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Laura Summers
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Questions About CAL Credit?
Started Oct 31, 2010
Advising Questions
Started Apr 8, 2010
Webliography SL 5030 OL2 - Spring 09
Started Jun 1, 2009
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- About Me:
- I am now a Educational Technology/Library Specialist for Boulder Valley School District; though I still teach on the side for CU-Denver. For 5 years (2006-2011) I was an Assistant Professor in Information & Learning Technologies; and the Director for the Nationally Recognized NCATE-AASL Revised & Approved School Library program at CU-Denver. My teaching and research interests focus on qualitative research inquiry and social presence in online learning; I also am conducting grant research on cultural responsive instructional design, teaching, and learning within school libraries and online communities. My goal is to document effective 21st Century school library practices that make a difference in our profession!
- Hobbies
- I love traveling and my favorite past time is walking on the beach.
- Current position and employment location
- Educational Technology/Library Specialist for Boulder Valley School District
- Favorite Book:
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Laura Summers's Blog
Summer 2012 Literature Course: Read for more information
School Library MA students:
The online course INTE 5990 ST: Promoting Literature through the School Library should be taken this summer if you’ve already had LCRT 5790: Children’s Lit or LCRT 5201: Young Adult Lit. INTE 5990 thus replaces the second literacy course in your plan of study. You can find registration information for this course here <…
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:24am
If you haven't read this, do...
If you haven't read this, do! What great energy! Who are other teacher-librarians that inspire you?
http://plpnetwork.com/2011/06/14/how-teacher-librarians-can-save-the-world-and-maybe-their-jobs/
:) Laura
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 6:58am
Widefield School Librarian Job Posting
Our district has a middle level (6-8) certified library position available. We are currently looking for qualified candidates to interview. Your program was recommended to us by others in our district who went through it.
If you know of someone who is interested, please have them make application via our online system, which can be located in the H.R. section of our website (wsd3.org). There are also links to our schools and information about our district that can be found…
ContinuePosted on June 13, 2011 at 8:29am
Job Announcement: Closes July 1, 2011
Lookout Mountain Academy at the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden, CO is seeking a Language Arts Teacher/Teacher-Librarian with a passion for serving at-risk youth!
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must have valid Colorado Teaching License with appropriate endorsements that allow teaching secondary Language Arts.
- Willingness to be a member of the Rite of Passage team supporting the educational goals and objectives of Lookout Academy
- Strong…
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 8:04am
Job Announcement at Fireside Elementary
FIRESIDE ELEMENTARY
1.0 FTE - LIMITED TERM CONTRACT
DEADLINE: November 5, 2010
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS:
*Have the appropriate training, academic, technological & experiential
background for the position. Preferably hold a Colorado license with
appropriate Media Specialist endorsement.
*Committed to positively impacting student achievement.
*Effective manager of the learning environment.… Continue
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:30pm
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Thanks for the conference tonight. I didn't know what to think of the on-line set-up, but so far: kinda cool.
My edit box for adding photos doesn't give me a browse option, at least I can't figure it out. All I have, when I open the edit box, are the icons: B, I, U, S, the hyperlink symbol, the photo image and the document image. When I click on the last three, they ask for the http and don't give me any other options. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... and I'm wondering if there could be an issue with my page?
I have a quick question for you, when you have time. I've been trying for awhile to add additional photos to my ning page but can't seem to do it. In the edit box, when you try to add an image, it asks for an http address. So I actually published some photos on Flickr and then copied the address into the ning, but that didn't work. There doesn't seem to be any way to add photos as attachments from your documents either. I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my page, or if it's user error!
I love your idea of the on-line small group help sessions on specific topics. Let me know how others respond to that!
Can you do it just on those two old pages and not on the new one. They haven't responded to my email yet about it but I figured since you created the site maybe you could get to my old pages. I can't get on them. I can only get on my new one.
Thanks for your help. Shireen Kolarik
In response to your questions about student access to the Internet, they can log online through the library or the computer lab while at school. Some are forced to go to the public library or they simply find a friend who has Internet at home if they need to use the Web for an assignment. When at school, I have to walk a lot of them through the steps to find what they are looking for. We all know the "Type in the topic in Google" mentality, but more often than not, when I want assignments done properly, I have to sit down and teach one-on-one. It is very obvious to distinguish students who have Internet access at home and those who don't. While students catch on pretty quickly, their ignorance in some areas of technology becomes obvious within a few minutes. Lucky for me, I tend to have technologically savvy students in my classes; I will often recruit them to teach others so that I can move the class along.