Media Specialists SIG

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Comment by Laurie Conzemius on February 1, 2010 at 7:41pm

Don't miss:
Second Life: AASL-SIGMS Virtual Learning Community
Feb 8: 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT
Book Trailers: Seen Any Good Books Lately?
Book trailers are NOT book reports. Similar to movie trailers, video book trailers are short, minute and a half to two-minute videos that introduce the basic storyline in ways that arouse your audience interest to read THAT book. Engage students in the artful video advertisement or PSA of a book with techniques and creative decisions being made by the director that tells enough to interest but not to spoil the plot. Merging the technology of books with digital tools is an engaging adventure for students – explore resources, ideas, tools, and processes for starting your own book club theater! Join us February 8tth, 5:00 PM SLT @ Atlantis Underwater Paideia Colluseum. SLURL Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%206/61/156/7

Comment by Laurie Conzemius on December 15, 2009 at 7:30pm

If you missed Gwyneth's presentation, Media Marketing through Easy Animation, it has now been posted at:

http://montgomery.na4.acrobat.com/p30855112/

Comment by Andrea Christman on December 6, 2009 at 2:23pm

Hi everyone!

Don't forget to join us in a free Webinar on this Thursday, December 10 on Media Marketing through Easy Animation presented by our own, Gwyneth Jones. Here is the link to the ISTE event announcement:

http://www.iste-community.org/events/media-marketing-through-easy

Comment by Rajesh Lane on November 16, 2009 at 10:06pm

"Assistive Technologies for School Librarians Who Think Internationally "
How do teacher librarians/MSs around the world use technology to assist students with special needs?
How do students from around the world who have special needs get help from tech-savvy MS/TLs?
This real-time chat discusses international perspectives and solutions to this important issue.
Tues, Nov 17
5pm ET/2pm PT for 90 min
join at http://tappedin.org

Comment by gwyneth jones on November 10, 2009 at 12:27pm

I was so excited to meet so many wonderful people at AASL2009...lovely faces to put with familiar names!!! everyone was so AWEsome!

Comment by Laurie Conzemius on November 5, 2009 at 7:48am

AASL-SIGMS Learning Community Mtg: Tues, Nov 10 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT. Guest facilitator: Pam Berger. Pam is a well-known writer, speaker, consultant, and blogger on school technology and library issues. See http://www.infosearcher.com.

Comment by Laurie Conzemius on November 5, 2009 at 7:47am

November Article Discussion

Are you finding teaching the 21st century skill of collaboration a challenge? Want some creative ideas on ways to infuse collaboration in your teaching practice? Come join the ISTE SIGMS November article discussion. We will focus our discussion around the ideas presented by Ruth Reynard from an article in The Journal, "More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active."

We all know the challenges of teaching today's digital natives! Those of us who have been teaching over several decades have had to adjust our teaching styles to meet the needs of the ever-changing learning styles of our students. Ruth Reynard points out that, "While wikis
provide an interesting and accessible tool for collaborative work with students, there can be an easy shift back to regular teacher-driven methods in their use as it is difficult and challenging to continue to facilitate collaboration throughout a wiki project. That is, as we already know, the technology itself does not develop the skill, nor is it the teacher; the technology is only a tool, and teachers must remain committed to the collaborative process if students are to fully engage and develop the skills necessary to work collaboratively with their peers."

To join in the discussion, come visit the ISTE Community Ning at http://www.iste-community.org/. If you are not already a member, go ahead and sign up and then join the the SIGMS group at http://www.iste-community.org/group/sigms

Comment by Mary Kay Rolwes on October 6, 2009 at 10:19am

If you are a K-12 media specialist and involved in Second Life, I could use one more person for my panel discussion on Friday, Oct. 9 from 11-12 SL time. This is for the Washington Library Media Association conference in Yakima, Washington. The Second Life panel will meet on the University of Washington Island. Let me know if you can participate! Thanks!

Comment by Laurie Conzemius on September 28, 2009 at 7:30pm

Please add your voice to the SIGMS survey! If you haven't already completed the survey, please do so at http://tinyurl.com/sigms09

Comment by Laticha Sotero on September 17, 2009 at 12:32pm

Perhaps we can work to make the virtual environments just as exciting as attending in person. Through ISTE vision and Second Life, folks who can not travel should be able to interact rather seamlessly. Just a thought for my colleagues! I hope everyone had a nice summer...the new school year is finally here!

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