Inspiring Literacy and Learning with Digital Primary Resources A
Gail Petri

Explore the Library of Congress Lifelong Literacy initiative, highlighting and promoting the joy of reading. Get a guided tour of the Library's free online resources, including author webcasts from past National Book Festivals, lesson plans, digitized rare books, and more. Participate in a hands-on model activity promoting literacy, see a demonstration of possible teaching strategies, and join a discussion of how to use the resources in a library setting to enhance and promote literacy.

Discover VoiceThread for Multimedia Projects A
Karen Montgomery

This session will explore a variety of multimedia projects including Great Book Stories using VoiceThread, a free, online resource for adding sound recordings, and text messages to digital images. Great Book Stories offers students and teachers the opportunity to share their favorite books and stories through pictures, text and audio. The Great Book Stories wiki links to digital stories created by students and teachers and encourages others to join in. Great Book Stories is a terrific idea for librarians but also for teachers at any grade level that want to help get kids excited about reading books.

Explore the Midwest Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress A
Gail Petri

Make the Midwest history come to life with free resources from www.loc.gov. Use maps, pictures, oral histories, music, sound recordings, and motion pictures. Explore and discuss strategies, including hypertext analysis, linking text to sounds and images; literature study using primary sources; and found poetry activities to reinforce reading instruction.

Changing the Questions: Improving and Elevating Students' Research A,T
Joyce Valenza

As our students and teachers grow increasingly web-dependent, many of us are seeing a marked decline in the quality of their research across grade levels and disciplines. In an information-rich world, it makes little sense to present students with assignments that ask them simply to retell. School research is a training ground for solving information problems in real life. When it looks like busy work, kids recognize it for exactly that. This workshop explores strategies for encouraging thoughtful problem solving and meaningful research. We have to change the questions!

Using MOREnet's Online Resources A,T,S
John Riley

Learn about the features and interfaces of MOREnet's host of online resources: EBSCO, Newsbank and The Gale Discovering Collection. These powerful databases are a great resource for students and educators alike.

PowerBooks: Harnessing Library Materials on the Web A
Keri Cascio

Google Book Search and WorldCat.org allow users to search the full text of books on the Web to find ones that interest them and discover where to find them in libraries. By using these tools, students can access out-of-copyright texts, create bibliographies and book reviews, and build lists of items to share with the lager web community.

"The Times They Are a Changin": Creating New Information Landscapes for Learners A,T
Joyce Valenza

21st Century learners need 21st Century librarians, 21st Century teachers, and 21st Century learning landscapes. Our libraries should now have two front doors, and one of them should be virtual. The effective virtual library pulls together, in one unified interface, all of a library's resources--print and electronic. It offers guidance while it fosters independent learning. It can even lead users back to print. It values and incorporates the work of the whole learning community. A good library web site offers implicit (and explicit) instruction and projects, an important image of the librarian as an information professional. During this session, develop plans for your own virtual library--whether html or Web 2.0-based.

NeverEnding Search: Becoming a More Powerful Searcher A,T
Joyce Valenza

As teachers/librarians, we must prepare and empower our internet-confident students to be truly effective users of a changing information landscape. Good searching is a combination of a few basic strategies. We can make a dramatic difference in students' ability to locate and evaluate information. Join Joyce as she arms participants with rich searching tool kits and strategies for using them and teaching with them.

Being "SMART" in Your Library A
Eve, Diel, Chris Johnson, Vickie Miller, Gloria Pettyjohn

A panel of experienced Parkway Librarians will showcase examples and strategies for using the SMART Board in the library. These strategies will enable librarians to incorporate interactivity into library lessons, increasing student motivation and achievement.

"Show-Me" the Ropes A,T
Mary Kate Mortland

The presentation will show people how to create a SMARTboard lesson. During the session we will work with book award nominees to develop a lesson that incorporates different components of SMART Notebook software and correlates to library media standards. *Participants with SMART Notebook software on their laptops will be helpful.