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Social studies teachers and students in C&I 358, 359, 371, 458, 459, 559, and 975, this display's for you!

We've gathered recent multimedia materials from our Professional and PreK-12 collections for teaching U.S. history, Wisconsin history, world history, geography, and more.

All items in our displays are available for check-out unless labeled otherwise.

You're also invited to visit the CIMC Social Studies Education Guide at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/ed_info/pK12_guides/social_studies.html to find our annotated website links.

Posted by Amanda Werhane on March 1, 2005

Foreign language teachers and students in C&I 256, 346, 347, 356, 375, 446, 447, 455, 456, 564, this display's for you!

On the CIMC's upper level, you'll find a display of recent multimedia curricular materials for teaching Spanish, French, German, Latin, and Italian, as well as foreign language and bilingual children's books.

All items in our displays are available for check-out unless labeled otherwise.

You're also invited to visit the CIMC Foreign Languages Education Guide at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/ed_info/pK12_guides/foreign_lang.html to browse our annotated website links.

Posted by Amanda Werhane on March 1, 2005

March 2, 2005 would have been Dr. Seuss' 101st birthday. Visit the CIMC to enjoy a display of his books. Click on the following link for the NEA Read Across America event kit http://www.seussville.com/readacross/NEA_RAAEventKit05.pdf

Posted by Erica Arroyo on March 1, 2005

The Directory of Open Access Journals includes 110 peer reviewed journals in education in its listing of 1500 titles and 64,000 articles. Open access journals are journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or institutions for access. Since these titles meet the same rigorous standards of peer review as do commercial titles, they support scholarly communication and the development of knowledge without the often onerous price impacts on institutions that can be characteristic of traditionally published print and electronic journals.

As part of its commitment to improving access to new models of scholarly communication, the CIMC provides access to many of these titles in MadCat. Recently cataloged titles include

EJEL, the Electronic journal of elearning

International education journal (Flinders Institute, S. Australia)

Journal of educational enquiry

Journal of information technology education

Language learning & technology

Practical assessment, research and evaluation

Radical pedagogy

Journal of Scholarship of teaching and learning

Journal of interactive online learning

Mathematics educator

Each month the CIMC staff select recently published electronic titles and catalog these resources in MadCat in order to increase access to these resources. Two of the electronic titles added in February are:

America's Charter Schools: Results From the NAEP 2003 Pilot Study
(National Center for Education Studies, 2004)

Highlights findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress pilot study of America's charter schools and their students. The study is part of the 2003 NAEP assessments in reading and mathematics at the fourth-grade level.

National Education Technology Plan
(U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Technology, 2000)

The official site of the national education technology plan. The plan is available for download in PDF and HTML formats. The web site also includes studies on how students are using technology, feedback on the technology plan, states initiatives, success stories and action plans.

Other new CIMC electronic titles include:

AskAsia: a K-12 resource of the Asia Society

CIE: Council on Islamic Education

The Caldecott Medal

State Educational Data Profiles

Interweaving Wisconsin Studies: A Curriculum Guide

Smithsonian Education: The Gateway to Smithsonian Educational Resources

Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide: Practical Strategies, Management Techniques, and Reproducibles for New and Experienced Teachers, by Ronald L. Partin. (2nd edition, Jossey-Bass, 2005)
A guide to behavior and assistive discipline strategies, touching upon a variety of classroom management interests, including motivation, parent conferences, lesson plans, conflict resolution, grading and testing, cooperative learning, and more. (CIMC Professional Collection: LB 3013 P32 2005)

How the Human Genome Works, by Edwin H. McConkey. (Jones and Bartlett, 2004)
A readable overview for a basic, broad understanding of human genetics, this brief book (7 "lectures" in 118 pages) explains what the human genome is and does, its implications for health and disease, and its influence of its new prominence on modern medical practice. (CIMC PreK-12 Collection: LTy QH 447 .M353 2004)

Posted by Vince Jenkins on March 1, 2005

Jo Ann Carr, CIMC Director, was a member of the planning committee for a January 13th symposium for library staff from the most highly ranked schools of education. The Symposium, held at Harvard University's Gutman Library, featured a panel reviewing issues in the current state of education information. Topics included the preservation of historical materials in education, electronic access to journals for education, the development of shared electronic collections, and the impact of changes in ERIC on the education information landscape.

Symposium participants agreed to continue the work began at the symposium by developing an Education Libraries Consortium. Initial projects of the consortium will be to begin work on projects in developing digital libraries of historical materials, promoting acess to electronic journals in education, and exploring the impact of data driven decision making on education information needs.

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on March 1, 2005

CIMC staff will soon begin interviews with selected faculty members in teacher education to explore the use of learning objects in teacher education. The interviews are part of a project supported by a University of Wisconsin System grant to explore how access to high quality teaching and learning electronic materials for teacher education can be improved in order to facilitate wider use of these teaching and learning resources for teacher training.

The Improving Access to Learning Objects for Teacher Education is a collaborative project of the CIMC and the College of Education and Human Services at UW-Oshkosh. Twenty five faculty members from teacher education programs at these two institutions will be interviewed to determine the search elements and terminology they would use to locate specific learning objects. This information will then be used to provide a new search interface to 100 high quality learning objects appropriate to teacher education. This new search interface will then be introduced to teacher education faculty from UW System instititutions at a one day workshop later this Spring.

If you would like to participate in or obtain more information about this project, please contact Jo Ann Carr at carr@education.wisc.edu.

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on March 1, 2005

School of Education faculty and instructors who wish to schedule CIMC teaching space for Fall 2005, Summer 2005 and Spring 2006 are reminded to complete the online reservation form available at
http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/spaces_equipment/spaces_form.html.

CIMC Teaching spaces include:

Macintosh Lab 346
Macintosh Lab 330
Windows Lab 348
Conference Room 302
Fourth floor instructional space

Detailed information including technology components of each space can be found online at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/spaces_equipment/index.html.

Guidelines for reserving CIMC space are posted at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/about/policy/reservation_guidelines.htm.
Please contact Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu with questions about scheduling teaching space at the CIMC.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2005

Due to the high demand for CIMC teaching space, CIMC staff have drafted new reservation guidelines for the use of the teaching labs in the CIMC. The revised guidelines give priority to reservations where the only space for the class, as listed in the timetable, are the labs in the CIMC. The practice of reserving the labs in the CIMC for all class sessions when another space actually serves as the primary meeting space for the class is discouraged. The labs in the CIMC should only be reserved for the class periods when the resources in these spaces are required for the content of the class. Faculty members who have reserved these spaces and then determine the reservation is no longer needed should cancel the reservation so that others have access to the equipment and software in these rooms.

CIMC staff wish to support and facilitate faculty access to the technology equipped teaching spaces they need. Therefore, we are identifying other labs on campus that we can schedule on an occasional basis. If the labs in the CIMC aren't available when SOE classes need them, we will do our best to schedule one of these alternate spaces. Another option, beyond use of the labs in the CIMC and labs elsewhere on campus, is the use of laptops from the CIMC's circulating collection.

CIMC staff welcome and encourage your input and comments about the new guidelines. Please send comments to either Jo Ann Carr at carr@education.wisc.edu, or Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2005

The CIMC recently received new laser printers and display cards as part of the School of Education capital exercise. The laser printers replace the printers that were purchased over five years ago and support printing letter-, legal-, and ledger-sized pages.

The display cards will be installed into the Dell desktop computers in the Windows classroom and the open lab. These cards support the 3D, animation, and video programs taught in the Art Department. For example, the cards are certified to work with Alias Maya and Adobe Premiere. The card model is NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100, and it packs 128 megabytes of SDRAM.

Posted by Chris Dowling on March 1, 2005

The CIMC will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday-Friday during the Spring Break period of March 19-28. We will be closed on Saturday, March 26 and Sunday, March 27.

School of Education students, staff, and faculty are reminded that access to many CIMC materials can be provided during this period by placing a request in MadCat to have materials delivered to another campus library. Access to articles held at the CIMC is available during extended hours through Library Express. Information about these services is available at http://www.library.wisc.edu/services/ill.htm

Reference assistance will be available from other campus libraries and from the campus live help service. Live help is available at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/reference/livehelp/

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on March 1, 2005

On Monday, February 28, 2005, staff from the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing (CIMC) participated in the monthly reading program to bring story hour and arts and crafts activities to the Allied Drive Safe Haven after school center. The visit was part of a reading program created by UW-Madison librarians to bring books and learning to Allied Drive.

The event was designed around the theme, Play with Your Food, based upon the clever children’s picture book series by Saxton Freyman and Joost Elffers. The story hour included reading several titles aloud, singing about feelings, and creating "characters with moods" using fruits and vegetables. Digital photographs were taken of the children’s food art, and a booklet will be created for the Safe Haven.

The children also had a chance to learn a bit of Spanish. Two CIMC staff members, Amanda Werhane and Erika Arroyo, read the English and Spanish editions of How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods, and instructed the children in reciting several Spanish words. In addition to the bilingual story time, Erika Arroyo led the group in a Spanish version of “If You”re Happy and You Know It”. Overall, staff members and children alike enjoyed a lively and wonderful afternoon.

Submitted by: Erika Arroyo and Catherine Stephens

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2005