On Feb. 3, ESU 9 is bringing in four vendors to demo interactive white boards, clickers and tablets. If anyone in your district is thinking about purchasing this type of technology, this would be a great opportunity to compare products and to learn more about the new features.

If you are interested, please register at http://esu9.org/ by Friday, Jan 29.

The vendors will be:

            Engaging Technologies: Dustin Frank - Clickers, InterWrite & Wireless tablets
            CCS Presentation Systems: Ed Pullen - SmartBoard and other new products
            Haddock: Dan Reid - Promethean ActivBoard
            Polyvision: Douglas Liszka -  Eno Interactiv

If you have any questions or to register, feel free to email or call.

Wayne Wiens

Technology Systems Support Specialist

Educational Service Unit #9

402.463.5611

This workshop is designed to demonstrate and utilize technology integration tools specifically for the career and technical education classrooms. Featured throughout the day will be web resources, software, and other technology that encourage the use of 21st Century skills for students.

Conference Rooms E & F - South Wing
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

This workshop is one that was rescheduled from December due to the weather.

Click to register https://odie.esu10.org/

  Hi!  A friend who teaches in Columbus had a request, and I wasn't sure how to help.  The library para at her school died recently of cancer.  She loved books and also moose.  The staff wanted to get a framed print of a book's cover with a moose on it to put in the library as a memorial to her.  My friend thought of Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals and I have thought of several other books with moose on them.  Does anyone have any ideas where they could find something like this?  
   On another topic, I have several Sarah Dessen books and also bought My Sister's Keeper by Jody Picoult.  My high school girls love those books & I would like to get some more by those authors.  I would appreciate any recommendations on the best of the books by them that are appropriate for high school age.  (basically I need to avoid sexually explicit passages, in particular).   
   Thanks for the help on either topic!

Noreen Berger
Greeley-Wolbach Public School
nberger@esu10.org

Library Media Specialist workshop Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Theresa
Gosnell, Jana Brawner and Carrie Turner from Westside High School in
Omaha will present  ‘bringing the library into the classroom’ a very
forward thinking approach to the 21st Century Learning. 

Also you won't want to miss Roger Adkins ESU 16 "showing and telling" the 4 styles of
E-books; Ron Cone HDTV-Blue Ray connections and John Stritt Part 2 on
Virtual Fieldtrips. Another full day of discovering new ideas to bring back to your library.

9:15 – 10:30    Omaha-Westside High School
          
11:45-12:15    Lunch –

12:30-1:30      E-Books - Roger Adkins, North Platte ESU 16
 
1:50-2:30        HDTV- Blue Ray conversion – Ron Cone

2:35-3:00        Virtual Field Trips Part 2 – John Stritt

3:00                End of day

John Stritt developed a schedule of trainings for the codec Lifesize unit that are now on the ODIE Workshop calendar. If you are interested in one of these trainings, please register at
https://odie.esu10.org/workshops .

Level I:  This Level I video conferencing in-service will introduce participants to the Lifesize video
conferencing technology.  This includes:

    how does a Lifesize codec differ from other video conferencing hardware/software
    how to operate your codec with your Lifesize Remote Control
    how to make a connection
Equipment Requirement:   Participating sites must have access to a Lifesize video conferencing unit.

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Level II:  In Level II, we will review basic remote control functions and advanced operations related to the Lifesize technology.  This includes:

    introduction to a directory for connecting to different sites
    connecting peripheral technology such as a computer to the codec
    how to do basic troubleshooting when you have connection problems.
Equipment Requirement:   Participating sites must have access to a Lifesize video conferencing unit.

WIKIPEDIA CO-FOUNDER DESIGNS WIKI-STYLE DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS FOR
CHILDREN, Memphis, Tenn. (Nov. 12, 2009) – Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has launched a new website designed to gather and organize educational videos for students ages 3 to 18. The site, www.watchknow.org, launched in October and currently features more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science and history. The nonprofit site features new software, specially developed for the site by Dr. Sanger, which allows wiki-style collaboration among users. "Think of it as YouTube meets Wikipedia, filtering out everything but quality educational videos," says Dr.Sanger. "WatchKnow.org links together content from traditional sites, and also allows users of the site to improve the organization of the video categories, which makes finding the video you need much easier."

For your convenience, you can find this also on the ODIE Library Feature List odie.esu10.org

Looking for something other than shopping this Sunday?  Come on out and join us for our December First Sunday @ Rowe starting at 1:30 p.m.  http://rowesanctuary.org/first%20sundays.htm

With native grasses and fallen leaves rustling in the breeze and the symphony from flocks of birds streaming south, late fall is a great time to explore Rowe Sanctuary.  This month’s program will take advantage of this natural music by offering a workshop called ‘The Music of Nature - The Nature of Music’ presented by former UNK professor of music Annabell Zikmund, and Rowe Volunteers Susan Elmore and Jackie Flohr.  

Other activities include nature hikes and marshmallow roasting on an open campfire!

For more information:
Keanna Leonard, Education Director
Audubon's Rowe Sanctuary
44450 Elm Island Rd
Gibbon, NE  68840
308-468-5282

Deanna Stall found an interesting blog on * Kindles and thought I'd share this, with her permission.

Just did a quick search for * Kindles in libraries and here is about the most recent thing I saw right off the top... I didn’t dig into anything really.  I have inferred that the Kindles can be loaned out
but the materials ON those kindles is of course, the question.  Some talked about locking down the material so material can’t be added or deleted without permission.  This is a blog focusing on Kindles.

http://ireaderreview.com/2009/06/16/libraries-lending-kindle/


* A Kindle is a thin electronic device used to download e-books wirelessly and read them. It is manufactured and sold by Amazon.com

I just finished reading this article (see link below) called Dangerously Irrelevant that speaks about the librarians roll and where it fits in the technology world.  I highly recommend that you take the time and
read it also.   

http://tinyurl.com/ykgr8cw


I'm interested in your thoughts about this.