Monthly Archives: April 2009
Standards from AASL and ISTE with added Survey Benefit
I had an excellent idea for ALL Georgia School Library Media Specialists to become familiar with the current national standards. Please forward this to ALL Georgia School Library Media Specialists that are in your contact list.
Step One: Take the following survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=odXXZCYw4YDbUcum7g5j0w_3d_3d
This survey lists the AASL Standards and asks you to think about your level of endorsement and implementation.
The AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner (2007) are found at the following link:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm (if you have taken the survey—you have read through them once)
Step Two: Read the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (2007) and Teachers (2008):
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS
Step Three: Check out the GLMA Website for the Information Literacy Checklists. Yes, they are outdated, but look at Step Four.
http://www.glma-inc.org/handbook.htm
Step Four: Participate in the GLMA Summer Institute, read the GLMA Blog, stay involved as our profession adapts to a new learning landscape.
GLMA Website: http://www.glma-inc.org
GLMA Blog: http://glma.wordpress.com/
Thanks in advance for using the following survey to familiarize yourself with the AASL standards:
If you understand the statements below, are at least 19 years old, and freely consent to be in this study, click on the following link to begin.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=odXXZCYw4YDbUcum7g5j0w_3d_3d
Please forward to all Georgia School Library Media Specialists. THANKS!
Please consider taking the survey found at the end of this email. Please forward to all Georgia School Library Media Specialists in your contact lists. The survey consists of reading through the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner and rating your level of e ndorsement and level of implementation. Thanks in advance for your participation. I will provide links to the results as soon as they are available.
Cawood Cornelius
EdD Candidate
Cawood Cornelius, Principal Investigator from the University of Alabama, is conducting a research study called Survey of School Library Media Specialists’ Perceptions of the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner. He wishes to find out how the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner (2007) is perceived by school level library media specialists including their level of endorsement and level of implementation.
Taking part in this research study is completely voluntary. Taking part in this research study involves completing a web survey that will take about 30 minutes. This survey contains questions about the level of endorsement and implementation of the beliefs and standards contained AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner (2007).
There are minimal risks associated with the completion of this survey. The risk that the confidentiality of your survey answers will be breached is slight. Your confidentiality risks will be minimized by the following protections. We will protect your confidentiality by not asking identifying information that will be attached to the data. The data are password protected and will only be accessed by the investigator. Only summarized data will be presented at meetings or in publications.
There will be no direct benefits to you except the altruistic feeling of contributing to research in the field of school libraries. The findings will be useful to the school library media profession for the purpose of continued research on the new beliefs and standards.
If you have questions about this research study, please contact Cawood Cornelius, principal investigator, by email (cawood.cornelius@gmail.com) or Dr. Douglas McKnight, research study advisor, by email (dmcknigh@bama.ua.edu) or phone (205-348-1449). If you have questions about your rights as a research participant, please contact the University Institutional Review Board at (205) 348-5152 or Tanta Myles, Director and Research Compliance Officer, by email (cmyles@fa.ua.edu) or phone (205-348-5746)
YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS RESEARCH STUDY IS COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY. You are free no t to participate or stop participating any time before you submit your answers.
If you understand the statements above, are at least 19 years old, and freely consent to be in this study, click on the following link to begin.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=odXXZCYw4YDbUcum7g5j0w_3d_3d
Student Book Reviews
Recently I collaborated with a senior tech LA teacher on some student book reviews. The students each read three books, chose the one they liked best, and created a review appropriate for our blog, as well as a sign with their review on it to be displayed in the media center. It was a great success! Students came in and showed off their reviews to other students, and many of the books got checked out very quickly.
There are pictures here of a couple of the signs on display in our media center, and our blog is located at http://justshelveit.wordpress.com/ .
Next fall I’m planning on sending a generic assignment to our LA department they can tweak to fit their needs, and I’m hoping to do much more of these next year. More kids checking out books = success!
Holly Frilot
Collins Hill High School
Join the GLMA Facebook Group!
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Are you looking for another way to keep up with the latest news from GLMA? Do you enjoy social networking, or have you thought about joining Facebook? Come connect with GLMA through our new GLMA Facebook Group! Facebook can be a valuable part of your personal learning network by helping you connect with your fellow school librarians in Georgia as well as other school librarians around the world! Share ideas and content while keeping up with the latest news from GLMA through our new Facebook group.
Follow GLMA on Twitter
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You can now keep up with the latest news from the Georgia Library Media Association on Twitter! If you haven’t added Twitter to your personal learning network, consider tapping into this social network to connect with other school librarians, teachers, and technology specialists! You may follow GLMA at http://twitter.com/glma.
Buffy Hamilton
Dewey Do or Die: Great Help Is Out There
So, what could possibly be more boring than hearing your teacher say, “Now, boys and girls, we’re going to learn about the Dewey Decimal System.” Groan!!
Good news! There are some really cool websites that provide neat games, worksheets, puzzles, activities, lesson plans, and even flash movies, at all grade levels, on this organizational scheme. When it’s time to help students learn how to locate materials in the SLMC, these entertaining sites can introduce an element of anticipation and excitement to teaching the system.
One website that is very popular with the students in my Cataloging course is the “Alien” website. This is a site where students learn about all of the Dewey categories from “aliens” who visit the earth. Cartoon sketches make this such an appealing site for younger learners.
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/Alien/alien.htm
One site that offers several games with great interaction for students is the studystack site. Check it out:
http://www.studystack.com/hangman-471
For very young learners, the caveman’s guide to the Dewey Decimal System is a winner!
ww2.bullittschools.org/fes/Power%20Point%20Lessons/dewey_decimal_system_animated.ppt
This next site has free Powerpoint presentations, game links for kids, and idea sites for teachers.
http://languagearts.pppst.com/deweydecimals.html
A game for elementary through advanced level for sorting, alphabetizing, and Dewey order is located at this website:
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valmstrum/s2s/utopia/library4/src/library4.html
The last site I’ll share is one that is geared toward high school students. This site has links to information that will help students correctly answer questions that are posed at the site.
http://www.iit.edu/~smart/halsey/lesson1.htm
There are several additional sites that serve as excellent tools for teaching Dewey to P-12 students, including homeschoolers. I have a handout of Dewey sites that I use with my cataloging class; I’d be happy to share with anyone who would like to have the list. With so many good sites available for teaching students how to use the Dewey System, media specialists have an excellent opportunity to glean from “collective contributions” as they assist students in understanding this scheme for locating information in the media center proper.
Dewey would be proud!!
Phyllis R. Snipes, University of West Georgia
