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Connected librarians: new book by an old friend
You can certainly suspect that a friend or colleague is smart, but sometimes it takes reading a book she has written to really know just how smart.

My friend and colleague, Nikki D. Robertson, has written an outstanding book for ISTE titled Connected Librarians: Tap Social Media to Enhance Professional Development and Student Learning. In this well-organized, fast read, Nikki shares her personal history of using social media as a professional, provides outstanding rationale for keeping social media sites unblocked in schools, and demonstrates great ways of dealing with social media misuse by kids. 

At the heart of the book, however, are very comprehensive and pragmatic examples of how a wide variety of social media tools can be used for learning by both educators and by students. Nikki knows and understands these tools and reveals a range of both tools and uses for them I had never dreamed of.  Concrete example lifted from real schools give this book genuine practical use.

I know it is pretty darned early in 2018, but I will go out on a limb here and say that if you only read one professional book this year, make it Connected Librarians.

If I have any criticism of the book it would be the title. This book should be read and used by tech integrationists, classroom teachers, and administrators, not just librarians!
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Connected Librarians
Tap Social Media to Enhance Professional Development and Student Learning

Product code: SOCLIB

ISBN: 9781564843920

Expected publication date: 10/2017

Topics: Digital citizenship, Video, Gamification, Professional learning, Tools, Literacies, Gaming

Length: 150 pages

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By Nikki D Robertson


Once taboo in schools, the use of social media has become essential, providing schools with opportunities for outreach, advocacy and more. Today, it’s often the responsibility of librarians to model the proper use of social media for students.

Connected Librarians: Tap Social Media to Enhance Professional Development and Student Learning offers insights into the opportunities and obstacles of this exciting but sometimes challenging topic, including practical ideas for making the most of social media in your school library.
This informative guide is the professional development librarians need to understand how to effectively use social media to improve student learning.

This book will: 
Demonstrate how to model responsible social media use to manage issues of privacy and anonymity within social media sites and apps.

Provide tips on teaching digital citizenship, such as using a learning management system to create a safe environment for students to hone digital communication skills.

Show how to leverage social media tools to encourage reading and writing through rating and reviewing books, creating fan fiction and more.

Demonstrate how to use social media as a powerful tool to build your own professional learning network.

About the Author
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Nikki D Robertson is a veteran educator, school librarian, instructional technology facilitator and president-elect of the ISTE Librarians Network. She's passionate about 1:1 digital initiatives, collaborating with other education professionals and helping students become informed, critically thinking digital citizens. Robertson is the recipient of several honors, including an Alabama School Library Association Ann Marie Pipkin Technology Award and the American Association of School Librarians Bound to Stay Bound Grant.

ISTE's Empowered Learner 

Winkley Elementary Wolverine News (Morning Announcements)

What an exciting school year this has been! I started creating our Wolverine News Youtube Channel with students in grades K-5 creating special segment introductions to teach Green Screen skills. From there students applied to be Wolverine News Team Members and learned how to create a news broadcast from beginning to end!  Additionally, students, parents, teachers, and administrators have also submitted over 1000 Book Reviews and Quotes of the Day (using FlipGrid) ​​ to be included in our Wolverine News broadcasts!  I am so proud of all that our Winkley Family has learned and accomplished during the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years.

2017-2018

2018-2019

Click HERE or on the image above to read the entire SLJ article.

One pet peeve of mine with Pinterest is the inability to rearrange or group pinned items inside of a board, as I am more visually inclined. Thus, I designed the pins in categories that are labeled in ALL CAPS to make finding what you are looking for a little easier.

The categories include
  • ACTIVITY: Activity pins can be used in your existing maker space, in isolation, or as a vehicle to get a maker space area started in your school library.
  • FUNDING: Most of the funding ideas on the official Teen Tech Week website deadlines have already come and gone. Go ahead and mark your calendars now to be ready for next year. Rather than pinning out-of-date funding resources, I have pinned two of my favorite funding resources, PledgeCents and DonorsChoose, which you and your students could work on together during Teen Tech Week to find funding for the items they would like to see most in their library.
  • MAKERSPACE: The ideas categorized as maker space activities could easily be used in your library during Teen Tech Week even if you do not currently have a maker space. The idea behind these pins is to start the exploration, tinkering, experimenting, and creating that is the heart of most school library maker spaces.
  • PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE: Pins labeled PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE are meant to be exactly that. A resource that you can take, learn from, and share with teachers and administrators to better understand how libraries are an essential cog in the Future Ready framework. It also includes sage advice from those to whom I personally look for professional guidance.
  • TECHNOLOGY: This category mainly references pins that would require items that need to be purchased, although not all require monetary funds. My personal favorite “free” technology resources include Augmented Reality from DAQRI and NASA’s SpaceCraft 3D. Carvey and Bloxels are my favorite pins (this year) for technologies that will cost you a penny or two.
Podcast 437: The 2015 EdTech Year in Review

By Wesley Fryer On December 31, 2015 · · 0 Comments

​This podcast is a recorded Google Hangout On Air from December 31, 2015, of a panel discussion with Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach), Eric Langhorst (@elanghorst), Nikki D Robertson (@nikkidrobertson), and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer). The title of this roundtable discussion was “The 2015 EdTech Year in Review,” and focused on some of the most important developments and news items regarding educational technology in 2015. Our topics included the Hour of Code, BreakoutEDU and Gameification, Student Privacy and the EFF Complaint about Google, Google Cardboard / Virtual Reality, “go-to” apps teachers can use to go deeper, and best new technology hardware from 2015. Check out our podcast shownotes for all referenced resources and links, including our Google Doc planning document which includes even more we didn’t have time to talk about in the show. Happy New Year everyone!
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