Seeing the Big Picture: Technology Coordinators and Librarians Working Together

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Seeing the Big Picture Technology Coordinators
and Librarians Working Together

• Dr. Odin Jurkowski

MOREnet Instructional Technology (MITC)
Conference Session 5 10.16.07 845
945 am
http//faculty.ucmo.edu/jurkowski/MITC2007
Last updated 10.12.07
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What this Presentation is all About

• Awareness
• Promotion
• Making connections

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Information Power
• Technology Coordinators
• Commonalities
• Working Together and Making those Connections

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Introduction

• We compliment each other
• Need to know what others are doing
• Varies greatly from school to school
• Impacts student learning

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School Librarians
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Gayla Parks LMS

• My day doesnt just consist of checking out books
  to kids I am constantly meeting the needs of
  teachers by making sure one has the overhead
  projector she needs, another has a video
  projector and the coaxial cable necessary to
  reach from her computer, that the laptop cart is
  ready to be wheeled to a classroom, that a math
  teacher knows where to find a video clip on
  estimation on United Streaming, and that another
  math teacher has access to the library computer
  lab to do a drill-and-practice multiplication
  exercise. (I did all of this today, by the way).

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Information PowerCollaboration Leadership
Technology
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Technology Coordinators
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The technology coordinator/facilitator, as
partner

• The district/building technology coordinator and
  library media specialist must coordinate to
  provide support and expertise to teachers,
  students, and administrators in an effort to
  seamlessly integrate technology skills into the
  curriculum.
• collaborates with the LMS in planning long- and
  short-range technology goals, including budgets
  for networking, equipment, and resources
• acts as a consultant and facilitator for the LMS
  to incorporate the use of technology to enhance
  teaching and learning
• supports and facilitates the inservice and
  professional development activities in the area
  of technology
• promotes the effective and efficient use of
  information retrieval skills and media production
  as tools for learning and
• keeps the equipment and network in operation.

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School Administration School Library Media
Instructional Technology

• Academically in the same College, often the same
  Department, but separate programs
• Marian the Librarian
• Tech Nerd

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LMS and Technology Coordinators

• Versatility in serving students and staff
• Familiarity with the curriculum
• Public relation skills
• Creatively work with reluctant faculty
• Interact closely with the school administrator
• Provide leadership
• Heavy users of technology
• Provide professional development
• Jacks-of-all trades

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Administrators Librarians Technology
Coordinators

• What do we have in common?
• Graduate school courses
• Leadership and management skills
• A commitment to our students welfare and
  progress
• Total grasp of the curriculum
• A view of the big picture

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Working Together

• Equipment
• Informal teacher support (educational peer)
• Formal professional development
• Collaboration
• Technology planning

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Continued

• One Laptop Per Child Project http//www.xogiving.o
  rg
• Grants
• Building a community of learners

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Continued

• Accidental Technology Steward (ATS) You know you
  might be an ATS when everyone asks you about the
  latest social networking tool they hear kids
  talking about, or how to download the latest
  thing from the Web that they want to use.

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Make Those Connections

• Serve on committees together
• Meet over lunch
• Find time to collaborate
• Go to a conference together
• Work on a grant together

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References

• American Association of School Librarians and
  Association for Educational Communications and
  Technology. (1998). Information power Building
  partnerships for learning. Chicago American
  Library Association.
• Anderson, M. (2002). The value of staff
  development Librarians should play a leading
  role in technology training. School Library
  Journal, 48(11), 34-5.
• Joiner, S. (2005). Birds of a feather? School
  Library Journal, 51(5), 42-4.
• Snyder, T. (2000). Getting lead-bottomed
  administrators excited about school library media
  centers. Englewood, CO Libraries Unlimited.
• White, N. (2007). The accidental technology
  steward Or, how you can gamble very little and
  gain a lot. Knowledge Quest, 35(4), 32-5.
• Wilson, P., Lyders, J. (2001). Leadership for
  todays school library A handbook for the
  library media specialist and the school
  principal. Westport, CT Greenwood Publishing.

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Contact Information

• Dr. Odin Jurkowski, Associate Professor
• Program Coordinator, Educational Technology
• Department of Educational Leadership Human
  Development
• College of Education
• University of Central Missouri
• Lovinger 4200B
• Warrensburg MO 64093
• phone [phone]
• jurkowski_at_ucmo.edu
• http//faculty.ucmo.edu/jurkowski