Presentations

March 2012

• Branding The Unquiet Library, Slides for a panel presentation Twitter, Ads, and QR Codes … Oh My! with Janie L. Hermann, Andrea Snyder, and Nancy Dowd at Computers in Libraries 2012 http://www.infotoday.com/cil2012/session.asp?
• The K-12 Library Perspective: eBook Issues and Challenges, http://www.infotoday.com/cil2012/session.asp?ID=A304 with Moderator: Dick Kaser, Vice President of Content, Information Today, Inc. ; panelists Chad Mairn, Chief Technology Officer, Novare Library Services ; Ken Roberts, CEO, Hamilton Public Library; Matt Barnes, VP of Marketing, eBrary, Computers in Libraries 2012
• Libraries as Communally Constructed Sites of Participatory Culture: Composing Narratives of Participatory Learning and Literacy, Massachusetts School Library Association Conference, Cape Cod, MA

February 2012

• Taking Embedded Librarianship to the Next Level: Action Steps and Practices, ALA TechSource webinar
• Transforming Information Literacy for Today’s K-12 Learners Through the Lenses of Transliteracy, Inquiry, and Participatory Learning, NEFLIN webinar

December 2011

Librarians Assessing for Student Learning, Virtual presentation for NJASL 2011

November 2011

• Get in the Game: Developing a Plan for Strategically Choosing Technologies to Support Student Learning Through Your Library Program, Linworth Webinar
• Rewriting the Story of Libraries and Learning Communities Through Participatory Culture and Transliteracy, Invited speaker to the Hechinger Institute Digital Media, Teaching, Children and Schools Conference, Chicago, IL

October 2011

• AASL 2011: Framing Transliterate Learning Through Inquiry and Participatory Culture, Concurrent Session and Virtual Conference Session, AASL 2011, Minneapolis, MN
• AASL 2011: Books, E-ink and Databases, Oh my! Collection Development in the 21st Century Preconference Workshop with Laura Pearle, Wendy Stephens, Angela Carstensen, Frances Harris, AASL 2011, Minneapolis, MN
• The New Normal? Challenges of Leveraging the eBook Opportunity in K-12 Libraries, Panel Keynote, Library Journal/School Library Journal “eBooks:  The New Normal” Virtual Conference
• Participatory Librarianship: Creating Enchantment and Conversations for Learning, Keynote, Tennessee Association of School Librarians Conference, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

September 2011

• Distributing Libraries and Learning through Embedded Librarianship: Creating Conversations for Portable, Participatory, and Personalized Learning: LYRASIS Technology Ideas and Insights Series: Positioning your Library in the Mobile Ecosystem: Content and Delivery, Atlanta, Georgia
• Creating Subject Guides for the 21st Century, an ALA TechSource Webinar
• Transliteracy and the Young Child Panel with Andy Plemmons and Laura Fleming, School Library Journal Summit 2011, Washington, D.C.

August 2011

• Transformational Strategies for School Librarians Ithaca, New York
• Cultivating the Library as a Site of Participatory Culture and Learning, Trends in Library and Training Virtual Conference, ALA Learning and Webjunction

July 2011

• Fighting the Filter, NEKLS
• Libraries and Enchantment, NEKLS
• eBooks and eReaders in Your School Library Program
• Libraries, Literacies, and Learning: Mercer University Library Faculty Staff Day
• Hall County School District EdTech Conference Keynote on Participatory Learning, Gainesville, Georgia

June 2011

• ISTE “PLEs Please: Authentic Networked Learning for the Digital Age” with Laura Deisley and Wendy Drexler, Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 2011
• ISTE “A Dawning Era For School Librarians: There’s no better time for school librarians” (ISTE-SIGMS Forum) Panel Member, Philadelphia, PA, June 28, 2011; “Libraries and Enchantment”
• ALA Annual: The Embedded Librarian: Engage, Educate- A new model of school librarianship (Panel Member), New Orleans, LA, Saturday, June 25, 2011 (8AM–10:00AM)
• ALA Annual: OITP Cutting Edge Library Service Awards Program, New Orleans, LA, Saturday, June 25, 2011(10:30 AM–12:00PM)
• ALA Annual: Transforming Information Literacy for Today’s Students: Libraries as Sponsors of Transliteracy, New Orleans, LA, Sunday, June 26, 2011 (8AM–10:00 AM)
• ALA Annual: ALA Learning Round Table ”Social Learning: What’s In It for You and Your Library?” Panel Member, Sunday, June 26, 2011 (10:30–12:00 PM)
• ALA Annual: Boomers, Staff & Students — Engaging the Many Voices of Advocacy: An Advocacy Institute Workshop (Panel Member), New Orleans, LA, Friday, June 24
• The World is My Textbook: Participatory Learning and New Media for Connecting, Creating, and Collaborating with Students, Post-luncheon keynote, Griffin-Spalding County School District Teachers as Learners Conference, Griffin, Georgia
• Getting There Together:  Assessing for Student Learning, Griffin-Spalding County School District Teachers as Learners Conference, Griffin, Georgia
• Content Creation and Collaborative Knowledge Construction with Wikispaces, Griffin-Spalding County School District Teachers as Learners Conference, Griffin, Georgia
• Making Research Relevant with Multigenre Research Projects, Griffin-Spalding County School District Teachers as Learners Conference, Griffin, Georgia

May 2011

• ABQLA 79th Annual Conference Speaker/Presenter, Montreal, May 12, 2011: “Transliterate Libraries: Creating Conversations for Portable, Participatory, and Personalized Learning.”
• New York Library Association SLMS Spring Conference Saturday Keynote Speaker, Buffalo, New York, May 7, 2011
• Diving into Digital Books Teacher-Librarian Cafe Webinar, May 2, 2011

April 2011

• Listening, Learning, Leading: Rewriting the Story of Library Through Participatory Librarianship, Calgary Regional Consortium Reaching and Teaching Conference
• Inviting Student Participation in Your School Library Program, NEFLIN

February 2011

Getting There Together: Assessing Student Learning, Thursday, February 24, 2011, LibraryLink NJ

December 2010

• “Inviting Student Participation in Your School Library Media Program”, Thursday, December 16, 2010 Webinar for the New Jersey Statewide Library Cooperative
• “Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Creating Streams of Information for Research Pathfinders 2.0″, Thursday, December 16, 2010 Webinar for NEFLIN (Northeast Florida Library Information Network)
• New Jersey Association of School Librarians Fall Conference 2010 Keynote Speech, Friday, December 3, 2010:  “Participatory Librarianship—Creating Possibilities Through Transliteracy, Learning, and Linchpins”

November 2010

Connecticut Assocation of School Librarian (CASL) Preconference Workshop/Seminar: “Participatory Librarianship—Transliterate Conversations for Creating, Contributing, Collaborating, and Connecting”, November 7, 2010

October 2010

• Crowdsourcing Your Library Program Challenges, Internet@Schools West; presented with Elisabeth Abarbanel, Michelle Fromme, and Andrew Shuping, October 26, 2010, Monterey, California
• WordPress in Libraries, Internet@Schools West; presented with Polly Farrington, October 25, 2010, Monterey, California
• Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) 2010 Panel Keynote: “Participatory Librarianship: Transliterate Conversations for Creating, Contributing, Collaborating, and Connecting”, October 15, 2010, Athens, Georgia
• MEMO (Minnesota Educational Media Organization) 2010 Keynote Speech, Friday, October 1, 2010, St. Cloud, Minnesota
• “How To Keep Up With (Almost) Everything”, MEMO 2010, October 1, 2010, St. Cloud, Minnesota

June 2010

• “Lights!  Cameras!  Booktrailers!” YALSA Panel on Using Book Trailers to Promote Teen Reading, June 26, 2010, Washington D.C. at the American Library Association Annual Conference
• “How Did This Happen?” Panel Discussion, Independent Reference Publisher’s Group, June 25, 2010, Washington D.C. at the American Library Association Annual Conference
• YASLA Preconference Promoting Teen Reading Using Web 2.0 Tools (Wendy Stephens, preconference facilitator);  ”Using Research Pathfinders to Promote YA Lit”, June 25, 2010, Washington D.C. at the American Library Association Annual Conference
• Emporia State University SLIM Summer Institute for School Librarians, June 23, 2010, Emporia, Kansas
• Mindomo for Libraries, Learning, and Advocacy, GLMA Summer Institute , June 19, 2010 at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia
• GPLS/GLA Wednesday Webinar: Pivot Points for Change: Libraries and Librarians Using Web 2.0 to Connect, Create, and Collaborate , June 16, 2010

May 2010

• How To Keep Up with (Almost) Everything), NEFLIN, May 13, 2010
• A Prescription for Healthier School Librarianship: Transforming Our Practice for the 21st Century, Hall County Media Specialists’ Association Annual Luncheon, May 10, 2010

April 2010

• Teacher Librarian Cafe Crisis Webinar, April 19, 2010
• Libraries and Librarians as Sponsors of Literacy, Alabama Library Association YASRT/CSLD Preconference, April 13, 2010
• Libraries and Transliteracy with Bobbi Newman and Matt Hamilton, Computers in Libraries, April 2010
• Pivot Points for Change: Connecting the Dots of Information Literacy with Social Media , Internet@Schools East 2010, April 12, 2010

March 2010

• Applying the Principles of Epigenetics for a R(Evolution) in School Librarianship, Fulton County School District School Librarians’ Workshop/PD, March 24, 2010

February 2010

• Transforming Information Literacy for NowGen Students: The Media 21 Project , CRSTE Cyberconference, February 28, 2010
• “Pivot Points for Change: Libraries and Librarians”, Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library Staff Training Day, Columbus, Georgia
• “How to Keep Up with (almost) Everything” , February 17, 2010, South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Webinar
• Virtual Class Visit: Creating Research Pathfinders, LBSC 642 University of Maryland, ”Integrating Technology in Learning and Teaching”, February 16, 2010

January 2010

• “Real Learning for the Real World: Engaged Students and Teacher Librarians” , January 25, 2010, North Star Library Consortium, Alexandria, Minnesota
• “Flip This Library” with Wendy Stephens and Laura Pearle, ALA Midwinter 2010, presented January 15, 2010 via Skype
• “Fighting the Filter”, virtual presentation for ISTE-SIGMS, January 13, 2010

December 2009

• “Fighting the Filter:  Tips for Delivering a Knockout Punch to Information Censorship”; presented December 9, 2009 via Skype to the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
• “12 Ways to Improve Databases”; presented to Gale|Cengage Learning via Elluminate December 8, 2009

November 2009

• Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging 21st Century Learning Through Participatory School Librarianship, AASL National Conference, November 6, 2009
• AASL Web 2.0 Smackdown Team, “Information Fluency” with Gwyneth Jones, AASL National Conference, November 6, 2009
• Classroom 2.0 Live : Creating Widgets for Instructional Purposes, November 14, 2009
• Moving Forward: Engaging the 21st Century Learner Panel Discussion/Webinar Sponsored by School Library Journal and Follett Software, November 17, 2009

October 2009

• Research Pathfinders 2.0, Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) Conference
• Poetry 2.0, Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) Conference
• Internet @ Schools West/Internet Librarian: “Give Them Something to Talk About: Infusing Library 2.0 Into Your Library Instruction and Web Presence”

September 2009

• Library 2.0, presented to Dr. Lisa Tripp’s LIS 5313 students, Florida State University
• Pivot Points for Change:  Libraries and Librarians Using Web 2.0 to Connect, Create, and Collaborate, presented to the Georgia Public Library Service All-Staff Meeting
• YA Lit 2.0, virtual course for LYRASIS

August 2009

• Guest Panelist, University of Wisconsin School Library Education Consortium

July 2009

• Web 2. 0 Meets Standards for 21st Century Learners, virtual guest presenter, American Library Association Annual Conference
• YA Lit 2.0, virtual course, LYRASIS
• Make the Connection:  Learning to Play, Playing to Learn, presented to Creekview High School faculty

June 2009

• Research Pathfinders 2.0 and Personal Learning Networks, podcast/interview, Dr. Michael Orey, University of Georgia
• “Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don’t Know Social Media?” guest panelist with Joyce Valenza, Cathy Nelson, and Carolyn Foote, “The Future of Education” hosted by Steve Hargadon
• Web 2.0 Tools for Librarians, virtual presentation to the Georgia Library Media Association Summer Institute
• Organizing Information Streams, presented to EDIT 6380 graduate students, The University of Georgia

May 2009

• Touring the Unquiet Library, presented to Dr. Nancy Everhart’s Leadership in Technology graduate students, Florida State University

April 2009

• Research Pathfinders 2.0:  Creating Information Streams for Students Through Collaboration, presented to Kennesaw State University preservice teachers
• Oh, the Places You’ll Go!  Research Pathfinders 2.0,   BIGGER Conference, Georgia Southern University

March 2009

• Poetry 2.0:  Using Web 2.o Tools to Celebrate and Explore Poetry, University of Georgia 40th Annual Conference on Children’s Literature
• YA Lit 2.0, University of Georgia 40th Annual Conference on Children’s Literature

February 2009

• YA Lit 2.0:  How Web 2.0 is Reaching Teen Readers, Georgia Council of Teachers of English Conference
• Research Pathfinders 2.0:  Information Streams for Student Research, Georgia Council of Teachers of English Conference
• Making Research Relevant:  Multigenre Research Papers, Georgia Council of Teachers of English Conference

November 2008

• Virtual Reference Books in the School Library: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, GaECT Conference

October 2008

• Using Web 2.0 Tools To Create a Personal Learning Network for Librarians, Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) Conference

July 2008

• Avant Garde Cataloging, presented to graduate students in EDIT 6380, The University of Georgia