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=AASL 2009= Charlotte, North Carolina November 12-15, 2009

> Playing off the popular theme of One Book for a group (school/city/state), the conference chose to discuss Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. > media type="custom" key="4801883" media type="custom" key="4809769"
 * **Andrea's Blog Reflection—**Click on the hyperlink to read about my experience at this conference.
 * **Blogs** that are reflecting on the AASL 2009 Experience
 * **Keynote Addresses**
 * danah boyd—Social media expert and researcher danah boyd served as the keynote speaker for the conference's Opening General Session. As an expert on online social network sites, the interdisciplinary research related to technology, communication, identity and social behavior, boyd helped attendees to understand how young people see and utilize social networking sites. Scroll video ahead to 28:35 to get right to danah's introduction. And yes, she spells her name in all lower case letters! danah is an ethnographer—trying to map culture; make sense out of what young people do and how does technology fit into their lives.
 * Interview at AASLwith danah
 * Interviewin SLJ
 * danah's blog
 * **James Patterson**--Best-selling author and school library advocate James Patterson was the keynote speaker at a Special Author Session called “Turbocharge Your Day with James Patterson! – Read Kiddo Read! He discussed the critical importance of getting our youth to love reading and learning. Says Patterson, “If we raise a generation of non-readers, we will be raising a generation of narrow-minded nincompoops.” Check out his website, Read Kiddo Read I could not find a video from AASL, but his recent talk at the National Book Festival does contain a lot of the same content from the speech. Just click on "Teens Webcast" to view his speech.
 * Marco Torres—An internationally renowned speaker, filmmaker, teacher and author of a wide variety of digital content, Marco served as the keynote speaker for the conference’s Closing General Session. As a passionate teacher focused on helping students become engaged in learning and acquire the skills they need to thrive in our 21st-century digital culture, Torres discussed the Internet as the stage on which digital media content is and will continue to be published for a global audience hungry to hear the voices of our diverse neighborhoods.
 * iCan-—a repository of student work
 * Flick School--This wiki is created to provide you with useful tips and resources to guide you through the production of documenting your school.
 * A conversation with Marco Torres
 * **PreConference Event**
 * //**Eating Elephants 2.0**// by Doug Johnson
 * Session wiki
 * SlideShare—While the title page of this slideshare is for a previous conference, it is pretty much what Doug used at AASL
 * Internet Safety Poster
 * **One Book, One Conference**
 * Online Discussion questionsled by conference co-chair, Ann Marie Pipkin.
 * **Blogger's Cafe**
 * A great "unconference" where conference goers could hang out with their wireless devices, collaborate with other professionals and/or take in an informal class on some Web 2.0 topic.
 * Unconference Website
 * **Author Banquet**
 * Charles R. Smith, Jr.
 * Laurie Halse Anderson
 * **Concurrent Sessions**
 * Handouts and comments for the concurrent sessions can be found here.
 * Buffy Hamilton's session on "Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging 21st Eentury Learning Through Participatory School Librarianship."
 * Gwyneth Jones "Turbo Charge Your Library
 * my tech wiki! http://mhmsmedia.wikispaces.com/gadget
 * electronic portfolio: [|http://staff.howard.k12.md.us/~gwynethj/gajportfolio]
 * professional blog: []
 * Twitter Back Channel during Conference:
 * **AASL Updates**
 * MILE Guide—he AASL National Conference was the site for the official launch of the Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (MILE) Guide. Those in the audience at Friday afternoon’s session were the first to see the MILE Guide in its final form
 * Release Video
 * Mile Guide--Guidelines for Improving Learning & Education. You can download the entire guide from this site.