EMU : Center for Research on the Internet and Schools

Southfield Media Specialist Workshop

Sixteen Southfield media specialists along with administrators attended a free workshop on Wednesday and Thursday, July 20-21 at MacArthur Elementary School.

The workshop is one in a series under a National Science Foundation Grant to develop professional development models for "training the trainer" to help K-12 educators using the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) . See below for presentation downloads and Web links to sites used in the workshop.

AGENDA

Wednesday July 20

Time	Topic	Facilitator
8:45	Continental Breakfast
9:00	Introduction and Overview	Ellen Hoffman
9:30	Digital Libraries and the Media Specialist (ppt)	Marcia Mardis
10:15	BREAK
10:30	Digital Resources for Science and Mathematics (ppt)	Ellen Hoffman
11:00	Hands On: Exploring digital resources
11:30	Discussion: Linking Digital Resources to the GLCE (ppt)	Joanne Caniglia
12:15	LUNCH
12:45	Overview of “Instructional Architect” (ppt)	Nancy Copeland
1:15	Hands On: Breakout to Explore Instructional Architect
1:30	Taking It Deeper: What Can You Do with IA	Nancy Copeland
1:50	Hands-On: Adding Resources to IA
2:10	Debrief	Marcia Mardis

Thursday July 21

Time	Topic	Facilitator
8:45	Continental Breakfast
9:00	International Research in SLM (ppt)	Marcia Mardis
9:45	Science Achievement & the SLM (ppt)	Marcia Mardis
10:15	BREAK
10:30	Curriculum and the Media Specialist (ppt)	Ellen Hoffman
11:00	Discussion: Beyond Collaboration with Teachers	Pat Williams-Boyd
12:00	LUNCH
1:00	Action Research for the Media Specialist (ppt)	Marcia Mardis
2:00	Next Steps	Mardis & Hoffman

WEB LINKS

NSDL Tools: Instructional Architect

Main IA site http://ia.usu.edu/

Example http://ia.usu.edu//viewproject.php?project=ia:1145

Example Digital Libraries

The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org
The American Poets Project http://www.poets.org
RadioLovers http://www.radiolovers.com/
Dorling Kindersley Image Library http://uk.dk.com/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html
WGBH Teachers Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) http://www.thegateway.org/
International Children's Digital Library http://icdlbooks.org
InTime http://www.intime.uni.edu/

NSDL Exploration: Digital libraries for K-12

General science

National Science Digital Library http://www.nsdl.org
Middle School Portal http://nsdl.enc.org/
Science News for Kids http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

Biology: Bug, birds, animals

Fireflies http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu:80/projects/FFiles/frame1.html
Bird sound library at Cornell http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/
Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

Earth and weather

Tropical Twister http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/index.html
Exploring Earth animations http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/home.cfm
UCAR Library of Digital Images - Weather, climate, earth system
https://www.fin.ucar.edu/ucardil/default.jsp
Grand Canyon Explorer http://www.kaibab.org/home.htm
DLESE (earth science library) http://www.dlese.org

Space exploration

NASA Return to Flight http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/rtf_front/index.html
Discovery Channel http://dsc.discovery.com/news/features/shuttle/shuttle.html
Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

Science videos and sounds in the classroom

Teachers Domain from PBS http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Library of Congress: Moving Image Collection (MIC) http://mic.loc.gov/index.php
Science song samples http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE
Discovery Channel http://dsc.discovery.com/
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

GLCE Resources for Math

Sample items and vocabulary

MDE resources

Non-MDE sites

Some material in this presentation courtesy of The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE 0435098.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.