Teacher librarians are standing on the brink of a fantastic opportunity to make themselves indispensible within their schools.
With hundreds of new libraries and thousands of student laptops currently being rolled out to secondary schools, this is the perfect opportunity for teacher librarians to embrace technology, develop a Professional Learning Network, upskill and become leaders in e-learning.
2. Teacher librarians are standing on the brink of a fantastic
opportunity to make themselves indispensible within
their schools.
With hundreds of new libraries and thousands of student
laptops currently being rolled out to secondary schools,
this is the perfect opportunity for teacher librarians to
embrace technology, develop a Professional Learning
Network, upskill and become leaders in e-learning.
5. Blogs – Joyce Valenza, Buffy Hamilton, Judy O’Connell,
Anne Weaver, Will Richardson
Twitter
Read professional journals – ACCESS, SLAQ newsletter,
QUICK, ISTE journal
Attend PD opportunities
Get involved in the School Library Association
9. Each year, The Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have
significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The
annual Horizon Report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable
impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. The areas of emerging
technology cited for 2011 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less
Electronic Books
Mobiles
Time to adoption: Two to Three Years
Augmented Reality
Game-based Learning
Time to adoption: Four to Five Years
Gesture-based Computing
The full Horizon Report can be downloaded from
http://www.apo.org.au/research/2011-horizon-report
10. • Recommend educational and research apps (425,000
iphone apps so far!)
• Recommend ereaders, ebooks and audiobooks
• Allow students to search the catalogue
• Use QR codes to take users to instructional podcasts and
videos
• Develop an ‘Ask a Librarian’ service
• Promote citation creation
• Promote database access
• Use Twitter and Facebook for marketing
• Use SMS alerts for marketing
11. “Local classrooms to get dose of augmented reality”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/classrooms-to-get-dose-of-augmented-reality/story-e6frgakx-1226147361664
Ikea augmented reality app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4nnLti-72A&feature=youtube_gdata_player
14. Principals now want a teacher librarian who is a curriculum
and technology leader, an innovator and a mentor.
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32112542@N00/481593155
15. General Capabilities
Literacy
Numeracy
Information and communication technology (ICT) competence
Critical and creative thinking
Ethical behaviour
Personal and social competence
Intercultural understanding
Cross-Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
Sustainability
16. Are you actively engaged
with your teachers to
develop deep, critical
thinking in your
students?
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22. “If you call yourself an information professional, you have to
be a professional in the information landscape of your time.”
(Source: Joyce Valenza)
Image from sirexkat FlickrCC
24. Thumb - strength of character
Establish pre-eminence (the you who shows up before you show up)
Pointer - FOCUS
'Follow one course until successful': know your outcomes, take action, find
what works and what doesn't, re-align until you achieve outcomes
Middle - brand
Who are you? What do you stand for? Are you who you say you are?
Standards, benchmarks
Ring - relationships
10% interested in working with you, 30% might, the rest probably won't ever
Little - little things that count (what you do that others don’t)
It's all about them. What is your core story? '90 sec elevator pitch'
Who is your audience? What is your focus? What is the
core thing you want to get across?
Re-align and re-focus to achieve your outcomes.
Trump & Kiyosaki 2011, “Guide to developing your Midas touch” in The Midas Touch, Plata Publishing, Scottsdale, AZ
27.
Research something your teachers might use
Look for something that might be useful to TLs
Showcase something you have done with students and
teachers
Run a workshop/segment for your local TL network
group
Write an article for the School Library journal
30. Glass half full
Boundless energy
Capacity for optimism
Love what you do and do what you love
Switch on a smile
Find answers rather than negatives
32. Shelving
Cataloguing
Covering and processing
Overdues
Stocktaking
Quiet libraries
Tidy libraries
Don’t do library aide tasks – otherwise you will be
replaced with an aide!!
36. “Mobilization of
information in society is
impossible to ignore...
As information specialists,
libraries cannot afford to be
perceived as ‘missing the boat’
in delivery of information, or
our clients may decide we are
irrelevant to their needs.”
(Source: Joanna Witt & Michelle Turner,
Charles Darwin University Library)
Image from http://www.latrobe.vic.gov.au/Library
38. “Australia has the world's highest
per capita use of mobile phones.
By 2013, more internet searches
will be done on smartphones
than desktop computers.”
(Source: Tony Keusgen, Google Australia)
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/smartphones-to-overtake-
desktops-for-internet-20110602-1fi1y.html
Will they be searching the high quality
information that you provide? Image from Mareen Hschinger, FlickrCC
40. “...few mobile Web sites are as user friendly as an app, even when they’re from
the same publisher. The better apps also keep some or all of the data on your
phone or tablet, avoiding data charges, and they’re formatted to take advantage
of your device’s dimensions and technology.”
41. “Libraries in general
can no longer wait for
patrons to come to
them, but must reach
out to their patrons in
new and innovative
ways.”
Mobile = 40% of all tweets
(Source: KPCB on 10 Mobile Trends)
42. http://www.techxav.com/2010/03/19/if-facebook-were-a-country/
Australia’s population in April 2011 = 22,669,000
200MM mobile active users vs. 50M in 9/09
2x more active than desktop-only users
(Source: KPCB Top 10 Mobile Trends)
http://www.news.com.au/schools-launch-facebook-exam-page/story-e6frg12c-1226147319694
43. • Has 130 friends
• Makes 8 friend requests per month
• Spends 15 hours/month using
Facebook
• Visits Facebook 40 times/month,
and spends 23 minutes/visit
• Is connected to 80 organizational
Facebook Pages, Groups, and Events
(Source: David Lee King, TSC Public Library Manager)
Image from andresrphotos, PhotoDune
45. “A small but growing number of libraries are beginning to apply mobile
technologies to provide new services or to enhance traditional services. In doing
so these libraries are making themselves not only more available but also more
relevant to their users.”
(Source: Helen Partridge, QUT)
Image from MonkeyBusiness Photos, PhotoDune
67. • Put in intense effort for a few years in an
area where you will make a difference.
• New game plan –
'Your rhetoric must resonate with your
audience' - find your pathway of
connection from what you do to who you
are working with.
• Begin with the end in mind.
(Source: Karen Bonanno)
http://www.slideshare.net/ASLAonline/profession-at-tipping-point
68. 1 minute / day / week = 167% improvement / year
5 minutes / day / week = 3778% improvement / year
(Source: Dr Marc Dussault)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCvEoAnhBI