What new, differentiated strategies can school librarians use to support students – and their classroom teaching colleagues – in evaluating, synthesizing, and contextualizing nonfiction digital content? What experiences can be offered that will inspire students to communicate, collaborate, and think both critically and creatively within a framework of inquiry-based learning?

Get new answers in this powerful, practical, 60-minute discussion with live Q&A! Britannica Digital Learning experts and our experienced panel members will share how to:

• Provide differentiated learning experiences for students conducting research with digital resources
• Provide engaging opportunities for students to create and publish their research findings as a form of assessment
• Support standards across the curriculum, including the Common Core, related to using search terms effectively, gathering relevant information, comparing and contrasting information from multiple text and multimedia sources, assessing the credibility and accuracy of sources, reading for evidence and constructing arguments, and more.
• Employ new and practical ideas for using nonfiction articles, primary sources, images, and other digital content to enliven an inquiry-based learning environment.

Panelists Deana Beecher has been a library media specialist in Decatur Township in Indianapolis, IN since 1999. Currently at Decatur Central High School, she previously spent 4 years teaching in Western Kentucky, two as a high school media specialist and two as a classroom teacher.  Deana's driving passion is to create independent users of information. Kim Blankenship has been a Library Media Specialist for 23 years.  For the past three years,  she has been the librarian at Wellington Elementary School,  a new 21^st century media center located in Lexington KY. Barbara Romersheuser has been the District Library Media & Textbook Coordinator for the Eagle County Schools in Eagle, Colorado for the past six years. Her responsibilities include supervising 9 elementary/4 middle/2 high school facilities and one virtual media center.  Prior to this she has served as a middle school media specialist, Asst. Principal, and Master Teacher. Moderator Doreen Wolfgram is a Curriculum Specialist with Britannica Digital Learning. She travels the United States introducing the company’s resources to schools and libraries, with a special focus on the products’ curriculum applications to the Common Core and state standards. Doreen spent 15 years teaching language arts and social studies. Can't make it on October 8th? No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from School Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience!