Resources mentioned in the Meet Your Destiny workshop    

 

North Star Library Consortium:

 

Catalog:  http://northstarcatalog.org

Northstar wiki:  http://nslc.pbwiki.com

Northstar webpage: http://nlln.org/northstar.html 

Region 1: http://www.region1.k12.mn.us

NLLN: http://nlln.org

CMLE: http://cmle.org

 

Gaming in libraries info:

  http://gamelab.syr.edu/ngd2008/   National Gaming Day at Your Library

http://gaming.ala.org/resources. American Libraries Association gaming webpage

   Aligning games in libraries with ISTE standards: http://sls.gvboces.org/gaming/

   PDF docs for aligning gaming and ISTE standards: http://sls.gvboces.org/gaming/sites/sls.gvboces.org.gaming/files/Story%20Documents/aaslgamealignment(sheets).pdf 

 

21st Century Learners

http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/s/slw3_2008.pdf    great publication from Scholastic just updated in 2008.

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org   - from the 21st Century Partnership Alliance

http://www.memoweb.org/links/infotechlitstandards.pdf - MEMO Standards for Information and Technology Literacy

http://www.memoweb.org/htmlfiles/linkseffectiveslmp.html  -- Effective Library Media Center programs - MEMO  

 http://www.iste.org -- ISTE standards

 http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm  -- Standards from  

 AASL for 21st Century Learners.

 

FOLLETT Resources for Destiny:

http://www.follettsoftware.com/page/destiny_training/   Follett online resources for Destiny. Must have customer number to access. And will require a little digging around to find appropriate resources.

Online Help - within Destiny provides the fastest, contextual help; also a source for PDF Quick help useful for training others or for subs.

 

What's new in Destiny version 9.0 http://destinyhelp90.fsc.follett.com/   (must be logged into Destiny, click on online help - What's New in Version 9.0)

http://www.follettsoftware.com/extranet/?content=view_sec_file&viewFile=1/quick-help-for-follett-remote.pdf   Quick help for Follett Remote 

 

NSLC webpage resources: (http://nlln.org/northstar.html)

" How to . . . " Sheets, aka Cheat sheets for Destiny  Many topics of use regarding how to do basic things such as inventory, Destiny remote, cataloging. Use as a quick refresher tool or as a step-by-step aid.

 

Minnesota WebJunction: http://mn.webjunction.org/ 

 

ELM Access documents from Minitex:

      ELM Access Template(B).doc

      1-26-09Accessing ELM Policy.doc

      1-26-09Accessing NetLibrary.doc

 

Resources Mentioned on Sunday Evening

Tumbleread   http://www.tumblebooks.com/    ebooks with readables 

Voice Thread    http:/voicethread.com     Laurie Conzemius: use for kids to make books, record text, share on web. Free. Many potential uses.

 

FREE Curriculum Support Resources

• Thinkfinity at www.thinkfinity.org

 

 

Meet Your Destiny: Mining the Collective Wisdom 

AKA "Day of the Post-It Note"

LIVE NOTES FROM MONDAY, January 26, 2009

 

At the beginning of the morning, participants wrote Destiny-specific questions or issues on post-it notes. Then, they stuck these topics on large easel sheets, specific to the broad topics shown below. Then, in a general session, Ruth led a discussion about the topics on each sheet for 30 minutes each. Participants shared their knowledge and expertise with the group. Items that were more one-on-one in nature, for Follett, or more appropriate to another setting or way of sharing the information, were set aside temporarily. One hour in the afternoon will be set aside to take care of some of this information, or other plans will be shared for addressing all topics. Hands-on problem solving took place after lunch.

 

Home Page & Visual Searches

• Needed: HTML code for adding a banner to your home page
• Needed: A list of schools with  developed home pages so others can get ideas
• Needed: Step by step instructions for working with elements of a visual search (graphics) 

 

Catalog & Searching

• Destiny Quest: Pros and Cons of using. How much bandwidth does it really take?
• Question: How to use Destiny with Safari Montage videos (new possibilities in version 9.0?)
• Confusion about using, manipulating  Follett e-books
• E-books: lots of confusion about different products and possibilities for using them 
• Follett question: Keyword search is not searching the full record. Setting?

 

User Empowerment

•  Version 9 question: Now students can create their own account? Can it be turned off? (check back into after lunch and share with the group)
• Can book reviews be pulled into resource lists?
• Future workshop? Using Destiny in setting up bookgroups. Giving logins to students, and getting them to do book reviews for the books they are reading.
• How can you search for books in your collection that have been reviewed? Can you?
• Recommendations. As students are learning to use Library Thing, they may do more recommendations.
• Different access levels: examples of specifics might be needed

 

Cataloging

• Access Pennsylvania and Library of Congress for additional records: http://nlln.org/howto/Addingz39.doc.pdf
• Lots of positive comments on the usefulness of Access PA 
• Questions about adding digital content to the catalog. Demo was done, but a step-by-step set of instructions may be helpful to others. Is it too specific to this specific version of the software to stand the test of time?
• VoiceThread as discussed last night, may actually be digital content for specific titles too?
• Question: How to catalog URL's? separate issue from Web Path Express
• A demo was done for searching for duplicates. Do we need a written process for doing this? Light discussion of a process you can run during the summer to clean up your records???
•  Weeding collections (no time today) 

 

Other

• Version 9.0 update info is on the Follett page, login, online help, front page.
• Importance of having Destiny remote (now called Follett remote) on your desktop for times that you cannot work live in the software.
• To get Destiny remote, go to the Follett page, type in Remote, you have an option to download. Help sheet on downloading it and using it is there.
• You need to have a print copy of your patron barcodes. This is needed to use Destiny remote.
• Listserv, please get subscribed. Go to http://nlln.org/northstar.html and subscribe yourself.
• ELM. Contact MINITEX if you have access issues (see handout) Please do not put your password on your homepage.
• Follett issue: Sending overdues via email to homeroom teachers. Has something changed with this upgrade? Some people had this set up, but it is no longer working? Small, small font was being used in the overdues (2 point font)
• Help sheets that Chris MacArthur has done for the Consortium, are on the North Star page at ________for all to use.
• On the Follett page, type in Quick, to get all of the quick help sheets. Very helpful one pagers to use for staff development days etc...
• To access training videos: use your customer number to get live webinars, arhived webinars, little videos, lots of possilbilities for using these tools with your teachers and administrators.