MLA: Education Curriculum Interest Group

The Michigan Library Association's Education Curriculum Interest Group (ECIG) is hosting a spring workshop at Saginaw Valley State University's Regional Education Center. This workshop, "New Technologies in the Classroom: Electronic Textbooks, Podcasting and Screencasting" is scheduled for Friday, April 21, 2006 from 9:30 am - 3:15 pm.

The program includes:

• "The Role of Math and Science Centers in the State of Michigan"
  Dr. Walter Rathkamp, Director
  Saginaw Valley State University Regional Math & Science Center
• "New Technologies in the Classroom: Podcasting and Screencasting"
  Russ Barneveld, Professor
  Grand Valley State University
• "ETextbooks: The Vendor's Perspective"
  Scott Goddard
  Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• "ETextbooks: The Librarian's Perspective"
  Sue Homant, Head of Reference
  University of Detroit, Mercy

Cost for this workshop, including lunch, is $40 for ECIG and ARLD members; $50 for MLA members; and $70 for non-MLA members. For more information, or to register, contact Anne Winkel (517) 394-2774, ext. 277 or register online (see post title link) @ https://orders.mlc.lib.mi.us/mla/2006registration.htm.

Registration deadline is April 16, 2006.

Electronic Textbooks in the CMC

If you have electronic (CD/online) textbooks for K-12 in your collection, please share your experiences. How did you acquire them or access to them? How do you circulate them or monitor access? How do faculty and students use them? Are local schools using them? How have patrons responded to these resources?

Education Podcasts

Kathy Schrock highlighted a site that collects links to education podcasts. According to it's web site:

The Education Podcast Networkis an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Are weblogs Internet faculty rooms?

I just finished reading an article on blogs and teachers. It likens, rightly so after reading various instances presented, weblogs to faculty rooms. The article is available through OhioLINK's database Academic Search Premier. Here's a link to the post, or at least what I hope is a persistent link to the post, if you are interested: This Time, It's Personal.

Educator Blogs Online

I came across this today as I was looking for Praxis resources. It's seems to blog about examples of educator blogs. I haven't really had a chance to look too closely, but wanted to make sure I shared it with the group. It's called Edblogger Praxis. It appears to link to many education blogs, with a split between higher ed and PreK-12.