School library media specialists are, by necessity, experts at multitasking. Information Power defines our roles as: teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, and program administrator. Blogs and wikis are fast emerging as effective tools, adding capability to our multitasking. While we are in separate buildings, Web 2.0 tools offer us collaboration. The purpose of this blog is to foster communication, keeping us on track with our wiki(s) and other current projects, and affording us the opportunity to think, post, and comment, whenever time allows.
My intended audience is first, my colleagues in Newport. In this narrow vision, many of my questions will be directly related to Newport's projects in progress. Of course, I would defy the nature of a blog if I didn't take advantage of the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues anywhere in the world. I'm sure I'll find similarities in our goals, our challenges, and our triumphs. I welcome your comments, too.
First topic: Newport colleagues: How far have we come in our goal of curriculum mapping, K-5? How much of the curriculum has been posted to the wiki, and what remains to be done?
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Hi Jen,
We are coming along - 2nd grade week by week is mapped out, just needs some tweaking. I am trying to get to 5th grade, and might start on this quarter first, then go back.
Here's another great thing I found- google documents. I've signed up for a free account, and much of the stuff we upload to the wiki (and we do have a limit as I am not paying for the space) can just as easily go into the google docs site. I will find it and get back to you!
Or maybe, since I am using it for some other projects, you could sign into google docs and let Jane and me in as collaborators? It would be nice if we could coordinate all three - love the blog. I have one but haven't used it yet, so I've got an article I want to post, hope I can do it here? Its about reading expectations for this generation...
Looks like you are off to a great start, Jennifer!
Dave Fontaine
Hello all, Last year and for this year I mapped all the skills I taught in my assigned classes and how my lessons supported the school curriculum. I also recorded all the classses, (and their research topics) that came to the library for research and the skills I taught. I have not posted this information. Please let me know how to do this.
The teachers are returning to the library this year with many of the same research projects.
Many teachers intrduce a project and want a day in the library using just books, encyclopedias, paper info, before letting kids on the Internet. Infotrac has been used a great deal with the 6th and 7th grade classes. Teachers want students to find a periodical source. Some classes come four or five times before the project is finished. Students are responsibile for recording bibliographic info. They will complete a bibliography using Easybib whern finished.
The past two weeks have been very exciting, though not unusual. I have had two classes visiting the library using materials almost every period. Makes the day go by fast. With the Internet down at Thompson Loraine and I did a lot of coying articles from reference books and World Book when students could have printed them out if the Internet was up. I like students to go home with some printout so they can work at home.
Thompson needs more ebooks, and or electronic encyclopedias, where whole classes can use the same "book" during a class period and of course at home. Last year I bought 4 or 5 ebooks of reference books that Thompson owns from Gale. They are biographies of famous people in the American Rev., Civil War, World War I. and World War II. You may find these by clicking on Infotrac at the Thompson Website. Sorry did I get off track?
Jen this blog looks like a fine tool for us to keep in touch. Jean
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