Presentation for Clear Creek ISD Librarians

1. Virtual Presence
of the School
Library
Dr. Holly Weimar
and
Dr. Karin Perry
Sam Houston State University

3. The PowerPoint, examples,
and tools we’ll talk about
today will be available to you
at the end of this
presentation.
DON’T cramp your hand
taking notes.

4. How many of you
have heard of
David Loertscher's
Virtual Learning
Commons?

6. So, how is a Virtual
Learning Commons
different from a
traditional library
website?

7. In order to make the shift from library
website to Virtual Learning Commons, a
sense of community needs to be
fostered and developed among
all stakeholders.
With the advent of new technologies that
allow for the real-time participation and
collaboration of users in an online
community, the opportunity presents itself
for the VLC to become the 'infrastructure'
of the school (Loertscher & Koechlin, 2012),
to transform itself from informational
website to participative community.

8. Teachers’
Participation,
Creation, &
Learning
IT:Access Administration Professional
Participating Platform
Library
Teachers:
Professional
Learning
Environment
Teachers:
Assignments

9. Students’
Participation,
Creation, &
Learning
IT:Access AdministrationProfessional
Participating Platform
Library
Teachers:
Professional
Learning
Environment
Teachers:
Assignments
Learners:
Showcase
Learners:
Collaboration

10. Stakeholders’
Participation,
Creation, &
Learning
IT:Access AdministrationProfessional
Participating Platform
Library
Teachers:
Professional
Learning
Environment
Teachers:
Assignments
Learners:
Showcase
Learners:
Collaboration
Clubs:
Book,
etc.
PTA / PTO
Volunteers
Reading:
Sharing and
Support
Create, Build,
and Share
Tutorials
Digital
Citizenship,
Team
Membership,
Choice,
Engagement

11. • Dr. Weimar and Dr. Perry created a survey
using SurveyMonkey.
• We posted the survey link to the SHSU
Library Student Listserv, TLC, LM_Net,
Facebook, and Twitter.
• We received 200 responses.
How did we come up with the examples
for this presentation?

12. What would your ideal virtual presence look like?
What should it contain?
What should teachers/students/parents have
access to?
Is your library website easily accessed from the
school’s website? If not, who do you speak to to fix
that?
Can your website accommodate multiple pages?
If not, how will you provide the access needed?
Turn and Talk

13. Why should you provide a Virtual
Learning Commons for your
teachers/students/parents?
• We need to encourage collaboration to prepare
students for the future.
• We need to make learning accessible in order to
provide for “on-the-fly learning” and transform
students into self-starters.

14. The Five Main
Portals of the Virtual
Learning Commons

15. The Information Center
The Literacy Center
The Knowledge Building Center
The Experimental Learning Center
School Culture

16. The Information Center
• The landing page.
• Links users to useful tools.
• Features a “hook” in the center of the page to
draw users to the entire site. (photo slideshow,
club info, screencast tutorials, links to blog,
Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking
sites)
• Calendar of events or for teachers to reserve
space/equipment.

18. http://neisd.libguides.com/LibraryTour

19. Virtual tours don’t have to be that
fancy. Here is another example of
what you can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h
Mcf7iBI8hY&index=1&list=PL67E5355A0F
B59304

27. Your Turn
 Discuss with a neighbor
 How will you beef up the Information Center on
your library website?
 Social Networking accounts?
 Calendar signups for teachers for equipment
use or collaboration?
 Virtual Tours of the library?

28. The Literacy Center
• The place for all things reading, writing, speaking, and listening
• Digital and In-person Book Club information
• Writing Club information
• Book trailers
• Book reviews (from both students and teachers)
• App recommendations
• YouTube Channel (from both students and teachers)
• Website recommentations

48. Your Turn
 Discuss with a neighbor:
 What are you going to do to create The
Literacy Center for your library’s website?
 Book Review Blog
 Book Club (Virtual or In-person)
 Resources to help kids find book
recommendations and writing help
 Book trailers and podcasts

49. The Knowledge Building Center
• Personal Learning Networks – hobbies, personal interests,
organizations (causes people are passionate about),
informational learning
• Resources for units of study
• The learning experiences featured here can be done in a
variety of learning environments including Moodle projects,
projects done in content management systems, technological
learning spaces, or face to face projects with the organization
done in digital space.
• Examples of successful projects

53. What is missing from these examples?
The Collaborative Learning Experiences. It is
difficult to find examples of a true Knowledge
Building Center.
In addition to Project Resources, you need to
provide:
Calendars
Student work space
Information about assessment
A place for them to communicate
An area for reflection
How can this be accomplished? TURN AND TALK

54. The Experimental Learning Center
• Educational technology information. Tips,
tutorials, guides, resources
• The home of the student technology group that
tests out and teaches a wide variety of Web 2.0
tools to adults and students around the school
• Current school-wide focus issues: calendars,
progress reports, plans, action research projects
• Project progress plans

55. Irving Middle School Annual Report
Norman High School Annual Reports
Flyer Library October/November Monthly
Report

56. High School School Tech Team

58. Your Turn
 What will you add to the Experimental
Learning Center part of your website?
 Technology Tutorials, Tips, and Resources
 School-wide issues
 Progress reports

59. School Culture
• A living school yearbook; the place that draws
in students, teachers, administrators and even
parents. It is the exhibition space of individuals
and groups connected to the school
• Events, assemblies, interviews, celebrations,
contests, candid camera shots, sports,
concerts

68. Your Turn
 How will you highlight School Culture?
 Photo galleries (of what??)
 Newsletters
 Club highlights
 Contests
 Sporting events
 Assemblies
 Drama productions
 How will you collect all this information?
What system will you put in place?

69. Example: http://team5libraryspace.webs.com/

70. http://thelibrarianslocker.com/video-tutorials/

71. Google Sites (FREE)
Webs (http://www.webs.com/)
Weebly (http://www.weebly.com/)
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)
LibGuides
Platforms to use for Virtual Presence

72. What is something you’ll be able to
accomplish this year?
If you’ve already started, what are
you going to add?
Turn and Talk

73. To download or view the
PowerPoint, please visit
http://slideshare.net/karinlibraria
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To access all the links used in
today’s presentation (and even
more resources) go to
https://www.smore.com/1kem9

74.  American Association of School Librarians. (2007).
Standards for the 21st-Century learner. Retrieved
from http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards.
 Kajder, S. (2010). Adolescents and digital literacies:
Learning alongside our students. National Council
of Teachers of English.
 Loertscher, D. V., & Koechlin, C. (2012, October).
The Virtual Learning Commons and school
improvement. Teacher Librarian (39)6. pp. 20-24.
 Loertscher, D. V., Koechlin, C., & Rosenfeld, E.
(2012). The Virtual Learning Commons: Building a
participatory school learning community. Learning
Commons Press.
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