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New technologies, web site development, and a discussion of AEW speaker Deborah Meier's Many Children Left Behind are the CIMC's featured events during American Education Week, November 13-17. School of Education students, staff, and faculty as well as members of the Wisconsin Educational Community, are invited to join the staff of the CIMC for these events. Registration is requested for the workshops on new technologies and on web site development.

Please contact Jo Ann Carr (carr@education.wisc.edu) for more information.

Tuesday, Nov 14th
2-3:30 p.m.
American Education Week Feature Workshop
New Methods and Resources for Teaching with New Technologies, with Jim Jonas
CIMC Windows Lab, 348

Learn new teaching strategies working with the Internet. Save time as you to match your information needs with information sources, including blogs, bookmarks and images. Learn to create personalized, focused web searches. You will get hands on practice with Bloglines, Flickr, Delicious and Rollyo.

Wednesday, November 15
12:00-1:00 p.m.
The School of Education Reads: Many Children Left Behind
Join the staff of the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing in a discussion of Deborah Meier's book, Many Children Left Behind. This lunch time discussion will provide an opportunity for members of the School of Education Community to participate in a "one book, one community" event inspired by the Center for the Book. Bring your lunch and your perspectives on this title and the CIMC will supply beverages and dessert. Copies of this title are available at the CIMC, through UW System Search, and through the South Central Library System. Contact Jo Ann Carr at carr@education.wisc.edu or 263-4755 for more details. A display of titles by Ms. Meier will also be featured at the CIMC during American Education Week.

Friday, Nov 17
2-4:00 p.m.
Dreamweaver and Cascading Style Sheets, with Chris Dowling
CIMC Windows Lab, 348

This introduction to cascading style sheets (CSS) includes replacing table-formatting with CSS-formatting, and creating a style sheet for printing the web site pages. Prerequisites: familiarity with Macromedia Dreamweaver and a willingness to experiment with new techniques.

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on November 2, 2006

"Engaging the future: meeting the needs of next gen" is the focus of a recently published chapter in Student Engagement and Information Literacy (American Library Association, 2006). This chapter, by CIMC director Jo Ann Carr, identifies differences in K-12 and higher education learning environments and presents ways in which information literacy programs can assist students in making the transition to higher education.

Posted by Jo Ann Carr on November 2, 2006

Special Connections
Provides educators with tools and resources that support students with special needs in general education settings. Includes best practices, case study materials, references and more on areas such as Instruction, Behavior Plans, Collaboration, and Assessment.

Paraeducator and Supervisor Training Designed to Meet the Needs of
Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms
A project designed to improve the training of paraeducators to support students with disabilities within general education classrooms. Also includes links to other paraeducator training resources.

Scilinks
SciLinks connects textbooks with resources on the Web, targeting a specific topic in the textbook with teacher-selected Web pages devoted to that topic. The database is searchable by SciLinks Codes found in the margin of a science textbook, NSTA Press book, or NSTA journal. Keyword search is available to NSTA members.

Posted by Vince Jenkins on November 2, 2006

Professional literature about principals, philosophy, and current issues . . .

Best Practices of Award-Winning Secondary School Principals, by Sandra Harris. Corwin Press and the National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2006.
Prof LB2831.92 H3617 2006

(Companion to: Best Practices of Award-Winning Elementary School Principals, 2005)

The Principal's Legal Handbook (3rd ed.), edited by Kenneth E. Lane and others. Education Law Association, 2005.
Prof KF4150.Z9 P75 2005

The Principal's Quick-Reference Guide to School Law: Reducing Liability, Litigation, and Other Legal Tangles (2nd ed.), by Dennis R. Dunklee and Robert J. Shoop. Corwin Press, 2006.
Prof KF4119.6 D86 2006

An Introduction to Philosophy of Education (4th ed.), by Robin Barrow and Ronald Woods. Routledge, 2006.
Prof LB880 B34 2006

Evolution and Creationism in the Public Schools: A Handbook for Educators, Parents, and Community Leaders, by Angus M. Gunn. McFarland & Co., 2004.
Prof BS652 G86 2004

Reforming Schools: Working within a Progressive Tradition during Conservative Times, by Jesse Goodman. State University of New York Press, 2006.
Prof LB2822.82 G67 2006

Posted by Vince Jenkins on November 2, 2006

November is an exciting month at the CIMC, as we join with the School of Education in celebrating American Education Week, November 12-18, 2006. This year's theme, "Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility", highlights the importance of bringing together educators, school staff, parents, students, and communities in a unified effort to build great public schools.

Two of our November displays will highlight this week-long celebration. The UW-Madison student chapter of the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) will feature information about their organization, along with offering you a few surprises when you visit their display. A second exhibit will spotlight CIMC titles by Deborah Meier, legendary school founder, education reformer, and public education advocate. Ms. Meier will be giving the AEW keynote address on Monday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Theater -- a lecture that is free and open to the public.

Staff of the CIMC are especially excited to host a lunch-hour discussion of Ms. Meier's book Many Children Left Behind to be held at the CIMC on Wednesday, November 15, from noon to 1:00 p.m. All School of Education students, staff, faculty, and members of the Wisconsin Educational Community are invited to bring lunch and your perspectives on this title. The CIMC will supply beverages and dessert. Copies of Many Children Left Behind are available at the CIMC, through UW System Search, and through the South Central Library System.

Also planned for November is a display of puzzles and games from the CIMC collection which demonstrates the fun of learning and we are currently showcasing a variety of CIMC resources aimed at enticing teen readers.

With so many exciting events taking place this month, make it a point to visit the CIMC often during November.
We look forward to having you join us!

Posted by Patricia Eschmann on November 2, 2006

On October 23rd, staff from the CIMC teamed with students from SWEA to bring a Halloween Story Hour to the Allied Drive Safe Haven Center. With 35 energetic children, we read "scary" stories, such as I'm Not Afraid of this Haunted House, made all sorts of spooky masks, snacked on "monster eyeballs," and painted everything from bats to butterflies on the kids' faces. The afternoon was fast-paced and exciting - overall a fun and very successful event!

Posted by Amanda Manteufel on November 2, 2006

As the UW Libraries continue to purchase access to a myriad of digital resources - and as the resources continue to change their content and appearance - keeping up with all of the search tools available to the campus community remains a challenge. To help the education community make sense of campus research tools the CIMC will be begin providing regular Resource News updates. This month we begin with ERIC.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) has undergone enormous changes in recent years. Over the next few months we will look at how those changes will affect the way you look for education research. At the University of Wisconsin, we purchase access to the ERIC database through EBSCOhost. We get many other databases from EBSCOhost as well; including PsycINFO and Academic Search. The following is an update about some of ERIC's new features through EBSCOhost.

Narrow Results by Subject
After doing a search, users see a column on the left hand side of the screen that contains the major subjects contained in the search. Searchers can click on these to narrow their original search to bring up results that are more specific.

Visual Search
The "Visual Search" tab in the search window allows users to see a visual representation of their search results. This feature allows users to easily see relationships between their topics. This can be particularly helpful when beginning research on a new subject. The circles represent categories and squares represent articles.

APA Formatting of Citations
When users email or save articles or searches, ERIC will format the citations in APA (and other formats) for you. For those who don't use EndNote or RefWorks, this provides another option for formatting your citations.

Next month we will review some of the differences between searching ERIC through the campus resources and the Department of Education's version.

As always, please feel free to contact the reference desk if you have any questions about ERIC or any other research tool.

CIMC Reference:
Phone: 263-4751
Email: askcimc@edcuation.wisc.edu
IM: cimcref

Posted by Jim Jonas on November 2, 2006

UW Faculty and Staff will now enjoy longer loan periods for all books and government documents from nearly all UW-Madison campus libraries as well as UW-System campus libraries. The new loan periods will be "term" loans. That means items checked out in the summer and fall will be due back December 30th, and items checked out after December 30th will be due back on May 30th.

These new loan periods apply to all books checked out from the CIMC! You will continue to have two renewals for materials and if you have any difficulty renewing any currently checked-out materials, please call the CIMC Circulation Desk at 608-263-4750.

Posted by Anna Lewis on November 2, 2006

The CIMC will be closing at 5pm on Wednesday, November 22nd. We will be CLOSED on Thursday, November 23rd, Saturday, November 25th and Sunday, November 26th. We will be OPEN on Friday, November 24th from 9am until 5pm. We will re-open for our regular hours on Monday, November 27th at 8am.

Posted by Anna Lewis on November 2, 2006