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Weippe Public Library Idaho's Weippe Public Library includes exhibits on Lewis and Clark, who passed through the area on their historic expedition. More: 10 great places to take a library tour

Inform legislators about the importance of school libraries in helping students achieve academically, Show them school library facilities and the learning that takes place in them, Illustrate the new roles that school librarians play in teaching, integration of technology, and providing professional development for teachers,

This is what a P.L.N. (Personal Learning Network) is all about

Participants will learn how to meet and communicate with people in a PLN that you will create. Discover why Ning's are like subject area resource rooms in a large school. They’re social networks connecting teachers with common interests. Connect to discussion forums, utilize a blog, share resources, and plan group activities.

We will demonstrate 5 PLN's that include, Classroom 2.0, Educators PLN, ProTeacher, Teachers.net, and Global Education Network. Discover how educators around the world are willing to share their ideas/information back and forth, provide creative and refreshing new ideas; get advice from a very supportive group. and a great place to meet teachers from all over the country.

Bobbi is dedicated to helping libraries find their place in the digital age. She is passionate about 21st century literacies and the role of all libraries in equal access and opportunity for all. Her professional interests include digital and technology based services, the digital divide, and improving existing services through expanding traditional methods, while creating innovative new practices.

Bobbi was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal in 2011.

n recent years, there has been explosive growth in students creating, manipulating, and sharing content online (National School Boards Association, 2007). Recognizing the educational value of encouraging such behaviors, many school leaders have shifted their energies from limiting the use of these technologies to limiting their abuse. As with any other behavior, when schools teach and set expectations for appropriate technology use, students rise to meet the expectations. Such conditions allow educators to focus on, in the words of social technology guru Howard Rheingold (n.d.), educating “children about the necessity for critical thinking and [encouraging] them to exercise their own knowledge of how to make moral choices." One process for creating the necessary conditions is reported in From Fear to Facebook, the first-person account of one California principal who endured a series of false starts to finally arrive at a place where students in his school were maximizing their use of laptops and participatory technologies without the constant distractions of misuse (Levinson, 2010). Other similar processes and programs are emerging, and they all share a common theme: an education that fails to account for the use of social media tools prepares students well for the past, but not for their future.