An American Media Specialist in London
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Come with us as we travel about London and England! FSU students and Florida media specialists will showcase multimedia projects developed for a graduate program in London during summer 2008. Information will be provided for those who wish to join us in summer 2009 for graduate credit or professional development.
Nancy Everhart, Professor
everhart@ci.fsu.edu

 

Author Visits from A to Z
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
We will provide tips and guidelines from writing the contract to those final details that make a visit run smoothly. Learn how to find authors, make travel arrangements and schedule their visits to your school(s).
Jodi Vizzi, Media Specialist

Jodi.Vizzi@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Lisa Hughes, Media Specialist
Lisa.Hughes@sdhc.k12.fl.us  

DeeDee Schatzberg

BOOK BUDDIES: A non-testing reading incentive program
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Research tells us that reading outside of the school day plays an important role in literacy development. Our K-5 BOOK BUDDIES" program is an answer to this without the expenses, time and testing involved in AR and RC. Participants will see the statistical results of our program and leave with the knowledge of how to start their own program.
Gerry Padgett, Media Specialist
padgettg@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

 

Book It!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Book It! is an effective high school reading program which stimulates reading among high school students.
Carole Koester , Media Specialist
koester@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

 

Books about Different Family Structures
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Children reside in homes made up of different family structures. The traditional family consists of a father and a mother. Lately, there has been an emergence of other blends of families. The presenters will highlight books about non-traditional families that are appropriate for inclusion in elementary school collections.
Cora P. Dunkley, Associate Professor
cdunkley@cas.usf.edu
Henrietta M. Smith, Professor
boagjohns@aol.com

 

Books with SUPER POWERS
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Incorporate graphic novels in your elementary media center and watch these books with super powers motivate your reluctant readers. Students enjoy learning science and social studies curriculum with this comic format. Take the GN one step farther by creating original stories of your own using “Comic Life” software.
Anna Marie Gallagher, Media Specialist
9094mom@gmail.com

 

Booktalking with Banned Books
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom / Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Don't shy away from book talking Banned Books. In this session, we will give you tips on explaining Intellectual Freedom to your students in the context of banned books. We will give you the essentials of the book talk as well as introduce new titles your kids will love that haven't been banned yet...but they will be! What if you are challenged after your book talk? We will give you tips on how to avoid controversy.
Patricia Franklin, Library Media Specialist
patricia.franklin@ocps.net
Claire Stephens, Library Media Specialist

 

Boys and Reading? Yes!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
This session will cover the research in the gender gap between boys and girls and how to inspire and motivate boys to read through the use of comic books and graphic novels. The presentation will include a PowerPoint on the instructional benefits of comic books along with practical ideas to start a "Comic Club". Of particular emphasis will be using this genre to increase student performance in boys. They target audience is upper elementary/middle school.
Angela Russo, Media Specialist
alrusso@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Lou Russo, Media Specialist
louis.russo@sdhc.k12.fl.us

 

Bringing an Author to Your County.
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Highlands County Library Media Specialist and Reading Coachers eagerly share their experience in teaming up to bring author Alane Ferguson to their county. This group will share the process from brainstorming to evaluation of visit. Tips for collecting funds, contacting the author, getting press coverage, getting teachers and students excited, evaluating the outcome and planning for the next year's author visit.
Sandra Rankhorn, Library Media Specialist
rankhors@highlands.k12.fl.us
Sharon Edgemon, Library Media Specialist
edgemons@highlands.k12.fl.us

 

Bringing the Literacy, Reference and Research Standards to Life
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Uncovering how literacy, reference and research standards are assessed on the FCAT can be difficult. This session will discuss strategies for introducing the standards and helping students navigate the FCAT. Media specialists will receive a disk listing the literacy, reference, and research Sunshine State standards, lesson plans, and helpful websites.
Daniella Smith, Media Specialist
smith.shaunee@gmail.com

 

Building a Digital Reference Center
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Recognizing the information requirements of your clientele is important. Knowing how to design a digital Media Center to facilitate those needs is just as important. We show you how we do this in the digital environment of the World Wide Web.
David Fowler, Media Specialist
fowledd@bay.k12.fl.us

 

Celebrate Diversity in the Media Center!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Celebrate diversity on campus and promote acceptance of students from different cultures by offering a variety of multicultural activities through the media center. Learn how to start a Multicultural Club, host a Hispanic Heritage or multicultural festival, and offer a reading motivation activity based on African American History Month. A special program for Holocaust Awareness Month will also be discussed.
Brigitta McTigue, Media Specialist
mctigub@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

 

Celebrating Banned Books
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Celebrate banned books with interesting attention-grabbing displays. Excite students about intellectual freedom and their right to read. Help students understand the importance of free choice and equal access with a demonstration of biased collection development.
Coleen Ward, Media Specialist
cojeward@bellsouth.net

 

Characters in Character Education
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Character Education helps students feel positive about themselves and can lead to a school with fewer discipline and attendance issues. Learn how to use the characters from books to enhance your character education program.
Jodi Vizzi, Media Specialsit
Jodi.Vizzi@sdhc.k12.fl.us

 

Classroom Karaoke
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Karaoke has created a sensation at our school! Students who use Karaoke have a marked improvement in reading fluency. Research has found that using music fosters language retention. There is a variety of teacher-friendly equipment available in all price ranges. Karaoke is also fun and motivating for students.
Mary Leigh Harris, Librarian/Media Specialist
marylhar@leeshools.net

 

Collaborate to Elaborate
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Do you feel like there is a missing link between Media and the classroom? Do you feel like Media Specialists and teachers are on different wavelengths? In this session, learn how teachers and Media Specialists can join forces to better meet the needs of their students. A Media Specialist and a teacher will demonstrate how they work together to make Media a valued experience and an intricate part of the Language Arts curriculum.
Kristen Badger, Media Specialist
badgerk@stjohns.k12.fl.us
Margaret Holloway, Teacher
hollowm@stjohns.k12.fl.us

gbecker@earthlink.net

 

Create Curriculum Based Comic Strips
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Motivate reluctant readers and writers by learning how to use a new and innovative piece of software, Plasq’s Comic Life. This workshop will take participants through the process of using images and photographs as a creative educational tool in the classroom, media center, or computer lab.
Monica Beddia, Media Specialist
beddiam@brevard.k12.fl.us

 

Defending Your Collection
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Media specialists face difficult issues when a book is challenged in their media center. Personality plays a role in what happens next. I want to encourage media specialists to not be afraid to defend books on their shelves giving proactive tips on what to do to defend controversial books.
Bart Birdsall, Media Specialist
Montolino@aol.com

  

Discover the fREADom of Integrating Florida History into Your Total Curriculum
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Motivate your students to learn language arts, science, and social studies with our new historical novel, Kidnapped in Key West, and its accompanying Teacher's Activity Guide. Join us for a thrilling reenactment celebrating Henry Flagler's 1912 completion of the Over-Sea Railroad!
Edwina Raffa, Author
Edwina@floridaauthors.com
Annelle Rigsby, Author
annelle@floridaauthors.com

 

Electronic Interactive Games for SSYRA
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Reading motivation using the latest technology for SSYRA. Learn how to create File Maker Pro and Power Point Interactive games for your SSYRA Battle Books. Examples would be Bingo and Jeopardy type quiz bowl games.
Juli-Anne Hipp, Media Specialist
hippj@pcsb.org
Sheryl Adams, Media Specialist
adamss@pcsb.org

 

Engage Your Students: Discovering Interactive Freedom with SMART Technologies
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Education technology experts will go beyond the basics of how to use the innovative SMART board and show you how it will completely enhance your classroom environment! Experts will demonstrate how easy it is to develop lesson plans that will engage students – making the classroom an interactive experience!
Kristin Kraemer, Education Market Manager
kkraemer@aviinc.com
Bob Mallory, Vice President Education Marketing Development
bmallory@aviinc.com

 

Fairy Tale Bowl
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
The Fairy Tale Bowl is a reading program designed to encourage recreational reading of a specific genre of literature, to improve reading comprehension and to share books through written and oral expression.
Beth Glisson, Media Specialist (Elementary)
beth.glisson@sdhc.k12.fl.us

 

Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes

Come and meet the new literary partner READS in this session. A brief overview of the document will be presented, describing the reading, literature appreciation, and media literacy responsibilities of our jobs. Creative ideas for curriculum connections and implementation will be included.  

Dr. Nancy Teger, Library Media Services Program Specialist, Florida Department of Education

 

Florida Power Library Schools
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 100 minutes
Is your school immersed in information literacy? Do you have to calm the crowd of teachers who want to collaborate with you? Does your administration make sure the media center is a stop on every important school tour? Do your circulation statistics and the consistent buzz of student activity make you smile? If you answered yes to these questions, you are a good candidate for the Florida Power-Library School program. Learn more about this opportunity to bring recognition to your school by attending this special session on Thursday afternoon at this year’s FAME conference with a team from your school. Come with an administrator and a couple of your collaborative colleagues (perhaps a technology coordinator, reading coach, or classroom teacher) to learn all you need to know to successfully apply for this important state-wide program. 
 

This session requires a special session registration, find the online form here http://m360.floridamedia.org/admin/forms/ViewForm.aspx?id=3008

Dr, Nancy Teger , Library Media Services Program Specialist Florida Department of Education
Nancy.Teger@fldoe.org
Jacqueline Rose, Senior Coordinator of Library Media Services Polk County School Board

The Florida Study -Improving Your Program
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
This session will look at the components of Donna Baumbach's Florida Study and assist you in improving your library media program. A template for a tri-fold brochure will be made available to all participants to use for their library patron stakeholders.

Lou Greco, Director for Media Services
grecol@stjohns.k12.fl.us

FLY (your students on) GOOGLE
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
With either Fixed or Flex, teacher/librarians have limited time to engage students. Take them to see for themselves before they begin their research and investigation online or in books. Do you serve a population of "At Risk" students and overwhelmed teachers? The sky is truly the limit!
Sara Smith, Media Specialist
smithsar@pcsb.org

fREADom for Your Library Media Program through New Web-Based Tools
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
What are blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarks and social networks? Who uses them? How are library media specialists rejuvenating their programs and preparing students who can meet or exceed standards for learning through these tools? Where can you learn more about these new technologies and how to use them?
Donna Baumbach, Professor (Retired)
baumbach@mail.ucf.edu
Judy Lee, Associate Professor
jlee@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

fREADom to read and laugh
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Data driven research based evidence validates the fact that laughter enhances literacy. Learn strategies to reduce stress, release endorphins, motivate students to read and prevent hardening of the "learning" attitude. Free the brain to focus on fresh, creative learning achievement. Laughter enhances education, and facilitates positive classroom management.
Bunnie McCormack, Media Specialist
librarybunnie1@verizon.net

"Free Your Mind, and the Rest Will Follow"
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Our school has a very high success rate with students who love to read. We have developed a culture of reading over the past 7 years through careful planning, total staff buy-in and great incentives. An emphasis will be on the importance of book selection. This session is geared toward secondary educators.
Laura Kutz, Media Specialist
laura.kutz@thevillagescharterschool.org
Heather Culbreath, Reading Specialist
heather.culbreath@thevillagescharterschool.org

Freeing Minds through Media Specialist Teacher Collaboration
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Middle-school Media Specialist and language arts/reading teacher share collaborative efforts to open student’s minds to the joys of reading, the importance of information literacy and the keys to quality research. Time at the end will be left for audience sharing positive collaborative experiences.
Joshua Newhouse, Media Specialist
joshua.newhouse@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Jeanne Harper, Teacher
jeannec.harper@sdhc.k12.fl.us

FTR, Wikis, and Blogs! Oh My!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation , 50 minutes
This session will present show two Web 2.0 technologies that can provide engaging collaborative opportunities for media specialists as they spread the word about Florida Teens Read. Free and easy blog and wiki software will be shown
Linda Dean, Media Specialist 
Dean.linda@brevardschools.org
Dee Lucas, Media Specialist
Lucas.Doris@brevardschools.org

Get Your Ducks in a Row: How to Survive a Book Challenge!
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Two high schools in Palm Beach County faced a book challenge last year. The Manager of Library Media Services and one of the high school Media Specialists summarize the experience and give you tips for surviving based on difficulties they faced with the parent challenger.
Cookie Davis, Media Specialist
davisco@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
Janeen Pelser, Manager, Library Media Services
pelserj@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

Getting Flies with Honey: Using Bibliographies to Move Beyond Reading Level
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Do you know the saying "You get more flies with honey than vinegar"? Come learn how to use lists, bibliographies and booktalks to work with secondary teachers who set requirements for independent reading based on "grade level" or points range. Move toward incorporating more current reading choices that students will enjoy.
Jennifer Dillon, Media Specialist

Gimmie an “F”, gimmie a “T”, gimmie an “R”!!! What’s that spell? Success!!!!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Discuss and share ways to promote FAME’s Florida Teens Read program in your school. Learn how two schools in Polk District implemented successful reading incentive programs with record numbers of voluntary readers. No budget? No problem! Easy ideas abound in this session, loaded with displays and book discussion tips.
Jane Surrency, Media Specialist
jane.surrency@polk-fl.net
Henry Haake, Media Specialist

henry.haake@polk-fl.net
Leigh Moore, Media Specialist

Gore, Gas and Giggles: Encouraging Boys to Explore Their Intellectual Freedom
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Gore, Gas and Giggles provides titles and suggested uses for appealing books which interest boys. Both fiction and non-fiction books will be highlighted that include humor, action and adventure and other engaging topics. Featured titles contain themes such as violence, injustice, sexuality, anti-family, profanity, drugs and more. Emphasis will be placed on titles for boys ages 8 and up. Book lists, web resources and promotional ideas will be provided.
Lauren Powers, Teacher- Pinellas County Schools/ FSU Project LEAD Fellow
powersla@pcsb.org
Sheila Baker, Teacher-Pinellas County Schools/ FSU Project LEAD Fellow
bakers@pcsb.org

Guys Read!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Guys Read! A culturally responsive approach entails more than dressing a certain way or interacting with students in a caring manner. By design, a culturally responsive approach to literacy teaching gives explicit attention to academic excellence as well as cultural competence. Teachers who use a culturally responsive approach with their male students understand their own culture in relationship to that of their students. This presentation will focus on initiatives to engage males in reading while they exercise freedom of choice.
Cynthia Dwyer, Reading Specialist
dwyerc@highlands.k12.fl.us

Hardwiring ExC³ELlence
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
This presentation will feature some of Escambia County's initiatives to hardwire the ExC³EL evaluation process. Principals and media specialists completed the evaluation together & integrated the tool into the professional planning process. The evaluation was posted and submitted online; and, trends and issues were discussed. The media handbook is being rewritten around the strands of ExC³EL.
Sheila Brandt, Coordinator, District Media Services
sbrandt@escambia.k12.fl.us 

Hook, Line, & Sinker: Reading K-12
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 100 minutes
Do you need to reel in reluctant readers? We have the bait for you!! Learn how we hook readers for elementary, middle and high. We'll share ideas of how three schools promote Children's Book Award, Sunshine State, and Florida Teens Read. We'll also give examples of creative book displays in various content areas.
Rhoda Cribbs, Media Specialist
rcribbs@pasco.k12.fl.us
Barbara Magee, Media Specialist
bmagee@pasco.k12.fl.us
Susan McNulty

 

I Shutter to Write
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Watch what happens when you combine student creativity, the tech expertise of a library media specialist, and the teaching skills of a language arts teacher. Students are given cameras and write essays, persuasive, expository, and narrative, based upon the pictures they take using a digital camera.
Carol Eubanks, Media Specialist
carol.eubanks@marion.k12.fl.us

ichat about books
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
The participants will be shown how to set up ichat and skpe accounts to video chat with anyone in their school, district or world. Reading activities such as story time, book talks, etc. using this technology resource will be presented.
Lorraine Cosgrove, Coordinator/ School Libraries
cosgrol@stjohns.k12.fl.us
Patrick McGee, Technology coach
mcgeep@stjohns.k12.fl.us

Infect Your School with the Reading Bug!
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Start a reading epidemic at your school! Learn how to help students, parents, and other teachers become as passionate about books and reading as you are. You will walk away from this session with ideas that you can use to get your school community excited about reading.
Kristen Badger, Media Specialist
badgerk@stjohns.k12.fl.us
Lynn Johnson, Media Specialist
johnsol@stjohns.k12.fl.us

Information Media Literacy-"FIND" Your Way with the Searching Sleuths
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
The new SSS for Information and Media Literacy states, students will be able to "use a systematic process for the collection, processing and presentation of information." The "Research Detectives" will help you "FIND" practical ways to make this happen in your media center or classroom.
Linda Nadrowski, Media Specialist
nadrowski@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
Helen Zientek, Media Specialist
Zientek@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

Information and Media Literacy: Get with IT!
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Learn how easy teaching “IT” can be with instructional technology. “IT” stands for Informational Text, one of the strands of the new Information and Media Literacy Sunshine State Standards. Find out what informational text can be and brainstorm ways to incorporate it into the K-12 curriculum. Learn how to bring these objectives to life by using available technologies and hands-on learning experiences. Discover how other educators are teaching informational text and how you too can make it come alive in your classroom or media center. Best of all, create your own activities to teach this standard on an everyday basis. After all, if you?re not teaching “IT” then the students are missing “IT.”
Amanda Farrey, Media Specialist
farrey@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
Lisa Petroccia, Media Specialist
petroccia@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
Amy Armbruster

Intellectual Freedom and Novels about Diversity
Session Strand: Reading Motivation / Information Literacy, 100 minutes
Information and resources for PK-12 teachers, librarians, and parents who wish to share books with children and young adults to heighten understanding and acceptance of differences.
Dr. Liz Knowles, Director of Professional Development and Curriculum
liz.knowles@pinecrest.edu
Martha Smith, Media Specialist

 

Interactive boards in the pursuit of freedom
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
The 21st century Media Center needs to use and have available digital tools to assist learning and Media relevancy. My session would demonstrate and train participants in using interactive boards to infuse student research and media use with a new dynamic learning tool. The session could emphasize intellectual freedom and research methods.
Merill Bettridge, Media Specialist
merillbettridge@browardschools.com

Interactive Reading
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Trying to inspire emergent, striving or reluctant readers...Need engaging material from early childhood to hi/lo books? See the reading success at its finest through interactive books and websites designed with learning fun and sparking the interest of struggling readers in mind.
Marcy Ringdahl, Media/Technology Specialist
marcy.ringdahl@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Nancy Waters

Introduction to eBooks session
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Learn how you can adhere to SSS by using eBooks available through FEL. In this session learn how students can master "Reading in the Content Areas" (Social Studies, Science, Math) standard and where to go for proven and relevant content in core areas to be used in everyday classroom instruction.
Robin Heston, Account Executive
robin.heston@cengage.com

IPods Turn Reading to Cool
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
A district grant allowed the media specialist to purchase MP3 players and software to encourage retainees and reluctant readers to come to the library to select books and tape their reading. The process, samples and the results data for those students will be shared.
Monica Taylor, Library Media Specialist
taylormo@pcsb.org 

 

The Kingdom (Not Disney!)
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
A 10-day visit to schools and libraries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia presented very different cultural lenses to intellectual freedom. Come and explore this vastly different culture solely based on Islam. The presentation will take you to libraries and schools within the borders of this very different kingdom.

Lisa Fagan-Brown, LIS
fagan-brownl@pcsb.org
Sherri Magill, Technology Specialist
Magilla@pcsb.org

Learning Literacy Skills in a Fun Way
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Let us spice up our literacy skills lessons using various themes and activities that make learning fun. From reading to our youngest students to motivating our oldest students, literacy skills can be taught in a manner in which the students don’t realize that they are learning. Let me explain to you how I have created various literacy skills lessons using themes and brought them to life in the media center.
Lori A. Martin, Media Specialist

Let's blog about books
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Learn how to use a popular (and free!) blog site dedicated to educators to engage your students in discussing books... online!
Aaron J. Elkins, NBCT, Library Information Specialist
aelkins@fsu.edu

Libraries, Civil Liberties and the Patriot Act
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Pros and cons of the USA Patriot Act and its effect on intellectual freedom and library use. Strategies for protecting patron privacy (without breaking the law) and guidelines for compliance with governmental requests will be discussed.
Wendy Bleakley, Library/Media Specialist

 

Lil' Bits of Literacy
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
This session will provide the elementary Media Specialist with strategies for preparing standards-based lesson plans, with a focus on the latest Florida Reading Association Award nominated books. Lesson plan standards include National Information Literacy standards, Sunshine State standards, and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
Patty McQueen, Media Specialist
mcqueenp@duvalschools.org
Susan Phillips, Media Specialist
phillipss2@duvalschools.org

Literacy and Generational Poverty: Fine tuning a media program to best serve high need/low income children
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Children of poverty face many challenges to their academic success. This session will address library policies and procedures designed to support children of poverty both in their library use and in school in general. Come hear how one media program deals with 100% free/reduced lunch, 9% homeless and 115% mobility rate.
Gail Przeclawski, NBCT Media Specialist
przeclg@ocps.net

Literacy Centers
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Thirteen literacy centers will be presented that challenge and stimulate learners at any level. The centers include book writing, digital storytelling , the newspaper, movie making, games, puppet making and shows, story reader, reader's theater, book club, SUNLINK, non-fiction search, comic book making and book cover creator. Please note that these centers actually cover all the session strands.
Mary Pat Callihan, Media Specialist/Teacher
mpcallihan@mail.clay.k12.fl.us

LMS and the Writing Process
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
State standards, national and state tests include writing sections. How do library media specialists make it clear that we can help teach writing? We collaborate with classroom teachers and build the bridge between reading and writing. Come get ideas that you can use the next day with students and staff.
Marge Cox, Library media specialist
margecox@gmail.com

LOL: Leadership Out Loud!
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Sandra Penvose, Media Specialist
sandra.penvose@sdhc.k12.fl.us

Make Your Lessons Come Alive with the Student Response System!
Session Strand: Technology, 50 minutes
Bring excitement back into the media center with the Class Act Student Response System. This program provides an easy way to deliver an interactive lesson while tracking students' progress. Students use remote controls to answer questions from a PowerPoint presentation or paper. You can even turn your lessons into a game and award prizes!
Brigitta McTigue, Media Specialist
mctigub@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

Making Flexible Scheduling Work in Elementary Schools
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Learn the benefits and how-to's of a student-centered flexible schedule. A librarian teacher-of-the-year and a principal will share tips to get your principal and staff on board, and exciting information-literacy lesson plans with skills taught in context of the classroom rather than in isolation. Learn to make your library part of the 21st Century!
Lucretia Miller, School Library Media Specialist
millerl7@duvalschools.org
Beverly Walker, Principal
walkerb2@duvalschools.org

Making the Most of Mr. Madison's Marvel with FINDS
Session Strand: Intellectual Freedom, 50 minutes
Do your students know the basis for Intellectual Freedom? This session will provide ready-to-use FINDS lessons (correlated with the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner and the Sunshine State Standards) for school library media center presentations on a special event--Constitution Day.
Jan Yates, Program Professor, Educational Media
yates@nova.edu

 

Marion County's Favorite Elementary Practices
Session Strand: Information Literacy / SSS, 50 minutes
Marion County Library Media Specialists regularly get together to share best practices and brainstorm ideas. They are willing to share some of their favorite promotions, lessons and projects that have been student and teacher tested and found to work. Come share the fun! Level: K-5
Susan L. Dunn, Library Media Specialist
susan.dunn@marion.k12.fl.us
Amy Roland, Library Media Specialist
amy.roland@marion.k12.fl.us
Penny Bunch

penny.bunch@marion.k12.fl.us  

Sharon Kochlany

Pat Lakin

MY SATURDAY: Motivating Through Reading, Writing and Art
Session Strand: Reading Motivation, 50 minutes
Our session presents a collaborative project involving a fifth grade class, its teacher, the art teacher and media specialist. The class project was to write a book. But to write and illustrate a book, the class first studied other books. Ultimately, the class entered a book contest.
Janis Jordan, Library Media Specialist
jejordan@dadeschools.net
Norman J. Herrera, 5th Grade Teacher
herreranj@dadeschools.net
Ms. Linda Oldenburg, Art Teacher