Dear friends,
Here is the hit regarding my request for information on the curriculum and
technology plans you have in your districts. Thanks for all the helpful
information.
Jolyn Thompson
jolynthompson@charter.net
media specialist
rochester, mn.
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<mailto:Carl.Janetka@il.proquest.com>
To: Jolynthompson@charter.net <mailto:Jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:16 AM
Subject: Media Center, Tech, and Curriculum
Jolyn
I received this document from Missouri from one of the librarians who
authored it for the state. This librarian was on our Librarian Advisory
Board and was way ahead of her time. It's 4 years old, but the best of what
I have seen. Hope it provides some help for your work.
<<InfLit-Tech Stds-MO.doc>>
Carl Janetka, ProQuest Education Consultant
Retired Teacher and Technology Coordinator
349 Knoll Road (Home Office)
Plymouth Meeting PA 19462
carl.janetka@il.proquest.com
610-275-7753 (Press #2 to leave message)
---- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Johnson" <dougj@doug-johnson.com>
To: "'Jolyn Thompson'" <jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: RE: curriculum and technology plan
> Hi Joyln,
>
> We have a curriculum and benchmarks at
> <http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/infocurr/infolit.html>.
>
> Below is our section of the tech plan that speaks to the role of
> libraries.
>
> All the best,
>
> Doug
> ************
> Doug Johnson
> Director of Media and Technology
> I.S.D. 77, Mankato Public Schools
> Box 8713, Mankato MN 56002-8713
> Voice: 507-387-7698, Fax: 507-387-2496
> E-mail: djohns1@isd77.k12.mn.us
> Web: www.isd77.k12.mn.us/~djohns1/
>
> "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Gandhi
>
>
>
> E. Role of the School Library Media Center
> The library media center programs and staff have always had primary
> responsibility for the implementation of technology in the district.
>
> Facilities
> Each school has a library media center which seats the largest class and
> allows for additional students to work independently. All media centers
> have at least general use computer lab in or directly adjacent to them
> and all media centers have research/library catalog workstations
> available in the main area of the media center itself. The back areas of
> the media center serve as controlled areas for servers, routers and
> switches, and network patch panels. The library media centers also
> contain a full range of up-to-date print resources, work areas, informal
> seating, workrooms, and storage areas.
>
> Resources
> All media centers have fully automated library circulation and catalog
> systems that are web-accessible. In addition to resources available
> through the Electronic Library of Minnesota (ELM), the district
> purchases ProQuest, World Book Online encyclopedia, and Atomic Learning.
> A trial for DigitalCurriculum (digitized educational video) is being
> conducted during the winter of 2004. Each media center has a webpage
> that gives ready access to the electronic resources of the school.
>
> Personnel
> All students and staff have access to a licensed professional library
> media specialist (LMS) and library clerical help. Smaller schools share
> library media specialists. The LMS coordinate the work of the district
> technology technicians and are first trained in the use of new
> technology resources.
>
> Staff development
> The LMSs introduce and conduct inservices for their building staff after
> school, on staff development days, and in informal one-on-one sessions.
> The LMS serves as the building person to whom a teacher or administrator
> would go for help in using all technologies in the building or to whom
> to report a technology problem.
>
> Curriculum
> At the K-6 level, the LMS have primary responsibility for teaching and
> assessing technology skills as a part of the information literacy
> curriculum which has been developed to help insure that all graduates of
> Mankato schools will have a variety of experiences using information and
> technology.
>
> At the secondary level, the LMS teams with the classroom teacher to plan
> and teach units which incorporate technology skills.
>
> These experiences will allow students to demonstrate mastery of a
> comprehensive group of specific skills. The most recent version can be
> found at: <http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/infocurr/infolit.html>.
> Benchmarks of expected student achievement in media and technology,
> grades K-12, can be found at:
> <http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/infocurr/benchmark.html>
>
>
From: "Peg Demott" <pdemott@lakeland.k12.in.us>
To: <jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: curriculum and technology plan
Does special education have its own curriculum? We are here to support all
the curriculums. If you go to the Indiana Department of Education the
following link will take you to a correlation of the ALA information
literacy standards with a variety of discipline's. standards.
http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards/ILS_Correlations.html Information
literacy is a standard that should be incorporated in all subject areas. Of
course the needs of the media center must be considered in the overall
technology plan all media specialists should be on their school's
committees. I am the "building tech person" and basically wrote our school's
plan.
Peg DeMott
Library Media Specialist
Lakeland Middle School
1055E 075N
LaGrange, IN 46761
260-499-2488
pdemott@lakeland.k12.in.us
From: "Shannon Brown @ Johnston" <SBrown@IRVINGISD.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: curriculum and technology plan
> In Irving we do have a curriculum in technology. Technology is a HUGE
thing
> in our district. All of our teachers and media specialists are held
> accountable. We have 5 technology modules we must complete. Our district
> has mandated that we complete at least 2 modules every year until we have
> completed all 5. Each module has two parts. We are held accountable and
it
> does affect our evaluations at the end of the year. Technology is a
> component we must include in our lesson plans weekly. Feel free to check
> out our district website
> www.irvingisd.net I hope this helps.
From: "Barbara COMBES" <b.combes@ecu.edu.au>
To: "Jolyn Thompson" <jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:17 PM
Subject: RE: curriculum and technology plan
Hi Jolyn,
Please find attached a strategic/operational plan that I use with my
students. It may be adapted for your use and is designed to clearly
articulate what you do, who does it and your role within the school. It
is supposed to be signed off by your Principal or Board. Good luck! By
the way - it's worth remembering that teaching information technology
skills has nothing to do with computing or how to use a computer, a
point that many in admin seem to confuse. I have found that the most
successful programs for teaching information technology and literacy
have come from TLs (LMS) rather that the computer staff who seem to be
more concerned with hardware and software rather than thinking skills
and learning to learn.
:)
BC
@ Your Library
ECU - a participant in the 2004 WA Statewide Library Marketing Campaign.
Barbara Combes, Lecturer
School of Computer and Information Science
Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia
Ph: (08) 9370 6072
Email: b.combes@ecu.edu.au
From: "sbrisco" <sbrisco021@charter.net>
To: "Jolyn Thompson" <jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: curriculum and technology plan
> We have an information literacy plan that we wrote to incorporate library
> skills and technology into the curriculum. This includes research that is
> done within the class, as well as instructional time with the librarian on
> specific areas (our K-6 have fixed library days when we instruct them on
> areas--- dictionary, atlas, databases, websites, etc.). Our technology
> instructors collaborate with us on the specialized areas that they work
well
> with--so overall, it's a three-way collaboration when it's all said and
> done. The teacher, the librarian and the technology staff working
together
> on projects.
>
> If you want a copy of our plan, I'll send it...but I must admit that this
> was taken from Doug Johnson's technology plan that he sent to me (and he
may
> send to you).
>
> Let me know!
>
> ~Shonda Brisco
> Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
> Fort Worth, TX
> sbrisco021@charter.net
From: "Jacqueline Henry" <jhenry@gananda.org>
To: <jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: curriculum and technology plan
> I defintely do think that libraries need to have a curriculum. And this
> curriculum should be tied to the ALA Information Literacy Standards.
> How this curriculum is delivered may look very different in and
> elementary school and a secondary school. If the elem school is on a
> fixed schedule and provides planning time for the teachers - the
> curriculum will likely be delivered in a more traditional fashion - in
> the same way as a classroom. Certain things will probably be taught in
> September, in October etc throughout the year. A secondary school is
> more likely to have a collaborative, point of need program. In that
> case - the librarian will have to look at the projects that she
> collaborates on and fit the pieces of the curriculum wherever they fit
> the best. while not the prime purpose of the library, I think teaching
> technology skills, should also be integrated with the projects in the
> same way that a classroom teacher integrates skills into his/her
> teaching. What defintely IS one of our prime pieces of curriculum is
> teaching internet research skills, paying special attention to online
> databases and teaching the students how to evaluate the information that
> they find - especially anything found on the "free web".
>
> I have developed some materials on curriculum mapping. Many schools are
> going that route with their curriculum development. I have created a
> library mapping template based on our district wide mapping template
> that our classroom teachers are required to use. I have used the
> template to map each one of the research projects done in our school.
> Basically, the template contains all the ALA standards, plus other
> things that are common to many library research projects that I
> collaborate on. I open the template and immediately save it under the
> title of the researh project. I then delete and standards or other
> things that do not apply to that particular project and I add anuthing
> that might be missing.
>
> In addition to the template, I also have a document that shows samples
> of completed projects. I also am working on a bibliography of resources
> about curriculum mapping. I have attached all of these documents to
> this message in case you might find them of use.
>
> Jacquie
>
From: "Jay Hilda L" <hlj002@mcdaniel.edu>
To: "Jolyn Thompson" <jolynthompson@charter.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: curriculum and technology plan
> You might want a scope and sequence plan that gives classroom teachers as
> well as LMSs what the school expects in the way of skills from kids at
> various grades, but all of this is taught through collaborated structuring
> of activities in the classroom. Skills taught in isolation simply are not
> meaningful and therefore not taught. They must have need, application,
> and use if any of it is to stick in the kids' heads.
>
> --
> Hilda L. Jay, LMS(Ret.) & Author
> Collington Cottage 2108
> 10450 Lottsford Road
> Bowie, MD 20721
> hlj002@ns1.wmdc.edu
>
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