The Georgia Department of Education: educational technology and media newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 3 (Dec. 2002)

Georgia Dept. of Education Educational Technology and Media

Vol. 1 No. 3

The Georgia Department of Education:
Educational Technology & Media Newsletter
December 2002
Judy Serritella, Coordinator of Library Media Services, Georgia Department of Education
jserrite@doe.k12.ga.us

DOE Media List Service
Would you like to be a member of a brand new list service from the Department of Education? This mailing list will serve to communicate information from the DOE to K-12 school library media specialists in Georgia. Unlike other list services, this will be a post only site. You will receive communications, notices, and updates from the Department of Educational Technology & Media. You will receive minimal emails about conferences, board policies, and staff development opportunities. When you subscribe to the list service, you will receive information on how to unsubscribe.
To sign up for the list service use your email provider (home or school-wherever you wish to receive your mail). Send a message to: join-doemedia@list.doe.k12.ga.us
Do not put anything in the subject area or the body of the message. You will receive a confirmation email to which you will need to respond. That's all you need to do.
The Department of Education is excited about this opportunity to communicate with the library media specialists in the state. This list service was previously announced in last month's newsletter. At this writing, over 300 people have joined the list service. We experienced just a few glitches in the beginning, but those problems have been worked out.

Recommended Reading
Take time to read Literacy in America from Book magazine. This article was published in September/October 2002 and is still available on line. The link is printed here with permission from Mark Gleason, publisher of Book magazine.
http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue24/literacy.shtml

Georgia Dept. of Education Linda C. Schrenko, State Superintendent of Schools
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The Spotlight is on:
The Cedartown Middle School Media Center Web Page. The Media Center Web Page at Cedartown Middle is full of interesting and important information for its patrons. There is a section for evaluating Web sources, how to cite sources, sites of the day featuring classroom teachers and the units they are teaching, and a whole lot more. Susan Brown and Sharon Tinnan are the media specialists. Susan is the Webmaster and she also designed the school Web Page. Susan has incorporated her collaboration with teachers on the Sites of the Day page. She does most of the web page work at home using Claris Home Page but she is experimenting with Dreamweaver. She does the original graphics in Fireworks. She says that keeping the page current takes just a couple of hours a week. Susan also says that LM Net and the EdTech listservs give her many ideas for pages and links. The Pathfinders she does are entirely teacher/curriculum driven. Teachers come to her with the assignment they are planning and they collaborate on the final product the students will be expected to produce. Susan then searches for materials that will meet the objectives. Susan says that her district Webmaster has always been a huge support.
Check out Cedartown Middle at:
http://www.polk.k12.ga.us/cms/media/library.htm

Delicious Fund Raising Idea!
Jaye Masters, Media Specialist at Hawthorne Elementary in Hampton, has discovered a delicious way to add to her Media Center budget. The children who wanted to participate sold Otis Spunkemeyer cookies. According to Jaye, the response from parents was overwhelming. Several parents requested additional forms because of the size of their orders. The Media Center received 40% of the monies received. Hawthorne Elementary Media Center made thousands of dollars in a short amount of time.
Contact Jaye at jmasters@hawthr.ccps.ga.net for more information.

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Media Tech Classes Offered

Beginning January 2003 Media Tech will fulfill the Georgia Special Technology Requirement for Media Specialists. Click this link for more information about the classes that will be offered through the Educational Technology Training Centers. Class dates are listed below along with a link to the institution.

Date January 17, 2003 January 31, 2003 February 11, 2003 February 14, 2003 February 25, 2003 February 28, 2003 March 11, 2003 March 14, 2003 March 25, 2003 March 28, 2003
April 8, 2003 April 11, 2003 April 22, 2003 May 6, 2003 June 23-27, 2003 July 7-11, 2002 September 9, 2003 September 26, 2003 October 10, 2003 October 24, 2003

Place Kennesaw State Kennesaw State First District RESA Kennesaw State First District RESA Kennesaw State First District RESA Kennesaw State First District RESA Kennesaw State First District RESA Kennesaw State First District RESA First District RESA Kennesaw State
Macon State Macon State Kennesaw State Kennesaw State Macon State

Check out these Web Sites
http://www.school-library.org/csimpson/simpsonform.html Carol Simpson developed this simple form to help you determine the number of computers that will provide adequate access in facilities of every grade level and academic orientation. Enter data in the boxes, and click the appropriate buttons for each option, then click on "Compute..." Your results will be displayed immediately.
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
Some anti-plagiarism strategies to help prevent plagiarism before it happens.
http://www.ed.gov/free/
This website will take you to "Free Federal Resources for Education Excellence". It has some excellent links and information about receiving free materials.
http://www.csusm.edu/csb/english/center.htm
Spanish language books recommended for children
http://casanotes.4teachers.org/
Make certificates and awards in English and Spanish. Classroom teachers will like this one too!
http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3
QuizStar is a free web-based program! You can create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around Internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the Internet, then check this out!
http://lii.org The Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 10,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.

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http://scout.wisc.edu/index.html
The Scout Report is one of the Internet's longest-running weekly publications, offering a selection of new and newly discovered online resources of interest to researchers, educators, and anyone else with an interest in high-quality online material.

http://bubl.ac.uk/link
BUBL LINK is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Links are checked and fixed each month. LINK stands for Libraries of Networked Knowledge

And one more thing....
United Transportation Union Public Relations Department 14600 Detroit Ave. Cleveland, OH 44107-4250 216-228-9400
Free coloring book "The People Who Keep the Nation's Trains and Buses Moving." (Classroom quantities available) Suggested grades K-4.

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
There is $54,000 in awards, grants, and scholarships available from AASL in 2003. The deadline to apply is February 3, 2003 unless otherwise stated. Applications for many of the awards are available at
http://www.ala.org/aasl/awards.html
Some of the awards include:
National school Library Media Program of the Year. $10,000

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AASL/Highsmith Research Grant $5,000 Intellectual Freedom Award $2000 Information Technology Pathfinder $1,000

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From the GALILEO Digest
ProQuest is offering one-hour training sessions online. These sessions include an introductory course, as well as more in-depth training of database features and individual database products. Go to http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/webtraining
for more information or to register. Currently available sessions include: * ProQuest Digital Dissertations * Early English Books Online (EEBO) * ABI/INFORM * ProQuest Research Library and Discovery Core * Ethnic NewsWatch * Local Administrator * HeritageQuest Online * SiteBuilder * ProQuest Historical Newspapers * American Periodicals Series * Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 * Factiva * bigchalk * Safari Tech Books Online * ProQuest Reference Asia * Literature Online (LION) * Periodical Content Index
Participants need a PC with Internet access to view the session, and a telephone to dial in and listen to the session. Sessions are kept small to allow for questions and discussion of techniques with your trainer and with fellow ProQuest users.
If you need additional information about this new web training, please contact Rob Grindstaffat 800.521.0600 x3745.

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December 2002
Library Media Calendar

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English Chunnel finished: 1990

1823: Monroe Birthday of

Phonograph

Doctrine signed Joseph Conrad: invented: 1877

David Macauley 1857

born: 1946

First co-ed colle-

ge in U.S.:

1833

Birthday of Walt Disney: 19011966

Birthday of Joyce Kilmer: 1886
Microwave patented: 1945!

Birthday of Willa Cather: 1873-1947

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James Thurber born: 1894

Jean de Brunhof born: 1899
Joel Chandler Harris born: 1848

Birthday of Emily Aleksandr Solzh-

Dickinson: 1830 enitsyn born:

Birthday of

1918

Melvil Dewey:

1851

Ralph Bunche awar-

ded Noble Peace

Prize: 1950

Washington established as capital: 1800

Sir Frances Drake began circumnavigational voyage: 1577

Death of George Washington: 1799
Shirley Jackson born: 1916

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Birthday of Betty Smith: 1906
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Birthday of Arthur C. Clarke: 1917
Birthdays of Beethoven, Jane Austen, Margaret Mead.
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Dicken's A Chri- Saki born: 1870 stmas Carol published: 1843
Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk: 1903

Birthday of Eve Bunting: 1928

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Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock: 1630
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Birthday of James Ogelthorpe: 1696
Death of John Newbery: 1767

Avi's birthday: 1937 Birthday of

C.Clement Mary Higgins

Moore's

Clark: 1929

Christmas Christmas Eve:

poem published better not pout!

anonymously: 1823

Christmas Day

Birthday of Henry Miller, 1891
Kwanza

Ingri Parin

Birthday of

D'Aulaire born: Carol Ryrie

1904

Brink: 1895

Louis Pasteur's Emily Neville

birthday: 1822 born: 1919

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Birthday of E.W. Hildick: 1925

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Birthday of Mercer Mayer: 1943
Birthday of Rudyard Kipling: 1856

Edison demonstrates first incadescent light: 1879

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the miraculous. Albert Einstein.

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