These sessions were streamed on Blackboard Collaborate. The first session was "When Sherry Met Matthew: Finding Your Educational Soulmate and Helping Kids Rule the World. This session was presented by Matthew Winner and Sherry Gick. These two are an amazing team who are not even in the same state. Matthew is in Maryland and Sherry is in Indiana. However, the connected on Twitter and planned some connected activities with their students and are what they call "educational soulmates". I love that term! After a tremendously successful collaborative experience they cal "Earth Pals", they are opening the same type of experience up to others in their GeniusCon arena. Read more about it on Sherry's Blog.
The second session I participated in was Jennifer LaGarde's (aka Library Girl) "Imagining Library Spaces of the Future Today". I heard Jennifer speak at our Texas Library Association Conference last spring. She is an amazingly inspirational speaker who makes changing the face of libraries seem easy. In this session, she talks about ways librarians can help students become thinkers and learners, solve big problems, engage and collaborate. My favorite quote from this session was "in libraries of the future students CREATE instead of CONSUME". I haven't figured out what that looks like in my library program yet, but I am sure I will get plenty more ideas from my new PLN on Twitter!
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