MASL 51 Annual Conference 2024: Full Schedule

Michigan Association of School Librarians
51st Annual Conference
DoubleTree by Hilton, Bay City, MI
October 23-25, 2024

Funding for MASL 51 is provided in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of Michigan

Thank you to our conference sponsors: Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, Wayne State University School of Information Sciences, REMC Association of Michigan, Follett Learning, and Michigan Virtual

WiFi password: MASL2024!

Link to form for SCECHs (select the sessions you attended for professional development credit)

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9:10am EDT

Breakout Session - Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints - Leveraging Great FREE Content for Your Students and Teachers

Friday October 25, 2024 9:10am - 10:00am EDT

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The main goal of this session is to inform school librarians and teachers of the free content they have available through Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers all different viewpoints on major topics / issues of today's world.

Speakers

Andrea Drouillard

Director of Sales & Renewals, Gale

Janel Schnur will be at our table during the conference. She has some special offers available through the end of October. Learn more at: https://secure.smore.com/n/eyf5wYour Opposing Viewpoints resource is so valuable - especially these days! I'll be presenting on Opposing Viewpoints... Read More →

Friday October 25, 2024 9:10am - 10:00am EDT
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Sessions

12:30pm EDT

Breakout Session - Tech Support Resources for Your Non-Technical Staff

Friday October 25, 2024 12:30pm - 1:20pm EDT

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If you or other non-technical staff are helping to provide technical support in your building or district, our Technology Support Essential Skills - or TSES - is a resource to have in your back pocket. TSES provides an introductory knowledge base of essential technical skills for a variety of common tech support topics. Each topic provides learning material, terms to know, additional resources and a job-embedded task to see it in your own building or district. We know it takes a team to provide technical support, here's a resource to help support the team!

Speakers

Melinda Waffle

Professional Learning Coordinator, REMC Association of Michigan

Melinda Waffle, who has a masters in Educational Technology, taught high school before movinginto a district technology coordinator role which was solely responsible for helping teachers rethinktheir classroom and curriculum through technology use. After that she moved on to providingsimilar... Read More →

Friday October 25, 2024 12:30pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Sessions