Greetings,
I am new to this but I hope to make some good friends and gain some new ideas to use in my library. I am a Middle School Librarian. We were a year-round school until last year. This is my first full summer off in 15 years. I have to say I really love having the time to play. This summer I am playing with a vengance. I have taken on the musical directorship of a local community theater's production of "Oklahoma". I am having a grand time!!!!!
Also my school has gone down in students drastically because the district opened and new middle school. This is not a bad thing. I am hoping to lure more teachers into the libarary to do projects with me and to teach more research classes. So I am looking for ideas that I can use.
Cheers
Deb
I am interested in authentic assessment in the library setting. What I would like specifically is to hear about others who are interested giving students credit for the work they do in the classroom as a group. The problem lies in how we are to assess the work they are doing which is worth our attention and grading.
I have been researching how other teachers are dealing with the issue of authentic assessment and how they might be incorporating this type of assessment into the curriculum of the classroom. Let me know what you think and what you are doing to change the way students are looked at in the classroom setting.
I just spent the last two days trying to move into the 21st century. We are (and I blush) finally moving to an automated system. The cataloguers are hard at work in my library as I type. It's going to be a steep learning curve and as with all technology there will be glitches but I am excited about the new possibilities that will open up. I spent some time playing with Toondo today and offer my effort below. I think it will be a great tool for introducing kids to things on my library website. To see the cartoon I created go to:
I had the opportunity to hear Joyce at NECC this past few days, and her presentation was incredibly inspiring. Her vision to share the web 2.0 tools and help students become information fluent infused the whole presentation.
She really stressed creating pathfinders for students, which I do, but she creates them on everything, and ties in many sources that I wouldn't have thought of. And she uses wikis for the pathfinders so that other teachers can add sources as well, which is quite logical.
She mentioned even having students help add to the pathfinder.
She has a site sharing the tools and ideas she talked about, and the updated powerpoint will be added soon. Also I blogged it as I was listening to her presentation and my notes, (which I was taking live) are here.
The other thing she modeled was a great presentation, tying the presentation together with a theme--a great example of a TEACHER/librarian.
Thanks, Joyce, for the inspiration.
