Inquiry 2.0 for Student Learning

Beyond Paper & Pencil: Bringing Literacy to Life through the Performing Arts Friday, November 14th at Capital Region BOCES

This conference day was slightly outside my comfort zone - but it was an excellent experience.  We first brainstormed the characteristics of a good literacy lesson.  Julie Kabat and Susan Griss led us in literacy activities which included singing, poetry, expressive language, vocabulary development, choral reading and tableau.  We participated in many different group activities to learn strategies for including dance, music and theater in literature. They used a variety of approaches during the day and demonstrated how to include everyone’s learning strengths.  They kept the focus on improving literacy.  The handout is also well done.  I would highly recommend them as presenters in our district!

Learning to Listen With All Your Senses

Minds in Motion

last session

Ken Fujiuchi presented great program (also discovered my posts disappear if I pause too much before posting) I will look more at scriblio , wordpress .. Best part of attending nyla is interaction with all types of librarians & differing perspectives!

Saturday morning

It’s interesting as I try to catch up on reading and what others have said about the NYLA conference that there are very few blogs about it.  One is from a library student who apparently drove 3 hours from NYC for just the day and had very odd experiences (including meeting the same bad/odd poetry guy in with vendors that I met - glad someone else agreed about the poetry) - wish she had had more help in getting something out of a conference!  The other is a very complete description of the first session I attended on Thursday (and I linked to it from my short comments).  The vendors are not at the conference on Saturday - something I have always found odd, since some librarians can only attend on the weekend.

Google's cool new research & collaboration tools - and they're free

Carol LaRow google certified teacher (used to teach at Nisky) ple= personal learning environment Well done overview.

Wiki

NY public librarian Matthew Sheehy discussed obstacles - funny, honest, well done. Some of same things that happened when I automated & I could have avoided had I heard his failures first! Paul Friedman discussed successful muswiki I am impressed with size & scope of NYlibrary. Information sharing committee to set up structure & get all to participate & get all onboard used “appreciative inquiry” (check for book) or thin book of appreciative inquiry by Hammond 1996

Keeping up Keeping organized

what a turnout..out in the hall. Diane Campion, Organize This! Average executive wastes 6 weeks a year looking for stuff. Everything must have a home..or it’s clutter. Mike myers. “My brain is an airport without air traffic control.”. Facilator ran off more copies ..yea! If more tham one step / Make it a project - goal, outcome, timeline, needed resources.