2004 WLMA Annual Conference

Developing Support Resources
for School Library Programs

Presenters: Analisa Ficklin, Penny Jewett, Carol Wintercorn, Nancy Messmer

Streamlining our ability to provide curriculum support for teachers and students:

• Grade level standards, curriculum and district-supported instructional resources are all available from the BSD website
  www.bham.wednet.edu/learning/learn.htm

• Our BSD Technology Plan www.bham.wednet.edu/technology/documents/2004Apr28RevTechPlan.pdf emphasizes the importance of integrating technology in the classroom, with one rationale being that technology “links the classroom with educational resources within the building, community, and worldwide.”

• Moving from librarians individually searching for web resources and compiling lists of links wwwcoz.bham.wednet.edu/student/science.htm to creating lists of web resources that support district curriculum and are available to all teachers in the district:

   

  • K-8 Science Links
    www.bham.wednet.edu/technology/K-5science/index.htm

   

  • Virtual Reference Library www.bham.wednet.edu/technology/research_links/index.htm

   

• Our BSD Technology Plan also states our vision for technology use, which includes that the learning community “will be technologically literate life-long learners . . . They will skillfully use technology to access, retrieve, and use information…”

• We have adopted Jamie McKenzie's Research Cycle questioning.org/rcycle.html and use common language throughout the grade levels

 

• We have created a set of Online Research Projects www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/newonline/online.htm that support students and teachers in applying the research process to Social Studies curriculum content.

 

• We have created templates and support for teams of teachers and librarians to add to the collection of online research projects , related to Social Studies or other curriculum areas.

   

• Our BSD Technology Plan emphasizes the use of technology to enhance our ability to communicate locally, nationally and internationally

• When students and teachers wish to create their own web pages to serve as communication tools or vehicles for sharing information, there are guidelines and tenets to support them in doing so
  www.bham.wednet.edu/technology/techpolicies.htm