edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner! AASL’s Social Media Superstars program honors school library professionals who enrich the profession and its work on behalf of students by sharing information, expertise, ideas, encouragement, dialog and inspiration using a variety of social media channels.
In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School, CT, shares strategies to fold visual and data literacy into classroom and professional learning.
Michelle Luhtala explores school library makerspaces from floor plans, furnishings, and equipment to the role of play in a data-driven education landscape.
In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala and guest Tasha Bergergson-Michelson answer the essential questions about the research process.
In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala and Dr. Brenda Boyer share the flipped instructional program that Dr. Boyer introduced to her virtual library students.
This edWebinar equips participants with talking points to promote library programs, reframing their work with new language, and dispelling myths about librarianship.
Augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality—can immersive technology really benefit students and their learning, or are these just tech fads? In their recent edWebinar, Jaime Donally, Author, Speaker, and Edtech Consultant, and Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, explained that although these technologies aren’t the answer to everything, they are transforming learning and will continue to do so going forward. In addition, while the thought of using these tools can be exciting, schools need to first plan for successful integration into the classroom and curriculum.
In this #edWebinar, explore the two primary approaches to technology integration: SAMR and TPACK.
In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School, CT, interviews Jackie Whiting, Library Media Specialist at Wilton High School, CT, to discover how her district approached building a digital citizenship curriculum from the ground up.
How can intellectual freedom promote library and librarian advocacy? In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan (CT) High School, and Kristin Pekoll, Assistant Director at the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, will answer this question and many more.