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I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Human Development and the Director for the Nationally Recognized NCATE-AASL Revised & Approved School Library and Instructional Leadership program at the University of Colorado 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
When I’m not working, I’m enjoying time with my family. We love traveling and my favorite past time is walking on the beach. I also like writing creative nonfiction; reading memoirs and young adult literature; and having great discussions with my students.
Current position and employment location
Professor & Director of School Library Program
Favorite Book:
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Web site
http://www.cudenver.edu/schoollibrary
Blog
http://summersonline.blogspot.com/

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What does community look like in a school library?

An orientation is a time when the teacher-librarian provides essential information about the school library. But in thinking ahead for next autumn, a teacher-librarian told me about an experience at the end of the year where he asked students to draw big poster-size pictures of what the library meant to each of them as students. While some students drew traditional pictures of books; a couple of the drawings brought attention to the sense of community the students have in this K-8 school library… Continue

Posted on June 12, 2009 at 9:32am —

Laura Summers

New Colorado Teacher Librarian Ning

Here is a great new Ning to join: http://coteacherlibrarian.ning.com/.

Posted on June 4, 2009 at 12:32pm —

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Adobe Connect SLIL Program Orientation Recording from June 1, 2009

Hi, folks: A recording of last night’s presentation is available at: https://connect.cuonline.edu/p43549275/

There are some visible hiccups, but I’ve been advised to just act normal and not freak out when interruptions occur. After all it is a live event. At a few points, I realized slides that should have been added, etc. And at one point my son comes in the room and soon after my husband is talking in the kitchen when I am just around a wa… Continue

Posted on June 2, 2009 at 10:17am —

Laura Summers

Shelfari

I recently learned more about Shelfari: , a social network tool used to build a virtual bookshelf. This is one more tool of many that I sometimes don't know which tool to use! I am curious who is using the tool and what you think about it or if there is one you like better. Maybe you can share your virtual shelf with the rest of us in the program?

Happy reading,
Laura

Posted on February 3, 2009 at 7:38am —

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What Color Are You?

Today was our first face-to-face session for the IMLS 21st Century Culturally Responsive School Library Grant. One of the activities centered on knowing who you are and recognizing the strengths and challenges that come with one’s personal style.

I found out today that my brightest color is blue shaded with green. What does this mean? In Kahlil, C. & Lowry, D. (2005)’s Follow your true colors to the work you love there are four colors that represent personal styl… Continue

Posted on January 31, 2009 at 7:54pm —

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At 8:20pm on June 1, 2009, Ryan Whitenack said…
There are some common threads there. I graduated from CSH (Chatfield in 97) my brother graduated from there also in 92. My other older brother graduated from CHS (Columbine in 93). I also had Mr. Hoemann. He taught me how to research...after I plagiarized a paper (through ignorance, not malice) in his junior level English class. Nice guy!
Thanks for the conference tonight. I didn't know what to think of the on-line set-up, but so far: kinda cool.
At 10:03am on June 20, 2008, Laura Summers said…
Hmm, when I was on your page, I had a "browse" button at the top of the pop-up box when I selected the photo icon, so we have a difference in what we are seeing on your page. I wonder if you need to update the java application that is part of the Ning system. This is just a guess -- I could be totally wrong. Are you working on a Mac or PC? This may be another possibility. Now, in terms of updating the java application, my computer asked if I trusted this site, etc. If you block this type of activity, you may not see the need for an update. I'm not sure. I'm also not sure how we update applications if we don't see the update message so I'll need to look into this issue. Stay tuned... it may take me awhile to figure this out since I need to get back to my presentation for Monday. :) Thanks for trying!!! That is what matters most! :)
At 9:55am on June 20, 2008, Charlotte Brooks said…
Laura-
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?
At 9:43am on June 20, 2008, Charlotte Brooks said…
Laura-
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!
At 3:46pm on June 11, 2008, shireen kolarik said…
They sent me steps to leave a social network. But I want to keep my page that has this picture here and delete my old ones with the dark haired librarian in the stacks. Here is the link to the web page with the instructions. http://help.ning.com/?p=811
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.
At 3:34pm on June 9, 2008, shireen kolarik said…
Hi Laura. I have a question about deleting old Ning pages. I have three pages (I don't know why - I used to be an engineer and I guess redundancy is still in my soul:) and want to delete the older two but keep the newer one. When I sign on I get my new page but can't get to my older pages to remove them. Can you do this for me? I contacted Ning and they sent me how to do it but I have to be able to get on the older pages to do what they said.
Thanks for your help. Shireen Kolarik
At 10:37pm on June 17, 2007, Lisa Archuleta said…
Hi Laura,

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.
 
 

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