Assignments l Studio l Modules l Resources l Homepage l Virtual School l Bb l POV l What?
1st and 2nd Week of Class - January 11- 24
  1st Week
All postings will be due Friday at midnight and responses due Sunday at midnight unless otherwise directed. Respond to at least 2 postings is the general rule.

Post on Blackboard ASAP and respond to your fellow students posting.
Introduce yourself. Name in subject of the message. Include professional info and your interests; also include your experience with reference and information services and comfortable level of expertise with technology (average or lots of experience).

School Librarians View - School Librarians - Video click here

1/15-Post to Discussion Friday & Response Sunday.
What is the overall theme, in under three sentences, in the video School Librarians viewed in the link above?

2nd Week
  Explore & Plan - Our virtual schools will be Middle or High School - chose one. Select a name for your particular school and select a name for your library. Go to the virtual school page. Virtual School
Group Assignments - 2 groups - More info soon
Group 1:
Group 2:
1/22-Post to Discussion on Friday:
Agreed name for your school - Name for your library
3rd and 4th Week of Class - January 25 - February 7
  3rd Week
21st Century School Library

Read - The Future of Libraries - article

Read - Inquiry Inspires Original Research - guided
inquiry based - article

FYI - Virtual Referencing (Screen Capture Tools)

Alternative: MS Word's PrtScn creates a still image - whereas Jing & has video capture capabilities.
FYI Jing Screenr

Post - After reading the above 2 articles - In 3 paragraphs or more define a 21st Century School Library and Post on January 29th and respond by the following Sunday January 31st..
  4th Week
Guidelines for Librarian Behavior
 Explore - Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Service Providers RUSA -

View - Angry Librarian - video

View - Observations of a Reference Process Video (genealogy) - video
Introduction to Cartoon-Based Learning.

View a cartoon on the POV page.

Create the missing captions and
Post to discussions Friday February 5th, response Sunday February 7th.
  Post to discussion Friday 5th and Respond on Sunday February 7th.
After viewing the 5 behavioral guidelines at RUSA look at 2 videos: Angry Librarian and Observations of a reference process compare and contrast the 2 videos.
FYI - APPs
FYI
SIUE take notes apps
SIUE apps
See Resources - For more tools
  
5th and 6th Week of Class February 8 - February 21st
5th Week
Overview: Reference and Information Basics Review - Letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification.
Information Structure
Ready Reference and automated library systems.
Your school district has Follett Destiny and you're asked to give your input buying the new Follett Destiny 12. You and your colleagues are asked to sit in on the Webinar from Follett regarding Destiny 12. (Some of the material in this webinar assumes that you already have Destiny.)


OPACS - Online Public Access Catalog (also called Library Catalog - also automated library system)

View - Destiny Webinar

Post to discussion Friday
List at least 2 points how does Destiny 12 fit into the 21st Century library school library needs? Respond to at least 2 postings Sunday

6th Week
Locating info with keywords Boolean UC Berkely
Boolean Search Walden U. tutorial and video
Boolean Search SIUE
Create a Boolean Search keyword sequence for a subject in education of your choice. Included in the sequence is AND, AND NOT, and two or more words in quotations. Post the Boolean Search Keyword sequence, search using SIUE's online library site and comment on how that narrowed down your search more effectively.
7th and 8th Week of Class - February 22th - March 6th
  7th Week
Review
LibGuides, Subject Guides and Pathfinders. New ways of searching and interacting with users.

 View PPT - from a webinar: Creating subject guides by Buffy Hamilton. Click here to see PPT
New Trier High School Library LibGuides. Go to their site and click on "English" (left column), then click on "1920s - Roaring 20s" note that you have many options to chose from on top tabs. Books, Ref. ebooks, websites, multimedia, works cited, 1920s art, flappers-primary sources. LibGuides provide many sources of print and media plus suggested topics. Review - LibGuide example: New Trier
National and State Standards -
I-SAIL = Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries (Common Core, NETS-S, AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner)
 Review - ISAIL Combines Common Core, NETS-S, & AASL
  Post to Discussion Friday February 26th - In your group select a topic within a discipline to explore and make plans to create a subject guide. Include grade level and topic. List one Common Core standards that you would follow. Respond to at least 2 postings on Sunday February 6th.
8th week
Better libraries for a complex world.

Read: Expect More
Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World, by R. David Lankes
Chapter 4, Facilitating Knowledge Creation: Expect to Create
Pages 41-58

Download Book

View - Reinventing Librarianship Video
 

Post: Find a current article from the Link section on 21st Century library and compare it to Chapter 4 from the above book and the above video.
Post Friday March 4th and respond by Sunday March 6th.
9th and 10th Week of Class - March 7th - March 20th
  9th Week
Spring Break - No Class

Spring Break - No Class
  10th Week

Designing a Space

An example of how a district's Middle and High Schools can collaborate.

 View - Three schools shared this library "visual" landing page. It was designed for a district's 2 Middle Schools and a High School.This is more of a virtual world of what a inviting "physical" library would look like. When designing a virtual world like this you can be as creative as you want...futuristic...etc. Screen Shot of Landing Page

 

 Post to Discussion by Friday March 18th and respond by Sunday March 20th.
Would a visual-intensive library home page be more effective? How? What additional components would you add in this space?
Information Literacy
Explore the different Info problem-solving models: Big6, Super3, DIALOGUE, Info Zone, and XLT3
 Big6 - Super3 - DIALOGUE - Info Zone -
Scenario - Your district is using Super3 at the elementary level and Secondary level is considering designating Big6 information problem-solving model to be used at the Middle and High School. Compare it with one other model and give reasons why you chose it. Post to Discussion by Friday and respond by Sunday.
Your district is using Super3 at the elementary level and Secondary level is considering designating Big6 information problem-solving model to be used at the Middle and High School. Compare it with one other model and give reasons why you chose
11th and 12th Week of Class - March 21st - April 3rd
  11th Week
  Work on Assignments
  12th Week
  Reflection Paper Due Friday April 1st
Post your reflection paper on the discussion post with your paper attached and a sentence or two describing the experience.
Read other reflection papers and comment on at least 2 papers by April 3 Sunday.

13th and 14th Week of Class April 4 - 17th
  13th Week
Work on Assignments
  14th Week
  Project Subject Guides Due by Friday April 22nd and critiques will begin immediately after that until Sunday the 24th
13th and 14th Week of Class April 18 - May 1st
  Project Virtual Library Space Due Friday April 29th and response by Sunday May 1