{"id":1519,"date":"2017-11-13T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-11-13T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:20:21","slug":"vaasl-conference-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/2017\/11\/13\/vaasl-conference-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"VAASL Conference 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This was my first conference for school librarians.\u00a0 I attended two days worth of sessions and gained lots of great new ideas to use in the library.\u00a0 One session I attended was about different topics and trends for 2017 in the library.\u00a0 Some great ideas I am excited to learn more about are breakout boxes, teaching students about fake news, global goals, libraries as learning spaces, and using social media as an advocacy tool.\u00a0 Audrey Church was the session leader and she provided great example materials for us to get started.\u00a0 I was also able to attend two author sessions.\u00a0 The first was with Kwame Alexander (pictured with me).\u00a0 He talked about his love for poetry and how hard he worked to become a published author.\u00a0 His talk about visiting different schools and letting students see what poetry really is was very moving.\u00a0 The next author I was able to listen to was Ruta Sepetys.\u00a0 Her session was about why she writes historical fiction and why she focuses on specific topics.\u00a0 Her session was extremely powerful.\u00a0 Another great session I attended was on makerspaces for the elementary library.\u00a0 The speaker told us how he was able to create his space and what are good things to add to a makerspace.\u00a0 He also brought some of his breakout boxes for us to try to open.\u00a0 I definitely came home with some amazing ideas on how to make the library new and exciting for students.\u00a0 The sessions also gave me helpful ideas on new lessons.\u00a0 I cannot wait to attend next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was my first conference for school librarians.\u00a0 I attended two days worth of sessions and gained lots of great new ideas to use in the library.\u00a0 One session I attended was about different topics and trends for 2017 in the library.\u00a0 Some great ideas I am excited to learn more about are breakout boxes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419535,300936],"tags":[301282,300934,423414,423415,281401,68792,301271,423413],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-2018","category-school-librarianship","tag-audrey-church","tag-graduate","tag-kwame-alexander","tag-ruta-sepetys","tag-travel","tag-vaasl","tag-vaasl-conference","tag-vaasl2017","count-0","even alt","author-","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/gradtravelgrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}