1.
…Tales of a
Reality TV Addict
Karen Kliegman
School Librarian
Searingtown Elementary School
Herricks UFSD, Albertson, NY
Adjunct Prof., LIU Graduate School
NBSLS School Librarian of
the Year
Google Certified Teacher

2.
This wasn’t supposed
to happen to ME!

3.
How Did I Get On Project
Runway?

4.
(At least I’m not on The
Celebrity Apprentice!…whew!)
You’re fired!

5.
Let’s go to the reference section…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP7zGF6orAI

6.
Sturm und Drang
http://www.blog.bluehourphoto.c
om/index.php?showimage=210
Storm and stress; dismay.

7.
When did educators become the enemy????

8.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/17/
us-newyork-schools-
idUSTRE72G7D320110317

9.
consternation
Horror that confounds the
faculties; dismay.

10.
OUCH!
Sharing
the pain

11.
Bottom Line
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsankary/4405700774/

12.
Ambivalent
Having mixed, uncertain, or
conflicting feelings about
something.

13.
Budget Cuts
Staffing Cuts
Anti-Educator
atmosphere
Misconceptions about
the vital role School
Librarians play!
Image used with permission:
http://www.christinelarsen.com/sketchbook/2008/04/
ambivalence.html

14.
Superintendent Marc Bernstein says,
"Other avenues to explore, especially
when evidence is lacking, include...in this
Internet age, eliminating the antiquated
requirement that all high schools have at
least one full-time librarian and a Ugh!
minimum number of books." I say, the
only thing that is antiquated is Mr.
Bernstein's view of school librarians and
the function of school libraries!
christinelarsen.com

15.
It’s very tempting to become a
kerismith.com

16.
stevekuze.blogspot.com

17.
We are fighting for our lives!
And for our students’ lives, too!

18.
http://www.rebels-by-
bus.net/2010/02/walking-the-
labyrinth-at-harmony-hill/
Circuitous
Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight
line or course to a destination

19.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_32jy7xK2BsE/TLyOZZ__nZI/AAAAAAAAB3E/N9R4v5I9o3Q/s1600/librarian.jpg

20.
How do we do
MORE with
LESS?

21.
What’s
going to
PULL US
UP?

22.
mitigate
To make less severe; to
http://www.mitigateglobal.com.au/page/mi
tigate_global_blog.html
alleviate

23.
Tip #1:
http://designsdefined.blogspot.com/

24.
Visibility

25.
Branding

26.
Create a Brand
Identity

27.
Define Your Brand’s
Vision

28.
Use Your Website to BUILD
YOUR CREDIBILITY

29.
Use Your Website to BUILD
YOUR CREDIBILITY

30.
Tip # 2: TARGET
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vizzzual-dot-com/2655969483/sizes/o/in/photostream/

31.
Wix.com

32.
Newsletters

33.
Issuu.com

34.
Say what?

35.
Caucus
A meeting of persons belonging
to a party; a group of people,
often within a larger group.

36.
You ain’t
gonna
learn
what you
don’t
want to
know.
“Black Throated Wind,” Bob Weir &
John Perry Barlow

37.
http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/

38.
http://edukindle.ning.com/

39.
We have to ask ourselves…
How are we
modeling
our learning
for our students?
How are we
building
our own
learning networks?

40.
We need to
be sure that
our students
know how to
build
learning
networks as
well.

41.
PROMOTE AND INVITE THE Cs
INTO YOUR LIBRARY
Creativity
Collaboration
Connecting
Contributing
Critical Thinking
Controlled Creative Chaos

42.
Enable students to use various
tools to hatch an idea!
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Screencasts
• Vodcasts
• VoiceThread
• Mindmaps
• Google Docs
• Google Maps, Earth
• Nings
• Skype

43.
Promote a Remix Culture
• In a remix culture, digital objects are meant
to be changed, rearranged,
rethought, juxtaposed,
discussed and shaped…
Not just consumed.

44.
Why do we have to talk
about doing things
differently??
"It is not the strongest species
that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the ones most
responsive to change."
~ Charles Darwin

45.
Driving a Race Car
Analogy:
• When you drive a racecar
you're not looking where
you are, or at the next
turn, but as many turns
down the road as you can.
• The idea is looking at
where you want to be, not
looking at where you are
now, but looking down the
road as far as possible.
-Mark Wagner, Google Teacher Academy

46.
Tip #3: Best Practices
Let’s ask an expert…
(No, not Tim
Gunn!)

47.
(A/K/A:
Manifesto
for 21st
Century
Librarians)

48.
“Some aspects of
emerging practice are
non-negotiable.”
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/12/
03/a-­‐revised-­‐manifesto/

49.
What We Know…

50.
Library Guides…

51.
READING: different containers

52.
http://survivormd11.wikispaces.com/Sarah+Wrap
LEARNING

53.
LEARNING: Digital Expression

54.
Teleconferencing: SKYPE an author!

55.
Teleconferencing: SKYPE an author!

56.
“You continue to
consider and
revise your
vision and feed
it with
imagination.
Think outside
the box. Heck,
there is no box!”

57.
Tip #4: Transformative Questions

58.
School Librarians Wear Many
Hats
• Information Specialists
• Social Media Specialists
• Technology Specialists
• Book Specialists
• Electronic Media Specialists
• Apps Specialists
• Web 2.0 Specialists
• Media Literacy Specialists
• Ethics Specialists
• Advocating Specialists
• Cloud Computing Specialists

59.
SLMS of
Year
Google
Certified
Teacher
SIGMS Tech
Innovation
Winner
Grant
Writer
Blogger
Multiple
award
winner
Etc., etc.

60.
GIVE YOUR
THINKING AN

61.
THINK ABOUT WHAT A LIBRARY
IS…

62.
THINK ABOUT WHAT A LIBRARY IS…
http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/nhs/lmc/rules.JPG

63.
THINK ABOUT WHAT A LIBRARY IS…

64.
THINK ABOUT WHAT A LIBRARY IS…
http://spclc.themlc.org/Digital_Literacy
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3878
_Standards.html

65.
Embed Your Program Where
It COUNTS
http://www.bhas.org/bhas/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=280031

66.
CALL IT WANT YOU WILL

67.
Break through your barriers

68.
S
U
P
E
R
H
E
R
O
You can be a superhero, too!

69.
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400.jpg

70.
“The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn.”
~ Alvin Toffler
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Twitter: @kkliegman