Learning through Books, Media and Technology

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1995 Administrative Leadership Award for Library Media Services

1995 President's Award Winner

1995 Technology Award

Editorial: Highlighting the Arts

Seurat, Haiku, Computers, Murals...

Keywords for the Fine Arts

Library Bids on Bach's Lunches

Quilting Gifts for the Community

Using the Arts to Understand

"Do We Get to Come Back Tomorrow?"

Intersecting disciplines

Good Ideas! Updates

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Good Ideas! Updates

• Sylvia Alderman (Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, Palo Alto) reports that she and the sixth-grade teachers have created a suggested format that provides a structure for teaching and integrating research into the middle school curriculum.
• Laura Bokesch (Lakeside Middle School, Irvine) is still in Irvine but has moved to the new South Lake Middle School. The school is built around the village concept, fostering cooperative planning. In her "spare" time, she is working on new assessment tools, teaching HyperCard in color, helping students create multimedia presentations, and examining information literacy through the use of essential questions.
• Ruth Scribner (Florin High School) reports that they have entered into dialog with the CSUS library dean to discuss a possible partnership to prepare students for postsecondary work. The library presently offers academic tutoring with open access to 32 computer stations until 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. A new CD tower networked to seven computers was installed this summer.
• Martha Rowland (Sierra Vista Elementary, Clovis) expresses her gratefulness for the Technology Award, which has resulted in helpful publicity within the school community. A new grant for remodeling has allowed her to introduce more technology, which students are already using eagerly.
• Linda Montgomery has moved from Walter Stiern Middle School (Bakersfield) to a new two-year high school. She states that the media center is fully used by most departments, but she is particularly proud of her collaboration with teachers in Consumer Education, Child Development, and Career Education.
• Mary Purucker (Santa Monica High School) and Suzanne Peterson (John Adams Middle School) both have been instrumental in pioneering plans for SMILENET, an electronic communications network that will connect regional partners who will share their unique information databases and resources. Partners include Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica College, the City of Santa Monica, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Science, and the Rand Corporation.
• Kay Tortorice (Polytechnic High School, Long Beach) has been busy involving teams of people in writing grants for resources and technology. They were funded for five of the seven grants for which they applied in 1994-95. The key to her success: "I don't write anything alone; it's teamwork."
• Kathy Foss (Los Alamitos High School) was surprised to see her name in a nationally circulated catalog, giving her credit for an information database to accompany the product offered. Kathy had enlisted students in the project, tried out the idea with teachers, and received free equipment for her school in exchange for her work. A second such project is now scheduled for release.
• Bill Sears spent last year as a visiting educator at the Sacramento County Office of Education. Bill and Tom Vasta, another visiting educator, developed an Instructional Technology Center at the county office and taught numerous workshops. Meanwhile, at Mesa Verde High School, the English Department took responsibility for teaching information literacy, the Science Department developed curriculum using Internet resources, and the Special Education Department continued networking students to senior citizens throughout the United States. Bill is also conducting field research for his doctorate in educational management.
• Judith Salzberg has been coordinating an S.B. 1510 grant for the Charles Wright Elementary School. Called project START (Science Through Activities, Research and Technology) and designed for all grade levels, the grant is especially designed to allow students to use technology for reporting on science projects. An ancillary program has been initiated to train tutors to assist students in accomplishing this goal. Presentations are collected on videocassettes to be sent home for parent viewing.