Bookcasting Presentation OASL/ WLMA Fall 2008 Joint Conference

The materials for the concurrent session "Bookcasting: Book Club of the Future" presented for OASL/ WLMA joint Fall 2008 Conference, by: Stephanie Thomas and Emily Boldman can be found at:

http://sites.google.com/site/oasl2008/

Hope you start your own Bookcasting Club! The site includes resources/ handouts!

Movie finished for Positive Behavior Support

I finished the movie for Positive Behavior Support for Parkrose High School. This movie will be used at the beginning of the 08 school year to introduce PRIDE (Perseverance, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence). This will also set the tone for a positive school climate.

Parkrose High School Podcasting

The Parkrose High School Bookcasting Club is starting to catch on. The kids are loving it, and I am appreciating the wave of enthusiasm for reading and using technology skills. We are planning to use vodcasts produced here as previews for the Tapestry of Tales Storytelling Event from Multnomah County Library this November.

We are now linked on the Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki under Podcasting.
Check us out under school libraries that are doing podcasting.

Cool!

Ground 2 Roof Website Complete!

The Ground2Roof Solutions LLC website is complete and live.

2007 Fall Conference OASL Presentation

Oregon Association for School Librarians Fall Conference
Oct. 15th, 2007. Seaside, OR.
Create Your Own Podcast Workshop

Here are the links you'll need for the OASL workshop.

The Quicktime Movie. Use this to follow along in the workshop. Contains hyperlinks and audio clips.

The .pdf file. Use this to view when you get back to school. You can print (It's 22 pages!) but I would mostly use it because it contains the notes on each slide. The Quicktime movie doesn't have the extra notes.

The MS Powerpoint edition. Best to use if you have it on your computer.

The Beck Farms Website is Complete

The Becks' Farms website is complete and live.

View it here.

Ross Bros. & Company Website Complete

The Ross Bros. & Company website is complete.

View it here.

Past articles from the Interchange Journal

These are three articles that I wrote for the Oregon Association of School Librarians journal, Interchange. They are scanned from print.

Intellectual Freedom: Tools & Resources to Stay Informed, Page 1

Intellectual Freedom....Page 2

Vocabulary Regarding Intellectual Freedom on the Web

Improving Information Literacy Skills through Online Tutorials

New and Improved Beck site complete

The new and improved, completely CSS-based Beck Group website is complete and live.

View it here. http://www.beckgroupconsulting.com

Librarian's Beyond the Circ Desk: Innovative Librarianship Today

The two articles are complete for the upcoming book,
"Librarians Beyond the Circ Desk: Innovative Librarianship Today."

Carol Smallwood, ed. To be published, 2008
McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson NC

Dr. Joy Greiner, author of professional library books, is writing the foreword.

School and Public Librarians Unite! A Case Study Showcasing Collaborative Programming between Parkrose High School and Multnomah County Library
view the article here

• Stephanie Thomas, Media Specialist, Parkrose High School

• Ruth Allen, Librarian, Multnomah County Library

• Sarah Nelsen, School Corps Librarian, Multnomah County Library

• Sara Ryan, Teen Services Librarian, Multnomah County Library

Accessibility Beyond our Walls: Using Web 2.0 and Podcasting to Teach Off-Campus
View the article here

• Stephanie A. Thomas, Teacher Librarian, Parkrose High School, Portland, Oregon

Podcasts Go Live

The audio mp3 and audio/video mp4 is now live on iTunes and YouTube.

Subscribe in iTunes by doing a "quick search" under podcasts, category "education" and "parkrose."

View the YouTube versions here:

1.) First 8 minutes
2.) 2nd 8 minutes
3.) Last few minutes

Make sure to rate the video, the more 5 stars I receive, the farther up my videos will go!
Enjoy!

Online Vita now live

Slideshow Presentation for OEMA Region 1 & 4 Conference, March 10th, 2007

Presentation slides for panel session "Using Web 2.0 in your library." Presented at OEMA Region 1 & 4 Conference, March 10th, 2007. Catlin Gable School, Portland, Oregon.

Beck Group, Inc. Website Complete!

The Beck Group, Inc. website is finally complete. Enjoy!

http://www.beckgroupconsulting.com

Information Literacy Tutorial # 1: Tour of the library website

The first information literacy online tutorial. Created for Parkrose High School Library. This tutorial will be featured in the Spring 2006 Issue of Interchange: Journal of the Oregon Educational Media Association.

http://www.parkrose.k12.or.us/schools/hs/Academics/
Library%20page/tutorial/tutorial1_page.htm