Making Powerful Learners
Virtually Everywhere

ISLMA Fall Conference
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Springfield, IL
November 1-3, 2007


HOT TOPICS
Making Powerful Learners

Friday
Online Databases
PreK-4
Librarian Sharing Session
Retirement
Web 2.0

Saturday
Legislative Update
National Board Certification
Solo Librarians

"Taste of ISLMA"
Virtual Conference
Friday, Nov. 2

Watch the ISLMA website and ISLMANET-L for details and registration information.

Friday, November 2 | Morning

• AASL is Doing What?
• Beyond Weeding: Reclassifying Your Collection
• Caudill Power
• Clean It Up! Computer Maintenance
• Create Your Own Online Tutorials
• Digitelling: Using Technology to Enhance Narrative,
Expository and Persuasive Text
• Exciting New Books for Grades 5 – 8
• Gaming in the Library
• Get a Second Life: Use a Virtual Reality Environment
to Extend School Library Services to Teachers
• How to Research in the 21st Century
• Improving Literacy and Libraries through Federal
Grant Opportunities
• Learning with Literature: New Books for
Grades K – 4
• PolyTalk Library Interpreters Network
• Prada Promotion on a Dollar Store Budget
• Research Papers: Reaching the Teachers and
Catching the Kids
• RSS: The Magic of the New Web
• Tangible, Touchable, Teachable Tools
• Tools of Assessment
• Website Investigator
• Wonder Woman: A Visual History of a Feminist Icon
Friday, November 2 | Afternoon

• The 25 Best Horror Books for Teens, Grades 6 – 12
• Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award @
Your Library
• Are You New to the School Library?
• The Art and Technique of Wikis
• “Beads on a String”
• Changing the Face of Education
• Clean Sweep! Weeding as Part of Collection
Development
• Connecting Digital Natives with the School Library
• Connecting Literature and Math
• Monarch Award 2008
• One-Room School: Glimpses into the History of
American Education
• Pathfinders: Scaffolding Researchers
• Picture This: Using Picture Books to Make
Curriculum Connections
• Political Cartoons in the Classroom
• Presenting Your Budget to Your Administrators
• Print vs Online in the Library
• Read It! Hear It! Tell It! Literacy through Storytelling
• Statewide Cooperative Projects from Library Systems
• Using Technology to Promote Books–Not Replace them!
• The Very Best in YA Books
• Virtual Author Programs and Multimedia Connection
for 21st Century Librarians
• Virtual Book Club
Saturday, November 3

• AASL is Doing What? (Repeat of Friday Session)
• Are Books Obsolete? Print Resources in the
21st Century
• Before the Censor Cometh
• Blogger and the LibraryThing Saved My Life!
(And It Is Cool, Too!)
• Book Talks for Reluctant Readers
• Books for Boys
• Harriet Tubman
• How I DoWhat I Do
• If You Build It, They Will Come: Reading –
Resources – Research – Relationships
• The Illinois State Library: An Overview
of Programs and Services Impacting
School Libraries
• Integrating School Curriculum into Your Library
• Is ‘Library’for Special Needs Students
an Oxymoron?
• The Magic of Illustrations
• Monarchs in the Library
• OPAL: Easy, Affordable Web Conferencing
• Partnering for College Success
• SoWhat’s the Big Deal about Assessment?
• Storyteller – Storywriter
• WebJunction Illinois: Meet Us at the Crossroads

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