Re: Library curriculum books and creating "hits"

[Joni J Rathbun <jrathbun@orednet.org>]

Ah, but this could be an opportunity! To actually have the classes to
call your own! To have regular and plentiful time to work with them!

The first thing I'd do is take a good look-see at their regular
curriculum and see where I could plug in, at standards and
benchmarks. Then I re-read Jamie McKenzie's article:

The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an
Electronic Age     by Jamie McKenzie
http://www.fromnowon.org/may98/cov98may.html

Not so much for the info on plagiarism but for the nice example
of different kinds of research. It's also time to pull out the
BIG 6.

I'd develop a multi-level research project (literature based
for starters) that supported and integrated with regular classroom
instruction/curriculum and incorporated those "library skills" that we find
necessary (but moved beyond that isolationist approach).

If I had technology available, I'd also have the children
move beyond the written report to learning how to communicate
knowledge and information effectively in digital formats.

Time is another issue... And I'm no whiz kid (old lady?) who will
solve that problem. That's for sure. But I surely would
love to have some students for more than 40 minutes a week
now and then. There are possibilities.

>
>I have the same thing, 2 6th grade classes that are all mine-and I hate it.
>I made up questions for states, presidents, and also have them use magazine
>indexes to do a report on ,their favorite person, anything to find
>information and do something with it.  The problem is I don't have time to
>grade papers and put the grades in the computer, and print out progress
>reports, and call parents, and make lesson plans, and....well you get the
>idea
>
>Sandy in Florida
>Media Specialist, Mulberry Middle School
>afn11720@afn.org
>
>On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, reader_damon wrote:
>
>> I have two questions to ask.
>> One, are there any textbooks, workbooks, or other that exists to teach
>> students library skills.  I will have three classes of 5th and 6th graders
>> everyday and would like some lesson ideas (these students will not be
>> coming in with a class, they will be my students and I will grade them).
>>
>> Two, I have been asked to create a hit of the responses I received
>> concerning my webpage creation question.  How do I do this?
>>
>> Damon Reader
>> Library Media Specialist at Oldfield Middle School
>> dreader@titan.liunet.edu
>>
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Joni Rathbun, North Area Regional Media Specialist: jrathbun@orednet.org
Lincoln City, Oregon -- Lincoln County School District
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