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**Dr. M.,**

 * Our collaboration took on a life of its own! It spread across all of our pages, not just the planning page:**
 * 1) ** Homepage **
 * 2) ** Research and Readings **
 * 3) ** Artifacts Page **
 * 4) ** Elevator Speech Brainstorm **
 * We left the collaboration in place for our collaborative evidence. The Pioneer Page is cleaned up with our final product.**
 * Thanks,**
 * Irene, Ann and Patrina**

** COLLABORATION EVIDENCE: **
Ann noticed that another group (I think Anna Darst's group?) organized this project with a Planning Page listing the requirements. As the requirements were met for this project, they used the strikethrough feature to track their progress. I loved the idea and we agreed that I would create the page and list the assignments. As we progress through them, any of the three of us can strikethrough the assignment list.

On 3/24/13, I sent a text to Ann and Patrina to let them know that the page was created and to have them check the format to give any feedback for changes they'd like to make, or if it's fine.

Question ladies: Do we want to assign each element a due date? Yes, I would also like to highlight the one we are currently working on.


 * PART ONE **

==== 2. Create a wikispaces wiki where you will collaborate on this project. Create at least THREE pages, one for each page of the final Pioneer School Library wiki project. See possible content below. **We have FIVE pages: Planning Page, Homepage, Reading/Research page, Artifacts Page, Elevator Speech Brainstorm Page** ====

==== 2. When you have determined your target audience and given them a name (such as Houston ISD principals), email that information to Dr. M. She will create final wiki pages for your team on the Pioneer School Library wiki. **Patrina and Ann e-mailed Dr. M. Our target audience is the principal of Fiesta Academy, an urban middle school in San Antonio, Texas (fictional). Dr. M created our pages on the Pioneer School Library wiki.** ====

==== 3. Read Chris O’Leary’s article about elevator speeches:@http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/essays/ElevatorPitch.html **Irene, Ann and Patrina confirm that we have read the article by Chris O-Leary. Evidence of our discussion is in the wiki comments feature.**====

** COLLABORATION EVIDENCE: **
==== **I made a new page "M & A Elevator Speech Page" to brainstorm. It is on your list of pages, so I guess you can look at it and see if you want it on your nav,bar for us to have a place to kenter notes on ideas which MIGHT qualify for elevator speech material. We can pick and choose what we like when we are ready to prepare it. I like a VoiceThread possibly and have never done one. Have you? I did a Voice Thread on the last project. The Voki you both want to use is a great idea. Students love it as well.** ==== ==== Hi Ann, its Patrina. Thanks for creating the new elevator speech page. I have not created my own VoiceThread before but I think it would be a great tool to use for our speech. I have enjoyed listening to them for this course so far. ====

1. Determine an individual or group of administrators that your team will target with this work ( Middle School Administrators)
==== 2. When determined your target, Dr. M. will create final wiki pages for your team on the Pioneer School Library wiki. (Has anyone sent Dr. M. our choice? I have not, Ann. Do you want to e-mail her? I'll text you. ) I got your text, and yes, I will email her that we chose Middle School Administrators as our audience. ====

We must create a school name for our project. Any ideas? Fly High Academy - lol, thinking of the video.
Fiesta Academy suggested by Irene and agreed upon.

1. Review the[|Rubric 4.3 – Marketing-Advocacy Project]. **We review the Rubric each week as we progress through the assignment.**
==== 2. Collect ideas for what to include on your wiki. ** We discuss what to add to our marketing plan each week. This is evidenced in the wiki collaboration on the planning page and in the discussion feature. If we discuss via text, phone or Wimba, we document this on the wiki. **==== =3. Create a slogan and logo. (Note if you use the @your library® brand, you must include the ® symbol! This is a registered trademark of the American Library Association.) Use the slogan/logo throughout this work. See the example  at: [] By March 29 - if possible with other assn. =



Feel free to change this. It was made with Adobe Fireworks. When made smaller it is difficult to read the book titles. I think the green book color is too dark to see the work Teachers. Maybe the letters on the books could be made bold. If anyone want to take this and start over, I will not be offended. We all have our talents, and obviously this is not one of mine. 4-7-13 It is now made with a lighter green. When saved, the red book gets blurry. If anyone wants to tweak it, you can find it in the file above. (1)

=** COLLABORATION EVIDENCE: **=

Irene here...what about "I teach, too! My classroom is the library!"
==== I like bringing the focus back to the library with that addition at the end, and I think that is vital in our slogan. Now we need to develop the logo. Oh boy, this is another new territory for me. Once we get it, we can put it at the top of each page. ====

After Wimba we decided we need to get the concept to collaborate in the slogan. This is documented in a discussion tab.
We seem to be stuck on this, but we need to finalize this soon. (Teaching 2gether 4 success with books and monitor) __//** Finalize slogan and logo by March 29 **//__

5. Hone in on the big ideas of impact on student achievement and instructional partner leadership roles in order to collaboratively compose an elevator speech of up to 2 mins. April 8 @ 8:00
==== 6. Record and post the speech to your page on using a Web 2.0 tool. Possible tools include an illustrated VoiceThread, Voki, Xtranormal, etc. (Illustrations must be relevant to the speech. They can include images of librarians or the physical space of the school or library. Avatars must be consistent and appropriate.) Work on it April 7 & completed then or by Apr. 14 Voki is complete. Irene recorded the Voki with her educator account. ====

7 . Post the speech and a transcript of the speech or an additional script to further the speech on your TWU Pioneer School Library homepage. April 14
==== 8. Create a marketing tool such as a brochure, bookmark, flyer (“Wanted” poster?), or wiki page to promote one or more roles and responsibilities of the school librarian and the library program. Finish by May 1. Earlier would be nice, but that would be difficult with our work and other assignments. This gives us a weekend after our collaboration assn. is finished. ==== LAPEL PIN, mouse pad, mug, Stadium cup (no), ceramic mug, bungalow foldaway tote, soft loop frosted shoppers (no), promotional drawstring sportpack, drawstring backpack, **business attache (18),** leisure duffel (no**),** Koozie 6-pack, **Well-rounded lunch cooler (22), square non-woven lunch bag (23), Cooler Bag,** Folding Chair, beach towel (no), umbrella, rollup fleece blanket (no),car sun shade, first aide kits, booster pin, little paw animals, back scratcher - HA!, lil piggy bank, LED key tag, tape measure vinyl, shuffle key light and tape measure, mints, bead therapy hot/coldpack, ID holder, name badge, banner, table throw (no), table runner, banner, post cards, tumbler with lid or lid and straw, sport bottle (no), coolie - who uses them?, flare mug, magnet, stress ball/stress reliever,phone holder (logo may be too big, cleaning cloth (for phone, computer, etc.) (52), mini megapphone amplifier, wave monitor and keyborad cleaner (53), //**media charging station**//, ear-buds with pouch, mouse pad, "blooming flower hub" (54), zippered portfoloio, tech padfolio, Windsor Reflections Collection, Bradford Journal with magnolia pen, padfolio, **sticky pads,** flag set --- I guess I think big with th epromotional tool. Anyone who does not like something can strike through it. I like the concept of giving something which is used and a continual reminder of the collaboration. Truly, marketing. These ideas are from a catologue from the company which is also online @ 4imprint.com/Education

We decided on a brochure and it was finished by our goal of MAY 1!!!!

11. Copy and paste your final content or insert your files on the TWU Pioneer School Library Wiki Web site. Tuesday, April 28 finished this April 29.
==== 12. Add two links to each page that connect to your audience’s other two pages as per the example for Houston ISD Principals: [] __//** Tuesday, Ap **////** ril 28 **//__====

1. Homepage: ** REQUIRED ** content: an elevator speech, a transcript or script, ** AND ** a link or downloadable marketing/advocacy tool
==== 2. Research – ** Required ** content: ** citations and annotations ** for research articles to provide data and support for the school librarian's impact on student achievement and the instructional partner and leader roles ==== ==== 3. Artifacts - ** Possible ** content: introduction to collaborative planning and lesson implementation, links to collaborative lesson plans, statement or table about the benefits of coteaching to specific audiences, links to inservice presentations, and more. ====

**CHECKLIST**
2. Will you link one or more of our persuasive presentations or collaborative lesson plans if they are appropriate for the instructional level of your target audience? 3. How will you introduce each resource? (A link is not enough.) 4. Do you have a catchy and meaningful slogan? Have you developed a logo for it? 5. Have you included your slogan as branding on ALL of your Wiki pages and documents? 6. Did you create a compelling elevator speech? 7. Does your elevator speech focus on practicing job-embedded professional development through instructional partnerships? 8. Did you include a text version of the elevator speech? 9. What kind of marketing tool did you create and link? 10. How does your marketing tool address instructional partnerships? Is it professional? Does it synthesize your learning in this course? Is it downloadable from the page? 11. Do not name your pages, Homepage, “Page #1” and “Page #2.” Did you appropriately rename all of your pages? 12. Did you link all of your pages from your librarian’s homepage? Did you link page #1 to the homepage and to page #2? Did you link page #2 to the homepage and page #1? Please use my example as a guide for navigation: **@http://twupioneerschoollibrary.pbworks.com/w/page/56939351/A_HISD ** 13. Did you check the information on the administrators’ homepage for accuracy? @http://twupioneerschoollibrary.pbworks.com/w/page/56938922/Administrators 14. Have you checked all of your links and downloadables from several computers to make sure they are freely accessible? 15. Did you turn in your signed permission form, or did you inform your partners’ that your work will be removed from the Web after it has been graded? (The answer to this question is I now have all of your signed permission forms. Thank you!)
 * 1. Did you (plural) consider all of the assignments for this course in you selection of documentation for this project? ** For example, what would be the impact of making a Portrait of a Collaborator for your presentation to administrators? **What about your A.1.4 Case Study paper? Is there information from that document that could positively influence administrators about the potential impact of classroom-library collaboration for instruction? **

=Collaboration regarding the elevator speech:= April 28, 2013. Hi ladies! Patrina here. The logo is looking great. Irene- great job completing and uploading our Voki! It sounds great.

3-26-13 The words are lost when the logo is made smaller so will have to revamp. It is made on Adobe Fireworks if anyone wants to mess with it. The green is lighter. Hope it is alright.

3-19-2013 Copied from home page of this wiki:

Article for Elevator Pitch
"Elevator Pitch 101 by Chris O'Leary." // Elevator Pitch Essentials by Chris O'Leary //. Web. 11 Aug. 2012. <[]>. 1. Concise 2. Clear 3. Compelling 4. Credible 5. Conceptual 6. Concrete 7. Consistent 8. Customized 9. Conversational

2-28-2013 I hope you don't mind that I created this page. I wanted a clean place to write ideas about the elevator speech. This is just a brainstoroming place. I invite you to insert, change color code and go wherever you want with this. I like the Voice thread and I think it is very professional for a principal presentation of the elevator speech.

Principals, budget cuts and greater academic demands? Larger class sizes? Your teachers will benefit from a helping hand and an additional working mind when they collaborate with the teacher-librarianor to develop, implement, and evaluate lessons which not only bring success on tests, but success for your 21st century students who can now leave the classroom ready to go "over the top" at the next level. More ideas at: []
 * Budget - Larger classes, higher expectations, Lower amounts of money to attain the results you want. The teacher-librarian can work with your teachers and be that curriculum expert you need. Lower that student-teacher ratio because you have a librarian who collaborates. "I teach too@ the Library."
 * Your librarian has teaching experience. They have a Masters Degree and have studied best teaching practices. They can lead your school in an exemplarary fashion! They teach too because they are teacher-librarians!
 * Do you have gaps in technology education? Your librarian has studied and prepared to not only know the tools of technology, but she also knows how to work with your teachers to implement technology into the content areas.
 * Your teacher-librarian can take the lessons witih boring workbooks and worksheets and bring them to life with Tech Tools, INQUIRY BASED LEARNING, and 21st Century Research methods and products. Help your teachers and benefit your students. Librarians teach, too!
 * Do you have a struggling teacher? Your teacher librarian may be the answer to co-teach with her or him. One librarian can lead and change the experience of an entire classroom of students because "I teach too @ the library."c
 * _' research found collaboration between the librarian and teachers _ because "I Teach Too @ the Library." (copyright logo needed if that is added, correct?)

Additional thoughts if needed ---Let's make learning fun again! Learning does not end with passed EOC tests. Your librarian is the key to supporting your teachers in developing an atmosphere of --

I like the idea that we are there to SUPPORT the teachers and work with them- not coming off that we are better than them or criticizing them...but we were happy with our speech and really don't need more...just that I like the support the teachers part because as Dr. M. says...IT IS A CLASS WITH THE NAME COLLABORATION IN THE NAME OF IT and our logo is about the 2 working together.

This was a group write done on Google Doc 4/8/2013. All three of us met at 7:00, but did not actually get the collaboration room and everything going until 7:15. Then we worked in earnest until 8:40. Irene will make this speech into a Voki, but not tonight.