After Ed This Week
The Voice features authors speaking about their work. This week, Jonathan Zimmerman discusses the responses to his recent commentary, Sarah Palin and the Assault on Merit, and why writing for popular audiences makes him a better scholar. Video produced by Simon Doolittle. For more videos on educational topics, visit After Ed.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Monday, October 20, 2008
Learning from Ohio's best teachers
A report from Policy Matters Ohio, written by staffer, Piet van Lier, evaluates the Ohio pioneered peer assistance and review program (PAR) and its current state in Ohio. Proven to be an effective approach to teacher retention, van Lier summarizes the variety of implementations the progam has taken, lists effective practices, and makes suggestions about developing and explanding the program with in the state. For undergraduate students the report can provide an excellent background to professional practice, collaboration, union/district relations, and the domains of practice evaluated in Praxis III. As a librarian, I am always interested in Domain 1d, Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources: for teachers and students, and how it has been evolving in form, content and use since the nineteenth century.
Monday, December 18, 2006
InfOhio, the Information Network: A Note to Educators of Educators
December 2006
Dear Ohio Education Faculty Member,
Did you know that when your students graduate and become teachers in Ohio’s schools they will have access to a multi-million dollar collection of electronic research resources?
Today, you and your students have access to a wealth of electronic research databases, thousands of electronic scholarly journals, and much more from your local campus library and OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network. However, when Ohio’s students graduate college and enter their professional careers they are no longer eligible to access most OhioLINK and campus library resources.
Fortunately, INFOhio, Ohio’s counterpart to OhioLINK for K-12 students, teachers, and administrators, makes more than fifty of the electronic resources you use today—including the EBSCOhost collection of databases, NewsBank’s America’s Newspapers, and the Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection—available to your students.
In conjunction with OhioLINK and OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information network, INFOhio provides a core collection of electronic resources, called the Ohio Web Library, which can be accessed from any Ohio school building or remotely. In addition, INFOhio offers certain resources for K-12 students which are not available through OhioLINK, most notably SIRS Discoverer for elementary students.
It is essential that preservice teachers be aware of these resources, especially as they prepare to complete their student teaching assignments. INFOhio is pleased to be able to make these resources available to students in Ohio’s Colleges of Education.
To access INFOhio’s Core Collection, preservice teachers can visit the INFOhio Web site at www.infohio.org and click on the Core Collection resource buttons. Users must enter the required username (INFOhio) and password (Explore). The enclosed color brochure provides further explanation about the Core Collection. Additional copies can be downloaded at: http://www.infohio.org/Documents/ER/ERresources2006/FlierPass200608.pdf. Enter the password: 2006info (case sensitive) to access the PDF file.
For more information about INFOhio, visit http://www.infohio.org/ or view the introductory video at http://www.infohio.org/Parent/OutreachKit/Video2005.html. Tip sheets, PowerPoints and other materials designed to help use each tool are available via the "Help Resources" pages at http://www.infohio.org/ER/ERhelp.html.
Please contact a librarian at your local campus library if you have any questions about the enclosed materials or INFOhio resources.
Sincerely,
Theresa M. Fredericka
Executive Director
Dear Ohio Education Faculty Member,
Did you know that when your students graduate and become teachers in Ohio’s schools they will have access to a multi-million dollar collection of electronic research resources?
Today, you and your students have access to a wealth of electronic research databases, thousands of electronic scholarly journals, and much more from your local campus library and OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network. However, when Ohio’s students graduate college and enter their professional careers they are no longer eligible to access most OhioLINK and campus library resources.
Fortunately, INFOhio, Ohio’s counterpart to OhioLINK for K-12 students, teachers, and administrators, makes more than fifty of the electronic resources you use today—including the EBSCOhost collection of databases, NewsBank’s America’s Newspapers, and the Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection—available to your students.
In conjunction with OhioLINK and OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information network, INFOhio provides a core collection of electronic resources, called the Ohio Web Library, which can be accessed from any Ohio school building or remotely. In addition, INFOhio offers certain resources for K-12 students which are not available through OhioLINK, most notably SIRS Discoverer for elementary students.
It is essential that preservice teachers be aware of these resources, especially as they prepare to complete their student teaching assignments. INFOhio is pleased to be able to make these resources available to students in Ohio’s Colleges of Education.
To access INFOhio’s Core Collection, preservice teachers can visit the INFOhio Web site at www.infohio.org and click on the Core Collection resource buttons. Users must enter the required username (INFOhio) and password (Explore). The enclosed color brochure provides further explanation about the Core Collection. Additional copies can be downloaded at: http://www.infohio.org/Documents/ER/ERresources2006/FlierPass200608.pdf. Enter the password: 2006info (case sensitive) to access the PDF file.
For more information about INFOhio, visit http://www.infohio.org/ or view the introductory video at http://www.infohio.org/Parent/OutreachKit/Video2005.html. Tip sheets, PowerPoints and other materials designed to help use each tool are available via the "Help Resources" pages at http://www.infohio.org/ER/ERhelp.html.
Please contact a librarian at your local campus library if you have any questions about the enclosed materials or INFOhio resources.
Sincerely,
Theresa M. Fredericka
Executive Director
Yet Another New Radical Change Needed, this time in High Ed...
In the NY Times and elsewhere, the NEW Commission on the Skills of the American Worker has had the executive summary of its NEW report demanding "radical" changes in higher education to offset the lag in STEM skills of the American Worker. One of the changes suggested apparently is to turn some schools over to private entrepreneurs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/education/15school.html
The Commission's web site has a number of background reports available on its website along with short testimonials about the forthcoming report "Tough Choices or Tough Times" from Chester Finn, William Brock, Sharon Lynn Kagan and others;
http://www.skillscommission.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/education/15school.html
The Commission's web site has a number of background reports available on its website along with short testimonials about the forthcoming report "Tough Choices or Tough Times" from Chester Finn, William Brock, Sharon Lynn Kagan and others;
http://www.skillscommission.org/
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Useful Web Resources
The following very useful resources are at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/digitalresources/digitalresourcessec3.htm
Each has links to pdf files that give urls and a resource description and crtitique of each of the web sites.
(from Digital Resources and Librarians: Case Studies in Innovation, Invention, and Implementation, by Patricia O'Brien Libutti)
Appendix 4: Resources: Links to Sites in Printed Chapters One through Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen: Education on the World Wide Web: A Core Collection of Digital Resources
Soraya Magalhaes-Willson
Chapter Nineteen: Digital Resources and the Law: Web Sites for Librarians and Educators
Stephanie Tama-Bartels and Patricia O'Brien Libutti
Chapter Twenty: A Webliography of Web-based Lesson Plan Resources
Jeneen LaSee-Willemssen
Chapter Twenty-one: Web Sites on Education from around the World
Patricia O'Brien Libutti, Sheila Kirven, and The WorldED Librarian Cohort
Chapter Twenty-two: Education Statistics on the World Wide Web: A Core Collection of Resources
Scott Walter, Doug Cook, and Instruction for Educators Committee, Education and Behavioral Sciences Section, ACRL
Chapter Twenty-three: Electronic Journals for the Education Library: A Classified List of Resources Related to K-12 Education
Linda G. Geller
Chapter Twenty-four: Web-based Tools for Teachers
Judi Repman, Randy Carlson, and Elizabeth Downs
Chapter Twenty-five: Federal and State Government Web Sites for Children and Adolescents
Janet Stoeger Wilke and Diana J. Keith
Chapter Twenty-six: Networking with NASA
Judith A. Walker
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/digitalresources/digitalresourcessec3.htm
Each has links to pdf files that give urls and a resource description and crtitique of each of the web sites.
(from Digital Resources and Librarians: Case Studies in Innovation, Invention, and Implementation, by Patricia O'Brien Libutti)
Appendix 4: Resources: Links to Sites in Printed Chapters One through Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen: Education on the World Wide Web: A Core Collection of Digital Resources
Soraya Magalhaes-Willson
Chapter Nineteen: Digital Resources and the Law: Web Sites for Librarians and Educators
Stephanie Tama-Bartels and Patricia O'Brien Libutti
Chapter Twenty: A Webliography of Web-based Lesson Plan Resources
Jeneen LaSee-Willemssen
Chapter Twenty-one: Web Sites on Education from around the World
Patricia O'Brien Libutti, Sheila Kirven, and The WorldED Librarian Cohort
Chapter Twenty-two: Education Statistics on the World Wide Web: A Core Collection of Resources
Scott Walter, Doug Cook, and Instruction for Educators Committee, Education and Behavioral Sciences Section, ACRL
Chapter Twenty-three: Electronic Journals for the Education Library: A Classified List of Resources Related to K-12 Education
Linda G. Geller
Chapter Twenty-four: Web-based Tools for Teachers
Judi Repman, Randy Carlson, and Elizabeth Downs
Chapter Twenty-five: Federal and State Government Web Sites for Children and Adolescents
Janet Stoeger Wilke and Diana J. Keith
Chapter Twenty-six: Networking with NASA
Judith A. Walker
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Canadian Study Links School Libraries and Student Achievement
Canadian Study Links School Libraries and Student Achievement
A study funded by the Ontario Library Association offers the first Canadian finding that shows a positive correlation between student achievement and library resources and staff. Released April 6, School Libraries and Student Achievement in Ontario includes assessment data from more than 50,000 students and over 800 of the province’s publicly funded elementary schools.
Among the findings were:
Grade 3 and 6 students in schools with teacher-librarians are more likely to report that they enjoy reading.
Schools with trained library staff are more likely to have a higher proportion of grade 6 students who meet Ontario standards on reading test scores.
Schools without trained library staff tend to have lower achievement on the grade 3 and 6 reading tests.
Speaking at the Church Street Public School library in downtown Toronto on the occasion of the study’s release, Ontario School Library Association President Michael Rosettis said, “This research confirms what teacher-librarians have intuitively known for years: that a well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-funded school library makes a significant difference in student achievement.” The findings correlate with other studies in the United States that link student achievement with the presence of school libraries administered by certified library media specialists.
The $40,000 ($34,800 U.S.) study, conducted by a team led by Queen’s University Education Professor Don Klinger, comes at a time when Ontario is developing a new policy to improve students’ literacy and numeracy skills. A 2003 report, written by then–University of British Columbia LIS Professor Ken Haycock, had called on provincial ministries of education to begin research that would reverse a trend in underfunding that was creating a crisis in school-library personnel and collections.
A 2005 research study by the Ontario public-interest group People for Education showed that although provincial school boards get one librarian for every 769 students, many schools don’t have that many students. In addition, only 54% of Ontario elementary schools had a full- or part-time librarian in 2005, compared with 80% in 1997–1998.
Posted April 7, 2006. from ALDirect
A study funded by the Ontario Library Association offers the first Canadian finding that shows a positive correlation between student achievement and library resources and staff. Released April 6, School Libraries and Student Achievement in Ontario includes assessment data from more than 50,000 students and over 800 of the province’s publicly funded elementary schools.
Among the findings were:
Grade 3 and 6 students in schools with teacher-librarians are more likely to report that they enjoy reading.
Schools with trained library staff are more likely to have a higher proportion of grade 6 students who meet Ontario standards on reading test scores.
Schools without trained library staff tend to have lower achievement on the grade 3 and 6 reading tests.
Speaking at the Church Street Public School library in downtown Toronto on the occasion of the study’s release, Ontario School Library Association President Michael Rosettis said, “This research confirms what teacher-librarians have intuitively known for years: that a well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-funded school library makes a significant difference in student achievement.” The findings correlate with other studies in the United States that link student achievement with the presence of school libraries administered by certified library media specialists.
The $40,000 ($34,800 U.S.) study, conducted by a team led by Queen’s University Education Professor Don Klinger, comes at a time when Ontario is developing a new policy to improve students’ literacy and numeracy skills. A 2003 report, written by then–University of British Columbia LIS Professor Ken Haycock, had called on provincial ministries of education to begin research that would reverse a trend in underfunding that was creating a crisis in school-library personnel and collections.
A 2005 research study by the Ontario public-interest group People for Education showed that although provincial school boards get one librarian for every 769 students, many schools don’t have that many students. In addition, only 54% of Ontario elementary schools had a full- or part-time librarian in 2005, compared with 80% in 1997–1998.
Posted April 7, 2006. from ALDirect
Monday, November 14, 2005
Welcome!
Hi, my name is Mark Horan, your Info guru, presenting a new communications tool for the College of Education to keep in touch with the University Libraries. In the coming months changes will be occurring all around the University and the Carlson Library is no exception, please use the blog to keep informed and to inform us to provide the best information service and content possible.
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