Team4.0

=**Team 4.0 TEAMWORK**= include component="tagCloud"

** Sue Lantelme, Ledyard High School slantelme@ledyard.net**

 * Patty Greenleaf, Fitch Middle School pgreenleaf@groton.k12.ct.us**
 * Patti Goad, Westbrook Middle School pgoad@westbrookctschools.org**
 * Audrey Daigneault, West Side Middle School groton adaigneault@groton.k12.ct.us**

**Effective Instructional Strategies:**

 * **//Commonsensemedia.org// (Patty) - Groton Schools is using the free resource Common Sense Media to teach lessons to grade K-8 about Digital Citizenship. Common Sense Media is a thorough curriculum which includes a scope and sequence, grade level units, lesson plans and learning experiences K-8. Currently in the 8th grade media classes we are studying web awareness and ethics. In the unit Connected culture: what's cyberbullying, the lesson titled That's Cyberbullying presents a situation for the students to analyze. Some girls make a mean webpage about Sondra. After the students discuss what has happened, the lesson leads them to a list of actions someone should take in that situation. After we read and dsicuss this scenario, my students design a cyber safety poster focusing on one tip which will be displayed either in the media center or the computer lab for other students.**
 * **//Destiny// - "Just right book" (Patti) - Using Destiny to support students' suggestions for further reading. Students search a title they've read and enjoyed use the subject headings to find additional titles that share that particular subject heading selected (show with "Find It" link). Using Destiny Quest, students use the "virtual bookshelf" to identify Books Read, Want to Read, and Reading. They also request a friend, recommend a book to a friend, in addition to submitting a review of a book they have read. My experience has been that the students become so engaged with filling their virtual bookshelf and recommending titles that students have gone home and continued the process. Students need to log into Destiny with their own username and password.**


 * **@http://www.trails-9.org/ - (Audrey Daigneault) - This is an online assessment for library media skills which is free. Assessments have been developed for grades 3,6,9, and 12. It can be used as a pre and post test for a class. I have used it with 6 grades for three years and find that the students are weak on problem definition and the ethical uses of information. I will modify the 9th grade test for my 8th graders this year.**
 * **//Digital Portfolios// - (Sue) - as the school coordinator for portfolios the project has given me the ability to touch base with every teacher, every student, and hope to soon have face time with the BOE. The system is not only a storage unit for student's work but also a place for teacher's to access/evaluate based on a previous set of school wide expectations. Richer Picture is the software company, from Providence RI. It's not free.**@https://web.ideasconsulting.com/v010/ledyard
 * **//Digital Portfolios// - (Sue) - as the school coordinator for portfolios the project has given me the ability to touch base with every teacher, every student, and hope to soon have face time with the BOE. The system is not only a storage unit for student's work but also a place for teacher's to access/evaluate based on a previous set of school wide expectations. Richer Picture is the software company, from Providence RI. It's not free.**@https://web.ideasconsulting.com/v010/ledyard

Other sites which came up in discussion: @http://bookseer.com

Lesson on Censorship Explain what censorship is and have students develop a definition. Define an appropriate website for school as one that is useful for education. Students can borrow a flash drive if they don't have one and find a youtube video clip that they feel is educational. It will be screened for appropriateness by the LMS. Then students will be allowed to show it in class and must make an argument as to why this video is educational and state why they feel youtube should nolonger be blocked in school.

Afternoon:

Web Sites: youtube to be used at home; flashdrives to share and bring videos from home. Create gaggle accounts for students who don't have internet at home. Send home parent letters.

Activities: LMS will select one or two youtube videos and model the assignment for students.

Teaching Strategies:

Resources:

Brainstorm: How can you bring your library into the 21st Century? 1. Districts need more sophisticated filtering software to allow teachers access to sites that are blocked for students. 2. The Library Media classes need enough computers for the students assigned to the classes in the media center. 3. Students should be given email accounts if they don't have them at home to allow them to join google documents. 4. LMS need professional development in social networking or Web 2.0 tools.