This is what Merriam Webster has to say
collaborate
1 : to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual
endeavor
2 : to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and
especially an occupying force
3 : to cooperate with an agency or instrumentality with which one is not
immediately connected
Debra Fillingim, NBCT
Media Specialist
Jupiter Elementary
Palm Bay, Fl
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From: Toni Buzzeo [mailto:tonibuzzeo@TONIBUZZEO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:33 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] ANOTHER VIEW: Collaboration: My vote: Ban the
Word!!!!!
Adam, I heartily disagree (while I support your right to your
opinion!). Everything you describe below is either Cooperation or
Coordination. You're right. None of it is Collaboration.
But I have spent my career engaging in genuine collaborative practice (and
did so as a collaborating teacher with my teaching partners when I was in
the classroom). I continue to PLAN, TEACH, and EVALUATE collaborative
projects in my local school with my classroom colleagues and paid LMS
because I believe in it so deeply, I'm willing to spend the time and energy
(as are they) without benefit of a paycheck.
>No one collaborates. Especially teachers and librarians.
>
>What we do is PLAN. Plain and simple!
>
>Teachers develop and PLAN assignments, and then they come to the library
>media specialist to see what we can do to help them.
>
>A teacher wants us to pull books on Ancient Rome because they have
>information that the students use. This is a teacher's PLAN. We support
>it.
>
>A teacher wants us to review magazine databases with their classes for
>an assignment on world issues. This is a teacher's PLAN. We do the
>instruction.
>
>A teacher want us to provide links to famous photographers. This is a
>teacher's PLAN. We support it and instruct the students on how to access
>these sites.
>
>A teacher wants us to cover the elements of a successful PowerPoint
>presentation. We do it. This is the teacher's PLAN. We do the
>instruction.
>
>A teacher requests a rubric for evaluating a presentation. We PLAN with
>that teacher, offering several different options.
>
>Planning can be 2 minutes, 5 minutes 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or more.
>But what we do is offer teachers solutions.
>
>But "collaboration" implies hours of work.
>
>I am sorry teachers don't have the time to "collaborate".
>
>We are successful! We PLAN with our teachers, whatever time it takes, 2
>minutes or more!
>
>Time to dump the word collaborate!
Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS <mailto:tonibuzzeo@tonibuzzeo.com>
Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year Emerita
Maine Association of School Libraries Board Member
Buxton, ME 04093
http://www.tonibuzzeo.com
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