News

Each graduation period brings both good news and bad news for the CIMC. We're thrilled to see members of our student staff accomplishing so much scholastically, but we're sorry to see them leave the CIMC. Students that we are already missing include: Jeff Nelson from our computer lab, Renee Menard, John Ostlund, Nurul Husna Abdul Halim Shaw, Brianna Kay, and John Ostlun from our circulation desk staff, and Dale Griffin. Each one of these students brought tremendous amounts of creativity, skill and high quality service during their employment here at the CIMC. We thank them most sincerely for having been a part of the CIMC family.

Posted by Anna Lewis on January 28, 2006

Recently added websites address school quality and professional development sites.

Similar Students, Different Results: Why Do Some Schools Do Better?
Based on a large-scale survey of principals and teachers in 257 California elementary schools serving many low-income students, the study identified four interrelated practices associated with higher API scores and suggested implications for district and principal leadership.

Playing to Type: Mapping the Charter School Landscape
Based on a survey of more than 1,110 charter schools, the report presents a charter schools typology including five categories: traditional, progressive, vocational, general, and alternative delivery.

The Learning Page: Especially for Teachers
The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum.

Learner.org: Professional Development Programming for K-12 Teachers
Access to videos on demand, the Annenberg channel, workshops, courses and libraries, series websites, bulletin boards, interactive resources, classroom resources, and more.

Posted by Vince Jenkins on January 28, 2006

Selected titles for February discuss school law and education research.

School Law

School Law for Teachers: Concepts and Applications, by Julie Underwood [Dean, UW School of Education] and L. Dean Webb. Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, 2006.
KF 4175 .Z9 U53 2006

Anatomy of a Lawsuit: What Every Education Leader Should Know About Legal Actions, by Robert J. Shoop and Dennis R. Dunklee. Corwin Press, 2006.
KF4 119.8 .E3 S54 2006

Getting Comfortable with Special Education Law: A Framework for Working with Children with Disabilities, by Dixie Snow Huefner. Christopher-Gordon Publishers 2006.
KF 4210 .H84 2006

Education Research

Handbook of Writing Research, edited by Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, and Jill Fitzgerald. Guilford Press, 2005.
PE 1404 .H358 2005

Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change , edited by Peter Smagorinsky. Teachers College Press, 2006.
PE1404 .S596 2006

Action Research: Teachers as Researchers in the Classroom, by Craig A. Mertler. Sage Publications, 2006.
LB 1028.24 .M47 2006

Posted by Vince Jenkins on January 28, 2006

January's selected professional titles address literacy, the teaching of reading, and the efficacy of recent reading programs.

New children's books look at some historically significant machines.

Professional Reading

Language Development and Learning to Read: the Scientific Study of How Language Development Affects Reading Skill, by Diane McGuinness. (MIT Press, 2005)
LB 1050.6 .M34 2005

Reading for Profit: How the Bottom Line Leaves Kids Behind, edited by Bess Alywerger. (Heinemann, 2005)
LC 1085.2 R43 2005

Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12, by Karen Tankersley. (ASCD, 2005)
LB 1573 T26 2005

Teaching Reading to Struggling Learners, by Esther Minskoff. (Paul H. Brookes Pub., 2005)
LB 1050.5 M567 2005

Literature-Based Reading Activities (4th ed.), by Hallie Kay Yopp and Ruth Helen Yopp. (Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2006)
LB 1573 .Y67 2006

Children's Literature

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley, by Sally M. Walker. (Carolrhoda Books, 2005)
LTy E 599 .H4 W35 2005

The Cotton Gin, by Milton Meltzer. (Great Inventions, Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2004)
LTy TS 1585 .M45 2004

Hear That Train Whistle Blow!: How the Railroad Changed the World, by Milton Meltzer. (Landmark Books, Random House, 2004)
LTy HE 2751 .M395 2004

The Steam Engine, by James Lincoln Collier. (Great Inventions, Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2006)
LTy TJ 467 C55 2006

Ultimate Robot, by Robert Malone. (Dorling Kindersley, 2004)
LTy TJ 211.2 M358 2004

Posted by Vince Jenkins on January 1, 2006

January's new electronic resources cover a wide variety of subjects including electronic gaming, TV for kids, the New American school, resource portals, and sites about math, science, social science, and health education.

AwesomeStories.com
A teaching/learning/reading tool with links to approximately 100,000 hand-selected primary pictures, documents, maps, and audio/visual clips from the world's leading libraries, national archives and governmental web sites.

Packetville
Interactive games and educational resources that engage 8-to-14-year-olds in information technology. The site includes teaching aids and lesson plans for parents and educators.

Cornell Theory Center Gateways
Arts and Social Science Gateway
Annotated links to online resources in social sciences and the arts for K-12 educators and students.
Math and Science Gateway
Annotated links to online resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12. Includes subject areas such as agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, earth and environmental sciences, engineering, mathematics, health & medicine, meteorology, physics, and more.
Gateway for Educators
Annotated links to online resources of interest to K-12 educators. Includes sections on teaching methods and curriculum, special programs for educators and students, and organizations and electronic discussion lists.

Educating the Net Generation
This electronic book explores the Net Generation and the implications for educators and institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions are by educators and students.

Official DIBELS Home Page
"The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills"

More selected web sites and resources

Keeping America Competitive: Five Strategies to Improve Mathematics and Science Education

The Children's Television Rules

Children's Educational Television

New American Schools: Driven by Results

AmoebaWeb: Psychology on the Web

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study

Mathcounts

Social Studies for Kids

Health Education Assets Library: National Digital Library

Math Hunt

Gamequarium

The Authentic History Center

Posted by Vince Jenkins on January 1, 2006

The CIMC will not be providing a School-wide electronic subscription to Education Week, due to the extremely high cost of this service. The cost for the Madison campus is $9000 per year; use within the School of Education would cost $7000. The CIMC will continue to receive a print edition. In addition some articles from Education Week are available in two databases to which the campus subscribes. MasterFILE Premier Publications includes full text articles from 1/11/1995 to date. Full text articles are also available in Proquest Research Library from 2001 to date. Campus users may use the FindIT feature on the campus libraries web site to find specific articles or the most recent issue of this title. (http://www.library.wisc.edu/journals/ejlandfindit.html)

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on January 1, 2006

This month, SETDA (the State Educational Technology Directors Association) offers an online forum for teachers and parents to reflect on modern technologies and its impact in the way we work, learn, and play. Teachers from hundreds of schools will facilitate discussions around the ways in which technology impacts lives and affects learning outcomes. Login to http://www.edtechimpact.com/Kto2.html to explore free lessons and activities which help integrate technology into K-12 social studies and language arts classrooms.

Program materials include homework assignments for parents to help address the transformative nature of technology on the workforce. Teachers who submit their outcomes before January 31, 2006 will be eligible for prizes including an Interactive SMART Board, HP Digital Camera and online curriculum subscriptions for teachers.

For more information, visit the event web site, www.edtechimpact.com.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on January 1, 2006

As you prepare for Spring semester, please remember the CIMC can support your teaching through:

Instruction Sessions designed to help students complete course goals and objectives.
Library Course Web Pages with links tailored to your course and available to students via the My UW (www.mywisc.edu).
Technology Spaces and Equipment reservation assistance, as well as training and recommendations for use by you and your students.
Purchase Materials that you recommend to support your courses.
Course Reserves available through e-reserves and for short term loan.

Details on these services are outlined below:

Instruction Sessions
We can offer instruction on a variety of topics through class sessions or links to tutorials and resources specifically tailored for your class. For additional information on our course-integrated instruction, please see our guidelines. CIMC staff specialize in providing opportunities to integrate information literacy and technology skills and strategies into student work. An example of resources suggested for a particular assignment can be viewed here: Sample of Recommended Assignment Resources.

Library Course Web Pages
The CIMC can work with you to create an online resource pointing to databases, tutorials, web sites, workshops and other resources that address the educational themes and individual assignments for specific courses. The Library Course Web Page is available for your use through My UW (www.mywisc.edu).

Technology Spaces and Equipment
CIMC staff can offer assistance in the integration of technology and information literacy tools and strategies for your course. We also provide circulation of digital equipment -- cameras, laptops, camcorders, to name a few -- and can help direct you to teaching lab spaces.

Collection Development: Purchase Materials
We continually evaluate and expand our collection to meet the needs of the School of Education students, faculty and staff. We encourage you to share your recommendations of specific materials that will support your course with the staff member listed at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/info_for/faculty/index.html#collections. You may also submit your request online.

Course Reserves
Your course readings can be made available online (e-reserves) or at the CIMC circulation desk for short term loan. Submit your request online at http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/contact/place_item_on_reserve.html or contact Donna Meicher at dmeicher@education.wisc.edu for additional information about Course Reserves.

Please let me know if I can answer any questions about the services described here.

- Catherine Stephens (cstephens@education.wisc.edu)

Posted by Catherine Stephens on January 1, 2006

The CIMC is pleased to announce the Spring 2006 schedule for Media, Technology, Information Literacy Workshops. Workshop titles include:

A HandsOn Introduction to NVivo, with Chris Thorn
Building a My WebSpace Site, with Chris Dowling
Creating Online Instruction with Captivate (revised), with Catherine Stephens and Nikki Busch
Dreamweaver and Cascading Style Sheets, with Chris Dowling
Dreamweaver and Web Site Management, with Chris Dowling
Introduction to Dreamweaver, with Chris Dowling and Lisa Teyema
Introduction to RefWorks, with Jim Jonas
Introduction to EndNote, with Jim Jonas
Introduction to SPSS, with Chris Dowling
Using Google for Academic Research, with Jim Jonas and Lisa Teyema

Detailed descriptions, dates and times, and registration information can be online. For further information about CIMC instruction opportunities, contact Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on January 1, 2006

During December we are asking our visitors to complete an online
survey. The topic of the survey is the CIMC web site, and our main
goal is to learn what information people look for on our web site. The
survey has 8 questions and most are multiple-choice, so it should take
less than 5 minutes to complete.

We hope you will share your opinions with us, and that you will ask a
colleague or friend to do the same. The answers you give will help us
to tailor the web site to meet your needs. The survey can be found
at...

http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/contact/2005survey.htm

Posted by Chris Dowling on January 1, 2006

It only happens every four years, yet athletes have been training their whole lives for these two special weeks: The 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy! Visit our display to find Olympic activities to use with your class, or perhaps to read a little history on events such as the biathlon, curling and the luge.

Posted by Lisa Teyema on January 1, 2006

Pardon our dust and noise in the coming weeks, as room renovations get underway at the CIMC. Space renovations include construction of an additional teaching lab space in Room 356, staff office space in Room 350. In addition, due to moving and reshuffling, the CopyStand Room (TEB 332) is not available for use from January 23 - March 30, 2006.

Please send questions/comments to Chris Dowling at cdowling@education.wisc.edu.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on January 1, 2006