LIBR233: School Library Media Centers
Transforming Them to a Learning Commons
Spring, 2009
San Jose State University
David V. Loertscher
Overview:
Topics covered in online Elluminate sessions:
Important resources:
Note: All assignments are due to the professor by May 10, 2009. However, you should construct your own deadlines which you commit to and email those to the professor at: reader.david@gmail.com
Note: During 2008, your instructor completed the book: The New School Learning Commons Where Learners Win! This book reinvents the idea of a school library into a Learning Commons. Because the idea is a radical shift from the old model, we will be Mugwumps; i.e., we will have one mug looking at the future and our... sitting squarely in the traditional model
Prelude: If what you read below is confusing, just start reading as many book chapters, professional articles, looking at web sites, examining documents. In other words, start building content first and then the structure of the product will be clarified as we meet in class and discuss the projects over the web. Time spent fretting is unproductive. The more professional ideas you can encounter, the better your repertoire will be as you begin to manage an actual library media center. Another good tip for this class is that you are not in competition with each other so do offer the best of what you find with others, and take their suggestions for good stuff. Think of this class as a collaborative. In fact, you can do the entire project with one or several partners if you tend to work better that way. You are not reinventing the wheel. Take what you can from others who have already done the footwork. However, make your project a quality information source, not a garbage can.
Connecting. Enroll yourself in this course by going to Blackboardat http://tigris.sjsu.edu. Instructions are on the greensheet. Please create a profile in Blackboard. Go to Tools > Homepage. We are hoping to become acquainted with one another despite meeting on Elluminate. Provide some information about yourself. If possible, upload a photo so that we all know something of each other.
Connecting, part 2. As also noted on the Greensheet, please make sure that your own computing system meets department minimum requirements:http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/homecomputing.htm You will be participating in weekly sessions on Elluminate. A new URL is required for reaching each week’s session. The list of URLs will be emailed to students and posted under Announcements on Blackboard. Please visit the Elluminate website to familiarize yourself with the technology. There are a series of tutorials available on their site. You must obtain a microphone and earphones for your computer in order to participate in the weekly sessions. Another place to find the Elluminate sessions is on slisweb. Look under Elluminate at the top.
Your are required to attend each class session for the full ten participation points, but you can get five participation points by listening to the rrcording. This is the procedure for accessing the class recordings:
- Go to the SLIS home page and click on the Elluminate link in the upper left.
- Click on the "Recordings" tab in the upper left.
- Click on the day of the class session you wish to hear, using the calendar at the upper right.
- The list of recordings that were made on that day will appear. Click on LIBR 233 School Media Centers.
- The recording password is the same as the session password: 233.
- Click "Play.
Use the buttons at the lower left to navigate to the parts of the session you wish to hear.
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