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 * Oct. 3, 2013 WeDewey @ GarCoLibrary 4:30 PM**

Nine Present: Brittany Chavez- YA Librarian GarCo Katie Allen- Children’s Librarian GarCo Tiffany Hough-Children’s Librarian GarCo Karen Vice- Ft. Lake High School Laura Keese- Ft Lake Junior High Beth Gourley- ASMSA Jana Dixon- Hot Springs Middle School Rachel Shankles- retired LMS, moderator of group Ronda Hughes- Hot Springs Langston Elem

Rachel welcomed everyone and thanked the hostesses for the snacks and drinks then reminded everyone to make sure they are members of AAIM as some important TESS and PGP info is on the listserv at this time. The AAIM Conference is in Ft. Smith this spring at the end of Spring Break on March 30-April 1. Tiffany and Katie handed out calendars for the Children’s Services Dept of GarCoLib, as well as a flier on the Halloween Party for lower grade levels. Katie said they had a big author visit last week with the Pete the Cat series author Eric Lipman. He presented to Hot Springs schools at Oaklawn Magnet and at Lakeside Primary. They plan to have him again as he is a wonderful presenter. He said he is no longer the author of the series. The illustrator’s wife is now the author. Eric has started a new series called From The Nut House. They are presenting at ARLA this weekend. With their new outreach program, they visit 3,000 students per month at 24 locations. They reminded the group they have costumes to check out for the Halloween holiday. The Halloween party is for 12 yrs and under. It will feature stations of interest including the Field Trips 2 You guy who does science experiments. He will also come to schools if you google his website of that title. Katie is taking off a month as she and her husband are adopting two children ages 10 and 4; they have just moved and so far have only had the kids on weekends. Well wishes and congrats went her way from the group. Brittany reported on the YA services of the library. She handed out a stapled pack of fliers and the calendar. They are having the Spooky Story Contest and a Spooky Art exhibit contest with prizes. They have a new Ninetindo Wii U for gaming. The YA dept is sponsoring an astrophysicist on Nov. 20th at 6pm who will talk in the auditorium then take the kids outside to look at the sky and moon. They must register for this. Beth from ASMSA explained that she had moved into a new library with much less space so had to do some serious weeding. Her students came 2 weeks early this year for orientation type sessions. She taught Google docs and went over the database use and basic library introduction during that time. She has been doing surveys a lot and one showed that of the 130 incoming Juniors, only 50% had ever used a database. This was startling to the group since we all have the free state databases to use at our schools. Now all students at ASMSA are taking concurrent credit courses at UALR. ARLA is sponsoring a tour of ASMSA at the conference. The GarCoLib staff will come to the school to sign the students up for library cards this next week. Regina still works at the library and a new person has also been hired. Laura from Ft. Lake says due to rolling out the chrome books, she has had little time to do library programming as in the past. She said the 5th to 12th graders each got a chromebook. These had to be cataloged and barcoded and checked out. The students nor the teachers nor the librarians received any training on Google docs or chrome books and no rules of use were established ahead of time. It has been very time consuming and Laura googles for answers to questions the students come to her with like how to do or that with the google doc or chromebook. No cases have come in and many of the chrome books are already broken. Beth said research has shown that training the faculty before a rollout like that is essential to the success of the project. The group urged Laura and the other Ft Lake librarians to attend Schools without Walls conf coming up soon. There are many sessions on Google apps and on chromebook use at that conference and AAIM members get a discount on registration fees. It is in Hot Springs too. Karen V said she had many that were already broken due to being stored with large textbooks in backpacks. The company wants $240 to fix broken screens when the chromebooks cost $250 originally. Now they have found a place to replace the glass screen for $50 so students are charged that much when they break the screen. Jana is at Hot Spgs Middle Sch this year and has developed a web site there Http://HSMSlibrary.weebly.com; she uses Smore.com for digital newsletters that can be embedded into a webpage. She put her calendar on there and her new blog. She has developed posters for new books with the covers and the qr codes to get to the trailers and book info. She will share those files for new book titles if you email her janareads@gmail.com. Since her school is 1 to 1 ipads in 7th it is getting ready to issue chromebooks to the 8th graders. She is doing staff dev during lunches in October to train the teachers how to use the chromebooks and the google applications. She is expecting another grandchild in February. She said Lori and Jill got to go to Tony Vincent’s Mobile Learning Conf in Arizona earlier this fall. Ronda moved from the classroom at Lakeside Mid Sch to the library at Langston with is K-5. She held a book fair and the boss brought her a volunteer to work the fair but Ronda caught that lady stealing. She is working hard to match her lessons to the common core elements the teachers are using. She also did Read for the Record. Rachel told Ronda to call her next time she needs help with a Book Fair. Jana and Cindy Evans have aides in the HS school district but no other libraries in the district do. The next WeDewey will be Jan. 23 at GarCoLib at 4:30 PM. The group decided that Nov and Dec were too busy to meet. Stony and Misti and Beth Stone had emailed they would not be able to attend.

May 7th Meeting – check the wiki also for the photo—http://wedewey.wikispaces.com We shared great info and programming ideas at our Tuesday afternoon meeting at LHS. Present were Laura Keese, Jillana Heard; Lori Bush; Jana Dixon; Tony Webb; Rachel; Beth Stone; Tiffany Hough; Katie Allen; Ronda Hughes; Stony and Cindy Evans—so 12 participants.

Lori and Jill began talking about their recent successes with making dog tags and told us all about the costs and how well the kids loved it. They also provided a self defense class that was free and it had several sessions even one after school that they counted for parental involvement. Lori is asking to drop Acc Reader at the high school next year due to the increase in cost. They plan to use Between Shades of Gray and Wonder for book clubs next year. Lori says their district bought several licenses for IskyeSoft, which is an all around great converter that they use all the time for all sorts of needs they have with video and audios for Natl Boards and for classroom assignments.

Laura said Ft Lake held very successful Cram Nights before the 9 weeks AR final counts. They stayed open late to about 6pm and parents and students picked out books to read together and the parents saw how AR testing was done. They plan a duck tape craft for next year.

Jana talked about all the ipad lessons she has been teaching from 5th down to preK at Langston; she is moving to Hot Spgs Middle School and says they need applicants for her old job at Langston. She has used Pic Collage the most and says it is very user friendly for the little ones and you can make any collage type thing. She got to present to her school board about the connection between technology and learning. She suggests Cinder and Scarlet as YA book club reads for next year bc of their relation to fairy tales. A third one is coming out.

Ronda said she took all she learned from this group and from AAIm back to the 5th grade teachers and get them them on board with different apps and things she has learned from us. She hopes to get a library job for fall some where.

Rachel said Stony has been named head librarian for 8-12 libraries at LHS but one other certified person will be hired soon. She encouraged everyone who did not attend AAIm to send in dues so they won’t lose the listserv for fall.

Stony talked about his most recent successful collaboration with the curriculum subject of Math. They did a vacation theme and gave each person $4200 In groups and they had to plan a budget and tell where they are going and eating and staying.

Cindy- developed a year long theme about the Olympics and it was picked up and used by all the faculty and very successful. She tied in the reading goals to the silver, bronze and gold medals and kept that running all year. The teachers focused on countries and even the PE teacher is going to use games from other countries at end of year events.

Tony handed out the summer calendar for YA and it was full of all sorts of fun reading contests, gaming days and crafts. Lots of prizes to be won for reading in July. There is a new 3DS group and all the gaming days have been well attended. New trading card group using Magic Gathering. Tony says this card game requires and reinforces and teaches critical thinking, reading comprehension skills and math. There is also a Film Festival July 17 they hope some teens will get the rules for and enter their videos into.

Katie and Tiffany shared the summer children’s library calendars. These were two pages of those things that must be registered for and two pages of the things you don’t have to register for. They are trying to set up online registration portal on the website. They have a new thing that is a book scanner set up that lets the kids or parents pull books and scan the ISBN to find out if it is an AR book and how many points and what grade level. The parent can scan many books quickly and it doesn’t take up the library worker’s time. The real Pete the Cat author is coming in the fall. They have so many fun activities and are looking for space away from library to do some programming and if any school asks for them to come do a program they will clear their calendars and send library folks to do it. Even for summer school she said.

Beth says she has a new principal who will really let her do the collaborating she wants to do using common core. She has been assigned some computers and some space taken away for a computer lab.

Then Beth presented Rachel with a basket full of goodies and gifts and thanked her for being a mentor to this group Rachel started 4 or 5 years ago. Rachel said we had to find someone to take over and get them together 3 times a year like this year bc everyone felt it was very worth the time and sharing ideas was the best way to find out what we needed to be doing. Beth said Rachel needed to continue to coordinate WeDewey and meet with them even if retired. She agreed. Photos were made and great treats were brought by everyone of sub sandwiches and cake and banana pudding and drinks and chips.

Jan. 29, 2013 Well, I lost my notes but will do the best I can.

We had 12 present at ASMSA for the Tuesday meeting and the weather held off nicely. Regina Beard and Beth Gourley were great hostesses with a Jane Austin tea party ready for us. Those attending were Beth and Regina from ASMSA; Rachel from Lakeside High; Wendy Burfiend (elem) and Laura Keese (mid sch) from Ft Lake; Heather Hughes from Cutter Elem; Lori Bush from Lake Hamilton High; Jana Dixon from Langston Elem Magnet in Hot Springs SD; Nikki Aitken from Hot Spgs High; and 3 Garland County librarians: Tiffany Hough of the Children’s section; Katie Elbe Allen from Children’s section and new this time Brittany Chavez from the YA section.

Rachel promoted the AAIM conf in April in Rogers, and Lori said Karen Wells still needed session proposals about library programming. We mentioned the HSTI dates too and the ARTBA reading list and the Dawson trainers meetings.

Each person had time to share the things going on in their libraries. Rachel has Dr. Angela Webster Smith of UCA coming for Black History Month on Feb. 11 to talk about her book In the Presence of a King to history classes; it is an elem book but she has a connection to MLK in that her grandfather took her to the Sanitation workers strike in Memphis but in the book she talks about all the siblings in her family being gifted and she wanted to be a princess; she costs $500 a day. Rachel and Nikki mentioned that their Manga clubs participated in a Dragonball Z wii tournament at Gar Co Library and the kids loved it on a Saturday with the GCL providing the prizes. LHS even got a trophy! Rachel forgot to tell you about the bulletin board for Women’s History Month which will have oval photos of famous people and you open it up to reveal photos of their wives. The title is Look Behind Every Great Man and You’ll Find an Amazing Woman! Music in the school month we will have the Jazz band again and invite auditions from students to perform at lunch on Wednesdays (March). Lori Bush shared many things going on at LHHS including Lunch and Learn classes for teachers and Appy Hours after school tech classes for teachers on subjects like Twitter. Lori is using a lot of social media in the library this year like Twitter and Instagram and Facebook for the library promotion. Email Lori for the twitter name of her library; I think @LHLMC Wendy and Laura have a great idea for Digital Learning Day as the kids are in love with one of their young tech days so they have jars that collect questions for the tech guys and then on DLD Feb 11 they will have this one hunk come and answer the questions live in the mid sch library during lunch. They read the Ruby Bridges book to the elem kids to prepare for BHM. Wendy & Laura have a jigsaw puzzle of LR Central High and many posters and pamphlets they got while turning the National museum there and the kids can work on the puzzle all month as time permits. Nikki is weeding and combining ref and nonfiction into a research section and will have the Diamonds in the Rough gospel choir during BHM. She says the best thing about her Anime Club kids is that you don’t have to buy them anything; they just like to come in and talk about the books. She has to run them out. She finished her masters in December. Jana has done some great programs using tech (ipads) with the elem kids in her school this year and has a wiki she will share ideas for elem programming on: contact janareads@gmail.com for the address. Jana asked Brittany to push the Ar Teen Book Award voting. Brit has indicated a willingness to be on that committee. Yes! Many are working on national boards or recertifying for National boards. Ft Lake shared that the NWMAP tests were used to give bonuses or incentive pay to teachers there for years. Rachel and Lori said their schools are taking time to do the testing. Lakeside 3 weeks 3 times a year and Lori’s LH this round took all the labs for 3 days even lab in library and did everyone at once. Jana says she has been sitting in a closet while they tested in her library. And we still have EOC testing and AP testing coming up. Tiffany Hough from GCL said they are looking for an art person for their summer arts and crafts programming for all grades but toddlers like k-6. If you know your art teacher might be interested, let them call Tif or Katie or Adam at GCL. It would mean like 6 classes per month for 2 months. Katie passed out calendars of the children’s programming going on now. She talked about the peanut butter and jelly drive over Feb 2 with Kindles being given away. Also discussed the award winning books just announced. Tiffany said they have Judy Pearson coming soon and you need to reserve a seat. She is a very much in demand speaker on elem subjects for libraries and usually charges a huge fee. It is an all day meeting with lunch provided. So pass the word. Email them for flyers or calendars and they can get them out to you monthly. though@gclibrary.com is Tiffany’s new email. Britanny is new to WeDewey and is running the YA division. She has a teen advisory board going, a Teen book club, and arts and crafts as well as Karaoke. Lots of programming that Tony Webb and Derrick Wilson help her with. She is trying to Skype with the authors used in the book club and will be doing the Beautiful Creatures author next. Tony is in charge of the gaming days but it is in Brittany’s YA division also. Brittany and Katie just earned their master’s also. We are always grateful for all GCL does for the schools. A new thing Tif announced is going to the schools to sign folks up for library cards so that they can use the new databases from home. They have done this at one Ft Lake event and like to do them at like ballgames or parent events---bc they can only bring a few with them and stay only a couple of hours. All the rules for enrolling still apply. They are very happy Mr Wells finally gave permission for this and hope we will all plan an event and ask them to come set up a booth. The new databases are Chilton’s Auto Repair and Zineo for magazines to be read online and a Test Prep one and all these can be reached from home and are expensive. Beth and Regina talked about their science fair projects, and book mafia and using author birthdays for theme displays each month. They will move to their new library in the new resident hall before next fall and want WeDewey to come back so we can tour and see it. Beth had a few questions that the group answered. We told her about Dawson Coop. She said Dwain Gordon of ASL had told her the group of sch librarians in Gar County were a dedicated group to the profession. Yea! Jill and her kids were sick; Stony and Cindy hurried home before the storm; Beth had another meeting and Ronda was sick and Tanna couldn’t come but we still had a large group. We will try to meet again the first week in May after AAIM. So let’s write down May 7 at Newk’s at 4PM unless you have better ideas. Please send me emails of any elem lms who would like to attend; all are welcome. Hope this covers most of the news.

Rachel Shankles, LMS Reading The Fault of our Stars by Green; just finished Compound by Bodeen Lakeside High School & AAIM List Moderator 2871 Malvern Ave.

Jan. 23-Present Lori, Jillana, Rachel,Stony, Tiffany, Tommy and new Gar Co member Katie Allen. Although Cindy was absent, she had asked if any other LMS's were used for testing. Almost everyone said Yes and for every test not just EOC. So it seems that many libraries shut down most of April for testing. Katie and Tiffany explained that the Gar Co library has completed new carpeting and the new parking lot is nearly finished. Now more teen/children's programming can take place starting in February. They are getting new web hosted circ/cat system. Adam received his Master's Degree in December and had his weather balloon that one of his teen groups launched last summer recovered near Mena recently. Lori explained how to make duct tape purses. She had one with her and showed how to cut the material (samples of upholstery given for free to her) in the pattern you want (has many on her pinterist board on duct tape) then cover with the gray duct tape then stapple and cover the staples, turn inside out. She also had bracelets of dif patterns of duct tape. Some items take a lot and duct tape is expensive per roll. They watch for sales.This is there next craft project. She and Jillana showed photos of the craft days each month this fall including locker photo frames, tie dye tee shirts, origami cranes, and cupcake decorating. The staffs have wholeheartedly helped them with gathering the items needed and manpower.Rachel told about her Multicultural Month programs this past week with a multicultural fair, then a speaker from Australia and today the Japanese dancers. She needs ideas for Black history month. Stony has practically gutted and redone his library since December. He has new shelving and low book cases made by the prison, a new paint job and a new arrangement for his furniture.Tommy was interested in any grants that we might know about to help her LRASD library get some funds to buy a few ipads. Katie showed her a link to a database on their website that is just for grant searching. Lori and Jill also recently held a Wellness program at lunch called Pass the Plate where the consumer science tchrs helped come up with light menu recipes and the nurses spoke and the kids were told about new wii and xbox games that can be part of their workout. We talked about ipads and programs for teaching a digital storytelling class that Rachel and Stony will teach for one of their upcoming Tech Tuesdays. Lori said ipads have been purchased for English dept and Geometry in carts with some textbook funds. Different ipad apps were discussed. Everyone really wanted to know how Overdrive was working out at Ft Lake so hopefully we can find a good meeting date for spring and all get together some where and share again. Great meeting; great discussions and sharing once again and that is what WeDewey is all about. Thanks for attending. Oct. 24 -Today at WeDewey present were: Rachel, Jill, Lori, and Laura. We discussed the new AR Teen Reading Lists and the new unconfirmed winners for this year. Rachel had handouts of each new list and the top ten just voted by YALSA. Lori is into crafting and she told us about Pinterest which is a web 2.0 product where you tag photos of craft products and other folks comment on them. You can comment on their items and trace the photos back to the root URL so you can find more info. Lots of photos of crafts she has collected in her Pinterest. Jill shared the crafts they have already used in their libraries this year with photos of making the dyed tees and cut tees and then photo frames for Teen Read Week. She buys all supplies with her budget money for all the kids crafts. The kids and teachers did have to bring a tee shirt though. yes, teachers participated too and loved the projects. Laura and Wendy have planned a big Parent involvement program that is coming up. Jill, Lori and Rachel and Stony will present at SWOW in NOv at conv center. Laura hopes to go. Rachel's coffee shop is temporarily closed but had been doing well. Cafeteria folks wanted it closed within 30 min of thier serving but ADE voc ed director wants it open and says the coffee shop is a curriculum thing not a food service issue and should be open. We will skip the NOvember WeDewey meeting and try to meet on a Monday early in December. Any ideas where to meet? Hot Spgs and Cutter had PT conferences today til late and Stony was working at ACTI. But we had good discussions anyway and great snacks!

September 22, 2011, at Lakeside High Library we had only 6 present (Kristin from NPCC; Rachel for LS; Laura and Karen from Ft Lake; Tommy E from LR; Stony from LSJH and Beth from Jessieville) but had a great meeting. Beth Stone provided snacks and drinks that were great. Thanks to her for that. I had been teaching orientation all day all week and could not prepare anything. These were the topics discussed: Rachel passed out QR code info on AML for Gale databases and EBSCO. She is using the apps on cell phones and ipads this year. Everyone needs to know what QR codes are and have a QR code scanner on a device. Many libraries are using them. Rachel's library is a BYOD 9bring your own device) area this year before school and at lunch. Laura K from Ft Lake MS talked about their pajama Llama theme and contest. For Read for the Record they are collecting money to buy a llama from Heifer International for someone in a foreign country. They will have a pajama day too. IRA sponsors Read for the Record and the book is Pajama Llama this year. Ereaders-Ft. Lake's Overdrive is working also but the IT folks don't really want the kids downloading at this time. The public library has announced kindles can now be used easily on their Overdrive. Rachel passed around a Nook Simple Touch she purchased through B&N in Jonesboro( Christopher Clark)for like $139 plus tax. It is b&w and looks like a small ipad It does link to her wifi easily unlike Kindles and B&N will preload ebooks for you if you ask and accept PO's without a corporate account. They are touch screen and she is ordering more of them. Banned Book Week- Stony is having a speaker an English teacher read from a banned title and talk about it and celebrating Freadom Week. Laura talked about Freedom to Read to her MS kids last week. Rachel had displays out already with caution tape and brown paper covered books that said censored or banned and poster up telling why popular titles were banned from some schools. We did not sset a meeting for October. Rachel will send out an email. We missed everyone else!

May 9th @ Lake Hamilton High School Library Our meeting met in Lori Bush's outstanding, large library media center at 4:30 and Lori provided excellent sweets for our consumption. Present were Adam Webb, Gar Co YA Librarian; Lori Bush, LHHS; Rachel Shankles, LSHS; Beth Stone, Jessieville Jr/Sr High; Ronda Hughes, Lakeside Middle School teacher with LMIS; Jill Heard, Lake Hamilton Jr High. Great discussions at this meeting. Rachel began by telling about successes for this year such as Tech Tuesday 1 hr classes for staff, getting teachers to use Glogster in many subject areas, and she brought each of the high school librarians a copy of Nancy Dane's Where the Road Began--signed copies donated by the author to wedewey at AAIM in hopes each school would adopt it as a book club read for next school year. Rachel said it was a good fictionalization of the civil war in ARkansas and how it effected children, schools, women, and the common farmer and businessman of the day. She hopes each library will plan lots of programs next year to go along with the sesquecentenial of Ark in the civil war. She handed out a list of websites that will help you plan civil war events next year. It is also posted on her wiki. She said Flip cameras are all on sale for under $100 so go buy some since they are going out of business. Rachel added to try a new web 2.0 program she found called Flip Snack that makes flip books from powerpoint slide shows and showed a cute YOutube of a dog story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw. Next Lori handed out a list of Writing Process Resources from George Lieux that she got at a recent meeting in LR of AR Public School Resource Center. At that meeting she learned alot about Parcc and common core and Digital Sandbox. She said try a new program called Storybird for writing children's books uses famous artists' pictures. She talked about using the iPad as a teleprompter and the ipad2 can even be that and the camera filming the speech, etc. Neato! This app costs about $9.99. Jill and Lori recently let book clubs read Beastly and they used the class set of ipod touches and an eclicker app for the teams to answer easy questions about the novel. The app gives the host machine a spreadsheet of answers from the units. Jill told about charging the sets of ipod touches and other uses of them. She said the iTouch suitcases that charge them come with sets of 10 in each and cost like $4800 maybe--that may be 2 sets. Ronda said the main thing she took back an used from AAIM was the program Xtranormal that Misty McAnally of Bismarck MS presented on at AAIM. It is a cartoon story maker with avatars and clothes and settings and voices that you choose from.She used it to try one about testing--a parady like the parent teacher one on YOuTube (which my boss showed the staff at a recent meeting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5kWOdkHYA ). Adam had brochures of all the summer programming at the public library and calendars to give us. He is trying all sorts of unusual programs like one on planets and using a weather baloon; someone is doing the purses made from tee shirts. We always appreciate what the Gar Co Librarians bring to WeDewey for us to share. Beth talked about using Swindle as a book club read and tying Baseball scoring to it and letting the kids watch a game to practice scoring then taking them to a Jessieville game to see it in action. She had tried to get to take them to a game in LR but it didn't work out and she didn't get to take them to the movie Beastly so she ended up buying the book club kids coupons to go to a movie of their choice. She has received a scholarship to attend the ESL Academy at HSU this summer. She also thinks she will be getting an aide for next school year. No one knew who was hired for the Ft Lake High School position but Betty DAvis sent Rachel a note to read to WeDewey which said she had had an awesome year with many highs but the last two--the standing ovation at AAIM and that the library was being named after her--were awesome and she will miss us all. Next meeting will be next fall in September and Rachel will try to stay off of the 2nd week in the month. Suggestions of meeting dates email to Rachel or new members to put on the email mailing list. Jana has a daughter graduating and playing in state softball tournament. Kristin couldn't attend due to final at the college. Stony had taken a personal day and had to take care of some business at ACTI and Cindy had to work late at her school. I believe Ft Lake girls went to a Reading Council meeting or were hostesses for one of those. Keep me posted. Have a great summer. Attend HSTI in June in Hot Springs and AASL in Eureka Springs in July.


 * Tuesday, Feb.15---**Thanks to John Wells, Director of Gar Co Lib, we were fed an assortment of tacos, dips, chips and drinks. We really appreciate that. The new room by the children’s department was awesome also. We had Tiffany and Adam from the Gar Co Lib and Kristin from NPCC; Tommie from LR school who lives in Hot Springs; Rachel, Laura, Wendy, Rhonda, Jana, Beth and Jill. Stony and Cindy had vet apptmt; Lori had dentist; Tanna had a funeral to attend. But great group.

Rachel talked about searching for Civil War speakers and books for next year and making contact with several to come do programs for all of us during the Sesquesintennial. She would like to get a grant written to buy a book on the civil war that all our book clubs could get free and a speaker we could share; maybe a DLL presentation by AETN (who won’t return her calls) like a panel dis that we could all go to our DLL rooms to be a part of with our history classes or book clubs. So stay tuned for more on this. Jana shared a link to book titles in a pdf brochure in color we can print that has books about slavery and the civil war. Great http://professionaldevelopmentworkshops.wikispaces.com/file/view/Slavery+%26+Civil+War.pdf

Kristin told us about the book written about the gang activity in Hot Spgs by the local author known as “young black man” and Wendy and Laura checked out copies as we left there. Very interesting.

Wendy and Laura went to FETC and brought back 2 ideas: one is a cart to lock various numbers of iPads in that will keep them charged. It is from CEF and is EZ pad series cart for iPads for $517 for one that holds around 20 something. They also got free trials for Scholastic Trueflix and Book flix regularly like $1300 for Book flix for primary grades and $395 for 4th to 8th using Trueflix. This is a Sch. Website that has colorful screen and the kids can click and watch a short movie and read a book about a subject or have it read to them like on tornados. Check out the write up in School Library Journal’s website on TrueFlix! http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/printissuecurrentissue/888703-427/the_buzz_mood-lifting_earbuds_and.html.csp We are bringing the TRUE BOOKS to life with TRUEFLIX. There will be 47 True Book titles which will be supported with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content and primary sources featuring videos, audio, images, and text. http://trueflix.scholastic.com/freetrial. Userid: trflix, password: tick. This is good through March 15th. Please view the trial to see what a truly great program this is. Rep contact info: Janeen McKenzie Library Account Representative Scholastic Library Publishing 2315 Dean Street #600 St. Charles Il 60175 800-387-1437 ext. 362 877-242-5865 Fax Wendy says you can put it on your webpage. Call them for more info to look at it thru their web page at FLcobras.com then to library.

Ft Lake has also purchased from Belkin a listening center type thing to share iPads between several students like a center with like 6 earbud sets to one iPad thru this device.

Our main discussion was on downloading ebooks/audiobooks. Adam did a demo of the Ingram My ILibrary service the GarCoLib uses which was about $8000. It is working well but only one person can have the book at a time and they pick how long up to a certain cut off like 3 weeks that they can keep the book then it just erases it from the device it is downloaded to. So when you use your library card to login to this it does download a piece of software to your cpu then you select books you are interested in and put them on your ‘shelf’ then you decide and download one to your computer then you move it to you iPod (etc.). That last step is longest part. Lakeside middle school uses Netlibrary from EBSCO for about $800 per year; Ft Lake uses Overdrive for $2000 per year plus the titles you buy. Theirs is not running just yet bc of a glitch with user ids almost fixed; they will keep us posted. These are all mostly audio books. Kindles are not great for audio books but Nook color is pretty good with voices and is great for younger kids says Jill. They are like $285 or so now. Little ones can’t hit the keys on the Kindles and Nooks are touch screen. We discussed how many copies you can synch of a title you own using kindles or ipads. Kindles you can synch all to you account and. Itunes says up to 5 but no one checks sooooooo. We need to keep discussing this topic to see what is working best with what age groups. Most are circulating kindles in upper grades but lower grades are using iPads like class sets or at Ft Lake Kindergarten they have 2 per classroom now.


 * Beastly** movie will be March 15thas Jana’s first choice (or 18th which is Fri before spring break). It will be $6.25 per student but she suggests you round up to $7 and collect it from the kids and keep the extra for our lib activity acct. The refreshments will be $1 popcorn and $1 drink on ly on Tuesday not Friday. It would begin by 8;30 and you would be back by say 11:30. Take up money in advance and write a school check to the theater and you will get a recpt there. Email Jana at Cutter to let her know you are interested. Rachel’s group, Jana’s group, and maybe Beth’s will be going for sure. The more the better. It is at Cinema 10 behind old Kmart on Higdon.

Next WeDewey is Monday, March 28the 4:30 at San Francisco Bread Company. That is after spring break but before AAIM. Make sure you register for AAIM.

Past meeting info:

Next meeting Feb 15 at Gar Co Library 4:15.

We had 14 present (Tiffany & Adam from GarCo, Rachel LHS, Ronda LMS, Stony LJHS, Cindy from HSSD, Wendy and Laura from Ft Lake, Beth from Jessiev, Lori and Jill from LH, Kristin from NPCC, Jana from Cutter, Tommy Kelly from PCSSD) at LHS today and had fabulous discussions on a variety of topics.

Rachel began by handing out a 3 page document that was an iPad apps list that had grade level and category for use in schools and or by teachers. We discussed favorite apps like Evernote for notetaking and organizing; Star Walk ($2.99) for holding up your ipad to the sky and it maps the stars; Elemental ($13.99) which seems to be an amazing periodic table app better than the free ones. Rachel has a lot of suggestions for apps for grade levels on her wiki at aaimlibrarywiki.wikispaces.com.

Next we let Adam talk about the LOC event at the public library on the 28th and 29th. Rachel handed out the email address teachers and librarians will use to register to bring groups to go thru the big semi truck bed on the history of the Library of Congress. Singles do not have to preregister. It will be open 10 to 5 those days and Sen Ross will be on hand one day. Please give the handout Adam had to your middle school teachers so they will book groups. It is mainly middle school but not completely.

We discussed audio books. GarCo Library has an outstanding collection of downloadable books now but none are labeled YA but they have purchased some. Of course lots of the titles are adult and other levels just not listed as YA yet. Lori and Jill are downloading these for students. Students have to have library cards so we discussed having someone come out to sign the kids up on campus who can't get to the library but want to download books. Ft. Lake has purchased 10 mp3 players and given each library $1000 to do audio books using a system called Overdrive and it will be in place next week. The kids can download from home or school. We briefly discussed the new Kindle lending club online and Jana has tried it. Not many are labeled as lendable but she found one and asked for it and got it the next day.

Lori and Jill talked about ITunes U--the Arkansas stuff on it. They are on a state committee about this and need input about teachers and or students using the podcasts. Go to Itunes not to the store b ut to ItunesU and then down to University/K12 and select k12 and under that Arkansas will be listed. You should be able to get to it without having access to itunes store. The state ADE want itunesU unblocked on every campus as they have diverted a lot of money to this project of developing the Ark portion with good content.

Adam and Tiffany shared handouts about their calendar of events; the crafts are going well for YA. Gaming is going great and Adam shared a handout about the Nintendo Club which has incorporated other gaming also now and they have about 60 in attendance. Adam shared the "I love libraries" contest info on one handout and said a library can win $3000 and the kids making videos to enter on why they love their libraries could win $50 each. Video entries of 1 to 3 min will be accepted. It has an online link. One new game for the Wii is Wii Dance 2 that eveyone loves.

Lori talked about the Xbox Connect and how it is really better than the Wii but you have to have the xbox first then the xboxconnect. It is amazing she says as it knows exactly how you are moving and does a body scan to get your body dimensions. Her family loves it.

Jana did 2 book talks: one on Rot and Ruin about zombies and two brothers--the zombie part is not the main part of the plot; and Virals which is about students of a private sch in NC who try to find a set of dog tags and then break into a lab and save a dog who has Parvo and it turns out to be a human strain of it that sets off a chain of events. Lori talked about Birth Marked by O'Brian which is set in the year 2400 and the mother is a midwife and the teen girl is following her footsteps; the inbreeding in the walled city has led to bad things so every 3rd (?) or 3 out of every 10 (?) babies born have to be given to the castle city in the walls. Immensely interesting Lori says. Lori had just downloaded two great book trailers: The Maze Runner (which was made for a contest) and Beastly. Beastly movie coming out in March and we will try to take book clubs from school. The book I am 4th is fabulous Jana and Lori agreed and will be new movie but it is too costly for book club read since only in hardback. Adam suggested the Prinz award winner Ship Breaker for boys with action and sci fic parts.

Tommy is seeking a way to buy a personal response system and Lori suggested she contact one of the coops and ask what workshops you can attend where they might be given away. Jill told her to buy the ping pong looking paddles that we talked about last year that have whiteboard surfaces on both sides and one side has lines and the marker is permanently attached. The kids write and respond. Rachel said ipads can be used as responders and cell phones using a program called wiffiti. Lori said ipods and itouches would be better to purchase as they can do so much more but they have an app for responding!

Jill made a pitch for the AAIM conference Ap 3,4,5 right here in Hot Springs. She urged everyone there to put in a form to her to do a session. Tiffany may do one on music and making instruments to play while reading certain elem book titles; Adam may do one on gaming; Rachel will do several; the Ft Lake girls need to do one on audio books and Overdrive. Stony needs to do one on Nettrekker. She needs sessions on ereaders, kindles, ipads, nettrekker, elementary subjects, and anything on common core. WeDewey will not do one this time. The forms to present are on the conference wiki or linked to it at aaimconference.wikispaces.com .Sarah Weeks is main author speaker and then two IL librarians one elem and one sec will speak about using technology to enhance reading/literacy not replace it. Sarah Weeks will be the main one on the Sunday night function and will do sessions on Monday. All of you need to attend. I guarantee it will be worth it. Come Sunday at noon and stay til Mond 4 or 5 if you can only take off one day; still worth it.

Next meeting will probably be at Gar Co Libr auditorium at 4:15 on Feb 15th. But I will let you know if that room is not available. If you are missing these meetings, you are missing out on a wealth of information about technology and books and gaming and who to call when you need help in certain areas.

Thanks to Beth Stone for bringing choc cake and chips and to my teacher Jodie Keeling for donating a tray of Subway sandwiches (she and hubby own several of the stores in town). Hang in there as I know your libraries are as hectic as mine. I am running myself ragged with research classes and techno fixing. Stony and I are teaching Tech Tuesday classes after school on every other Tuesday from 3:30 to 4:30 for p d credit. You can come. I will try to get you a list. Tuesday next week is Using our online databases and Thursday is Video to Go about Discovery Streaming and Safari Montage. Come if you want to but let me know as they are all in dif places dif days.

__**December**__I am so sorry that when we got to Colorado Grill in December they were closed! Because of the cold, we moved immediately to San Francisco Bread Company. We had Jana, Lori, Laura, Stony, Cindy, Ronda, and myself there today. (my cell 276-4949 in case this ever happens againe) We discussed: 1)Jana's handout on verse books- excellent and needed- my kids will love having this info 2) Jana brought us one of her faculty newsletters- it was great 3) Laura talked about her gaming day attendance being down from last year so we discussed other ways to tackle gaming day 4) Cindy gave away hot choc one day and had an activity and Laura is planning a movie day; Rachel made a lot of money on hot choc this week and may also sell it or coffee when she tries the YA cafe thing in Jan 5)Lori discussed her YA Cafe where an outsider like a teacher or community person comes in and does a book review like mentioned in Igniting a Passion for Reading by steven Layne. Lori did this one a month all fall and Rachel will begin in Jan.; the book has sort of an outline to give her speakers to use; each of Lori's actually did it differently but were very successful 6)Stony played jazz in his library on his sax recently to a packed house 7) Ronda is still needing hours of school library service if you do anything outside school times; she has an extension on her hours 8)Stony had the attorney general's office speaker last week for a lunch program then she met with his book club since they were finishing up Trackers and she talked about Internet safety. 9)The group discussed kindles vs nooks, policies and procedures, whether to have the kids sign a form or have the parents sign a form before chking out kindles, how long to check them out for. Jana has 2 that circulate. Rachel is getting 2 soon. 10) Rachel and Stony will be teaching some tech classes to Lakeside staff next term on tuesday afternoons called Tech Tuesdays mostly on web 2.0 software and incorporating photos, film, projects into lesson plans.

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 * __Nov.8th__** WeDewey met with 12 librarians and library students present. New attendees were Tanna Clark, Lakeside Middle School LMS and Rhonda Hughes, LMS student who teaches at Tanna's school; Tommy Kelly, LMS student who teaches in LR at Terry Elem. and lives in Hot Spgs; and Nikki Atkins, librarian at Hot Spgs High School. We missed our Garland County Librarians who were unable to attend. We discussed pacing guides/curriculum maps. Beth had a ppt printed about it. Laura K had one to show Lori; Rachel will try to attach hers to this wiki Tuesday. Rachel talked about programming ideas for Veteran's Day and passed out a signature sheet she has students sign when turning in poetry or essays to make sure it is their original work in case it is published. National Gaming Day is Saturday and most had signed up on the AmLibAssoc website to receive a free game. Ft. Lake School Librarians are doing a big promo this Saturday. Stony will have board games on Friday during lunch. Jana is trying to pull a group together to go to see the new Harry Potter movie either the Friday before Thanksgiving or that Monday or Tuesday at Cinema 10 for $6.50 each but it take a minimum of 50 and she needs to work with another school to reach that number. Call her at Cutter jr sr high if you want to join her group. Many plan on using Beastly as a book club read so that they can take kids this spring to its opening and Jana says the author will Skyppe for $200 with your book club. Lori talked about EBSCO awww.pppst.comnd the Traveler database program that was presented last week sponsored by AAIM and at the AEA convention in LR. She says she learned so much more about our free things from the ASL. Laura needed a genre powerpoint and Jana has one and this website was suggested www.pppst.com . If someone finds the picture of the xmas tree made from books please post it to this wiki. Lori and Jill are going to an Itunes U workshop next week. We discussed the google docs most libraries are using to keep track of library traffic. LHHS, Cutter, and Ft Lake use them and LHS has begun to just today. The google doc time stamps when they enter and keeps the stats for you. Selling hot choc and showing Christmas movies during December was discussed. Present: Rachel, Rhonda, Tanna, Jana, Laura, Wendy, Lori, Beth, Cindy, Stony, Nikki, Tommy.

2010 School Year began with a WeDewey meeting at Don Juan's Mexican Restuarant in Hot Spgs at Airport Rd and Albert Pike. We had 10 lms present: Rachel Shankles, Wanda Borganoni, Beth Stone, Jillana Heard, Lori Bush, Stony Evans, Cindy Evans, Jana Dixon--from county school districts and then Tiffany Hough and Adam Webb YA and Children's Librarians from Garland County Library. We discussed Book Clubs, Teen Read Week, the upcoming speaker from Gar Co Library coming to our schools about Darfur genocide, AAIM possible speakers, Banned Book Week, and shared many ideas. Most are attending ArLA next week in LR at Peabody. Stony gave us the new Stamatis book list. Next meeting in early November and Magnet Cove librarians and Ft. Lake are supposed to be able to attend and we will invite the new LMS at HSHS.

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Our first meeting at San Francisco Bread Company, Monday Feb. 23, 2009.