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 Crowley’s Ridge June 12th 8:30 to 11:30 - "New Research Strategies for the Upper Grades"- Rachel Shankles  This half day workshop will help teachers and librarians focus on research strategies to get the students to use print media first then turn to the Internet resources. Methods and timelines for research units, as well as how to teach Boolean Logic to students, how to use Google as the search engine of choice for educational research, and citing online resources. Handouts will be provided. Target audience: middle school to high school teachers of research and media specialists  12:30 to 3:30 "The New Library Media Center for the Arkansas Literacy Push"- Rachel Shankles This one half day workshop will cover updating your library media center with the newest technologies and redesigning the area to allow for comfortable reading areas. Ideas for funding and a powerpoint of library reading areas from around the state will be shared. Weeding and updating the collection and how to's on purchasing new YA fiction will be discussed also. Target: all levels of library media specialists will enjoy this session  June 13th 8:30 to 11:30  "Programming Ideas for Libraries" – Rachel Shankles This half day workshop will cover tons of ideas for getting the students into your 'new' library to show them your 'new' books. Funding, PR, contests, monthly programming ideas, guest speakers (free and not quite free), and Book Clubs will be discussed. Slide show and other handouts. Rachel will share the Photostories and memory pages of the last three years of programming in her high school library that resulted after the 8th thru 12th grade literacy push in Arkansas schools brought on by Next Step. Target- all library media specialists  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">12:20 to 3:30 - "Free ESL Resources 24/7 For Librarians & Others to Share With Their Schools"- Rachel Shankles <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This workshop is designed to teach librarians, ESL teachers, and foreign language teachers how to use the Spanish portions of the free state databases. Britannica and EBSCO will be spotlighted. Britannica online provided free from the Ark State Library to all schools has two different encyclopedias in Spanish and the English version has a place to turn on a translator. EBSCO is a free magazine database that can be used completely in Spanish. Rachel will discuss online resources to help the attendees teach this workshop at their schools. Target: All Media Specialists, foreign language teachers, ESL teachers, teachers with ESL students. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">