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Open Educational Resources & the Open Web (KASL District I)
April 13, 2013
I presented at the KASL District I workshop today on Open Educational Resources and the Open Web for the School Librarian. This is a slightly revamped version from Tuesday’s presentation at Computers in Libraries in Washington, D.C., and with Gary Price’s permission (my co-presenter there), I have incorporated many of his resources into the presentation. All of the resources (links list, articles, download slides are available on my Open Educational Resources LibGuide). The slides are embedded below.
CiL presentations on Innovation and Open Education Resources
April 11, 2013
On Tuesday, I presented without slides during a sunrise session on innovation with Jill Hurst-Wahl and James King. Purposefully presenting without slides for the first time in probably 15 years (dating back to high school, yes), I very briefly spoke about Kansas libraries and the continued innovation that goes on there, because (at least from my perspective) the Kansas library community is open to sharing, collaborating, and working together on initiatives, because many libraries have limited staff, time, financial resources, and collections. This has allowed for a lot of innovation to happen in consortias, open source More >
Nonfiction 2.0: Digital Extensions of Text to Support the Common Core
April 8, 2013
Dr. Marc Aronson, Author, Lecturer Rutgers
Knowledge is inherrently changing quickly — ability to process data, doubles every two years. [More's law]
We have to begin to give them the context that information changes. Ability to process knowledge as it changes. Pluto perfect example of this.
Marc is telling stories about fossil finding.
Lee Berger used Google Earth and had a new perspective looking down. Because he looked w new eyes and asked new questions, he found new answers. And we can do the same.
Story told in print form. How does the story change in digital form? Marc More >
To Flip or Not to Flip, That is the Question!
April 8, 2013
Kari Arfstrom, Ex. Director, Flipped Learning Network, Washington, DC
Pat Semple, Upper School Librarian, Bullis School, Potomac, Maryland
Pat: Flipping allows me to spend more time with students, build relationships with them.
Her school is BYOD for Middle School and Upper School. Lower School uses iPads.
Her environment is heavily digital.
Kari Arfstrom, quick overview of Flipped Learning
Ben Stein video being shown — awful lecture.
Classrooms: Used to sitting in nice neat rows, looking forward at lecturer [kind of like the conference room setup]
Many classrooms today are chaotic, project based learning.
Flipped learning: built in the trenches, More >
Creating a Culture of Innovation presentation (SMSD School Librarians)
February 8, 2013
Here are my slides and other related info for an inservice presentation given to Shawnee Mission School Librarians.
