blue Dot Sessions

Conference sessions and links available on this Wakelet: https://wke.lt/w/s/Jj7ZlA

Music: Lord Weasel by Blue Dot Sessions

We discuss ideas and notes from Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

Principles of Digital Minimalism

1. Clutter is Costly: Time, Money & Wellbeing

2. Optimization is important: Breadth versus Depth

3. Intentionality is satisfying

Books and more:

• Shrill and The Witches are Coming. by Lindy West

• Real Simple Magazine - place anything in your cart but you can only check out when there is a full moon

• Digital WellBeing- Eric Curts

• Gretchen Rubin

• LibroFM - Audio Book Clubs

• Calm, mindfulness app

• The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech Obsessed World By Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips

• The Sea in Winter By Christine Day

Charity's notes can be found at our Digital Intentionalism Journal page. Also, see Charity's mother's brownie recipe (left).

Music: Lord Weasel by Blue Dot Sessions

We talk to the NC DPI Innovation Learning Catalysts about embracing innovation in the classroom.

Tools and recommendations:

• Flipsnack

• Launch Book

• Creating Innovators, Stretch, Brave, Not Perfect

• Permanent Record - Snowden, Blood Water Paint, The Poet X

• Starfish, The Art of Coaching

• IORad extension, The Fire Keepers Daughter

Follow the ILCs on Twitter:

• Mollee Holloman: @molleebranden

• Chris Beneck: @techguybeneck

• Stacy Lovdahl: @braveneutrino

Music: Lord Weasel by Blue Dot Sessions

We chat about some of our hot takes and opinions on library trends, play a round of library/reading Would You Rather, reflect on triumphs for this school year, and discuss summer reading plans.

Links:

• Read Across America

• Bookit! ™ Reading Program

• "Aaron Yang: Voracious Reader or Giant Pain to Librarians"

• AudioSYNC: free audio books for teens

• Thriftbooks

• Our newsletter examples:

  • Laura's FabLitFun quarterly box

  • Cathy's Friday Five

  • Charity's Resource Round-Up

• AASL connect

Books:

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books by Cara Nicoletti

• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

• Women in Black by Madeleine St. John

• Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions about Small Town America

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

• Brat: an 80s Story by Andrew McCarthy

• Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe

Lists for summer reading: Oprah's Beach Reads, NPR's Book Concierge

Music: Lord Weasel by Blue Dot Sessions