Competency 4 - Tagging

The following are tags from Library Thing on learner-centered activities.

Related tags
curriculum(1) education(1) librarianship(1) metacognition(1) mindfulness(1) non-fiction(1) professional(1) recommended(1) thinking(1) unread(1)

http://www.librarything.com/author/fogartyrobin&norefer=1

The tags refer to the publication Best Practices for the Learner-Centered Classroom: A collection of Artcles by Robin Fogarty. The topics in this book cover integrated curriculm, thoughtful instruction, active learning, reflective transfer, and authentic assessment. I chose this book because these activities are all essential to a strong school library media program.

Competency 3 - RSS Feed

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has a mission to "to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library media field". Furthermore the goals of this association are to ensure that all members of the school library media field collaborate to:

• provide leadership in the educational program
• participate as active partners in the teaching/learning process
• connect learners with ideas and information, and
• prepare students for life-long learning, informed decision-making, a love of reading, and the use of information technologies"

An RSS feed from the Weblog of AASL has been added to this blog. I chose this RSS feed because its addition will supply new information which is associated with excellence in school libraries.

American Association of School Libraries. 2007. AASL Mission and Goals. http://www.acrl.org/ala/aasl/aboutaasl/missionandgoals/aaslmissiongoals.cfm (accessed June 18, 2008).

Competency 2 - Podcasts

This podcast is a video contest winner from Johnson Elementary School in Johnson, VT. It displays the use of media and various activities which can be found in an elementary school library. The students use technology to create an informative podcast. The topic of the podcast centers on the students' favorite activities which are availiable in the library. I chose this video because it is a great example of what elementary students can do with library resources. This video is availiable from Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2muSDG7f8. I used Youtube to search for this video.

Competency 1B - Related Blog

"Welcome! What are blogs? People use blogs as online journals to share their “stories” –anything they find interesting or newsworthy. Blogs may include images, audio, and video. This blog was created to share what students are learning in the library with parents, teachers, and other students!"

This is the introduction to the blog at Westhampton Beach Elementary School Library. This blog is full of activities and pictures of what students are doing in the library each month. The activities are all catagorized by grade level. It is well organized and has many ideas which incorporate library materials and technology into age appropriate lessons. The activities utilize a variety of materials and strategies such as literacy, research, podcasting, and the use of smart boards. I chose this site because it has many great ideas for school librarians. It can be found at http://whblibrary.edublogs.org/. I located this site by searching with Google Blog Search found at http://blogsearch.google.com/.

Competency 1A - Blog

This blog is being created as an assignment for a Library Science Master's class, Information Storage and Retrieval, at Texas Woman's University. It will contain a collection of various competancies which are covered in the class. It will focus on integrating library lessons and materials into the elementary school curriculum for an elementary school library media center. This integration will make learning more purposeful and engaging.