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Back by popular demand, "Digital Storytelling" will be offered again on March 23rd from 10-12:00 pm, in the CIMC Mac Lab 356.

Digital Storytelling is a workshop about how to tell personal stories using digital mediums. We all have stories to tell, and with digital video, image, and audio tools, these stories can be told with depth and creativity. Digital storytelling is an increasingly popular pedagogical tool used in elementary and secondary schools. Students learn multimedia skills, how to structure stories, and organizational skills. This workshop introduces basic elements and strategies used for creating digital stories. We will learn some media editing basics using iMovie.

To register for the workshop, please contact Chris Blakesley at cblakes@gmail.com.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2007

Teacher Pay Reforms
Reviews compensation reform as a teacher workforce policy, the politics of compensation reform, and what those politics imply about policymaking at the state and local level.

NSTA Webnews Digest
Science, education, and legislative news for science teachers, and selected news articles from NSTA Reports or NSTA Express and a webnews analysis section.

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Activities in supplemental instruction critical to early reading success, including phonological awareness, fluent reading in a variety of texts, comprehension strategies and vocabulary development, decoding strategies, and word analysis.

Science Courseware.org
"The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms."

Posted by Vince Jenkins on March 1, 2007

CIMC staff are pleased to announce a special project aimed at creating lesson plans and resources for IDEAS based on content from the UW Madison Digital Content group.

IDEAS
Sponsored by the UW Extension and UW System, and in its seventh year, IDEAS contains over 4,000 digital resources catalogued by subject, grade level, and searchable by Wisconsin Teacher standards. Resources include Video, Audio, Lesson Plans, and web resources. IDEAS offers the opportunity for teachers to contribute new lesson plans for the collection. Teachers are encouraged to draw from the UW Digital Content collection of images, video, audio, online books and original artifacts.

UW-Madison Digital Content Group
Since its foundation in early 2000, the UWDCC has worked collaboratively with UW System faculty, staff, and librarians to create and provide access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and provide access to rare or fragile items of broad research value. The UWDCC has also partnered with cultural heritage institutions and public libraries throughout Wisconsin to create digital resources.

Digital Resources housed within UW Madison Digital Collections are organized across a range of subjects that include art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. Digital resources include text-based materials such as books, journal series, and manuscript collections; photographic images; slides; maps; prints; posters; audio; and video.

If you would like to learn more about creating content from IDEAS, please contact Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2007

The CIMC has recently added these titles on educational leadership . . .

Boot Camp for Leaders in K-12 Education: Continuous Improvement, by Lee Jenkins, Lloyd O. Roettger, and Caroline Roettger.
ASQ Quality Press, 2007
Prof LB2822.82 J458 2007

The Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership. (2nd edition)
Series: Jossey-Bass Teacher
Jossey-Bass, 2007
Prof LB2806 J597 2007

Leadership Strategies for Teachers, by Eunice M. Merideth. (2nd edition)
Corwin Press, 2007
Prof LB1775.2 M47 2007

Mentor Coaching and Leadership in Early Care and Education, by Mary E. Nolan.
Thompson Delmar Learning, 2007
Prof LB1775.6 N65 2007

Motivational Leadership in Early Childhood Education, by Lynn Marotz and Amy Lawson.
Thomson Delmar Learning, 2007
Prof LB1775.6 M37 2007

. . . And other issues concerning education professionals

Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice, by Kevin Kumashiro, foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings, afterword by William F. Pinar.
Series: Reconstructing the public sphere in curriculum studies
RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Prof LC213.2 K86 2004

Cannabis and Young People: Reviewing the Evidence, by Richard Jenkins.
Series: Child and adolescent mental health series
Jessica Kingsley, 2006
Prof HV5824.Y68 J46 2006

Cutting Through the Hype: A Taxpayer's Guide to School Reforms, by Jane L. David and Larry Cuban.
Education Week Press, 2006.
Prof LB2805 .D168 2006

Does School Choice Work? Effects on Student Integration and Achievement, by Julian R. Betts (and others)
Public Policy Institute of California, 2006
Prof LB1027.9 D63 2006

Missing Men in Education, by Mary Thornton and Patricia Bricheno.
Trentham Books, 2006
Prof LC212.9 T46 2006

Playstation Nation: Protect Your Child from Video Game Addiction, by Olivia Bruner and Kurt Bruner.
Center Street, 2006.
Prof HQ784.V53 B78 2006

Understanding Teacher Stress in an Age of Accountability, edited by Richard Lambert and Christopher McCarthy.
IAP, 2006
Prof LB2840.2 U63 2006

Violence in America's Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses, by R. Murray Thomas.
Praeger, 2006.
Prof LB3013.32 .T46 2006

Posted by Vince Jenkins on March 1, 2007

Each year, CIMC lab staff write a proposal for an Instructional Laboratory Modernization grant. Traditionally, we request money to upgrade computers in a single classroom. This year we ask for your ideas for upgrades to CIMC teaching labs. Directions for proposals indicate that "the program seeks to upgrade teaching laboratories by replacing obsolete and defective equipment" and priority is given to labs serving many students, that fulfill a unique purpose, or that are inadequately equipped. Please send your suggestions to "cdowling@wisc.edu" by Friday, March 9.

Posted by Chris Dowling on March 1, 2007

In support of teaching with games and simulations, the CIMC recently acquired virtual space for SoE class projects in Second Life, a virtual world and MOSS (Massive Online Social Simulation). The SoE space resides on the Teaching island, part of the New Media Campus consortium in Second Life. The island provides space for class meetings, presentations, and access to a variety of teaching tools.

Our first project focuses on creating a virtual critique. Led by Professor Michael Connors, the design team includes Catherine Stephens, and the Art 356 class. Michael Connors notes, "My primary interest at this time is to explore the possibilities that online technology brings to the critique - a core element in the art curriculum. A virtual environment offers ways to visualize key concepts in the critique as well as provide a more extensive consideration of the students’ sources for inspiration. Online simulations help reveal and analyze the decision making process used by students during the development of their ideas. A primary goal of the critique is to see one's own work objectively through the eyes of others. This goal is not exclusive to the arts, but has applications in most academic fields."

Additional SoE class projects are welcome and encouraged. To learn more about Second Life. or to become involved with the SoE Virtual Learning Center, please contact Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2007

In support of teaching with games and simulations, the CIMC recently acquired virtual space for SoE class projects in Second Life, a virtual world and MOSS (Massive Online Social Simulation). The SoE space resides on the Teaching island, part of the New Media Campus consortium in Second Life. The island provides space for class meetings, presentations, and access to a variety of teaching tools.

Our first project focuses on creating a virtual critique. Led by Professor Michael Connors, the design team includes Catherine Stephens, and the Art 356 class. Michael Connors notes, "My primary interest at this time is to explore the possibilities that online technology brings to the critique - a core element in the art curriculum. A virtual environment offers ways to visualize key concepts in the critique as well as provide a more extensive consideration of the students’ sources for inspiration. Online simulations help reveal and analyze the decision making process used by students during the development of their ideas. A primary goal of the critique is to see one's own work objectively through the eyes of others. This goal is not exclusive to the arts, but has applications in most academic fields."

Additional SoE class projects are welcome and encouraged. To learn more about Second Life. or to become involved with the SoE Virtual Learning Center, please contact Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu.

Posted by Catherine Stephens on March 1, 2007

Dogs to wolves . . .

Good Dog: Poems, by Maya Gottfried, paintings by Robert Rahway Zakanitch. (A. Knopf, Random House, 2005)
16 soulful, expressive portraits of dogs by Zakanitch, and poems that capture their voices and inner personalities by Gottfried.
LTy PZ8.3.G634 Goo 2005

The Dog Who Cried Wolf, by Keiko Kasza. (Putnam, 2005)
Tired of being a house pet, Moka the dog moves to the mountains to become a wolf but soon misses the comforts of home.
LTy PZ3.K165 Dog 2005

Saint Francis and the Wolf, by Richard Egielski. (Laura Geringer Books, 2005)
In Gubbio, Italy, Saint Francis shows the villagers that neither wealth nor strength are as powerful as love and compassion.
LTy PZ8.1.E35 Sai 2005

Wild Dogs: Past & Present, by Kelly Milner Halls. (Darby Creek Pub., 2005)
Wild dogs have fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Each species has its own tale--from being worshipped to being feared as a ravaging monster.
LTy QL737.C22 H346 2005

. . . to War

My Childhood Under Fire: a Sarajevo Diary, by Nadja Halilbegovich. (Kids Can Press, 2006)
Nadja Halilbegovich enjoys a normal school child's life. Then one spring morning in 1992, the siege of Sarajevo begins.
LTy DR1313.32 S27 H35 2006

When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War, poems by Eloise Greenfield, illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. (Lee & Low Books, 2006)
Collection of poems about children around the world, focusing on their perceptions of war and how the turmoil of war affects their lives.
LTy PZ8.3.G845 Whe 2006

Whose Wars? Teaching about the Iraq War and the War on Terror (Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 2006)
LTy DS79.76 .W467 2006

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military, edited by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg. (New Press, 2006.)
LTy UB323 .A615 2006

Posted by Vince Jenkins on March 1, 2007

CIMC staff extend a special welcome to library practicum students Lia Vellardita and Jessica Pyrek.
Lia Vellardita is a graduate student in library and information studies at the UW. She will be working at the reference desk as part of a practicum in that program. Lia comes to the CIMC with considerable experience in library reference and youth services.

Jessica Pyrek joins technical services as a practicum student this spring. A graduate student in the UW-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies, Jessica has designed a collection development and management project to help upgrade some of the CIMC's audio-visual materials. She's currently identifying outdated VHS video recordings in the library's Pre-Kindergarten-12th Grade (PreK-12) collection to determine which can be replaced with DVD. In the next phase, Jessica will identify out-of-date educational software in the children's collection to be replaced with more recent versions.

This is Jessica's second year in the SLIS program. She plans to graduate this coming May and hopes to become a children's librarian in a public library.

Welcome Jessica and Lia!

Posted by Jim Jonas on March 1, 2007

... bringing with it a number of special days, including March 21 (the first day of spring this year!)

Before we get to that special day, however, students at the UW-Madison will have experienced another important day – the 100th day of the current academic year. To commemorate that milestone day, we thought it would be fun to design one of our March displays around CIMC collection materials that focus on the number “100.”

Another significant number for March is “2”, the birth date (in 1904) of the late Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as “Dr. Seuss.” Prior to his death on September 24, 1991, Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 44 children’s books. His books have been translated into more than 15 languages and over 200 million copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Come take a look at some of the many titles we have here at the CIMC that celebrate this beloved author and illustrator of children’s books.

The second day in March is significant for another reason. Ten years ago, the National Education Association (NEA) started a reading revolution. From a one-day celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday to a year-round literacy campaign reaching nearly every home, school, and community, the NEA’s Read Across America campaign is building a nation of readers. To celebrate this event, we created a display of collection items that focus on activities, educational issues, and research that revolve around the subject of “reading.”

Another “magic” number for the month of March is “8” – the number of departments that comprise the UW-Madison’s School of Education. Come take a look at our CIMC display this month which celebrates the diversity of the School of Education’s people and programs by featuring items of interest to students in the various School of Education departments.

Before we reach that final March milestone date … the one UW-Madison students have been waiting for… March 31, the first day of Spring Break …make it a point to stop by the CIMC and take a look at our March displays. We hope you enjoy them … and your upcoming break from classes!

Posted by Patricia Eschmann on March 1, 2007