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Maine Learning Technology Iniative
Lessons for SLMS using Laptops
Top Topics that Teachers Might Want from their School Library Media Specialists.
MLTI Links
Maine Learning Technology Iniative (State page) http://www.state.me.us/mlte/
Web site of the MLTI project. Provides press releases, historical MLTI documents, names of the state level MLTI team, examples of award winning student MLTI projects, and curriculum links developed by individual schools.
Maine Learns http://www.mainelearns.org/
The information web portal for the MLTI project. Provides upcoming events, resources and documents, MLTI regional and content leaders, and assessment information from Anne Davies
SEED Maine Center http://seed.mainecenter.org/index.cfm?section=1
SEED: the organization providing some of the teacher training for MLTI.
Maine Assessment Portfolio http://www.maptasks.org/
Assessment tasks to support Maine Learning Results, some from the MLTI project
Mac OS X Tips and Tricks http://www.sad4.com/OSX/
Crystal Priest, Piscataquis Community Middle School, provides tips and trouble shooting tricks for the iBooks.
Local Assessment Development Adaptation Worksheet: (Word)
From Maine Department of Education
Top Topics that MLTI teachers want from their LMSs (Nancy Grant)
At a MLTI iBook Content Leaders meeting, Friday Dec. 5, three Library Media
Specialists brainstormed the following points for "library lessons" to the 7-8 graders using iBooks (List is not prioritized.)
1. Web site evaluation - including who wrote it, how to find out who wrote it, document date and how to find it, web pages vs. web sites vs. home page, hoax site.
2. Search engine use - including comparing engines vs. subject directories, use of searchengines.com for various types of search engines, focus on using more than one engine, help menus, search terms and Boolean logic, use of paid hits in search engines
3. World Book as the first source for who/what/where/when and how (Basic knowledge and Comprehension questions). How to effectively use the iBook version of World Book
4. Preparing to search - including developing questions to search, how to take an critical thinking level question (Evaluation, Synthesis, Application, Analysis) and develop the Knowledge and Comprehension questions to get the information to help you answer the higher level research question, developing the key words needed to search, picking the best resources to search first, understanding when to use print vs. database vs. web resources, how to write "good" questions,
5. Plagiarism - including the why not to copy, how not to copy, when to use quotes, how to use citations and footnotes, fair use and educational use of others works, how to do own work in multiple formats (words, art, music)
6. Organizing information - how to do that, what styles of organization to use when (alphabetical, chronological, topical, prioritized - I forget the others!)
7. Bibliographies - biblio vs. works cited, styles of (MLA vs. APA, etc), electronic automated bibliography use, annotated, justified,
8. Technical writing - (we did not explore this topic - so I am unsure if it came up because students need to learn how to write in a nonfiction format, or how to get information from technical writing, like manuals)
9. Interviews - including preparing for, how to conduct, face-to-face vs.
electronically, how to write up,
10. How to get help - including:
- "How do I know when I need help?"
- "Where do I look for help?"
- "Who do I ask?"
- "How so I evaluate the given help?"
11. Web sites to guide research by 7th and 8th grades iBook users.
12. List of Portaportals and web sites from Maine middle school librarians.
Other suggestions? Email Gerry Crocker or Nancy Grant
Letter of concern in MeLibs
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:54:07 -0500
From: "kbrassl1@maine.rr.com" <kbrassl1@MAINE.RR.COM>
Subject: laptops and school library use
Good Evening,
My administrator suggested I contact area school libraries to find out how laptops have affected library use particularly in the area of research. It seems that our call for research assistance has taken a nosedive and when I asked teachers to come into the library and why they don't the answer is that they now have laptops and find everything there. Naturally this has changed my library program.
I would like to know if you feel the same and what you are doing about it...have you changed your program? If so...how have you changed? If our building administrators feel the library is not an important part of research then where will that leave us?
I thank you ahead of time for you comments.
Trish Brasslow
Wescott Junior High Media Specialist
Westbrook, ME 04071
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