SPEAKERS & SESSION TOPICS - Thursday
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Deborah Bergeron
Make Curriculum Connections with Proquest!
Still googling? Why not explore quality online reference content with SIRS and ELibrary. Check out the newest collaboration tools recently added to both SIRS and ELibrary. New enhancements make it easy for students to use web 2.0 tools to manage their own research. Visual mapping, text to speech, essential questions and standards correlations make the research process more relevant for both teachers and students. Discover 21st century tools designed to help integrate the full text content with your curriculum. Practical, time-saving, standards integrated solutions for the classroom AND the library.
Karen & Darrin Brege
Laughter and Literacy
The Brege's know that if you are laughing, then you are learning. And that is exactly what this duo proves as they entertain and delight, all while instilling the importance of reading, writing and art through fun and laughter. Based on years of experience as authors, illustrators, and comedy performers, they know what it takes to amuse their audience, while providing invaluable instruction. To date, the Brege’s have 8 published books, including the Mick Morris Myth Solver series and Ghost Board Posse series.
Cindy Dobrez, Lynn Rutan
Cindy & Lynn's Best Books of 2010
Cindy and Lynn will present their favorite books of 2010 and will feature books primarily for middle school and high school students. One session for Fiction, a second session for non-fiction and more.
Eric Drake
Stop, Learn and Go $AVE with REMC!
Interested in saving your school $70,000? This session will help you leverage the REMC $AVE Bid to save even more than the average amount saved by Michigan schools in 2009.
Sandy Fields, Jennifer Garmon
Teen book talks for boys (“Get me Outta Here!”) and girls (“Measuring Up”)
A librarian and an English teacher team up to present book talks based on two themes: “Get Me Outta Here! (Young Adult Literature for Boys)” and “Measuring Up: Physical Beauty and Sense of Self (Young Adult Literature for Girls)”. Their book talks are designed to help high school students find books of interest to them—and to assist teachers planning units or literature circles around these themes. Nonfiction resources also included.
Marilee Green
Book Connections: Picture Books for Older Readers-Making Connections across the Content Areas
Picture Books have Big Ideas In Small Packages and work for teaching the GLCE's throughout the Middle School Curriculum. Books presented will provide higher level ideas and will be linked to content areas. Handouts and Surprises
Evelyn Freeman, Kathy Levandowski, Kathy Swanger
Destiny Consortiums are the Solution
Doing more with less? Consortiums can preserve the quality of media center programs. Consortium models provide cost savings, technical advantages, user groups and consulting services. Come share and learn.
Kristin Fontichiaro
Redefining the School Librarian in the 21st Century
In these tough times, how do we define and position ourselves within the school building to remain vital and relevant contributors to learning in 2010 and beyond? We'll look at one outline of school librarian roles and brainstorm others that you can take back to your districts.
Judy Hauser, Laura Cummings
Research and Presentation in a Digital World
The digital world holds a vast array of tools and resources that should be tapped for research, presentation and instruction in K-12 schools. Some we will feature are American Memory, Pics4Learning, Creative Commons and a presentation technique called Pecha Kucha.
Kevin Kammeraad
Poetry, Puppetry, Music, and More
Come see how children's author, artist, and performer Kevin Kammeraad excites kids to write, think, read, and be creative using poetry, puppetry, music, and more, and how you can do it too! Taking excerpts from his school presentations, Kevin will be reading poems, singing songs, and sharing classroom activities and student examples. Come to get inspired to make books and music come alive!
Lisa Kelley, Pam Landgraf
Screencasting for Staff and Student Development
Screencasting supports technology users and is also an easily assessable way that students can demonstrate technology skills mastery. We will demonstrate multiple free screencasting applications and integrated teaching methods.
Steven Layne
Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers
Keynote speaker and author Steven Layne presents some powerful strategies for encouraging reading.
Kathleen McBroom (Moderator); Michael French, Kristin Fontichiaro, Karen Lemmons, Cyndi Phillip,
Elementary Round-Up
K-5 Booktalks! MAME members will share favorite books for elementary audiences. Picture books, chapter books, graphic novels - we'll work our way through various genres, identifying curriculum connections along the way.
Mary Morrison, Elizabeth Lawrence
Playing with Digital Storytelling
Collaborate with classroom teachers and use this new technology across the curriculum and in different grade levels. Elisabeth Lawrence from The Roeper School and Mary Morrison from Garden City Middle School will discuss Open Source (free!) software you can use and show you how to successfully integrate this new technology using core curriculum benchmarks and standards.
Jennifer Parker-Moore, Melissa White
21 Things for the 21st Century Educator
The 21 Things for 21st Century Educator (21Things4Teachers) project was designed to provide ”Just in Time” training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the core technology skills every educator should possess. This project, now a statewide initiative utilized in over 30 ISD’s/RESD’s/RESA’s, is expanding to include 21 Things For Administrators and 21things for Students sites. Find out how to bring this FREE professional development to your school to improve the technology skills of teachers, administrators and students.
Suzanne Robinson, Deb Biggs Thomas
MeL Databases - Get Updated!
MeL databases are critical for your students and faculty, and it's important that you’re aware of the latest changes and news. This is your chance to get caught up and to ask your questions.
Sarah Savage
Dream Big for an Awesome March is Reading Month!
We take our “March is Reading Month” seriously at Almont Middle School! The whole month is spent celebrating books, reading and having all kinds of zany fun. Come hear about the past five “March is Reading Month” events at our school - ideas for activities, contests and events big and small will be shared! Presented from a middle school perspective, yet the ideas could easily be adapted to your school.
Judy Sima
Making Magic with Middle School Programs
Learn about exciting programs guaranteed to make your Library the epicenter of the school:
Reading Quest, Battle of the Books, Book Circles, Reading Advisors, Brown Bag Seminars, keeping your staff happy, and more.
Sarah Sindelar
Librarians Tweet!
Join us to learn how to harness the power of the Twitter. Yes, it sounds silly, but it may be one of the most valuable resources you've ever encountered!
Tim Staal
Collaboration Tips and Tricks
This session will focus on using the free collaboration tools in built into the Google Apps to help us collaborate with our teachers. We'll explore collaborating using calendars, documents, presentations, even websites. Bring your laptop and your own ideas to share too!
John Wukovits
Talk to the Experts
Biographer John Wukovits will discuss the use of biographies in the classroom, emphasizing that middle school students in history or literature classes can learn a great deal from success stories of the past.
Deborah Bergeron
Make Curriculum Connections with Proquest!
Still googling? Why not explore quality online reference content with SIRS and ELibrary. Check out the newest collaboration tools recently added to both SIRS and ELibrary. New enhancements make it easy for students to use web 2.0 tools to manage their own research. Visual mapping, text to speech, essential questions and standards correlations make the research process more relevant for both teachers and students. Discover 21st century tools designed to help integrate the full text content with your curriculum. Practical, time-saving, standards integrated solutions for the classroom AND the library.
Karen & Darrin Brege
Laughter and Literacy
The Brege's know that if you are laughing, then you are learning. And that is exactly what this duo proves as they entertain and delight, all while instilling the importance of reading, writing and art through fun and laughter. Based on years of experience as authors, illustrators, and comedy performers, they know what it takes to amuse their audience, while providing invaluable instruction. To date, the Brege’s have 8 published books, including the Mick Morris Myth Solver series and Ghost Board Posse series.
Cindy Dobrez, Lynn Rutan
Cindy & Lynn's Best Books of 2010
Cindy and Lynn will present their favorite books of 2010 and will feature books primarily for middle school and high school students. One session for Fiction, a second session for non-fiction and more.
Eric Drake
Stop, Learn and Go $AVE with REMC!
Interested in saving your school $70,000? This session will help you leverage the REMC $AVE Bid to save even more than the average amount saved by Michigan schools in 2009.
Sandy Fields, Jennifer Garmon
Teen book talks for boys (“Get me Outta Here!”) and girls (“Measuring Up”)
A librarian and an English teacher team up to present book talks based on two themes: “Get Me Outta Here! (Young Adult Literature for Boys)” and “Measuring Up: Physical Beauty and Sense of Self (Young Adult Literature for Girls)”. Their book talks are designed to help high school students find books of interest to them—and to assist teachers planning units or literature circles around these themes. Nonfiction resources also included.
Marilee Green
Book Connections: Picture Books for Older Readers-Making Connections across the Content Areas
Picture Books have Big Ideas In Small Packages and work for teaching the GLCE's throughout the Middle School Curriculum. Books presented will provide higher level ideas and will be linked to content areas. Handouts and Surprises
Evelyn Freeman, Kathy Levandowski, Kathy Swanger
Destiny Consortiums are the Solution
Doing more with less? Consortiums can preserve the quality of media center programs. Consortium models provide cost savings, technical advantages, user groups and consulting services. Come share and learn.
Kristin Fontichiaro
Redefining the School Librarian in the 21st Century
In these tough times, how do we define and position ourselves within the school building to remain vital and relevant contributors to learning in 2010 and beyond? We'll look at one outline of school librarian roles and brainstorm others that you can take back to your districts.
Judy Hauser, Laura Cummings
Research and Presentation in a Digital World
The digital world holds a vast array of tools and resources that should be tapped for research, presentation and instruction in K-12 schools. Some we will feature are American Memory, Pics4Learning, Creative Commons and a presentation technique called Pecha Kucha.
Kevin Kammeraad
Poetry, Puppetry, Music, and More
Come see how children's author, artist, and performer Kevin Kammeraad excites kids to write, think, read, and be creative using poetry, puppetry, music, and more, and how you can do it too! Taking excerpts from his school presentations, Kevin will be reading poems, singing songs, and sharing classroom activities and student examples. Come to get inspired to make books and music come alive!
Lisa Kelley, Pam Landgraf
Screencasting for Staff and Student Development
Screencasting supports technology users and is also an easily assessable way that students can demonstrate technology skills mastery. We will demonstrate multiple free screencasting applications and integrated teaching methods.
Steven Layne
Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers
Keynote speaker and author Steven Layne presents some powerful strategies for encouraging reading.
Kathleen McBroom (Moderator); Michael French, Kristin Fontichiaro, Karen Lemmons, Cyndi Phillip,
Elementary Round-Up
K-5 Booktalks! MAME members will share favorite books for elementary audiences. Picture books, chapter books, graphic novels - we'll work our way through various genres, identifying curriculum connections along the way.
Mary Morrison, Elizabeth Lawrence
Playing with Digital Storytelling
Collaborate with classroom teachers and use this new technology across the curriculum and in different grade levels. Elisabeth Lawrence from The Roeper School and Mary Morrison from Garden City Middle School will discuss Open Source (free!) software you can use and show you how to successfully integrate this new technology using core curriculum benchmarks and standards.
Jennifer Parker-Moore, Melissa White
21 Things for the 21st Century Educator
The 21 Things for 21st Century Educator (21Things4Teachers) project was designed to provide ”Just in Time” training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the core technology skills every educator should possess. This project, now a statewide initiative utilized in over 30 ISD’s/RESD’s/RESA’s, is expanding to include 21 Things For Administrators and 21things for Students sites. Find out how to bring this FREE professional development to your school to improve the technology skills of teachers, administrators and students.
Suzanne Robinson, Deb Biggs Thomas
MeL Databases - Get Updated!
MeL databases are critical for your students and faculty, and it's important that you’re aware of the latest changes and news. This is your chance to get caught up and to ask your questions.
Sarah Savage
Dream Big for an Awesome March is Reading Month!
We take our “March is Reading Month” seriously at Almont Middle School! The whole month is spent celebrating books, reading and having all kinds of zany fun. Come hear about the past five “March is Reading Month” events at our school - ideas for activities, contests and events big and small will be shared! Presented from a middle school perspective, yet the ideas could easily be adapted to your school.
Judy Sima
Making Magic with Middle School Programs
Learn about exciting programs guaranteed to make your Library the epicenter of the school:
Reading Quest, Battle of the Books, Book Circles, Reading Advisors, Brown Bag Seminars, keeping your staff happy, and more.
Sarah Sindelar
Librarians Tweet!
Join us to learn how to harness the power of the Twitter. Yes, it sounds silly, but it may be one of the most valuable resources you've ever encountered!
Tim Staal
Collaboration Tips and Tricks
This session will focus on using the free collaboration tools in built into the Google Apps to help us collaborate with our teachers. We'll explore collaborating using calendars, documents, presentations, even websites. Bring your laptop and your own ideas to share too!
John Wukovits
Talk to the Experts
Biographer John Wukovits will discuss the use of biographies in the classroom, emphasizing that middle school students in history or literature classes can learn a great deal from success stories of the past.