Assignment: The Vision Project
Begin building your learning commons vision project
Scenario 1: You are interviewing for a new position as a teacher librarian at _____ school. The leadership team of the school has asked you to present your vision for their school in a 15 minute presentation.
Scenario 2: You are the teacher librarian at _____ school but are disturbed by the antiquated practices that are part of the "traditional" program. In your conversations with the principal, you express the desire to change the entire nature of the library media program. Interested, the principal asks you to prepare a 15 minute presentation for the school leadership team concerning the direction in which you would like to move.
The four program areas of the learning commons are:
• The Reading Program
• The Technology Program designed to enhance learning and teaching
•The program of Collaboration designed to build quality learning experiences with teachers in an information-rich and technology-rich environment
• The Information Literacy Program designed to help every learner know how to learn
In addition to these program elements, they all rest on the
• Organizational and infrastructure elements of the library media center/technology infrastructure including the Open Commons and the Experimental Learning Center functions.
In LIBR 233, we concentrate on the first two of the above elements. In LIBR 250, we concentrate on the last two elements. Together, these two courses assist you in the building of a total learning commons linked to student achievement and excellence. We will also consider organizational elements
The knowledge base will be constructed by teams of students using wikis at
You will be assessed on the quality of your contribution to the knowledge base. Quantity is not the import factor, but quality is. However, one would think that you could find at least ten quality articles to add.
The final product for this Vision Project will be something that is relevant to you at the moment or in the future. This could take the form of:
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An actual presentation for a real or imaginary school leadership team
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A publishable article for an audience other than school library media teachers
In all cases, both the wiki and the final product are to become part of your electronic portfolio as required for graduation for the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University. Follow the guidelines from the school to create your project in the form that will be ready for that portfolio.
Readings for this databank will come from national standards and vision documents, the textbooks, and a wide range of professional books and articles. A pathfinder wiki entitled
should be used to list and share the best of what you are reading for the benefit of everyone. It is the bibliography. The synthesis wiki is the summary of what you have read.
This means that for your ten articles or more, you will list the citation and a brief note about it on the pathfinder wiki and then your longer synthesis will appear on the synthesis wiki. Why? Becaue the pathfinder wiki stays around, the synthesis wiki gets erased over time.
One great source for professional articles is: "Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning: Full-Text Research Articles from School Library Media Quarterly" see also on the AASL web site. This is now a periodical titled: School Library Media Online.
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