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= Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity = **Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.** **Teachers:** a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments. || =Google Workshops=
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My role at New Hope-Solebury High School goes beyond that of just a library media specialist. I also am very involved with professional development for my district and run many workshops which help teachers incorporate technology into their lessons. In addition, as the webmaster for my school's website as well as a Google Certified Teacher, I also instruct teachers in how to best utilize their Google Sites to provide their students with information and interactive activities.

Here is an example of a Google Workshop I facilitated in my district.

=Video Conferencing=

Our district was lucky enough to have received a high definition video conferencing unit thanks to a grant awarded to our county intermediate unit. I was asked by our curriculum director and technology director to represent our district by receiving training and implementing use of the unit throughout the classrooms. This year I have helped to facilitate video conferences with a Mexican dancer, a children's author and another school in the United States.


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 * A middle school English class shares their book trailers with a class in Detroit. || High school students and community members follow along with a Mexican dancer via a video feed. || First graders participate in a session about writing from children's author, Amy Sklansky. ||

=Classrooms for the Future= In 2009, our school was awarded a Classrooms for the Future grant and I was hired as our part-time CFF Coach. The experience allowed me many terrific professional development experiences and also an opportunity to facilitate staff workshops as well as a webinar on POWER Library offered to all CFF coaches and librarians in the state of Pennsylvania. An archived recording of that webinar can be viewed here.

=Digital Storytelling=

An important part of my role as Library Media Specialist is to collaborate with teachers and help them to incoporate technology into their lessons. An example is working with our Reading Specialist to create a lesson in which students could reflect on their reading by creating a digital story. Here is an introduction I created for the students using Xtranormal.

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=QR Codes=

I've introduced the use of QR codes in my library and have a display of new releases along with QR codes leading to respective book trailers. Here is an example of a book trailer that an AP Lit student created along with the QR code which we have displayed in the library.


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=Image Generators=

Here is a student example of a movie poster created for the book, __Wolf Boy__. Flickr toys was used to create the poster.