Papers, Presentations, and Publications

Papers

Assessing Patrons’ Needs and Access: Developing the eBook collection in the Dexter High School Learning Commons

A research proposal for assessing the need for developing the eBook collection in the DHSLC. This proposal considers teachers' use of texts (print and digital) in their classroom content curricula, as well as students’ access to appropriate eReader technology.

Holler if you can hear me in the ghetto: A comparative analysis

An analytical essay comparing Holler if you Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students a biography by Gregory Michie and Ghetto Schooling: A political Economy of Urban Educational Reform by Jean Anyon.

A Consideration of the Value of Earning an IB Diploma

A research paper reviewing the history of the IB programme, the process of establishing an IB programme, the experience of students participating in the IB programme, and the value of earning an IB diploma.

Presentations

What is IB and is it right for you?

A multimedia presentation highlighting the pros and cons of an International Baccalaureate Program Diploma.

Writing Centers and Libraries working together

A presentation and paper highlighting opportunities for campus writing centers and academic libraries to collaborate to improve student research efforts.

Publications

Titles with Cherry Lake Publishing

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Creating Data Literate Students
edited by Kristin Fontichiaro, Jo Angela Oehrle and Amy Lennox

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Chapter 10: Using data visualizations in the content area
by Jennifer Colby

Providing high school librarians and educators with foundational domain knowledge to teach a new subset of information literacy skills — data and statistical literacy, including:

statistics and data comprehension
data as argument
data visualization

Working in concert, these concepts can help librarians and educators make better sense of real-world data concerns and have the confidence and content knowledge to share those skills with the high schoolers they serve.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Information Literacy But Were Afraid to Google edited by Kristin Fontichiaro

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Middle School Students and Satisficing:  ”I Know, I Know ... Don’t Go to Wikipedia”
by J. Colby, pp. 18-22

"Beyond Questioning and Answering: Teens' Learning Experiences and Benefits of Social Q&A Services"

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CSCW '17 Companion of the 2017 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Pages 295-298

School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come
edited by Kristin Fontichiaro

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The Future of Storytimes:
"On With the Show, This Is It!" The School Media Specialist as Performer
by J. Colby, pp. 74-75

A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors, my contribution to this eBook is an article on effective and entertaining library storytimes.

"2,445 Hours of Code: What I Learned from Facilitating Hour of Code Events in High School Libraries"

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The feature article of the "Summer Learning" issue discussing the process of and lessons learned from hosting multiple Hour of Code events in school libraries to encourage school librarians to host their own Hour of Code event. Go to code.org for more information on the Hour of Code.

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