I'm not as familiar with WB online as I should be, but a good first step
would be to contact the rep (or support) for the company and go over the
materials they have available for teaching with WB. Almost all of them would
support IL programs. There may be an email service with updates and howtos
also. Very worthwhile, I subscribe to that service from each provider we
use.
I would also look at class set of World Almanac for Kids (~$300). There will
be plenty of tools to work with there also (actually, almost a year's worth
at a visit a week) and for 3rd grade up, is a popular resource (get extras,
they will check out). Depending on what is going on in classroom (and
materials available to them), sets of atlases and dictionaries offer similar
possibilities.
In fact, atlas activity (and what is available through WB), is an excellent
way to get on teachers' good side. Become (really practice and bone up) the
expert on maps. You can teach that when it comes up in every grades' SS
curric. And that takes a piece off the teachers' plate while at the same
time, requiring at least a bit of collaboration since you need to teach when
it fits CL and on topic from CL.
Make sure the building (and principal) know what you are doing and plans.
Short emails (like a BTW, in WB you can....), newsletters, talks at PTO,
class visits. PTO is a possible source for extra funds AND gives parents a
view of what is happening in THEIR school with THEIR kids.
Bone up on the various grades' curriculum and attend as many GL meetings as
possible. Anytime you can tie library to what's happening in the classroom,
everyone benefits. While collaboration is best, just being able to say
'let's take a look at what WB has about South America' shows staff and
students that the library is a learning space. And some kids will think it's
magic when the read aloud is about what their teacher was (or is going to
be) talking about.
Robert Eiffert, Librarian
Pacific Middle School
Evergreen SD 114 Vancouver WA
beiffert@egreen.wednet.edu
pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
robert@crypticmachinery.net
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[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Dianne Kersteter
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:02 PM
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Greetings!
I'm posting for my very first time so if I make any mistakes, please forgive
my newbie-ness. I'm in my first year as a library media specialist at a
very small K-6 school in Minnesota. I haven't even begun my MLIS program,
that's how new I am! My principal wants to really focus on information
literacy, but we have very few resources. I've got about $600 to spend for
the rest of this year and am in need of suggestions for what to purchase.
What are you using in your library that you can't live without? We do have
an online subscription to World Book, but that's about it! Everything is
extremely outdated and in need of weeding. I will have more money next
school year, so please send me whatever thoughts and opinions you have on
this subject. I have to say that I am completely amazed at what an
incredible resource this list has become for me. I'm so happy I stumbled
upon it.
Dianne Kersteter
Library Media Specialist
Marine Elementary School
Marine on St. Croix, MN
dkersteter@visi.com
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