AASL Webinars

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AASL is offering a series of four webinars designed for school library media specialists as part of School Library Media Month in April. The webinars will focus on the four strands of the new Standards for the 21st-Century Learner: Skills, Disposition in Action, Responsibilities, and Self-Assessment.

Skills & Content Standards: Let’s Mash ‘Em Up!

Presented by Cassandra Barnett

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 – 5:30 p.m. EST

Teaching Responsibilities:  It’s our Responsibility

Presented by Gail Dickinson

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 – 5:30 p.m. EST

Dispositions of the Exemplary School Librarian

Presented by Jami Jones

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – 5:30 p.m. EST

Self-Assessment Strategies

Presented by Marjorie Pappas

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 – 5:30 pm EST

Member price per webinar is $50, or all four for $180.  Nonmember price per webinar is $75 , or all four for $210. More information, including a registration form, is available at AASL Education.

Conference Thank Yous!

Conference is over! Hope you are planning to join us next March in Charleston! Dates for the 2010 conference are March 10 – 12, 2010!

Our sponsors this year were AMAZING! Thank you to the following:

Jay Hope for providing a Bose sound system at all of our general sessions and luncheons.

Camcor for providing projectors for our concurrent sessions.

Books Are Fun/Upstate Book Fairs for donating books for the Awards Luncheon tables.

Juliana Hooper with MultiMedia Services for donating a SMART Document Camera as a door prize.

Watson Library Services and their publishers for donating a paid trip to AASL in Charlotte and a breakfast on Friday morning during conference.

Scholastic, Junior Library Guild, and Gumdrop Books, and Mimio for door prizes.

Britannica for sponsoring the Past President’s Breakfast.

East Educational, Follett Library Resources, and Ralph Davis for sponsoring our Awards.

Follett Library Resources for providing book award book marks.

THANK YOU!

Conference Evaluation Form and Volunteer Form

For those of you attending conference, our conference evalution survey is once again ONLINE!

 

The survey is open now and will be open until next Friday (March 20). We would love to hear what you thought!

 

If you are at conference, you can look for hard copies of the Volunteer Form at the SCASL booth in the Exhibit Hall or at the tables near the Registration Desk.  Click here for the online version of the Volunteer Form.

 

Thank you for all you do for SCASL!

Thursday Cognotes!

Find out what happened at conference on Thursday – read the Cognotes!

Happy Friday!

Valerie Byrd Fort

What happened Wednesday at conference? Check out the Cognotes!

Find out what happened at conference on Wednesday! Read the Cognotes!

Hope you are watching the LIVE sessions on the NING (http://myscasl.ning.com) and keeping up via Twitter, Facebook, Skype, etc.

 

Have a GREAT day!

Valerie Byrd Fort

SCASL Preconference Day Cognotes – March 11, 2009

Cognotes coming soon – GREEN this year

Nightly conference updates!

I’ll be online and available to chat via every means I can think of from 8pm – 9pm during conference (Skype, NING, Facebook – that’s all I’ve thought of so far – I’m a good multi-tasker)…I’ll also update the SCASL Blog each evening. Please feel free to ask me about the “going’s on” of the day at conference!
Here’s how to find me-
valerie.byrd.fort Skype
Search for my name in Facebook
SCASL Blog – you’re here
NING – http://myscasl.ning.com/

Valerie Byrd Fort , SCASL President

Info about conference, weather, and more!

Conference is THIS week! We cannot wait to see you in Greenville.

A reminder about weather - 

On Wednesday, those of you joining us for pre-conference and the Exhibit Hall Grand Opening/All Conference Reception will enjoy some warm spring weather with an unseasonable high near 80. Those of you making digital field trips at the zoo and the downtown Mice on Main search will have beautiful weather – just wear some sunscreen! 

Thursday and Friday are supposed to be rainy with a significant drop in temperature – Thursday’s high is supposed to be in the upper 50’s and Friday its only supposed to be in the mid 40’s! 

Convention Center Notes -

The Carolina First Center is going “green” – you will note several special “composting” and recycling trash cans around the center. All paper products are compostable and the center asks that they go in the correct bins so that they can be recycled. Disposable cups in the center are actually made of a corn starch material that will easily breakdown after use. Yay “green!”  We will have water service during the day and there are vending machines near the entrance of the exhibit hall for other drinks.

There is wireless internet access available free throughout the center – bring your laptops and “experience” the digital journey at conference!

Remember that the Carolina First Center has been remodeled – you will be coming in the “new” front entrance which is around what used to be the “back” of the facility. There is ample free parking for all, and you don’t have to cross the street like you did before! That parking lot is still there with 280 parking spaces, so if you want to park there, you still can.  : ) 

Just remember to turn off of Pleasantburg Drive at the light by the Krispy Kreme (who gave us free coupons for a doughnut for everyone!!) and you’ll be there!

A reminder about ALL DAY Preconferences-

Please remember that the ALL DAY preconferences start at 9:00AM on Wednesday. This is earlier than the other pre-conferences to allow for trolley travel time. You’ll come in to the conference center and meet with your presenters/guides and go over the schedule for the day, then the Greenville trolleys will be picking you up to leave for your destination (zoo or downtown) by 9:30AM. You will return to the center for lunch and an afternoon session where you’ll start creating a virtual field trip from your morning’s activities.You’ll be working on laptops in the afternoon and I STRONGLY recommend bringing a flash drive or CD to save your work to, unless you are planning on bringing your own laptops for the session. We will have digital still cameras, Flip cameras and GPS for you to work with, but if you have your own and prefer to use it, bring it along!

Conference Update!

Conference Update -

The 2009 SCASL conference is just around the corner! 

I know a lot of you have expressed concerns about attendance and what we can do for our members that can’t be with us this year. It is hard to say until we get there, but you’ll most likely see about 50-60% of the regular crowd we have.

Now, I have a firm belief that librarians can be some of the most creative and flexible professionals in the educational world, and I know everyone is working hard to be creative and flexible in order to keep your library programs going strong despite the economic downturn. Please rest assured that the SCASL steering committee and executive board are doing the same thing – everyone is working hard to be creative in trimming costs and seeking sponsors to make sure that you will still have the fabulous program that you’ve come to expect from SCASL despite the difficult times we are facing. We’re also in the process of trying to find creative ways to include our members that are not going to be able to be with us this year. We do hope to stream a few sessions this year and I hope we will continue to expand our virtual professional development opportunities in the future. Keep an eye out for news from the IT Committee on webinars and online opportunities to come!  As soon as det!
ails are ironed out and we have a firm plan for how we can expand the “walls” of conference to include our missing friends, we’ll let you know. In the meantime, keep those suggestions coming!

For those who are able to attend this year: I think you’re going to love the newly renovated Carolina First Center (Formerly the Palmetto Expo Center)! There is a new entrance – for those of you who have been to the convention center before, the new entrance is in the “back” with ample free parking for all. You can’t miss the turn, the red Krispy Kreme light will show the way! : )
We’ve gotten some incredible sponsors for goodies for your conference bags – be on the lookout for your free coupons for doughnuts, coffee, biscuits and more!

Also, ABDO will be having their Friday morning breakfast again this year! Come by the Watson Library Services booth to sign up for this FREE breakfast opportunity!!

Amanda

Next Webinar announced!

Learn the in’s and out’s of using our NING!
Thursday, March 5 at 8pm
http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs087862adfaa7