This document discusses ways to promote student participation in school libraries. It suggests using tools like Google Forms, polling, blogging, video, and digital storytelling to create "conversations for learning." These participatory activities can help assess collections, invite input, and engage students. When students feel ownership in the library, it becomes a collaborative space for inquiry and knowledge sharing between novices and experts. The goal is to design a truly participatory library network for the entire learning community.

1. creating the true colors of the school library through student participation buffy j. hamilton |neflin| april 2011 CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtv/290546350/sizes/l/in/photostream/

2. CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/willemvelthoven/2620761140/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/

3. CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/nanpalmero/4279213536/in/faves-10557450@N04/

4. conversations as context CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2979581445/sizes/l/

6. “It’s all about learning… how is this going to fundamentally enrich a conversation? There isn’t a part of the library that isn’t about learning. Learning is a collaborative conversation.” Dr. David Lankes CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2980385784/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/ Participatory Librarianship and Change Agents: http://blip.tv/file/1566813

7. sparking and igniting conversations cc licensed flickr photo by jurvetson: http://flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2643699255/

8. shared ownership of learning and conversations for learning CC image viahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/1690071759/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/

9. inquiry and learning centered

10. libraries as sites of participatory culture

12. relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement

13. strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others

14. what is known by the most experienced ispassed along to novices

15. members believe that their contributions matter

16. members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created)

17. a participatory climate is conducive to a library program acting as a powerful and positive sponsor of transliteracy by creating conversations for learning via multiple mediums

18. create conversations about multiple ways of reading, writing, and learning in today’s world

19. transliteracy is the umbrella for how people are using multiple literacies--traditional (text, art, music) and emerging (digital, new media, privacy, financial)--to access and share information as well as create new meaning CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/roome/515419918/sizes/l/

20. toolbox of participatory tools

21. google forms 1

22. creating conversations for assessment

26. conversations for collection

27. http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com/student-participation

28. 2 polling and voting to invite participation

30. incorporate student spaces into conversations for learning in the library

33. 10 Questions per Survey or Quiz

34. Polldaddy Link in Content

35. Basic Poll, Survey & Quiz Reports

38. http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com/student-participation

39. 3 participate through blogging and video YouTube CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/23963573@N08/3606295240/sizes/z/ Wordpress CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansdorsch/2760619428/

54. think, reflect, share: how might you use video and/or blogs as a medium for inviting student participation?

55. 4 participate through digital storytelling, photos, portfolios, and content creation

63. inquiry, engagement, and collective intelligence face to face

64. inquiry, engagement, and collective intelligence via virtual mediums

67. multigenre elements

68. research and learning portfolios

69. personal learning environments and learning artifacts

70. personal learning environments and learning artifacts

71. participation in library promotion

72. think, reflect, share: how might you use digital storytelling, photos, portfolios, and web-based content creation tools as a medium for inviting student participation?

73. 5 potpourri CC Image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/anna_debenham/4428704459/sizes/l/

74. participatory collection

77. advocacy

78. Source: http://web.me.com/amylking/Geek/Kid_Geek.html

82. story of library: qualitative data for monthly and annual reports

85. ask “how do I invite and engage participation?” CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibban/230126679/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/

86. participation and shared ownership will create a library that is THE participatory network in your learning community CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/willemvelthoven/2620761140/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/

87. CC image via http://goo.gl/G4hWF

88. contact information buffy.hamilton@gmail.com http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com