Professional Development Sessions—TBD
A sample of the 2009 sessions is below.
Opening Session—“The Writings of a Kentucky Author: The Congress
of Wonders”
Ed McClanahan
A screening of “The Congress of Wonders,” a prize-winning short (24
minutes) dramatic film based on an Ed McClanahan short story, directed by Academy
Award/Emmy winner Paul Wagner, and filmed in 1994 at Spindletop Farm, barely more
than a stone’s throw from the Marriott Griffin Gate. “The Congress of
Wonders” won three major awards, including Best of Show, in the seven-state
Indianapolis Film Festival in 1995. Discussion will follow the screening.
Community Engagement Success Stories
Amy Shaw, KETC and
Laura Hunter, UEN
Community organizations like libraries, schools, museums, and public broadcasters
have a unique opportunity to build partnerships around a common effort. How can
non-profit service, education, media and cultural organizations leverage their
unique abilities to bring about community change? Learn about two case studies of
community engagement that have drawn national attention and accolades with
measurable results: the mortgage crisis project in St. Louis, Missouri and Water
Wise Utah.
Leaders from these two projects will share their lessons learned and present models
for building critical local partnerships. As budgets get tighter, the need to work
together becomes stronger. Learn how your community and organization can benefit
from engagement success stories.
Media Librarians and IT: Collaborating for our Future
Jane B. Hutchison
Most media librarians and IT staff work alongside each other, yet never seem to
intersect. As the industry moves from videos, DVDs, Blu-Rays to streaming, the lines
begin to intersect and collaboration occurs, making the possibilities of tomorrow a
reality. Jane will discuss the collaborative efforts in New Jersey, combining New
Jersey’s statewide infrastructure network (NJEDge.Net) with New Jersey’s
statewide library consortium (VALE). Through an IMLS federal grant, seed funding
provided the means to stimulate a comprehensive organization that results in a true
collaborative project.
Jane will discuss these efforts and obstacles, and the opportunities New Jersey
offers us. By providing streaming services on a statewide level, access is as simple
as having an Internet connection without huge investments at the home institution.
Media cataloguers are working to ensure that titles are available through their
respective OPACs and can be streamed through a single authentication system. A tool
to annotate and segment the videos is being developed by NJVID. Much work has been
accomplished behind the scenes, developing a toolkit that includes deposit
agreements, metadata deposit forms, related rights guidance, a rights decision tree,
sample release forms for participants, NJVID codec and settings spec sheet and a
preservation fact sheet. All the programs and tools used are open source for others
to use. This project makes the future possibilities a reality.
Stimulus Dollars: How to Maximize Impact Through Collaboration
Bob Steingreaber, Coordinator
of Instructional Resources, Great Prairie AEA, Ottumwa, IA
Jeannie Campbell, Asst. Director
of Education, Iowa Public Television, Des Moines, IA
Jon Wibbels, Director of Media and
Technology, Northwest AEA, Sioux City, IA
Many regional and state educational agencies will be in line to receive federal
stimulus dollars starting fall of 2009.
Engage with the presenters as they share some of the plans taking shape in Iowa to
spend these dollars wisely in order to deliver the biggest, most sustainable
educational impact. Through collaborative efforts among Iowa’s Area Education
Agencies, libraries, Department of Education and Iowa Public Television, coordinated
strategies are emerging to make the best use of badly needed funds to support new
educational mandates such as 21st Century Skills and online professional
development. Additionally, working smarter will be demonstrated with examples of the
integration of electronic communication tools and collaborative management tools for
staff.
The presenters encourage session attendees to share their plans as well!
10,000,000 Additional Students May Be Waiting To View Your Media. Interested?
Bill Stark, Project Director, The
Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP), and
DCMP Board Members
Meeting students’ learning needs is the primary goal of all educational media:
you can’t serve an audience if you don’t meet their needs. Providing
captioning (for students with a hearing loss) and description (for students with a
vision loss) is a great way to meet the needs of 10 million deaf and/or blind
students. These options also can aid viewers with learning disabilities, those
learning English, and young children learning to read or speak.
For over 50 years, the DCMP has been an advocate for media accessibility, helping
provide equal accessibility both in the classroom and beyond. Let the DCMP give you
an overview of today’s landscape, show you how accessibility can help shape
it, and then answer your questions, so you can provide more students access to your
collections.