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What Ya Gonna Do? Library Decision Making. Rachel Shankles, LMS. Main Library Concerns @ this time. Ebooks or Audiobooks Kindles or Nooks iPads or iPods or iTouches Smartboards or Prometheon or Interwrite Databases or Print Reference Material Magazine Collections or just EBSCO
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What YaGonna Do?Library Decision Making Rachel Shankles, LMS
Main Library Concerns @ this time • Ebooks or Audiobooks • Kindles or Nooks • iPads or iPods or iTouches • Smartboards or Prometheon or Interwrite • Databases or Print Reference Material • Magazine Collections or just EBSCO • Traveler or other databases • Programming or not • Book Club or not • Collaborations or not
Common Core Needs All of These • Embedded technology elements • Long term and short term projects • Collaborations with teachers • Offering students choices of products • Problem solving in research • Reading the classics and historical fiction, nonfiction, and biography • All types of presentations
Common Core • It may only be implemented in lower grades but you better get ready for it • Learn all you can about it • Check all the helpful links on Rachel’s wiki http://aaimlibrarywiki.wikispaces.com • Check out the ADE wiki http://ccssarkansas.pbworks.com/w/page/41448809/ADE-Common-Core-State-Standards-(CCSS)-Wiki-
Learn some Web 2.0 programs so that you can teach your teachers how to embed projects in their lessons • Animoto • Glogster • Photovisi • Photostory • Audacity • Wordle • Wall Wisher
Make a decision on eBook/audio books and what kind of readers • Collect data • Determine if audio or ebooks are needed most • Buy one of each to try • See which is recommended by the jobber you will buy the ebooks from • Get a trial subscription to an ebook service • Call your book vendor like Follett and ask lots of questions as to what they recommend • Call your software vendor to see what works best with your circulation system • Check with your IT department about kids downloading at school from your server • Call an AAIM or AASL associate that you know has taken the step and pick their brain
If there is no money for Kindles or Nooks . . . • Check with your local public library to see if they have Overdrive and if you can access it at school; if so what ereaders work best • Call EBSCO and see how their free ebooks work and with what readers work best • Write a literacy grant for Kindles or Nooks or generic ereaderslike Sony’s • Make sure you know what you want and that it will work on your network
Contact Me Rachel Shankles, LMS shankles@cablelynx.com Cell 501-276-4949 Lakeside High School Rachel_Shankles@lakesidesd.org 501-262-2530