Cathy Oxley
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZyUaQvpdc

 Blogs – Joyce Valenza, Buffy Hamilton, Judy O’Connell,
Anne Weaver, Will Richardson
 Twitter
 Read professional journals
 Attend PD opportunities
 Get involved in your School Library Association

Sue Waters

http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo

Each year, The Horizon K12 Report seeks to identify and describe six areas of emerging
technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within K-12
education over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less
Mobiles and Apps
Tablet Computing
Time to adoption: Two to Three Years
Game-based Learning
Personal Learning Environments
Time to adoption: Four to Five Years
Augmented Reality
Natural User Interfaces
The full Horizon Report can be downloaded from
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-K12-preview.pdf

• Recommend educational and research apps (425,000
iphone apps so far!)
• Recommend ereaders, ebooks and audiobooks
• Allow students to search the catalogue
• Use QR codes to take users to instructional podcasts and
videos
• Develop an ‘Ask a Librarian’ service
• Promote citation creation
• Promote database access
• Use Twitter and Facebook for marketing
• Use SMS alerts for marketing

“Local classrooms to get dose of augmented reality”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/classrooms-to-get-dose-of-augmented-reality/story-e6frgakx-1226147361664
Ikea augmented reality app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ8HNXtl7jQ

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Principals now want a teacher librarian who is a curriculum
and technology leader, an innovator and a mentor.
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General Capabilities
Literacy
Numeracy
Information and communication technology (ICT) competence
Critical and creative thinking
Ethical behaviour
Personal and social competence
Intercultural understanding
Cross-Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
Sustainability

Are you actively engaged
with your teachers to
develop deep, critical
thinking in your
students?
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http://cflora638.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/roles-of-the-school-librarian/

“If you call yourself an information professional, you have to
be a professional in the information landscape of your time.”
(Source: Joyce Valenza)
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Looking professional makes people
treat you professionally.
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Thumb - Strength of character
Establish pre-eminence (the you who shows up before you show up)
Pointer - FOCUS
Follow one course until successful: know your outcomes, take action, find
what works and what doesn't, re-align until you achieve outcomes
Middle - Brand
Who are you? What do you stand for? Are you who you say you are?
Standards, benchmarks
Ring - Relationships
10% interested in working with you, 30% might, the rest probably won't ever
Little - Little things that count (what you do that others don’t)
It's all about them. What is your core story? '90 sec elevator pitch'
Who is your audience? What is your focus? What is the
core thing you want to get across?
Re-align and re-focus to achieve your outcomes.
Trump & Kiyosaki 2011, “Guide to developing your Midas touch” in The Midas Touch, Plata Publishing, Scottsdale, AZ
(Quoted by Karen Bonano)

Inhibitors:
Time, knowledge, workload, teachers, staff skills,
Principal, IT dept … OR
IS IT YOU?

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 Research something your teachers might use
 Look for something that might be useful to TLs
 Showcase something you have done with students and
teachers
 Run a workshop/segment for your local TL network
group
 Write an article for your School Library journal

http://www.slideshare.net/gwynethjones/1-library-gaganew

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 Always see the glass half full
 Have boundless energy
 Develop a capacity for optimism
 Love what you do and do what you love
 Switch on a smile
 Find answers rather than negatives

 Have a mission that matters
 Think big but start small
 Strive for continual innovation, not instant perfection
 Look for ideas everywhere
 Share everything
 Spark with imagination, fuel with data
 Be a platform
 Never fail to fail
http://www.google.com/think/articles/8-pillars-of-innovation.html

Get rid of
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 Shelving
 Cataloguing
 Covering and processing
 Overdues
 Stocktaking
 Quiet libraries
 Tidy libraries
Don’t do library aide tasks – otherwise you will be
replaced with an aide!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zzPBbXjWs

“Mobilization of
information in society is
impossible to ignore...
As information specialists,
libraries cannot afford to be
perceived as ‘missing the boat’
in delivery of information, or
our clients may decide we are
irrelevant to their needs.”
(Source: Joanna Witt & Michelle Turner,
Charles Darwin University Library)
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http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/digital-marketing-strategy/why-dont-many-companies-blog/attachment/global-mobile-data-
growth-forecast-by-region/
Moore’s Law – technology is doubling every 24 months

• Create recommended book boards
• Highlight library staff
• Spread the word about author talks
• Showcase educational videos and webcasts
• Create an ebooks board
• Give patrons a library tour
• Market upcoming events
• Highlight a special occasion or exhibit
5 Ways to use Pinterest in your Library
5 More Ways to use Pinterest in your Library
BGS Pinterest
(Ellyssa Kroski) What are you pinning?

“Libraries in general
can no longer wait for
patrons to come to
them, but must reach
out to their patrons in
new and innovative
ways.”
Mobile = 40% of all tweets
(Source: KPCB on 10 Mobile Trends)

 Daily active users are up to 526 million
(up from 372 million last year)
 Monthly mobile users now total 488
million
 3.2 billion Likes and Comments are
posted daily
 Hosts 125 billion friendships
Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/30/

• Has 130 friends
• Makes 8 friend requests per month
• Spends 15 hours/month using
Facebook
• Visits Facebook 40 times/month,
and spends 23 minutes/visit
• Is connected to 80 organizational
Facebook Pages, Groups, and Events
(Source: David Lee King, TSC Public Library Manager)
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http://www.facebook.com/TGSLibrary
Trinity Grammar
Mt Alvernia College
The Illawarra Grammar School
http://www.facebook.com/tigslibrary

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Getting
information off
the Internet
is like
taking a drink
from a fire
hydrant
(Mitchell Kapor, 2007)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=7ECAVxbfsfc&gl=US

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First Male Pregnancy

http://www.slideshare.net/StowerH/build-a-positive-digital-footprint-3-15345444

“Connecting with what other people are reading”
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http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=5336d87dc92371f38918

“Connecting with what other people are writing”

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

http://sdst.libguides.com/newtools
http://livebinders.com/play/play/77617
http://www.netvibes.com/tigslibraryjnr#Library
http://libguides.brisbanegrammar.com/libraryhome

• Put in intense effort for a few years in an
area where you will make a difference.
• New game plan –
'Your rhetoric must resonate with your
audience' - find your pathway of
connection from what you do to who you
are working with.
• Begin with the end in mind.
(Source: Karen Bonano)
http://www.slideshare.net/ASLAonline/profession-at-tipping-point

1 minute / day / week = 167% improvement / year
5 minutes / day / week = 3778% improvement / year
(Source: Dr Marc Dussault)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCvEoAnhBI

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