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 * APRIL 9 & 10, 2016 HISAR SCHOOL**

**LTEN12 ** FMV Işık Schools Erenköy Campus February 12, 2016 Conference started with It manager’s welcome speech and continued with school director’s speech. From her speech some recommendations: Book: Present Shock: when everything happens now by Douglas Rushkoff She highly recommended to look at Howard Gardner’s “Making thinking Visible” Project Zero. Young Guru Academy – Sinan Yaman Then almost two hours table discussions session started. Presenters came to our U shape tables and gave brief information about their topics. There were 8 topics ( listed below). But, we could’nt hear some of the presenters very well, and couldn’t concentrated to the topics.
 * Perspectives of Education Through Technology ****//- Teknoloji ile Değişen Eğitim Anlayışları //**

 · **Augmented&Virtual Reality, Deep Machine Learning//,// **// Moderator: Zehra ÖNEY / Blippar Turkey CEO // · **Brain Based Learning, ** //Moderator: Dr. Selçuk Can GÜVEN / GLOBED E-Learning Solutions// · **Design Thinking, ** //Moderator: Metin FERHATOĞLU / Robert College// · **Differentiated Instruction, ** //Moderator: M.Ali DOĞAN-Arif KAZANCI / Vizyon College// · **Digital Storytelling, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Işıl BOY ERGÜL / Yıldız Technical University// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gamification, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Yavuz SAMUR / Bahçeşehir University// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Infografik, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Kemal ŞAHİN / Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Univ., Emrah Cengiz / infografik.com.tr// <span style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 78pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mind Mapping, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Aykut AÇKALMAZ / AyThink Gelişim// **<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Some recommended web sites from the sessions: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research Based Principles for Designing Multimedia Instruction: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Search Engine for Apps: http://appcrawlr.com Apps & Tools Morfo: [] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ( **You can add face to a picture and make it talk with your voice)** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tellagami: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ** ( For animated videos ) ** Little Bird Tales: https://www.littlebirdtales.com Storybird: [|https://storybird.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quiver: [|http://quivervision.com] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">After lunch, there was a session “Secrets of Digital Storytelling” by Barış Özcan. He was really good, His web site is []<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> his youtube channel is [] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He could be a very good speaker. For infografik [] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Some samples [] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Free and paid icons []

CEESA librarian job-a-like 17 March 2016 “The first place of personalization - the library!” • Session 1 Skype call with Katie Day http://www.thelibrarianedge.com/ • Session 2 Discussion: Role of Library Spaces • Session 3 Discussion: Role of Librarians • Session 4 CEESA Open Forum / UnConference Click the link to enrol

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Please join us February 4-6, 2016 in Muscat, Oman! We are teaming with NESA's Winter Training Institute in providing a pre-conference, one day Destiny training on Thursday, February 4 with the Destiny Doctor, Larry Gilbert. Friday and Saturday will feature teacher librarian consultant, Shannon McClintock Miller.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Thursday workshop will be held at the conference hotel, the Park Inn Radisson Muscat, and the two day NESA Institute will be at the American International School of Muscat (TAISM).

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Destiny workshop will provide Destiny® Library Manager™ training for all levels of experience as well as presentations and group discussions. You will also learn more about Follett's digital solutions, hear what's going on in the libraries throughout the region and get a unique opportunity to collaborate and engage with your peers. We will also be highlighting our new business relationship with the **//International Baccalaureate Program//** and show how you can choose IB resources through Titlewave. This is a great way to have all of your questions answered in eprson by our very knowledgeable team of experts.

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[|IASL] 2015 George & Lesley (with massive help from Amanda & Big Thanks to Garrett) will be presenting a workshop on free, self-help PD using our network & wiki as an example. [|FutureLearn] is a marvellous, free learning MOOC with lots of different courses delivered by universities from around the world. I have completed & enjoyed Introduction to Cybersecurity, Developing your Research Project, Academic Integrity & Introduction to Dutch! Bu sunumda 17 Mart 2015 de Follett Workshop da Larry Gilbert tarafından verilen sunumdan e-kitaplar ile ilgili bölümden notlar ( Türkçe ) bulabilirsiniz. You can find screen shots from Follett Workshop about e-books. There are some notes in Turkish in the slides.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gordon Powell, a former colleague from British Columbia, shared this page of [|EBSCO journals] relevant to teacher-librarians. Not only will I make use of the page, I'm going to make something similar for the various departments in my school and send them the link. Anything to increase collegiality and database use!

Follett Workshop - Istanbul 20 - 21 January 2014 at Robert College.

Destiny @ IICS workshop presented by Amanda Bond, Teacher Librarian at Istanbul International Community School

Building an Inquiry Library presented by Amanda Bond, Teacher Librarian at Istanbul International Community School. Information with the presentation, our TodaysMeet comments

Booktalks with QR Codes presented by George Duvoisin, Teacher Librarian at FMV schools

The evolution of the, presented by Karen Lindsay, Head Librarian at Robert College

Portland State University Librarian and Professor, Meredith Farkas, lectures on Emedded Librarianship. Check them out here <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> I found many of the concepts and embedding strategies easily translatable to a K12 environment. Over 14 lectures, she covers course assignment design with teachers, collaborating in general, online embedment as well as many other topics that I found useful. (George) <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 1650.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LTEN12 ** <span style="color: #434343; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -21.35pt; text-align: right;">FMV Işık Schools Erenköy Campus February 12, 2016
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perspectives of Education Through Technology ****//<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Teknoloji ile Değişen Eğitim Anlayışları //**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -21.35pt;">Conference started with It manager’s welcome speech and continued with school director’s speech. From her speech some recommendations: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -21.35pt; text-align: justify;">Book: Present Shock: when everything happens now by Douglas Rushkoff She highly recommended to look at Howard Gardner’s “Making thinking Visible” Project Zero. Young Guru Academy – Sinan Yaman Then almost two hours table discussions session started. Presenters came to our U shape tables and gave brief information about their topics. There were 8 topics ( listed below). But, we could’nt hear some of the presenters very well, and couldn’t concentrated to the topics.

<span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 78pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Augmented&Virtual Reality, Deep Machine Learning//,// **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Moderator: Zehra ÖNEY / Blippar Turkey CEO // · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brain Based Learning, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Dr. Selçuk Can GÜVEN / GLOBED E-Learning Solutions// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design Thinking, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Metin FERHATOĞLU / Robert College// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Differentiated Instruction, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: M.Ali DOĞAN-Arif KAZANCI / Vizyon College// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Digital Storytelling, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Işıl BOY ERGÜL / Yıldız Technical University// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gamification, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Yavuz SAMUR / Bahçeşehir University// · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Infografik, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Kemal ŞAHİN / Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Univ., Emrah Cengiz / infografik.com.tr// <span style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 78pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> · **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mind Mapping, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Moderator: Aykut AÇKALMAZ / AyThink Gelişim// **<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Some recommended web sites from the sessions: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research Based Principles for Designing Multimedia Instruction: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Search Engine for Apps: http://appcrawlr.com Apps & Tools Morfo: [] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ( **You can add face to a picture and make it talk with your voice)** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tellagami: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ** ( For animated videos ) ** Little Bird Tales: https://www.littlebirdtales.com Storybird: [|https://storybird.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quiver: [|http://quivervision.com] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">After lunch, there was a session “Secrets of Digital Storytelling” by Barış Özcan. He was really good, His web site is []<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> his youtube channel is [] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He could be a very good speaker. For infografik [] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Some samples [] <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Free and paid icons []