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SoE faculty, staff and students are invited to advise the CIMC on the objectives and activities that will best meet your needs in 2004-2005. Each Spring the staff of the CIMC meet to develop our goals and objectives for the following year. As we develop our plans we consider wider issues that impact us. Some of these issues for 2004-05 include continued budget restrictions, increased costs of materials, increased demands for services and materials by both on campus and remote users, and stronger collaborations with the members of the School's community, as well as with information and technology service units of the School, the campus, the community and the State.

A major change in 2004-05 that will impact our services includes communicating changes in the ERIC system to our users and revising our help materials for this resource. As we make this transition we are exploring opportunities with other education libraries to collaboratively provide services in support of the new ERIC system.

Other areas of emphasis in 2004-05 include assisting SoE faculty with the transition to Learn@UW as a course management system; collaborating with other UW Madison and UW System libraries in the implementation of a new service that allows users to conduct a single search across multiple databases, catalogs and Internet resources; and adapting our space and services to support the integration of more technologies in teaching, learning and research.

Please share your comments on other trends that we need to consider as we plan for 2004-05 as well as any concerns or suggestions of changes that we need to make in order to meet the needs of the School of Education.

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on February 15, 2004

Vince Jenkins has accepted the position of Technical Services Librarian and will join the staff of the CIMC on March 15, 2004. Vince is currently Coordinator of Library Technical Services for the Maricopa County (AZ) Community Colleges. His previous experience includes four years as Special Formats and Monographs Cataloger at Northern Arizona University and Original Cataloger at the University of Kentucky where he served as the technical services liaison to the library of the Collegeof Education. Vince has a M.L.S. from the University of North Texas, a Master's in Music Education from North Texas State University, and a B.A. in Sociology from Texas Tech University.

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on February 15, 2004

Keeping pace with new technologies which impact teaching and learning, CIMC staff bring weblog technology to the CIMC News page.

By design, weblogs (or blogs) simply separate the content from the design of a web site. This allows authors to be content experts without having to be web designers. Weblogs can have one or many authors. Blog entries can be sorted by date, and may also be organized by category. Blog posts can contain text, web links, downloadable files, and images. Visitors can post comments on an entry (which are posted to the web site), and comments are sent to the blog author via email.

Blog facts and salient features

Adaptable for education use, Blogs can be used to post news, reports, or for web journaling. Blog readers are provided a means to engage in web dialogue, and can post comments and contributions about each blog item. Visit this month’s CIMC News blog at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/news/ and consider making a contribution to this month’s CIMC news.

To learn more about blog technology trends in education and libraries, visit the following:

• visit the Education Librarian blog at http://www.educationlibrarian.com authored by Anna Lewis at the CIMC.
• presentation by Jenny Levine at Illinois’s Suburban Library System at http://www.sls.lib.il.us/infotech/presentations/rla/blogging.pdf .
• the Educational Bloggers Network at http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/ (see headline story “Student Blogs at the University of Wisconsin”).
• Using Weblogs in Education, authored by Will Richardson, http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
To learn more about weblogs

The CIMC offers a Weblog workshop on April 21st from 10-12:00 pm. For more information about the workshop visit http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/help_training/workshops/index.html .
To register, contact Anna Lewis at alewis@education.wisc.edu .

Posted by Catherine Stephens on February 11, 2004

In early January, CIMC staff Chris Dowling and Catherine Stephens met with DOIT staff to map out a plan to help prepare SoE faculty for the transition from Blackboard to Desire2Learn. Plan objectives are two-fold: to help support faculty adopting a new course web tools, and preserve past work done in Blackboard. By end of April 2004, a copy of content from Blackboard course webs from Summer 2003, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 will migrate to Desire2Learn. SoE faculty and instructors will receive notification from DoIT when Blackboard webs have been converted to D2L.

Instructors will find that Chris and Catherine are listed in D2L as additional instructor/course designers. This scenario mimics the level of support Chris and Catherine previously provided for faculty using Blackboard, and enables Chris and Catherine to quickly assist SoE faculty with questions and troubleshoot D2L course webs. Please send your questions about the migration to our support team. Team members include Renee Schuh at DOIT rmschuh@facstaff.wisc.edu; Chris Dowling at the CIMC cdowling@education.wisc.edu ; and Catherine Stephens at the CIMC cstephens@education.wisc.edu.

Desire2Learn Tip:

Use your NetID and password to access D2L course webs. This is the username and password used to access the My UW Portal, WiscWorld and WiscMail and is independent from the username and password used to logon to GroupWise or to your computer. First time users can activate a NetID by entering your campus ID and birthdate at https://www.mynetid.wisc.edu/ .

Desire2Learn/Learn@UW Workshops and Instruction for Faculty and Staff

CIMC and DOIT staff offer workshops as well as one-on-one instruction to teach faculty and staff to learn how to use this new course web tool. Spring 04, the CIMC hosts Introduction to Desire2Learn workshops on Wednesday, February 11, 10:00 a.m.-noon and Friday, April 16, 10:00 a.m.-noon. Both workshops will be held in the Windows classroom, room 348 Teacher Education building. To register, call 263-5949 or email cstephens@education.wisc.edu . In addition to CIMC workshops, Chris and Catherine are available to meet with Soe Faculty to provide one-on-one consulting. Please contact Chris or Catherine to arrange a meeting.

DOIT Learning Technology staff are available Monday - Friday from 12:00 - 4:00 PM for one-on-one training and consultation at the College Library New Media Center, 600 North Park Street, Room 2257. This is a free service. Please phone 265-6733 to schedule an appointment.
To learn more about Learn@UW, visit http://www.doit.wisc.edu/faculty/elearning/cms/

To request a Desire2Learn course web site, visit http://www.doit.wisc.edu/faculty/elearning/cms/ and select the “How do I get started?” link.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on February 11, 2004

The CIMC has a wonderful new microfiche scanner in our computer lab. The machine, a Minolta 6000, replaces the Image Mouse. The new microfiche scanner allows users to easily view their microfiche. Users can then scan specific pages, using Adobe Acrobat. Once scanned, documents can be printed at the cost of $.07 per page, saved to a disk, or emailed. The images are saved as PDFs, so it's simple to produce one document of many pages (instead of many individual documents). The entire process of scanning and saving an image takes approximately one minute. We hope that this will ease the task for anyone needing to do work with ERIC, ETS or KCDL microfiche. Please remember to follow copyright laws and regulations as you use this equipment.
If you have questions about the machine or would like an overview of howthe fiche scanner works, please contact Anna Lewis at 263-8199.

Posted by Anna Lewis on February 11, 2004

New Internet / online resources selected by CIMC librarians have now been cataloged and can be accessed through the university's OPAC (MadCat).

1. Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
-- "900,000 catalog records" "130,000 critical reviews" "an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly"

2. Learninglanguages.net
-- A metasite of online foreign language resources created, maintained and enhanced by a team at the Internet Scout Project. Currently focuses on French, Japanese and Spanish language materials.

3. Heroes: A Curriculum - Activities for Exploring the Idea and Essential Qualities of Heroes
-- For grades 5 to 9.

4. Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide
-- "This Guide seeks to provide educational practitioners with user-friendly tools to distinguish practices supported by rigorous evidence from those that are not."

5. Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: a Review of the Research

6. New URL for the online electronic version of Educational Theory
-- CIMC also owns print issues.

Titles are all searchable on MadCat.

Posted by Chris Dowling on February 10, 2004

The Educator's Reference Desk: The U.S. Department of Education discontinued the AskERIC service on December 19th 2003. In response, the Information Institute of Syracuse created the Educator's Reference Desk (www.eduref.org), a new service and name to provide access to the education resources many educators have used for over a decade. The Educator's Reference Desk includes AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.

On Thursday February 17 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in 348 Teacher Education, Peter Cupery will present “Introduction to Educational Research,” a workshop that will include hands-on experience with the Educator's Reference Desk and several other education research tools.

The International Children's Digital Library: A project of the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) (http://www.icdlbooks.org) was launched on 18 November 2002. As of February 2004, it included 324 books from more than14 countries (e.g., Egypt, Croatia, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United States . . .) in more than 20 languages. The ICDL mission is to enable children to access and read an international collection of children's books through the development of new interface technologies.

On Friday February 27 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in 348 Teacher Education, Jo Ann Carr will present “Electronic Resources for Children's Literature,” a workshop that will include an exploration of the International Children's Digital Library.

Posted by on February 10, 2004

In celebration of the upcoming Conference on Arts, Curriculum and Community, to be held at Monona Terrace March 6-7th, the CIMC will display works by and about Faith Ringgold, an artist, children's book creator and keynote speaker at the event. The conference titled "Anyone Can Fly: Educational-Social-Personal Expression Through Quilts' is cosponsered by the School of Education, the Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brochures detailing conference events and registration will be available at the CIMC exhibit.

During March, the CIMC will celebrate Women's History Month. This exhibit will highlight the role women have played in education, children's literature, the arts and sciences. Visit our webliography, a compilation of electronic resources for Women's History .

Also in March, the CIMC will honor the 200th Anniversary of Lewis & Clark. This exhibit will feature educational materials and teaching activities that highlight the expedition and its impact on history. A webliography of resources will be compiled for this event.

Posted by Chris Dowling on February 10, 2004