The Georgia Department of Education: educational technology and media newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 7 (Apr. 2003)

The Georgia Department of Education: Educational Technology & Media Newsletter
April 2003 Vol. 1 No. 7
Judy Serritella, Coordinator of Library Media Services, Georgia Department of Education
jserrite@doe.k12.ga.us
New Web Site!
The Department of Education has a new website. The URL (www.gadoe.org) is the same, but the look is new! This is the first major overhaul since 1996. The site has over 45,000 visitors every week and the new design will make searching much easier.
Information Technology is in the first drop down box. Scroll down to "Inside DOE" and at the very bottom you will find "Information Technology." Choose "Educational Technology & Media" and here you will find information pertinent to library media centers. The GLC site is located on the top bar under "Quality Core Curriculum."
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April Showers bring a lot of web sites!
Check out this website with an abundance of April activities and events. http://www.umkc.edu/imc/april.htm
Virginia Lee Burton Information and activities for Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4250 This website also has information and activities for a variety of titles including The Hobbit and Curious George.
Do you have Copyright Questions?
Here are some links to Copyright Answers!
http://www.halldavidson.net/copyright_chart.pdf
GALILEO has a wonderful website of copyright information also. http://www.usg.edu/admin/legal/copyright/
Also, on the GLC site for Media Specialists are several excellent copyright sites:
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/pandp/cluster.asp?TxPartner=Media+Resources&CallType=TR&PartnerPath=epd

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What is our Role?
A library media specialist is a teacher, an information specialist, and an instructional consultant. With the amount of information available on the Internet, it is a necessity that our students and teachers become information literate. Our students must develop the ability to recognize the need for information, be able to identify and locate the appropriate sources, recognize methods to obtain the information, and determine if the information is valuable, reliable, and appropriate. The students should also be able to organize and use the information properly.
These facts are taken from Information Power and the DOE Exemplary Media Program rubric.

DO YOU HAVE
...AN INTERESTING EVENT TAKING PLACE IN YOUR LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER? ...A SPECIAL PROGRAM YOU WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE?
Let me know your news. Email jserrite@doe.k12.ga.us

Friends Get Stuck on This Idea!
Jonie Fitzsimmons of Mountainside Elementary in Ft. Carson, Colorado has given me permission to use this clever idea. She teaches in a P-5 school, but for this project she worked mainly with grades 2 through 5. She purchased 3000 cancelled international stamps from a local store at a cost of about $25.00. Each student who participated was given a sheet with 6 squares (see below). Each day the student is given one stamp and must interpret the stamp to determine what country the stamp is from, the capital of the country and what continent it is on. Jonie provides a site through the school's web site that allows the child to obtain the information.
http://www.ffc8.org/mountainside/dept/library/libstamp.htm
When the information is completed, spelling and capitals properly added, the child gets another stamp from another country. They are allowed one stamp per day. Jonie actually gives the student a cancelled USA stamp initially so they can relate to the information. Jonie says that kids like anything free and are actually learning to access information, problem solve and learn a little geography in the process.
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She is able to get kids into the library that she doesn't see on a regular basis. It gives them a little computer time, a little sense of accomplishment and again, something free.

Jonie received a $1,000 grant using this idea and used the money to purchase world maps for some of the classrooms. She said that typically this project lasts about two months each spring. Jonie can be reached at Jfitz77@worldnet.att.net

Going Global with Postage Stamps

Name __________________

Teacher__________________

Country __________________ Capital ___________________ Continent _________________

Country __________________ Capital ___________________ Continent _________________

I'm on a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The Open House at Manning Oaks Elementary had a wonderful turn out. Claudia Zurbrick is addressing some of the many library media specialists who were able to attend
the February 10th event
Bibb County Media Specialists on their In-Service Day
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April 2003
Library Media Calendar

Sunday

Monday

March
S MTW T F S
1 2345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

1

2

3

Birthday of Phil Niekro and Dwight Eisenhower

Hans Christian Washington

Andersen born: Irving born:

1805

1783

Friday

Saturday

4

5

Birthday of

Booker T. Wash-

Maya Angelou: ington born:

1928

1856

Richard Peck

born: 1934

6

7

8

9

Daylight savings time begins!

Trina Schart Hyman born: 1939
National Library Week begins !
William Wordsworth born: 1770

Martin Luther King buried: 1968

13 14 15 16

Birthday of Eudora Welty: 19092001
Birthday of Thomas Jefferson: 17431826
Marguerite Henry born: 1902-1997

Lincoln shot: 1865

Titanic hits iceberg: 1912

Kareem AdulJabbar born: 1947
Wilber Wright born: 1867

10
Clare Luce Booth born: 1903

11 12

Apollo 13 departs for moon: 1970
Persian Gulf War ends: 1991

1st launching of Space Shuttle: 1981
Beverly Cleary born: 1916

17 18

Bay of Pigs Inva- Paul Revere's

sion: 1961

famous ride:

Birthday of Tho- 1775

rnton Wilder: San Francisco

1897

earthquake:

1906

19
American Revolution begins: 1775
Oklahoma City bombing: 1995

20
Easter
Joan Miro born: 1893

21
National Turn off TV Week begins

22
Henry Fielding born: 1707

23
William Shakespeare born: 1564

24 25

Library of Congress established: 1800

Hubble space telescope placed inorbit: 1990

26
Patricia Reilly Giff born: 1935

27 28 29 30

Birthdays of U.S. Grant and Coretta Scott King

Birthday of Lois Duncan: 1934
Harper Lee born: 1926

1st African Ame-

ican college

chartered: Lin-

coln University: 1789: 1st presi-

1854

dential

inauguration

Louisiana Purchase: 1803

May
S MTW T F S
123 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley
April is National Poetry Month, School Library Media Month, Dia de los ninos/Dia de los libros

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