IB+Unconference+Day

**Library and the IB UnconferenceCanadian International School, HK**

 * Friday 22nd May 2009.**

Agenda Dianne McKenzie - ModeratorSharing from the Singapore Librarians continuum - discussion on the conference, what the attendees learned, had confirmed and what they think they can implement into their own library practice. (30mins) What makes the IB curriculum different for school libraries than other curriculums? How does this change what we do? Expectations of the Library in an IB school - how to meet them? (40mins)
 * Agenda : Discussion as a whole group** - 70 mins


 * Splitting into PYP / MYP -DP Groups - 1 hour**


 * PYP Focus** (Katie Day moderating)
 * Practical strategies for planning support throughout the years and programmes - sharing session
 * Resources we can use to help us find what we need
 * MYP / DP Focus** (Beth Gourley Moderating)
 * strategy to build resources & support research for I.B. E.E. and its ongoing development.
 * Library support for EE and TOK
 * Aspects of the EE and ATL and database usage.

Summaries Building info community / network for I.B. teachers / Librarians in the region / country.
 * Back to whole group: 3:50**

Evaluation of the afternoon


 * Whole group brainstorming session: **
 * Whole group brainstorming session: **

What makes the IB curriculum so different from other curricula?

- inquiry-based – authentic learning - encourages independent learning - international-mindedness - learner profile – uniting the programmes – includes values and attitudes - PYP is a methodology (also MYP), NOT a curriculum (DP is a curriculum) - Differentiated learning - CAS – outside classroom learning - Exhibition and extended essay, personal project, etc. – culmination/consolidation of skills - Start with concept and skills rather than content (concept-based) - Resource-based methodology - Much of this is simply best pedagogical practice; the difference is that the IB has made it their methodology and, with external standards and assessments, there is accountability for implementing this methodology; - it provides a unified structure for the entire school

- the language - the programme/planning – for teachers to have to tie everything together (very detailed planning necessary)
 * What is the most difficult thing to “get your head around” re: the IB?**


 * How does this affect your job – the role of the teacher librarian / Librarian?**

- collaboration; integrating into the teaching <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- communication essential <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- modeling of skills <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- resource-rich curriculum
 * Mind-map: **



**Collaboration:** <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- unit planning <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- need to be involved in programme-planning as well as unit-planning <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- library database (operating system) search terms, keywords, etc. need to match search terms students use (user friendly access) <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- need to set goals/essential agreements – with teachers as well as with students (i.e., “We are all information literacy teachers”; teacher librarians will be involved in planning sessions; teacher librarian will teach __ units <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">-  flexible scheduling/semi-flexible? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">-  flexibility of library staff <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">-  jings and skitches (“Mac” version of the jing) – TL can prepare a lesson and the teacher can then play the video to the class, rather than the TL going to every class to teach the same thing (i.e., TL is creating a resource, a short tutorial to teach how to use library catalogue, how to plan research, etc.) <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- search process – research model <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- collaboration with senior management/administration

- resources - databases - e-resources (online journals, e-books) - need to know what everyone is doing (all UOIs) - fiction resources to support UOIs

- skills: - transdisciplinary skills - information literacy - digital literacy

Katie: As a pilot workshop, the best thing about it was meeting the other teacher librarians; the content of the workshop not very helpful, fairly confusing – one day focused on PYP, another on MYP, another on DP; organization unclear as to who the conference was for. Virginia: Different focus (some tension) re: teacher librarians versus librarians Andrea: It was supposed to be a workshop, but…. All: Not really a workshop – no peer sharing, discussion, etc. Andrea: Best thing was meeting people to network with on specific things later on Virginia: Collegiality was the best thing
 * Report on Singapore IB Continuum conference: **

Dianne: recommends we use Twitter as a professional tool (it’s only as good as the people you follow)
 * Other Professional development**

Sybasigns website has the workshop layout there (“seminars” – Hong Kong: [] ) Bring PYP and MYP coordinators and anyone else you can, including administrators <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">class size <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">o  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">TL takes 20, teacher works with 5 in class each week <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">o  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Focus on those who need help <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">space <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">planning <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">integration/collaboration <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">info lit scope and sequence: (Dianne McKenzie – wiki: infolitskills.pbworks.com) many available online that you take ideas from. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">POI <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">When TL will integrate skills into units <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">- OCC not very helpful for teacher librarians – poorly organized - ECIS (European Council of International Schools “moodle” – ECIS iSkoodle – very active listserv – register; a forum with different categories - Dianne’s wiki re: infolit - Worldcat – OCLC - own the DDC – could use for copy-cataloguing - records for 10,000 libraries around the world - search box for Google - delicious – PYP is a tag that will yield thousands of sites - Need resources for younger grades (print and websites)
 * Ross Todd conference: Guided Inquiry workshop November 2009 **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">PYP breakout session **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Practical Strategies: **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Planning **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Resources: **

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Dianne McKenzie: planning for next year – each UoI for the year posted on the wall (colour coordinated by grade level) – to decide which unit to work on with each grade throughout the year Beth Gourley’s “Reflecting on Personal Understandings chart TED Talk – The hole in the wall project (kids teaching kids – in India) “Chinese festivals are influenced by space” (collaborative grade 5 unit taught by Dianne) NAPPY – for teaching bibliographical citation – “name, author, publisher, place, year” <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Google book search – includes books and magazines Time and National Geographic are free online, as is a version of Britannica (not as good as the paid version) Dianne is trialing the kidsinfobits (Galegroup) and Noodletools (bibliographical citation tool – includes template for notes “in my own words” etc.)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Other: **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Free databases: **



**Secondary teachers**
[]
 * I. Screen capturing ****Free**Explore SKITCH (MAC only)

good intro tutorial to watchor JING (MAC or PC)Nice tutorials on home page

[][|http://help.jingproject.com/ get-started/]

Commercial products available:One of tech teachers uses Screen Flow (MAC)[|http://www.telestream.net/ screen-flow/overview.htm]

There is Captivate from Adobe for PC (see if you have w/your Adobe PRO)[|http://www.adobe.com/products/ captivate/]

What is a good effective database?Questia was suggested as affordable[|http://www.questia.com/Index. jsp]
 * II. Databases**Here is a listing of databases used by other international schools, please add to the list.[|http://spreadsheets.google. com/ccc?key=pr5mijZv9_ l6flQLX0cX8NQ]

JSTOR is recommended for secondary humanitiesdifficulty getting them to reply[]

there are 1415 titles,[|http://www.jstor.org/action/ showJournals?browseType= titleInfoPage]

Enclyclopedias--Britannica and World BookBritannica offers Global Resource Center[]--may help mother tongue collectionsEnclyclopedias in French, Chinese (concise), Korean, Japaneseper annum is USD$382.50.

Public library has several databases--it was commented there is a limit to open access points, but it is still a good backupHong University has the option of buying a few cards for your students' access(Phoebe please give details) What is a good science database for upper secondary? Facts on File has a good database for science and health form middle school[]ABC-CLIO good humanities database for middle school[| http://www.abc-clio.com/]

Other suggestions?Follett's options are weak.Some schools like ebrary[]
 * III. Ebook options**CIS has just purchased some ebooks from Cengage to compliment their reference collectionCengage also offers some good webinars[|http://www.gale.cengage.com/ webinar/]schedue:[|http://www.attendeenet.com/ gale_training/]


 * IV. Free resources**Google Scholar[]

(these may be some helpful science sources) Science Research Portal: [|http://www. scienceresearch.com/search/]

Intute: [|http://www.intute.ac. uk/]

SCIRUS: [|http://www.scirus.com/ srsapp/]

Bentham Science Publications: [|http://www. bentham.org/open/index.htm]

Directory of Open Access Journals: [|http://www.doaj.org/]

Applied Math and Science Education Repository: []

Public Library of Science: []

LOC Selected Internet Resources: [|http://www.loc.gov/ rr/scitech/selected-internet/ general-scitech.html]

National Science Digital Library: []

Infomine--Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math: [|http://infomine.ucr.edu/ cgi-bin/search?category=physci]

Depending on their research--these blogs may have possibilities: [|http://science. alltop.com/]


 * V. Copyright**Anybody have formal copyright statements for staff?


 * Feedback**

General I think all of the three sessions are good especially the separate groups of Primary and Secondary. We have a lot of ideas for the new school year after this unconference. Thank you very much for organizing it.


 * Two things you took home with you...**

1) Understanding collaboration as key between staff and Library-the ways to make it work for both (mind map) brilliant using this at a staff meeting 2) Separate group work gave everyone the opportunity to air challenges and find possible solutions within their own school parameters.

3) We all found out new search engines and contacts which is always beneficial (as I have always said Librarians are excellent at information sharing)

Skitch as an application for capturing images and editingIn the informal sharing afterwards - flexible scheduling for borrowing and working with classes, how to manage/balance Primary UOIs