Lisa Perez presented a roadmap for school librarians to become technology leaders. She outlined barriers like lack of time, unsupportive administrators, limited budgets, and reluctant colleagues. However, she encouraged setting attainable goals, leveraging online learning, collaborating with others, and documenting successes. The key is to prioritize professional growth and not give up despite challenges, as students' futures depend on technology-savvy librarians.

1. You Might Just Make It After All!
A Road Map to Becoming Your
School’s Technology Leader
Lisa Perez
AASL 2011

2. Who Is This Person?
Network Library Coordinator
Chicago Public Schools Dept of Libraries
Volunteer
Proud Geek Squad Member
Wife & Mother
Child of the 70s

5. AASL in
Minneapolis??
What do YOU
think of when
you think about
Minneapolis?

7. The Modern Career Woman
Life gave her …
and she made …
Mary Richards

8. 30 years old and single !!!
Had just broken off a two-year engagement
Headed to the big city …. Minneapolis!
Associate Producer of the 6:00 News @ WJM TV

9. MTM
Squares Lou Grant Chuckles the Clown Phyllis
Gruff, fatherly boss He died  Butt-in-ski Landlady
Rhoda Murray
Best Friend Friendly officemate
Sue Ann Nivens
“The Happy Georgette Ted Gordy
Homemaker” Ted’s shy wife Incompetent Newsman Sane Sportscaster

10. I can take a nothing
I can turn the day & suddenly
Mary Richards make it all seem
world on with Successful Career Woman worthwhile!
my smile!
I can have the
town. Why
don’t I take it?
I ‘m gonna make it after all !!!

11. School librarianship is at a crossroad.
You can’t avoid
change & survive !
Which road will you take?

12. Why
should I
change ?!?

14. Two major occupational groups--professional and
related occupations and service occupations--are
projected to provide more than half of the total
employment growth during the 2008-18 period.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm

15. All but 3 of the top 30 fastest-growing detailed
occupations are found within professional and related
occupations and service occupations.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm

16. Occupations that usually require a postsecondary
degree or award are expected to account for nearly
half of all new jobs from 2008 to 2018 and one-third
of total job openings..
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm

17. 2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey
• By 2015 more business software will be made for smartphones and tablet computers than
for traditional office systems
• Within five years it will be more popular for companies to use programs offered online as
services than for firms to manage in-house computer networks
From medicine to media and beyond, needed
job skills will include mastering software
applications on the booming array of mobile
gadgets linked to the Internet “It is important for people to embrace
technology; it is a key determent in all kinds of
professions.” Mark Hanny, IBM VP
With mobile devices ….“we are empowering professionals in all kinds
of careers to get and leverage information they need to get their jobs
done.” Mark Hanny, IBM VP
http://memeburn.com/2010/10/mobile-and-cloud-computing-key-future-job-skills-ibm

18. Six Hot Workplace Trends for 2011
The death of
Big business traditional Question: What does
leverages marketing this mean for me?
social media techniques
even more Digital
portfolios
replace
Mobile is the new
resumes
desktop
Online work becomes a necessity: online
collaboration spaces, telecommuting,
digital workrooms
Skilled programmers in
high demand
http://www.cio.com/article/646671/Six_Hot_Workplace_Trends_for_2011?page=2&taxonomyId=3123

19. Kids need skills that prepare
them for future employment!
Critical thinking skills
Research skills
Technology skills
Trans-literacy skills
Collaborative skills

20. http://projectinfolit.org
How do • Report- April 4, 2011, Alison J. Head & Michael Eisenberg
• 8353 survey respondents on 25 US college campuses
students • Reporting on recent strategies employed to access news items and
research to inform decision-making process
• Search engine use prevalent, along with talking to family & friends
use the • The process of filtering relevant and non-relevant search results
was most challenging
web to
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3484/2857
“Ironically, students struggled with processing results
conduct and finding the good, relevant stuff they need. These
findings suggest when students are left to their own —
apart from course work, grades, and professors’
everyday expectations — they may lack the skills for selecting the
most relevant results they need for solving information
research? problems in their daily lives.”

21. Do you know your role in
implementing CCSS in your school?
We support wide-
ranging competencies
in
literacy, research, and
technology-related

22. YOU need to be a
technology leader in
your school!

23. It’s not about saving jobs, although that is certainly a result.
Schools Without
Libraries
(Google Maps)
How will our students in schools without libraries
adequately prepare for their futures?

24. What are YOUR barriers to being a technology leader?

25. How can we overcome our barriers?
DON’T
Work
over, und
er, or
around
the
barriers!
Don’t
give up!

26. How can you
arrive at
your
destination…
Mary Richards arrives at her destination
and be YOUR SCHOOL’S technology leader?

27.  Set manageable, attainable learning
goals
NO TIME to
 Learn skills that are immediately
applicable to your students’ learning
learn new
needs and your professional practices skills?
 Leverage serendipitous learning
opportunities
 Allocate time in the quiet of your
home to learn
 EXPECT TO BE FRUSTRATED
 EXPECT TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE
 EXPECT TO FAIL; EXPECT TO LEARN
 Be gentle with yourself, but not TOO
gentle!
PRIORITIZE!

28.  Start with what you can do
& with what you do have
 Use of technology breeds
No more support
 Widely promote successful
Library
Budget? uses of technology
 Showcase uses in online
environments
 Use small grants to leverage
future success, but don’t
fund library technology
solely with grants
DON’T PASSIVELY
ACCEPT CAST-OFF
TECHNOLOGIES

29. • Utilize regular,
Unsupportive monthly reports
• Cite monthly &
boss… cumulative data
• Frame requests
around student
learning needs
• Garner teacher
support
• Utilize long-range
planning, such as the
Unsupportive boss? Add
AASL Planning Guide
Lou Grant here • Integrate library
goals with the school
& district priorities
…whose vision • Be responsive, a
doesn’t include a 21st team-player
• Assume leadership
century library? roles in the school

30. We haven’t
been so nice
to Mary!
• Collaborate first with your most
open colleagues
• Appeal to what helps their
students to succeed
• Know technologies thoroughly
• Don’t depend on students to
carry the project; be a leader
• Make things easy to collaborate
with you
• Build capacity by teaching “how”
to integrate technology; don’t do
everything for them
Colleagues won’t • Showcase successful
play nice with you? collaborations
• Target leaders & influencers
• Be a good partner; follow
through & meet deadlines

31. Get the
training
you need
 Explore online learning options and webinars, such as those from
AASL, ISTE, & the TL Virtual Café
 Look for classes in your community or school library
 Develop a mentor relationship with someone you admire
 Use screencasts from You Tube (at home, if blocked in your network)
 Take advantage of more formal learning options, such as special
technology training programs; see this as a commitment to your
professional growth
 Invest in graduate-level technology training, if appropriate to your
needs

32. • Connect with people you know in real
life & people you don’t know
• Use tools such as Twitter
(#tlchat), Google
Reader, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ or
use built-in networking in sites such as
SlideShare, Diigo, ScoopIt, & Scribd
• Add & delete contacts, as needed
• Use mobile interfaces
• Follow people who your contacts follow

33. Let’s digress for a
moment – Who is this
woman?

34. Create your own
“We
almost professional
had it
ALL!” improvement plan
& move forward! No
excuses! “Never
mind!
I’ll find
someone
like
you!”
“Don’t
forget
me, I
beg!”

35. Make a commitment now to…
• Set realistic professional
learning goals
• Find the online & face-to-face
training you need
• Use a Professional Learning
Network (PLN) for support
• Build collaborative alliances
• Document & share successes
• Don’t give up; many students
are depending on you!

37. What are your
experiences?
What are your
challenges?

38. Contact:
Lisa Perez
Network Library
Coordinator
Chicago Public Schools
Dept of Libraries
leperez1@cps.edu
@leperez1
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