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Saturday, November 12th Concurrent Session (10:15am-11:15am)

Information & Digital Literacy • 6-12 //Room 104// Most school library websites contain an array of valuable library resources including subscription databases that teacher librarians would like their students to know about. With so many library tools, time to instruct students in the use of them is limited. This session will describe a research unit that is primarily self-taught, self-paced, and fun to do. The unit directs students to each Internet resource and has them look up a topic of their choice and record some basic facts and bibliographic information. The facts from all the resources are combined with the students’ imagination to create dynamic stories. //John Volkman, Teacher Librarian, Kings Canyon Joint USD//
 * Teach Your Library Aides To Go Beyond Google When Doing Internet Research**







 This session introduces a project which has students use a variety of databases and websites to develop a creative essay. Students actively engage in learning about various websites because they use topics of interest to them. Students are enabled to write creatively while still using factual information from their searches. Seemingly unrelated topics and databases are integrated in an innovative manner, and learning becomes fun for the student, not just something that has to be done. This assignment is primarily self-taught, self-paced, and fun to do.  “Once long, long ago there lived a beautiful goddess named **Marilyn Monroe**. The first song she ever sang was her school’s fight song at a game. This is where she met her future husband, a handsome hunk named **Elvis Presley**.” (Georgette) So where and when did this incredible event occur? It occurred in the mind of my library aide as she constructed an imaginative essay based on the research she had done using many of the library tools available to her in our library. Teacher Librarian for 36 years, last 10 at Reedley High School; National Board Certification 2005 //Good Ideas // and Highsmith Innovation Award Winner 2006 Author of //Cruising Through Research,// 1998 and //Collaborative Library Research Projects, //2008 Has run 120 marathons including one in every state
 * John Volkman**
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