MASL 51 Annual Conference 2024

Have you held a book tasting in your library? In this session I will take the idea of book tasting and zoom out. We will look at book tastings for a personal finance class, book tasting for a foods/nutrition class, book tastings for SAT prep, and more. Beyond the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions, share your expertise, and come up with new ideas for the upcoming school year. If you've never done a book tasting, you'll leave ready to host one. 

In this interactive workshop, explore how FigJam, a powerful collaborative whiteboarding tool, can transform your instruction and student engagement strategies. Participants will learn to leverage FigJam's real-time collaboration features to work seamlessly with teachers and create engaging, interactive lessons. Additionally, discover how to effortlessly plan and manage library events and reading programs using FigJam's templates and organizational features. This workshop offers practical tips and creative ideas to enhance lesson plans, improve student collaboration, and streamline library operations, empowering librarians to unlock the full potential of their library with FigJam.

Library programming for high school students can get a bit tricky, but they are still kids and sometimes like to be reminded of that. Come to this session to learn how we collaborated with our staff and came up with a school-wide reading and vocabulary initiative that runs all year and learn what has worked and not worked well during reading month to keep students interested. 

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. 

If you or other non-technical staff helping 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 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!