Welcome to today's workshop, presented by Elizabeth Beaulieu (elizabethbeaulieu@salem.k12.ma.us), Language Arts & Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator, and Joanne O'Keefe (joanneokeefe@salem.k12.ma.us), Library Media Specialist at Collins Middle School. During today's session, you will have an opportunity to:
* learn about the many excellent full-text magazine and journal collections, newspapers, encyclopedias, primary documents collections, and other research databases available to the Salem Public Schools research community, and how these resources can be integrated into your work both for and with students;
* enter the blogosphere, and learn about blogging, an interesting way of learning, sharing, and communicating with others; and
* explore these resources and technologies with your colleagues, and consider ways in which you might use these them in the classroom, as well as for your own professional development.
To access these outstanding databases and collections, available to Salem educators through school library memberships in the Northeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) and the North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE), visit the sites below. To log in to any database you wish to search, just enter your public library barcode from any NOBLE public library.
COLLECTIONS AND DATABASES
NMRLS Databases (these include ELibrary, Grolier Online, ¡Informe!, NewsBank, and Thomson Gale's INFOTRAC Databases Biography Resource Center, InfoTrac OneFile, Junior Edition, Kids InfoBits, and more)
NOBLE Databases (these include EBSCO Animals, ERIC, MasterFILE Premier, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and many more)
BLOGGING BASICS
Is it a journal, a log, a diary, a personal website? Just what is a blog, anyway? And what (or who) is a blogger? Visit the links below to learn more!
Weblog: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (entry for "weblog")
Wiki: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What's a wiki? a communal, public blog, or open forum, that allows anyone to add and modify content. This entry, from Wikipedia, a popular example of the wiki, offers readers a history of blogging, an explanation of the many types of blogs (personal, news, political, legal, advice, social, etc.), a glossary of blogging terms, and a lengthy list of links to related sites.
Blog Glossary
The blog culture has spawned an entirely new vocabulary. Bleg, blawg, blogathy, blogerati - find out what these and many more blog-related terms mean at this entertaining and informative site.
A Brief History of Weblogs, by Mallory Jensen
Blogging101: History, Parts, Read/Write, Find, Create, Readings, by Anton Zuiker
Emerging Trends: Educational Blogging, by Robert Whelan, ITS Faculty Technology Center, New York University
This interesting article features a discussion of the benefits of blogs in regular education and with ESL students, who can use blogs to develop their reading, research and writing skills, and collaborate with others.
FREE BLOGGING SITES
Blogger.com
Blog-City
Squarespace
WordPress
This blogging site features a nice "Introduction to Blogging"
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND AUTHOR BLOGS: A SELECTED LIST
Kids Lit: Books and More for Children and Teens
Read Roger: The Horn Book Editor's Rants and Raves
Cynsations by award-winning children's and young adult book author Cynthia Leitich Smith
MuggleNet.com this blog (and much, much more) will be popular with lovers of the Harry Potter series.
Mad Woman in the Forest: Mumbles, Mutters, and Shrieks (author Laurie Halse Anderson's blog)
Blog Central: Children's and YA Lit (This is one of several lists of blog links available at Blog Central, compiled by Anastasia Suen, author and writing teacher)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominees 2006-2007
Here are summaries of the 25 titles nominated for this year's MCBA, along with Lexiles and links to author sites, when available. Also included are links to several other great sites that offer information about books and authors. Happy reading!
CMS RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT CENTER
Finally, let's visit the Research & Technology Support Center, created to help Collins students find the information they need to complete assigned projects, and exhibit their learning through the sophisticated use of a variety of multimedia tools.
In addition to the full-text resources available to the Collins research community, lockers have been established for each grade to make it easy for students to find links to annotated resource lists, projects, and other tools that will help them as they complete classroom assignments in math/science, language arts/social studies, world language, and specialist courses, including art, family and consumer science, music, physical education, and technology education. Here are the lockers:
Grade 6 Locker
Grade 7 Locker
Grade 8 Locker
World Language Resources
Specialist Resources
Art Resources
Family & Consumer Science Resources
Music Resources
Physical Education Resources
Technology Education Resources
We hope that today's session has been helpful. Please contact either Beth or Joanne if you have any questions after today's session, or need help with a particular search for information or the best online resource for your needs.
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