Library Media Tech Talk

This is a list of my top 5 most read blog articles of 2017 on Library Media Tech Talk: 3 Ways to Shatter The School Librarian Stereotype Our First Book Tasting Event 3 Things I've Learned About Breakout EDU Keeping Work Neat With Google Keep What Can A Library Be? Thank you for a great year. More content coming in 2018! My table of contents for the blog is here! I have a monthly email newsletter for the subscribers of the Library Media Tech Talk blog. If you are interested in exclusive content not appearing on the blog, be sure to subscribe by submitting your email address!  Subscribe here! Contact Me/ Follow Me Email:  stony_evans@lakesidesd.org Are you on Twitter? Follow me : @stony12270

 I first wrote about our adventures with Breakout EDU after I discovered it on summer professional development trips last year. You can read about our first library orientation Breakout EDU here.  Since that time, we have learned so much about how to facilitate such sessions. To illustrate this, I want to present 3 things I've learned about Breakout EDU over the past year. I hope you will find these points helpful as you begin planning your own sessions. 1. Have enough boxes for everyone - The first year we conducted Breakout sessions, we didn't always have enough boxes for everyone. As I recall, we might have 12-15 students assigned to one box. We discovered it was more difficult to keep everyone engaged with higher numbers on one box. This year we have used more boxes for classes when possible. By keeping 7-10 students assigned to one box, we noticed a higher level of engagement during our library orientation sessions this year (2017-2018). The students also seemed to e...

This was a great year for the Library Media Tech Talk Blog! I created this blog in March 2014. I sincerely hope that my posts have been both interesting and helpful to all educators! As 2016 comes to a close, I want to share our most-read articles of the year. Top 5 most read blog posts of 2016 3265 pageviews: The Flexible School Library: Creating a 21st Century Space For Our Learners 2698 pageviews : How 6 Picture Frames Made A Difference In The School Library 2165 pageviews :  Create A Library Sign-In With Google Forms 1805 pageviews : Four Ways To Lead From The School Library 1757 pageviews : Library Orientation Breakout EDU Thank you for reading this blog! Happy New Year, friends! How we held the 2016 Skype-a-Thon in the library! My table of contents for the blog is here! I have a monthly email newsletter for the subscribers of the Library Media Tech Talk blog. If you are interested in exclusive content not appearing on the blog, b...

I'm very excited to have Kaitlyn Price (@Kait_Price11), LHS Teacher Librarian, join me in this article about our recent adventures. We will share how our journey helped us learn that there are students in the library (and everywhere else in the school) that are just waiting to have to have their voices heard. These events truly changed our thinking. Dawson Education Cooperative Visit (Stony) We had an opportunity to host a training for teacher librarians in our area through the Dawson Education Cooperative. We were asked to show our newly renovated library facility, teach Breakout EDU, and show our innovation spaces. The schedule was as follows: 9:00           Welcome, introductions, and library tour 9:30           Breakout EDU puzzles 10:30-10:40 Break 10:45          Breakout EDU Discussion and Breakout EDU Digital 1...

Introduction This school year, we have already had four different Breakout EDU sessions for our learning community. The most recent was created for 8th grade library orientation. We also held a Breakout EDU session for our entire high school faculty. Prior to these sessions, we had a student led Breakout EDU session for our history department meeting. I haven't written about it because I wanted the student who created the Breakout EDU session to share this story through his own voice. I'm very excited to be joined in this article by an 11th grade student at Lakeside High School, Mr. Nathan Evans. Nathan and I are not related (in case you notice we share the same last name). He has been a regular in the LHS library since his 8th grade year. I should also mention that he has led book clubs in the library for the past two years. I am grateful that he continues to take leadership roles through library programming. I remember sharing with him that I had been charged wit...