Presentation Materials Now Available!

If you would like to peruse conference presentation materials from the MAME 36 conference held last month in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan, please check them out at the MAME website. You will see quite a few PDFs and PPTs from our presenters. More will be added as they are received. Keep checking!

School Library Media Activities Monthly Article

My article “Be the Web ‘Go-To’ Person for Parents!” just came out today in the February issue of School Library Media Activities Monthly. In it I write about how media specialists need to learn Web tools and provide some workshops for parents so that parents become more comfortable with the Web and also see that the media specialist is a good point person for help with these tools.

Article in the MACUL Journal

I was asked by the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) to write an article on the Michigan School Library Initiative Group for their Winter 08/09 journal. I just received two complimentary copies so the article is out. In the article I talk about how it all started through Nancy Robertson the Librarian of Michigan and how it evolved into the final product-a video on media centers and the 21st century skills. I’m not sure when MACUL puts the journals on their website but I will keep you posted.

MAME Conference Presentations

MAME 35 is over and it was a great conference. We held the conference at the Dearborn Hyatt and it was a very nice venue. The keynote speakers were excellent. Gary Schmidt gave a poignant talk about the inspirations for his books; Ross Todd inspired everyone to keep moving forward; and Michael Sullivan gave an entertaining talk about boys and literacy. The session topics were diverse and interesting and the roundtables were packed! Our roundtable sessions are 15 minutes long and each speaker presents his or her topic three times. They are so fast-paced and fun. I presented a roundtable called “Ten Search Engines in Ten Minutes” and my 100 handouts ran out for several people in the third session. If you would like my handout and other presenter’s handouts you can find them on the MAME Conference Wiki.

Last Chance for MAME Handouts!

The Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME) conference was held in October. You still have some time to go to the MAME conference wiki for presenter’s handouts and materials. Topics include:

• The Big6

• Web 2.0

• Teamwork

• Basic search techniques

• Booktalking

• Visual literacy

• Weeding

• Picture book art

• Media specialist/teacher collaboration

• Moodle

• Wikis

The wiki will probably change over to the 2008 conference by late January so get your materials while you can!