SE6 Teacher-Librarian Meeting Topics and Locations

Wednesday November 26, 2008
Crescent Town School
Topic: Blogs and Digital Photography

Wednesday January 7, 2009
Earl Beatty PS Jr & Sr
Topic: Wikis

Wednesday February 18, 2009
Duke of Connaught
Topic: Podcasts

Tuesday March 3, 2009
George Webster
Topic: Comic Life

Monday April 6, 2009
Secord
Topic: Online Resources

Friday May 29, 2009
To Be Determined

Minutes for October 2nd

Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting. You received our PLC resource. Please remember to read Chapters 1-3 in preparation for our November meeting.
Thank you to Cindy and her presentation on Understanding, Capturing and Using Digital Images. She will post this presentation on our PLC icon.
Here are some items that were discussed:

• Legal options for online images
• empathy through photos
• reading visual images in a "Z" pattern
• composition of pictures
• 10 shot lesson (distance, camera angle, mood)

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts by Will Richardson

Important points to consider from the first chapter: All of these points are taken from Will Richardson's ( 2009) Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts and other powerful tools for classrooms, 2nd edition, pp. 1-16

• we are creating what author Dougls Rushkoff calls a "society of authorship" (p. 4)
• students are building social networks with little or no guidance from adults. (p. 5)
• the fastest growing age group for using the Internet is 2-to 5-year olds (p. 7)
• students have developed hypertext minds- they leap around...today's students may not be well suited to the more linear progression of learning ( p. 7)
• it's our obligation to teach them what is acceptable and safe and what isn't. (p. 11)
• First step for having children publish online is to make sure we get parental approval (p. 12)
• Have students use just first names, pseudonyms or complete anonymity by assigning a number (p. 13)

Responsibility

"It is eventually the reader's responsibility to be aware of the craft of the writer and the conventions that writers use, in order to have rich and fruitful experiences with literature." David Booth (2006)Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore: Shattering the Myths of Literacy, p. 41

Interestingly enough, this month we are focussing on RESPONSIBILITY. This is perhaps a message that we can voice in our library.

Welcome TLs

" I am so thankful for those librarians, both school and public, who find the books, read the books, stock the books and celebrate the books with the young people they serve. They are our connection to the literature of the new world, and they will extend the literacy limits of so many, helping them move into the uncharted territories of powerful fiction." David Booth (2006), Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore: Shattering the Myths of Literacy, p. 48

Welcome to our blog! This is an opportunity for us to dialogue digitally and share comments and ideas. As we read our book together, we may use this space to comment. We will be posting minutes as well here so if you miss any of our meetings, you can always find out what was discussed. Enjoy!