Thank you to everyone who gave me wonderful advice!!!
Now, how much do I do?
I do my Song-and-Dance when the class first comes into
the library.
Here is this section and this is where you find this.
What will be your
key search words? We do some brainstorming and then
we are off.
Do I JUST provide websites for her like she requested?
If I provide all
the websites, then
what responsibility do the kids have?
We always provide jumping off or starting websites.
The students will
surf themselves to death if you do not provide a
starting place. When
they have exhausted all of the sites we found, then
they can search the
net. They know specifics of what they are looking for
so can narrow
their search terms down to get the information they
are seeking.
Also, what is the best way to present the websites to
the kids? On
a sheet of paper? On a webpage under her name?
It will depend on what your network will support. Hot
links are the
best. Will your machines allow you to create book
marks? Can you drop a
document onto each computer that they can open and
click links? Do you
have a district web page where you can create teacher
links they can
also access from home?
See our website. Go to teacher links pick your
teacher or topic. The
web sites under a teachers' name are the ones they are
currently using.
The topics below the teacher names are the ones that
are not being used
right now by any particular teacher.
I feel like I should be doing more, but I don't know
what more I should
do?
You will have to "feel" out your niche, I let the
teacher do the set up
stuff. I do the library stuff. We all wander around
and help the
students get going. Pointing them in the right
directions. I also help
the teachers make the project more pointed. What did
you really want
them to accomplish, how can we change it to a thinking
project not a copy
from the Internet project.
On occasion I have just put the
websites
in a folder on the network, but never without
accompanying lessons of
some
sort. During the early part of the year I teach a
variety of
information
literacy lessons: effective Internet searching;
evaluation of websites;
copyright and plagiarism; citation of sources; use of
databases, et al.
Always, before a class begins work in here, I make
them sit and listen
to me
as I refresh their memories, teach an appropriate
mini-lesson, etc. I
cannot
just sit back and turn them loose. Also, before I
require that teachers
fill
out a collaboration sheet with objectives and needs at
least one day
before
coming in here.
The request was to "help" the students, not do the
research for them.
Show them how to use appropriate key words for the
project they are researching.
Give them brief instruction on evaluating web sites
for content.
Help them cut and paste relavent info into notes they
can refer to later, rather than printing every page of
a web site.
And make sure they know how to properly site web pages
in their bibliographys.
By all means give them some suggested web sites to get
them started. Preferably ones with lots of links to
other sites, but don't make this an exaustive list.
Rita Sitron
Media Specialist
Walled Lake Northern High School
rsitron@yahoo.com
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