October 21, 2013

BOCES IS App!

There’s a new IS (Instructional Support) app! You can “buy” it for free at the app store. Why is that a handy thing to do? Because our annual conference is linked directly to the front page of the app, so you can put it on your phone or iPad and use that for the conference!

Conference Webpage

Rounding out our conference presentations we have some great offerings. Sue Kowalski will bring her trademark energy to a session devoted to “Advocating through Action”. Bill Reilly and Banna Rubinow of River’s End Bookstore will be there to showcase what’s new in “new books” this fall. Michelle Bishop of SUNY Oswego will share what needs doing to make our students college ready. Debby Stack of WCNY will share what’s new at PBS. And, we’ve got Ithaca lawyer, Mike Brown, on tap to share the latest in Digital Responsibility.
 

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Mary and I are engaged in the final stages of planning for the October 25th Core Research presentation. We are delighted to collaborate with our colleagues in Network Team and CI&A to bring this to our region. It’s exciting to see them so engaged with the inquiry process that Barbara Stripling laid out in the Information Fluency Continuum. While it’s not new for librarians to think about research in terms of inquiry, it IS new for us to be collaborating so fully with our teacher peers on it. This is good for librarians, good for teachers, and good for students! I am thrilled to be a part of it.

When you call for help with your Cooperative Collection Development (CCD) order or ILL, Mary Ann Beattie is the person at the other end of the phone. Don’t forget: if you’re thinking “ILL”, think books AND board games, Wiis, flip cameras, and iPads. Mary Ann handles them all because SLS lends them all. The CCD deadline is December 1, but Mary Ann is happy to take your CCD order now and get it back to you in time for your students to really enjoy it this school year. You can reach Mary Ann at mbeattie@ocmboces.org or by calling 433-2663.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Good Morning Everyone!

Included in the newsletter this week is information you will need to establish trials for a range of resources available through the SLS CoSer. In the past SLS has established trials for the region. This year we would like to Flip the scenario and empower you to connect with the vendors and set trial periods for the time most appropriate for you, your students and teachers. Just follow the link and look for the trial button or the email form which you can use to request a trial.
Trials Handout

The following vendors do not provide this opportunity: GALE, ProQuest and World Book. If you would like a trial of their resources please contact me.

Questions or comments – Please feel free to contact me.

UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• The SLSReads Twitter Book Club has begun! – Feel free to jump right in and join us. We are reading Flip Your Classroom Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day! By Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, ISTE, 2012 an EBook – From the ASCD/ISTE Collection sls.ocmboces.org
  See attached sheet for complete details.


• The SLS is offering After Hours PD on Thursdays – There are many opportunities on a wide range of topics. Check it out.
  See attached sheet for complete details.


• NOVELny has new databases and SLS is bringing Deb Bergeron, ProQuest and Stacey Knibloe, Gale to explain them to you on Nov. 20 at the Morning Learning Session before the Communication Coordinators regular meeting.
  See attached sheet for complete details.


• Birds of a Feather –Come meet your peers, K-6 or 7-12, and have a conversation about the issues that are specific to your school library program. Birds of Feather meetings are opportunities for you to build community with your peers and develop a culture of best practice in the OCM region. Come and share what you have been doing, learn from your peers and have the opportunity to develop ideas.
  
  Meetings will be held on the 1st Monday of each month beginning in Dec. at various school libraries.
  See attached sheet for complete details.
  
  The first Elementary group will meet at Rockwell Elementary, Onondaga CSD where Robin Hess is the Librarian and the First High School Group will meet at Lafayette High School, Lafayette CSD with Sue Bang. Marcie and I will be joining you and can’t wait to see you!
  
  Meeting time – 4:00pm – 5:00pm

PLEASE REMEMBER – All of the SLS sessions, workshops discussion groups etc. require registration through MLP. The Calendar of Events on the SLS website provided links to MLP for each activity.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Up-to-the-minute list of 2013 young adult titles that have received 5 or 4 stars from the review journals
  publishersweekly.com/blogs

From Jeff Craig - As you work on SLOs, don’t forget the lessons we learned from the process; that reflection is posted at the APPR 2.0 page of the APPR microsite. Additionally, there are new SLO resources on engageNY.org, including revised guidance and examples.

• Student Learning Objectives


• Video Worth Watching – SLOs for Librarians from Engage NY