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AASL Standard 3:
//Collaboration and Leadership// School library media candidates provide leadership and establish connections with the greater library and education community to create school library media programs that focus  on students learning and achievement; encourage the personal and professional growth of  teachers and other educators, and model the efficient and effective use of information and  ideas. 

Artifacts

Virtual School Library

Creating a virtual school library prototype was a great learning experience. As a media specialist, it will be my job to ensure that all members of the learning community have access to both the physical and virtual resources available within the media center. Through the use of a virtual school library, the learning community can have access to these resources 24 hours a day from their own homes. A virtual school library can also provide a forum where resources can be posted and comments can be made.

ScreenCast

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Since a main role of a media specialist is to be an information specialist, it is important to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to use and create new educational tools. The purpose of this tutorial is to try and get teachers comfortable with using more innovative tools within their classroom in order to present topics and ideas, in this case, a Prezi. A screencast tutorial can be used as an educational resource in a number of ways. It definitely reaches all types of learners from visual to audio to even more hands on.

Web 2.0 Policy This policy was created in collaboration with other students to ensure the effective use of Web 2.0 tools within a virtual school library setting. This policy could also be included in a school media center policy in order to have policies and procedures in place when dealing with Web 2.0 tools. With all of the new and emerging technologies more and more school libraries are adding a virtual component. It is necessary to make sure that policies are created and set into place in order to handle these new technologies.

Young Adult Programming for School Libraries

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A media specialist is a leader within a school. A media specialist advocates for the resources available in the media center as well as providing learning opportunities for the students. Programs made available should adhere to the interests of the students and should actively engage the students. These programs need to be advertised and relevant to the population of the learning communities. I created three different programs that can be easily implemented within a media center. <span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Advocacy Plan <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">FAMILIES- Friends And Mentors Inspiring Literacy In Elementary Students was created as a collaborative group project focusing on improving the literacy skills of elementary school students. Another goal was to increase reading levels and to build a group of learners who love to read. FAMILIES asked for the help and involvement of all of the members of the learning community, including teachers, parents, siblings, and other members of the community, to help create lifelong readers. Creating this plan allowed us to develop strategies and tools that can be used to advocate for the media center.

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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">One goal of a media specialist is to teach information seeking strategies to both students and teachers. In order to do this, it is important to analyze the information seeking behaviors of the 21st century learners. 21st century learners are and have been exposed to a much wider range of information than learners in the past. They have a multitude of information at the touch of a button thanks to the internet. It is the goal of the media specialist to guide and scaffold these behaviors and these learners into effective and ethical seekers and users of information. This artifact can also be used as an informational tool for teachers to understand and learn more about the needs of the 21st century learners.

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