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We could do it the week before if that works better than the week of the 14th. Having your classes in all day, every day is a dream, not a burden! Sharon Hamer--Library Teacher Belmonte Middle School Saugus, MA 01906 shamer@saugus.k12.ma.us -----Original Message----- From: School Library Media & Network Communications [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of LM_NET automatic digest system Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:16 PM To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: LM_NET Digest - 11 Nov 2009 - Special issue (#2009-1640) There are 9 messages totalling 606 lines in this issue. Topics in this special issue: 1. Slight correction - FCC 2. TAR:: Making Words: Cunningham 3. Fiction/Non-fiction and Dewey Numbers 4. 4th-6th grade realistic fiction 5. New Lesson Plan - Congress: A Vocabulary Review 6. Middle School Thanksgiving lesson 7. call 8. Ficiton/ Non-fiction 9. OMG! More Reefer Madness ~ Just Say "No" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Here is my response: You do not need to keep records. In the prior regulations, that they have inserted this new language into it stated: =B3Because we concur that these data collection and reporting requirements fall outside the requirements of CIPA, we decline to impose such requirements on recipients. As we have stated previously, we are confident that local authorities will take the appropriate steps to ensure that they have complied with CIPA's requirements.=B2 The decision of what you need to teach is up to the district. It should be noted that elementary students are not allowed on the popular social networking sites. And they are hopefully not using chat rooms where people over 13 are present. I would advise that elementary schools view the kids sites, such as Club Penguin and Web Kinz, as elementary level social networking sites and teach such things as how to respond if anyone sends a nasty message, not to send nasty messages, and what kind of information they should not post. Also I think it is important to have students read the terms of use for these sites and learn how to file a complaint. And they will not be able to do this if the teachers can=B9t bypass the fil= ter to take them to the sites to read the terms of use policies and look at the complaint process! We can=B9t teach children to swim if we do not allow swimming pools at school. Nancy --=20 Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D. Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use http://csriu.org http://cyberbully.org http://cyber-safe-kids.com http://csriu.wordpress.com nwillard@csriu.org Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress (Research Press) Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Leslie PS: The kids love the shelving site that was posted earlier. ******************************* Leslie Greaves Radloff, BS.Ed; MS.LME; MN History Curriculum Award Winner;Book Reviewer-Library Media Connection and others Member: ALA/YALSA; MEMO; METRONET Licensed Teacher Librarian Maxfield Magnet School 380 N. Victoria Street Saint Paul, MN 55104 651.293.8680 Ext.1134 651.293.5306 fax leslie.radloff@spps.org ******************************** School libraries with licensed professionals equal higher student achievement. Make school libraries a priority. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:58:14 -0500 From: Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Fiction/Non-fiction and Dewey Numbers This is a MAJOR pet peeve of mine! The Dewey number section of the library is NOT the non-fiction section of the library and we need to stop calling it that! The Dewey numbered section is the MAIN library. Special collections are pulled out of it SOME places such as 1. novels which many call the Fiction section, 2. Biographies, 3. Atlases, and 4. Reference. Different libraries find the need to set up various special collections. Please stop telling the kids that the Dewey numbers are non-fiction. It is a system to classify ALL books. -- Frederick Muller, Librarian Halsted Middle School Library Newton, NJ mullinator52@gmail.com My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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A 2009 participant, Erica Powell, Mt. Diablo High School, = Concord, CA, presented a lesson entitled, "Congress: A Vocabulary Review." This activity is based on a game called "Shenanigans." The purpose of this = lesson is to review students=92 knowledge of key concepts and terms = related to Congress=2E Find "Congress: A Vocabulary Review" at: = http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_congressvocabrev.htm Cindy Koeppel The Dirksen Congressional Center 2815 Broadway Pekin, IL 61554=20 309.347.7113 309.347.6432 Fax Web site: http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org Facebook: = http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dirksen-Congressional-Center/144144304380= =20 Twitter: http://twitter.com/dirksencenter=20 =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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I feel that it might be to juvenile for 8th graders to read a story, but I want to know your experience. Do any of you have experience or have a lesson you could share for Thanksgiving with the audience of 7th and 8th graders. I appreciate all your experience and suggestions. Amanda Porter Librarian - Media Specialist Rocky Mountain Middle School Heber City, Utah 84032 435-654-9350 amanda.porter@wasatch.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, ALA Editions, 2010; Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook, ALA Editions, 2010; Thinking Outside the Book, McFarland 2008. Some others: Peter Lang, Libraries Unlimited, Linworth, Scarecrow Foreword: Robert P. Holley, Professor of Library & Information Science, Wayne State University, obtained his doctorate from Yale University, his MLIS from Columbia University. Dr. Holley contributed to, Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, ALA Editions, 2010 Afterword: Sarah Passonneau, Assistant Professor, Assistant-to-the Dean, Iowa State University Library. Previously a community college, school librarian in Minnesota; county librarian in California. Contributor: Greening Libraries, Library Juice Press, 2011 Chapters sought for an anthology by soon to be retired or now retired academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences on retirement to help colleagues. Concise, how-to chapters, using bullets, headings No previously published, simultaneously submitted material; 2100-2300 words total. One chapter or two. If two, please divide words-one chapter may be 900 for example, the other 1300 words. If you must use citations, employ MLA style faithfully. Chapters may be written by one librarian, or co-written by two Possible topics: Financial Planning Before Retiring; Early Retirement--or Not; Part Time/Full Time Jobs After Retirement; Using Library Skills to Enhance Retirement Life; Writing for Publication or Family Histories; Keeping Healthy in Mind and Body; The Aging Process, Wills, Assisted Living; Going Back to School, Auditing/for Credit; Political Office and Leadership Positions; Notable Retirement Activities; Retirement Daily Economics; Legacies, Memorials The deadline for completed chapters (Call #1) is December 20, 2009. Contributors will receive an agreement to sign before publication. 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Consequently it goes in the section for holidays and customs around the world. Seems to work. **************************** Barb Engvall =^..^= Teacher-Librarian John Campbell Elem Selah, WA macbarb@charter.net http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm On Nov 11, 2009, at 6:44 AM, Beth Davis wrote: > I know this has been addressed before, but here is where I have a > problem. I try to teach my students the difference in ficiton and > non-fiction and it works except fot fairy tales...how do you explain > fairytales in the section with information/ facts? I need an > explaination that would make sense to a first grader. > Thanks! :o) > > > Beth Davis > Media Specialist > Model Elementary School > Rome, Ga > bethdavis@floydboe.net > > > > Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire." ~ > William Butler Yeats > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. > You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings > by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. > To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu > In the message write EITHER: > 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET > 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL > 3) SET LM_NET MAIL > 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST > > * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ > * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ > * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html > * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:15:08 -0800 From: Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG> Subject: OMG! More Reefer Madness ~ Just Say "No" No, I have not yet gotten my breakfast or coffee - but this in my email inbox from Enough is Enough. These folks are very active in Virginia. "It seems that everyday, we receive another report of a missing child.=A0 Regardless of age, race, gender, location, or academic achievement, no child is immune.=A0 While the vast majority of cases of abductions do not involve the Internet, in today's tech-connected world, it's critically important for kids to guard personal information that could make them a target.=A0 In a recent survey, one in ten youth posted or shared information on a public blog or social networking site about places they typically go.=A0 The major= ity of teens today share photos and videos of themselves on a number of public spaces, placing them at increased risk to being targeted by an Internet predator, cyberbully or identity thief. =A0Please take time to educate the children under your care about staying safe in their on- and offline worlds.=A0 As parents, teachers and other caring adults, we all hav= e a role to play in protecting children.=A0 We are the first line of defense!" This attempts to raise fears about predation and abduction that are not grounded in the research data. Look here: http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/internet-crimes/ This is Crimes Against Children Research Center. Here is what they say: "The publicity about online =B3predators=B2 who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.=A0 Internet sex crimes involving adults and juveniles m= ore often fit a model of statutory rape =AD adult offenders who meet, develop relationships with, and openly seduce underage teenagers -- than a model of forcible sexual assault or pedophilic child molesting." The kind of material that teens might post that create risk is sexually-inviting material. NOT information about where they live and places they typically go. There are reasons to be concerned about different kinds of material that students might post. But it is very important to address generally - NOT in the context of fear of predator abduction. More from this email: Caution your children about posting: "* =A0Personal or Contact Information: Your child's full name,=A0=A0 add= ress, phone number, passwords, and financial identity information should only be provided on a secure site and under parental supervision. * Intimate personal information: Private, personal and sensitive information (such as a teen's journal) should not be posted at all and should only be shared in private emails with a trusted personal friend. * Reputation-damaging information or images: Explicit or suggestive pictures, etc. should never be posted or sent." Now I am more than a little irritated about this because this is a list of different types of information that has been taken directly from MY material - with MY headings (intimate personal, reputation damaging) - without ANY CITATION regarding source! My material is not yet published. I shared this privately with these folks. But in fact, I do not present my guidance in this area in the context of fear of predators - and would not want my name used in association with spreading this inaccurate fear. Note again the unwarranted fear communicated about posting information associated with places they go - associated with concerns of predator abduction. This is the kind of Reefer Madness information that will interfere with establishing 21st Century schools with web 2.0 technologies. Nancy --=20 Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D. 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