This document summarizes a presentation given by Kim Keith about meeting student learning needs in the school library and technology lab. The goals of the presentation were to provide strategies for teaching in these spaces and deepen understanding of what literacy, collaboration, research and technology look like. Some strategies discussed include using Symbaloo, Discovery Education Board Builder, QR codes, guest readers, story quilts, story walks, book balls, and poetry writing during library visits. Contact information for Kim Keith is provided at the end.

1. Meeting Student
Learning Needs
in the School
Library and
Technology LabMassCUE conference 2016
Global Connections. Digital Learning.
Kim Keith

2.  20 years as a school library
assistant in Barnstable.
 Masters in Library Science and
Information from URI.
 M. E. Small Elementary in the
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional
School District, PreK-3, my
fourth year.
 240 students, 70% free and
reduced lunch.
 Fixed schedule
 New principal

3. Goals
1. Add to your personal repertoire of
strategies for teaching in the school
library and technology lab.
2. Deepen your understanding of
what literacy, collaboration, research
and technology might look like for
your personal and professional
experiences.

5. Symbaloo

8. Discovery Education Board
Builder

14. QR Codes

16. Read Across America Week
Book Ball
Story Quilt
Guest Readers
Dr. Seuss Trivia
Story Walk
Reading Pictures

17. Story Quilt

18. Story Walk
Take a hike and build literacy skills.
Boston Children’s Museum.

19. Book Ball

22. Reading pictures from Home

23. 2nd Grade Research

24. Diver’s Blog

25. Animals to research

29. Poetry Month-Write poems on
the tables.

30. My Information
• keithk@dy-regional.k12.ma.us
• @capecodlibrary
• www.slideshare.net/kimfkeith