LMS Knowledge Brokers

Welcome to the blog of LMS Knowledge Brokers. We are a group of school library media specialists who want to use this blog to discuss information literacy. Our goal is to engage students in a format that is compatible with how they receive and dispense information today. We invite any school library media specialist or colleague to post a comment.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Internet@Schools East 2006

I just got back from attending the Computers in Libraries Conference in Washington, D.C. The sessions were motivating and informative. I learned about virtual school libraries, podcasting, using blogs as a communication tool with students, RSS feeds and exactly what a wiki is! Excellent speakers abounded, especially keynote speaker, Joyce Valenza. I also enjoyed hearing Alice Yucht, Marjorie Pappas and Johanna Riddle. The strand for school library media specialists was called Internet@Schools. I recommend this conference for anyone interested in information literacy.

posted by mpaul @ 1:50 PM  

3 Comments:

  • At 5:00 AM, Blogger David Kreisberg said…

    I am excited about the prospects of a blog from MCPS media specialists - a group that has always been on the cutting edge of technology use for instruction.

     

  • At 5:32 AM, Blogger EKL said…

    After attending the conference last week "Multimedia in Schools".
    The importance for blogging was emphasized for both professional communication and instruction. Some important uses for blogs that I read about on the blog "WANDERINGS":
    1. Sharing Problems & Seeking Solutions
    2. Gathering Information & Resources for further research.
    3. Using a Blog as Library Newsletter.
    4. Using a Blog a Library "Webpage"
    5. Using a Blog as a way to generate discussion and contributions from others of like interests
    6. Blogs in classrooms?....Let the kids show you why!!!
    -Students pay attention to blogs.
    7. A place to store personal research.
    8. A Blog is a place to share with the school community. (isn't that our initiative for next year?)
    9. A Blog is a place to model social networking behavior for colleagues and students.
    10. A Blog is needed because as the world EVOLVES our teaching models and practices need to be discussed and re-evaluated.

     

  • At 11:30 AM, Blogger mpaul said…

    At last Friday's Middle School Collection Development meeting, I invited any interested media specialists to join our blog list and contribute to adding instructional ways of using blogs to our site. Although we had an enthusiastic response, I have only heard specifically from one media specialist. We need your input!

     

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