I took the NEKLS Tech Toy Box down to Emporia for the Summer Institute for School Librarians last week, and it was a resounding success. Many of you are familiar with the documents Sharon and I generally share at the Tech Toy Box events, but I thought I’d share the resources again for those who haven’t seen them. Also, I’m including a few additional resources I share with the school librarians and teachers I’ve presented the Tech Toy Box to.
- Tech Toy Box contents
- Tech Toy Box price list
- Free eBook resources (courtesy of Shari Schawo, TSCPL)
- Preparing your school for an iPad implementation [This list of questions is great for any school or organization considering large-scale deploy of any type of tablet or ereader or even laptops]
- What’s on my iPad? [List of apps on my iPad + educational iPad resources]
- Librarian Brings Kindles into the Classroom [links in there to helpful sources]
- Diving into Digital Books: Adding eReaders to Your School Library webinar. [archive and resources available]
- The Kindles Are Coming: Ereaders and tablets are springing up in schools—and librarians are leading the way
- Joyce Valenza Post: Very Kind Kindle support from Buffy Hamilton! (and on further celebrating our network)
- What do I do with five Kindles? [Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog]
- Buffy Hamilton spoke at the NEKLS School Librarian Workshop in July 2011, slides for her presentation are available.
If anyone is interested, I blogged some of the sessions at Summer Institute on my professional blog. You can read the notes there:
- Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools (Dr. Milton Chen, Senior Fellow, Edutopia)
- The Technology Edge: Leading Innovation in Our School from the Olathe East HS Library (Lori Franklin, Olathe East HS Library)
- Librarians Know How to Find Stuff (Matt Upson, Emporia State University, on “Using the Living Dead to teach Information Literacy”)
If you are a school librarian and are interested in someone from NEKLS bringing the Tech Toy Box to your school for an inservice training event, please email Heather Braum (hbraum (at) nekls (dot) org.
Heather Braum is the Technology Librarian at NEKLS. She can be reached by phone, by email (hbraum (at) nekls.org), or through several online chat services (look Heather up by her email address). Visit the 
