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Hi MILI folks (especially St. Paul) . . .
It sounds like there has been some confusion about the “Dribbling” lessons www.metrolibraries.net/pro/dribbling.html. The main thing to focus on are the lessons at the top of the page which are listed under QUESTION, GATHER, CONCLUDE, COMMUNICATE, EVALUATE. These are “little” lessons you may be able to add to your already established curriculum, and they focus specifically on research and information literacy skills (such as “Narrowing a Topic” and “Evaluating Websites”). Beginning in January, I’ll be adding to this section, and I would love to know if you have suggestions of concepts to cover or content to include.
Farther down the main page, there are also links to lessons for some subject areas. The only subjects currently covered are Art, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies because those are the subjects the teachers in last year’s project taught. However, this section is really only meant to show a few examples of lessons which effectively incorporate information literacy skills, and they are broadly organized by each subject’s MN standards. There’s a chance that a lesson or two could fit into what you already do. At the top of each page there is a link to additional resources which leads to a page with links to websites which consistently offer great lessons so you can find lessons that fit and incorporate info lit. Also in January, I plan to add more subject areas so it is more widely applicable. Again, comments and suggestions always welcome! Maybe we can eventually add a button for that on the site . . .
Hope this helps. Great blogging everyone!!
The prelude of posts to come . . . .
I had been trying to figure out how to make my blog become the main place I “store” all of the information I acquire as I am “Finding My Way” in the information world, library world, and world in general. One major source of information I wanted to make available to myself (and others, if interested) was my classwork. I’ve done a lot of work for these MLIS classes that are making me a librarian, and much of it could be useful to me in the future. But computers come and go, so I didn’t want to save everything on my hard drive. Zip drives and other storage units are great, but they are prone to loss and destruction. Plus, I didn’t know of an easy way to make these formats available on my blog without copy/pasting the content into a post.
Lo and behold, along comes Zoho Viewer. As its tagline says, “Get rid of attachments. Just upload your document, grab the URL, and share it with your friends or post it in blogs / forums. No sign up required.” So, in a way it is like Google Documents, because you can allow others to edit your documents — yet another Web 2.0 tool encouraging and allowing easy collaboration. OR you can just let others view your document, which is what I’m doing on my blog.
Since I already use it, I tried Google docs, too, after I realized Zoho is similar. But I like Zoho better for this purpose because it has a “Bulk” upload option which is easier — less clicking. Plus I like the final view better in Zoho. Also, Zoho might be a good option for collaborating with people online who do not (for whatever reason) want to set up a Google Account.
Introduction to Library Science with Marilyn Cathcart:
Review of Public Libraries Journal
Introduction to Reference with Joyce Yukawa:
“Walking Minneapolis” Bibliography
Introduction to Cataloging with David Lesniaski:
Young Adult Literature with Heidi Hammond
Response Journal
Arab-American Literature Bibliography
Curriculum Class with Jim Glazer
The Role of Libraries in Learning Communities Powerpoint and Notes
Review of ”Expert” Kathy Schrock
Lesson Plan about ELM Databases
Media Skills Matrix and Summary
Searching Electronic Databases with Deb Torres
