[CALIBK12] 23 Things in Tennessee

[School Library Learning]

Nancy,
Thank you for the wonderful review of your school's experience with the California School Library Association's web 2.0 discovery learning course, Classroom Learning 2.0.  We love hearing how you've enjoyed it and will share with our California colleagues. 
 
Over the past 2 years, hundreds of CSLA members have completed or are participating in School Library Learning 2.0 and a good number now offer Classroom Learning 2.0 at their school or district.  It is great to see teacher librarians leading in this fun and rewarding way.
 
Best wishes.
- Jackie Simintus
CSLA 2.0 Team project manager
http://ClassroomLearning2.blogspot.com
http://SchoolLibraryLearning2.blogspot.com
http://DiscoveringAT.blogspot.com 

--- On Sat, 1/10/09, Nancy Trice <tricen at myndhs.com> wrote:

From: Nancy Trice <tricen at myndhs.com>
Subject: 23 Things in Tennessee
To: csla2team at yahoo.com, chwms at mac.com
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 9:12 AM

Jackie and Connie,

I wanted to give you a final follow-up of our 23 Things initiative. We had
eight staff complete the project, ranging from a 3rd year teacher to me, the 60
year old librarian. We are a small school, so that is 16% of our faculty! There
were 3 English folk, one from our religion deparment, a French teacher, a
science teacher, an economics teacher/head football coach and a librarian. 

As a result of our experience, we have sponsored a "petting zoo" on
an in-service day to allow other staff members to "pet" the web as
well as some of the newer equipment we have, and we each have received a $50
stipend for our hard work. One of the English teachers will be participating in
an SAT vocabulary video contest sponsored by MIT as a result of my joining
Classroom 2.0 as one of the Things suggested. I turned a non-participating
chemistry teacher on to Wordle and we collaborated to administer a chemical
elements quiz and then create Wordles from the answers. It was so much fun to
see one of the students, who is by far not our most shining star, then create a
Wordle poem about himself and post it on his locker! The French IV's made
travel web pages of Francophone countries; a portion of their exam involved
locating the answers on these webpages. They were fabulous. We have had renewed
interest in the library wiki. One of the English teachers decided to have one of
her classes post a quarter project on British authors on the wiki; another
English teacher will be creating his own American authors wiki this semester;
the geography teacher (a non-participant) had his students create folders on the
Middle Eastern countries and then used them for the exam; the French II's
will be writing biographies of famous people in French to post this semester;
the anatomy & physiology folks are in the process of creating folders of
microorganisms and then will use them for case studies and the list goes on. The
science teacher was so proud when she made a poster for her husband for
Christmas and her college age children wanted her to teach them how to do it.
And we are all blogging away. There is a Christian Leadership blog, a football
blog, and an American-Asian studies blog in addition to our personal blogs. 

On behalf of our whole group, those who finished and those who didn't, I
want to thank you and the CSLA for this wonderful project. We already know that
we will be doing this again. 

Nancy Trice
Library Information Specialist
Notre Dame High School
phone: 423-624-4618 ext. 1021
e-mail: tricen at myndhs.com




      
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