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SLAQ / IASL 2010 ConferenceBrisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
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Monday 27 September pre-conference events
Pre-conference workshops | Bus tours - school libraries | Bus tours - literary / artistic | Walking tour |
All workshops and tours include a packed lunch.
Workshop 2: 9.00 am to 11.30 pm
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| Dr. Marcia Mardis, Assistant Professor, Florida State University & Associate Director PALM Center |
Dr Nancy Everhart, Associate Professor, Florida State University & Director PALM Center. |
Title: Using Cooperative Inquiry to enhance the leadership role of the teacher librarian in technology integration and program development
Cooperative inquiry (CI) is an established method collaborative problem identification, solution determination, and implementation method used in many community organizations undergoing change.
The workshop facilitators are the first to have adapted this strategy for use by teacher librarians in schools. The facilitators will share their experiences using CI and present instrumental case studies that demonstrate its successful adapted use by teacher librarians. Then, the facilitators ground participants in the CI method and, through modeling CI in the workshop’s structure, will work with the group to enact the method for problem identification, solution formulation, implementation strategy, and assessment process.
Each workshop participant will have the opportunity to develop a CI-based plan for approaching issues and challenges in their own schools.
Workshop 3: 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Mal Lee is an educational consultant and author specializing in the development of digital schools. Mal has released three previous publications with ACER Press. In 2008 Mal and Professor Michael Gaffney edited and had published Leading a Digital School. In 2009 he co-authored with Dr Arthur Winzenried The Use of Instructional Technology in Schools – Lessons to be Learned, and with Chris Betcher, The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution – Teaching with IWBs. Mal is currently working with Associate Professor Glenn Finger (Griffith University) in the writing of his most significant work yet for ACER Press on Developing the Networked School Community – on the next phase of schooling. Mal provides not only a business, research and school administrator’s perspective, but also an extensive understanding of the structural, organisational and technological challenges facing school and education leaders as they seek to take advantage of the immense and ever merging educational and administrative opportunities made available by digital technology, in a networked world
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The development of networked school communities - The implications for you.
This workshop provides the opportunity to work with Mal Lee and explore the implications for you and your school when it begins ‘dismantling the traditional school walls’ and uses its networked and digital technology to move to the next phase of schooling – the networked mode. The pathfinding schools globally have moved from the traditional paper-based mode of schooling to a digital mode. (Lee and Gaffney, 2008, Leading a Digital School).
The research is revealing that when the pathfinding digital schools start removing their walls they begin moving – consciously or unconsciously – into a third phase of schooling – the networked school community. Most importantly they begin working far more closely with their students’ homes, capitalise upon the homes’ ever-growing digital capacity and adopt a more collaborative and networked style of organisation.
The schooling is very dramatically moving from a mass to a far more individualised style of teaching and learning.
Mal Lee and Associate Professor Glenn Finger have examined this development in their new ACER Press publication – Developing the Networked School Community, identified the many educational, social, economic, organisational and political reasons for schools making the shift, projected a possible vision of the new mode and explored how schools might go about moving to the new phase.
As you’ll appreciate the implications of this fundamental change in the nature of schooling for teacher librarians, school libraries and you yourself could be profound.
The desire is workshop the possible form of the networked school community, to explore the implications for the information professional and identify the moves you can make to strengthen your role and that of an information services cell, and create what Lyn Hay calls in the aforementioned book iCentres.
Workshop 4: 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Mark Staines is the Senior Information Officer for Libraries with the eLearning Branch, Education Queensland.
Title: Teacher-librarians as media specialists
“Being an information (or media) specialist today means being an expert in how information and media flow TODAY! .... In my mind, if you are not an expert in new information and communication tools, you are NOT a media specialist for today"
(Joyce Valenza http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1860043986.html).
This workshop will introduce teacher-librarians to the many ways that we can construct media, create our own eBooks, build a challenging web site for literacy, create a book trailer or produce a stop-frame animation. In preparation for the construction of media, participants will be involved in deconstructing present samples of media, effective planning strategies, work flow production and editing. All the techniques use readily available software such as movie maker or freeware which may be installed on any computer.
Participants will need to bring a flash drive / USB.
Bus tours to school libraries
School tour 1: Grammar Schools and bookshop -- 9.00 am to 11.30 pm
This morning tour will depart by bus from, and return to, the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will include a visit to Coaldrake’s Bookshop at The Barracks, Petrie Terrace, where there will be the chance to browse the shelves of an independent bookstore. If you wish, you can enjoy a morning coffee and snack during this stop. There are a number of choices, some in the restored heritage building. Then it is on to the inner city suburb of Spring Hill to the Brisbane Grammar School, one of Queensland’s oldest private schools for boys. Here you will tour the brand new Lilley Centre with its beautiful architectural features and 21st century technology and the Middle School Library. The tour will then stroll immediately next door to Brisbane Girls Grammar School with its school library that has developed its spaces and resources to accommodate up to 180 students. Upon exiting the bus back at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, you will receive a packed lunch which can be consumed at your leisure.
School tour 2: Greenslopes State School, East Brisbane State School & bookshop --
1.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Packed lunches will be available for participants from the SLAQ/IASL conference committee at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre during the hour before departure time for this afternoon tour. Primary schools in Queensland cater for students from Prep to year 7 (i.e. five to twelve year olds). The bus will include tours to two primary schools where new libraries were completed this year using Federal Government funding (Building the Education Revolution), as well as a visit to a leading independent bookstore, Riverbend Books at Bulimba. At both school sites staff will explain the role the teacher-librarian plays in their school, as well as detailing their involvement in the planning of the library to cater for the differing needs of each school. The bus will travel south east to the leafy streets of the suburban Greenslopes State School , then on to the bookstore stop where you can either browse the shelves or enjoy an afternoon coffee on the outside deck, before travelling to the historic East Brisbane State School to view their new freestanding library.
Bus tours - literary / artistic
Bus tour 3: Home tour with Narelle Oliver - 9.00 am to 11.30 pm
Home is the story of Brisbane city's resident peregrine falcons, Frodo and Frieda, who nest atop a 27-storey riverfront skyscraper. The tour group will be escorted by the author and illustrator of this book, Narelle Oliver, who will guide the participants to many of the locations featured in this picture book. Narelle used poetic language and a combination of media (collage, linocut rubbings, photography, pastel and watercolour) to great effect to evoke this realistic portrayal of life in the city.
Bust tour 4: Illustrators at work - 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm
This afternoon bus tour will visit the studios of three leading local illustrators where participants will gain insights into the process followed by each artist in the creation of their award winning picture books.
Walking tour
Cultural Precinct: 9.00 am to 11.30 pm
It is a short walk to Stanley Place at South Bank to meet the staff and tour the State Library of Queensland, the Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery and the Queensland Museum (which incorporates the Sciencecentre). These institutions offer schools a range of exciting programs which include workshops, discussion forums, exhibitions and general information that can be used to support a visit to these facilities, as well as many elearning opportunities for classes unable to visit this precinct in person. Each participant is supplied with a folder of materials and a packed lunch.
Last updated 19 September 2010 (KSB)