tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33705079380682370352024-02-21T02:47:19.202-08:00Be the Change...MEMO's Leadership Development Conference is taking place Friday, July 6, 2012 at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. The vision is to involve people from all areas of educational media to cooperatively and creatively offer input into what their professional organization could offer to improve their professional experience. Facilitators will post queries about topics such as advocacy, professional development, and curriculum, in hopes to solicit preliminary discussion of the topics.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165934151904452000noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3370507938068237035.post-34940172169289302762012-03-30T09:27:00.008-07:002012-06-28T22:29:11.454-07:00Be the Change... Program<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be the Change You Want to See…</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, July 6, 2012</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Catherine University: Coeur de Catherine Rauenhorst Ballroom</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be the change: A twist on the “un-conference” idea</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is your opportunity to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">participate</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in dialog about what is needed in the media profession. MEMO will take the ideas generated by this event and will consider them for prioritization and action steps in the coming year. Unlike most conferences, participants are expected to participate in the dialogue and help create the reality that they want to see in the profession. Conference activities are designed around the mission of MEMO, focusing on the core services that MEMO may provide for its constituency. These areas are: advocacy; professional development; curriculum and lessons; collaboration within the work environment; networking with other media professionals, and technology integration. Now you can truly be the change you want to see in the media profession and in your own work environment.</span><br />
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Keynote Address: Be the Change You Want to See…</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Shannon McClintock Miller</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shannon McClintock Miller is the district teacher librarian and technology specialist at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, Iowa. She encourages her students to have a voice while learning, creating, collaborating, and connecting to others within their school and around the world. Shannon is the author of the award winning Van Meter Library Voice blog and enjoys writing for ISTE's Leading & Learning journal, various blogs, and in other forums. She has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy, technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others. Shannon serves on the School Library Monthly advisory board and is a teacher advocate for StudyBlue. In March 2011, Shannon was awarded the Connecting People Shorty Award for Twitter. Shannon can be found at @shannonmmiller on Twitter and online at shannonmmiller.com.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon check-in, you will find that you have been assigned to a “pod” designated by a letter, such as “Pod A.” You will travel through the morning with this pod, visiting six thematic stations for 13-15 minutes each, generating ideas and developing the content for a presentation that will be designed during the 6th and final rotation. This final rotation will last for 30 minutes. A station facilitator will remain with their station throughout the rotations, and will provide continuity for each pod as they progress. The presentation will be about 5 minutes long and will be presented over lunch. It will provide a summary of the findings for that station and a prioritization of content, based on the input of all pods. On Saturday, July 7, the MEMO Board will view videos of these presentations, and will base their annual action plan and priorities on the content of these presentations. See the diagram, below, to determine the starting location of your pod. The times in the schedule indicate when pods rotate.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standards / curriculum / lessons / scope & sequence / assessment– Gina Light</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span> <br />
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Presentations are made only from within the strands represented by each of the stations plus a “resources” strand that was included in the original model. Break-out sessions are 50 minutes in length, and are alternated with times to visit our small vendor fair. Breakout sessions are scheduled for 1:15-2:05pm (A) and 3:05-3:55pm (B). See the schedule for details.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">Session
A, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">1:15-2:05 p.m.</span></span></b><br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fostering
Collaboration and Partnerships with Classroom Teachers
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jen
Legatt, Rauenhorst Ballroom Side Room, 303A<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Come get some practical
ideas for how to make your media center a hub for your building’s learning. How
do you connect with teachers and foster relationships? Become a partner with
your teachers to help guide students on their learning adventures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Collaborate
or Duplicate - How Can the Minnesota Learning Commons Help
You? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gary
Langer, Rauenhorst Ballroom, 3<sup>rd</sup> floor<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The growth of online
learning and digital resources is occurring at a time of reduced budgets and
greater need for professional development.
The Minnesota Learning Commons, a partnership of the Minnesota
Department of Education, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the
University of Minnesota can help you find content and tools for your courses
along with professional development opportunities and services for students and
parents. Collaboration can result in
enriched content while saving money by not duplicating existing assets. Most of the learning resources are available
at no charge. In addition, there is an
online support center open for faculty and students to help point you in the
right direction. Learn about a statewide
learning repository, how to collaborate with colleagues to share teaching
materials, how to access to rich database of content including STEM modules and
courses, standards for quality and accessible online and hybrid courses and
other tools to engage students in 21st Century learning and search for programs
and courses offered by public K12 and higher education in the state. Presentation will include demonstration and
dialogue with attendees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Minnesota
Reflections and Minnesota Loop
Resources <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mary
Alice Anderson, Room 17<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Minnesota Loop and
Minnesota Reflections Teacher Guides and are free resources aligned with
Minnesota academic standards for grades K-12. Numerous resources in both
databases are also aligned with state and national information and technology
literacy standards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Minnesota Loop,
sponsored by TIES, is a searchable database of over 9000 web sites, lesson
plans, online tools, and professional resources identified by teachers. Educators can search by keyword, grade level
and content area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Minnesota Reflections
Teacher Guides are designed to help teachers locate and use resources available
in the Minnesota Digital Library’s collection of more than 85,000 primary
source images, maps and documents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The presenter worked
with a group of educators that aligned Minnesota Loop resources with
information and technology literacy standards and is a member of the Minnesota
Reflections Teacher Guide Advisory Group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NOOK
in the Classroom and Media Center
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lin
Salisbury, Room 18<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Learn how schools and
media centers are using NOOK eReaders in their classrooms and media centers to
increase reading time, evaluate comprehension, and share information across the
curriculum. We'll compare features across the NOOK product line, as well as
discuss management options available.
Join in the conversation during the last fifteen minutes of our
presentation to share with us your "wish list" of features and
applications that you would like to see in future NOOK products. We'll share your ideas with our developers
and you'll have an opportunity to shape future products and programs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your
Library <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andi
Bodeau, Room 19<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This presentation will
provide examples of how Google Tools can be used as both an instructional and
productivity tool in the media center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Online Professional Development
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Renee
Jesness, Ed.D., Room 20<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Minneapolis Public
Schools trained 15 teacher leaders to facilitate online professional
development opportunities within the district.
This session describes the growth of online professional development,
self-paced and on-demand professional development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Session
B, 3:05-3:55 p.m.</b></span><br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Doug Johnson, Rauenhorst Ballroom, 3<sup>rd</sup> floor<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Continuing education prior to Web 2.0 consisted of reading professional journals, attending library conferences, and taking college classes. These activities are still available and important. But given the pace and amount of change, they alone are insufficient to keep most of us current with the happenings in librarianship and information technology. This workshop explores online continuing education options, both formal and informal, and strategies for developing one’s own Personal Learning Network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The benefits of Moodle for building-level collaboration, Professional Learning Communities, and as online course components to face-to-face classes are so compelling everyone is Moodling and it has only been a little over a year. Learn why principals are using Moodle, how grade-levels are collaborating and sharing across the district, and the role of the Moodle Integration Mentors in creating master Moodle courses based on aligned curriculum and supporting other teachers in using Moodle with their students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Looking Out on the Horizon: Emerging and Hot Technology Trends in Education <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jen Legatt, Rauenhorst Ballroom Side Room, 303A<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Start using data tools you already have to create a data filled report to give your principal all the information and data to LOVE your library media program and keep you forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This session explores the challenges that were encountered, strategies and activities that were utilized and successes achieved in a 2-year period for increasing student engagement and achievement through technology integration. Our school district moved from only using computer labs with installed apps to using Google Apps for Education, Moodle for staff collaboration and classroom use, SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards, SMART Response clickers, document cameras, 1:1 iPad program for 7th & 8th grade, Web 2.0, lesson recording, iPod Touch lab, and use of Viewpoint Data Warehouse for data driven decision making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is crucial to develop individuals and/or teams of teachers to push technology use forward and acquire advocates for the instructional shift that is needed in today’s classroom. Who are the 007 change agents in your district? Identifying and utilizing active classroom teachers as peer coaches, mentors, and trainers builds sustainability in classroom technology integration. Increasing the number of “experts” in your district also provides more flexibility for varied and differentiated professional development. We will discuss various methods used for professional development to reach all comfort levels of the target audience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Visit our sponsoring vendors in the lobby outside of the Rauenhorst Ballroom. Designated vendor fair times are: 12:30 – 1:15 and 2:05-3:05. Vendors include: Mackin Education Resources, Ulness Book Services, Minitex, Barnes & Noble, FirstTech, and Learning Opportunities. Special thanks to Mackin for sponsoring our Author Reader’s Theater event.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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MEMO wants to provide Minnesota media professionals with the resources needed to run a robust media program. Towards that end, we have created a resources page on the MEMO ning at</span><a href="http://memotech.ning.com/page/resources"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://memotech.ning.com/page/resources</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In order to assure that we are providing the most relevant resources, we invite you to make suggestions on the MEMO Resources Wiki page at <a href="http://memo-resource-list.wikispaces.com/">http://memo-resource-list.wikispaces.com/</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:10-8:30am Welcome by Sally Mays and Dhaivyd Hilgendorf - Rauenhorst Ballroom</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:30- 9:30am Keynote Address in Rauenhorst Ballroom: “Be the Change You Want to See…” -Shannon McClintock Miller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:30-9:40 Overview of rotation stations –Dhaivyd Hilgendorf</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:45-10:00 1st rotation (see diagram for starting rotation location)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:02-10:17 2nd rotation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:17-10:28 Break with light refreshments. Generate Wordles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:30-10:43 3rd rotation: summarize</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:45-10:58 4th rotation: create graphic depictions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:00-11:13 5th rotation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:15-11:45 6th rotation: Presentation ideas </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:45-12:45 Lunch break – catered by St. Kates food service, Rauenhorst Ballroom</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12:00-12:30 At lunch: Groups and/or facilitators present results of morning sessions. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12:30 – 1:15 Vendor fair 1 - 3rd floor atrium</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:15-2:05 Breakout session A </span><br />
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3:05 – 3:55 Breakout session B<br />
4:00 – 6:00 Closing Celebration: Author Reader’s Theater performances with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hors d’oeuvres</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven Minnesota children’s book authors will perform theatrical readings based on recent books they have written. Presented by Children's Literature Network, this event features authors Lisa Bullard, Heather Bouwman, Geoff Herbach, David LaRochelle, Margi Preus, Stephanie Watson, and Maryann Weidt reading dramatic an funny scripts created from their books. Light </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hors d’oeuvres </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and a cash bar will be available. Authors will sign books that will be available for purchase at the beginning and end of the event. </span><span style="color: #365f91; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tickets are available at the door: $5 for adults, free for children 16 and under. If you haven't attended one of these readers theater performances yet, you're in for a treat! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Minnesota Education Media Organization provides leadership and service by promoting professional growth, facilitating collaboration among its members, establishing standards, and advocating for 21st century learners.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">For all Minnesota students and educators to be effective users of information and technology.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Coeur de Catherine building, Rauenhorst Ballroom, 3rd Floor</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2004 Randolph Avenue </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phone:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (651) 690-6000</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For further information, contact MEMO President-elect Dhaivyd Hilgendorf at </span><a href="mailto:memodhaivyd@gmail.com"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">memodhaivyd@gmail.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Registration information:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Registration fees include lunch:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$50.00, non-members</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$40.00, MEMO members</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$35.00 each, for groups of 6 or more and for students</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$5.00 to attend Author Reader’s Theater event, 4:00-6:00pm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$20.00 Reader’s Theater for non-registrants </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For further information, contact MEMO President-elect Dhaivyd Hilgendorf at memodhaivyd@gmail.com</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165934151904452000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3370507938068237035.post-20624312489442542542012-03-28T19:53:00.000-07:002012-03-28T19:53:03.862-07:00Registration is online!If you would like to register for the Be the Change Leadership Development Conference, you may now do so by following this link: <a href="http://d279.us/btcr">http://d279.us/btcr</a> See you on July 6!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165934151904452000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3370507938068237035.post-12651671596363161672012-01-26T20:14:00.000-08:002012-01-26T20:14:40.467-08:00Keynote Address: Shannon McClintock Miller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJiJ1Hgx3TN3VJ91AcCTelnLhl1i7zS-J88Q9-ssUCA3Y3iEWUSPxaRcmiR057WG0qci_uWdK9t64IlFaQPV50JGfJHZ6P4cIUjy_ax-w-UfvvkY6wkun06zn5z9VAzeBrUp3qLBDvxx0/s1600/speaker-shannon-mcclintock-miller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJiJ1Hgx3TN3VJ91AcCTelnLhl1i7zS-J88Q9-ssUCA3Y3iEWUSPxaRcmiR057WG0qci_uWdK9t64IlFaQPV50JGfJHZ6P4cIUjy_ax-w-UfvvkY6wkun06zn5z9VAzeBrUp3qLBDvxx0/s1600/speaker-shannon-mcclintock-miller.jpg" /></a></div><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Shannon McClintock Miller is the district teacher librarian and technology specialist at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, Iowa. She encourages her students to have a voice while learning, creating, collaborating, and connecting to others within their school and around the world. Shannon is the author of the award winning <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/vanmeterlibraryvoice\.blogspot\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Van Meter Library Voice blog</span></span> and enjoys writing for ISTE's Leading & Learning journal, various blogs, and in other forums. She has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy, technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others. Shannon serves on the School Library Monthly advisory board and is a teacher advocate for StudyBlue. In March 2011, Shannon was awarded the Connecting People Shorty Award for Twitter. Shannon can be found at @shannonmmiller on Twitter and online at shannonmmiller.com.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Shannon's address is entitled, "Be The Change You Want to See," after the Gandhi quote. She focuses on some of the tools that can help us make the changes that we want to see in our programs, our districts, our state, and our profession. Google sites help us share information. Blogs help us connect, share, and learn with others. Twitter is a great resource for connecting to what's important to us. Diigo allows us to save and share our bookmarks online. YouTube takes sharing to the audio-visual level. Skype brings the experts to your doorstep. Now we can use these tools to connect as professionals and create the professional organization we want to see. Be the change you want to see!<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></i></span> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165934151904452000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3370507938068237035.post-236269721769210062012-01-26T10:46:00.002-08:002012-03-20T10:09:40.720-07:00Be the change you want to see...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakX6e0bBBmL5E9Z5NFbhlpF7vHMv9T_0Jb0pAAK0MhNd1w8KHIsJfq64Oo3U-oaPgtEYuj3SDDbcNidNcMW7AlDv5X_gwz2jLX5mzcTeAO9O-TcSqz6RJkp5mUWplHzSIayTfBzGnTGU/s1600/MEMOlogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakX6e0bBBmL5E9Z5NFbhlpF7vHMv9T_0Jb0pAAK0MhNd1w8KHIsJfq64Oo3U-oaPgtEYuj3SDDbcNidNcMW7AlDv5X_gwz2jLX5mzcTeAO9O-TcSqz6RJkp5mUWplHzSIayTfBzGnTGU/s1600/MEMOlogo.png" /></a></div> This is going to be a lot of fun. Participants in this year's Leadership Development Conference will be offering their input about what they'd like to see their state professional organization offer. Through a creative, interactive process of rotating through brainstorming stations, we'll emerge energized from the morning's activities with 6 presentations to offer the MEMO Board about what is important to media professionals in the state regarding advocacy; professional development; networking & communication with peers/community; technology integration; collaboration & communication within the educational setting; standards/curriculum/lessons/scope and sequence; and technology integration.The Board will set their annual priorities in Board meetings the following day based, in large part, on the input from these impassioned morning sessions. <br />
After lunch, we'll launch into breakout sessions built around these topics and visit vendor displays. We'll wrap it up with a motivational culminating activity. Keynote speaker Shannon McClintock Miller will open up the event with an exhilarating presentation entitled "Be the Change You Want to See in the World," the inspiration for the conference title, from Mohandas Gandhi's famous quote.<br />
This is your opportunity to "Be the Change" that you would like to see in your profession. Join the conversation now, and continue at the conference on July 6. You'll be glad you did.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165934151904452000noreply@blogger.com2