It was truly a pleasure earlier this week to spend time with the wonderful teacher librarians of BCTLA—-they are truly among the nicest, most enthusiastic, and most progressive groups of librarians I’ve had the honor to speak to in my career. I am truly grateful for their hospitality, their energy, and their passionate participation during the Summer Institute this past Tuesday! I’d like to give an extra word of thanks to Arlene Anderson—she was the ultimate hostess and went above and beyond the call of duty in making my visit both possible and memorable!
Session 1: Subject Guides
Resources of Interest:
- LibGuides and Student Choice
- The 3 Click Dilemma (Brian Mathews)
- Librarians as Instructional Designers (B. Hamilton)
- Info Pushers vs. Pedagogical Partners (Brian Mathews)
- The Unquiet Library LibGuides (my former library)
- NHS LibGuides (current library)
- Guiding Design: Exposing Librarian and Student Mental Models of Research Guides
Session 2: Participatory Learning and Inquiry
- Henry Jenkins paper on participatory culture
- Nina Simon The Participatory Museum
- Project Play Framework
- Writing Around Texts on Text Resources
- Harvey Daniels: The Best Kept Teaching Secret: How Written Conversations Engage Kids, Activate Learning, and Grow Fluent Writers
- Cris Tovani: So What Do They Really Know? Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning
- Hacking the Learner Experience
- Connected Learning Alliance
- Buffy’s LibGuide on Multigenre Compositions and Projects
- Stripling’s Model of Inquiry
- Pam Berger, Student Inquiry and Web 2.0
- New Approach, Historic Mission: Remaking a Factory Museum via Community Co-Production
- Confusion and Frustration Were Rampant (on Kulthau’s Information Search Process model of inquiry)
- Stafford, T., & Stemple, J. (2011). EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE INQUIRY PROCESS. Library Media Connection, 30(1), 34-37. (includes the question chart)
- STAFFORD, T. (2011). Analyzing the Cognitive Skills and Inquiry. School Library Monthly, 28(2), 8-10.
- The Importance of Conferring
- Research Reflections Roundtable
- Multigenre Research Design Proposal Template (but may also be used/modified for non multigenre compositions)
- Buffy’s Pre-Search Graphic Organizer or Modified KWL template
- Stripling’s Model of Inquiry and Concrete Strategies/Learning Activities/Assessments Written for Students
- Media 21, 2011-2012 (year long collaboration that reflects many of the examples of student work you saw in the presentation)
- Assessing for Learning, Dr. Vi Harada
- Sample Student Portfolio for an Inquiry Driven Project (replicated from original private label Wikispaces page) from our Media 21 students
- Toward an Even More Participatory Culture in Art Museums, Mike Murawski
- Nudging Toward Inquiry: Re-envisioning Existing Research Projects, Kristin Fontichiaro (great article based on Stripling’s model of inquiry)
Please let me know if I have omitted any resources you may have wanted as a participant or if you want to share any work related to our sessions as the school year gets underway!
The Unquiet Librarian 
Hello!
Thank you so much for sharing your materials. We have done “Text Write Arounds” with HS Biology classes and had amazing success. It has been so successful that I am going to be sharing this info along with other literacy techniques at my state’s school library conference in October. I never planned to be a presenter but I am so excited about this that I had to share it! Thank you for inspiring me.
Kara Watson
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