ADVOCACY+STRAND

=__POSSIBLE SESSIONS__: (Maybe we can rename this Strand Making Advocacy Fun?) =

**Advertise Your Library**
Come and see how 3rd and 4th graders at Brewster-Pierce Memorial School demonstrated media literacy skills (from the guidance curriculum) by creating Library Advertisements using digital photo stories and movies. Unexpected benefits included better collaboration with teachers and advocacy for the library when sharing the final products with the community. Librarian Sue Irish and Integration Specialist Joanne Finnegan will share what they learned from the process and some final products.

Joanne Finnegan, Integration Specialist CESU Schools joanne.finnegan@cesu.k12.vt.us Sue Irish, Library Media Specialist Brewster-Pierce Memorial School suzanne.irish@cesu.12.vt.us

**How do you spell Advocacy? B-L-O-G**
Now more than ever, your community needs to know what you do and how you benefit students. Blogging can be a powerful part of your advocacy toolkit! Explore the basic anatomy of a blog and the relationship between blogging and AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner. Participants will leave with many resources to help them get started writing a blog of their own. (Kathy is an elementary librarian and the author of two blogs.)

Name: Kathy Lawrence Position: Librarian School:Hiawatha Elementary School School Address: 34 Hiawatha Ave., Essex Junction, VT 05452 School Phone:802-857-7000 x4207 or4208 District: Chittenden Central Supervisory Union E-Mail: klawrence@ccsuvt.org