CMCIG Spring Workshop

Novel Ties: Classics and 

Comics in the Classroom

Monday, April 20, 2015

The Ohio State University

Thompson Library, Room 150

1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus OH 43210

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With so much focus on technology these days, we’re going back to the books to look at how literature can be used in the classroom in innovative ways. We’ll examine the more “traditional” novel and get the inside story from a 2015 Newbery Committee member. We’ll also look at the graphic novel and how its popularity with students can be leveraged in the classroom to enhance reading instruction and to provide new opportunities to engage with text. In addition, we’ll take some time for small group discussions on topics of interest to CMC librarians. The day will conclude with a brief tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.

To register: Click here
Directions:  http://www.osu.edu/visitors/directions.php

Workshop Program

9:30 am – 10:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 am Welcome & Introductions
10:10 am – 11:10 am

“An Insider's Look at the Newbery Medal Process”
Stephanie Bange, Wright State University

11:10 am – 11:20 am Break
11:20 am – 12:00 pm Round Table Discussions
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
“It's More Than Just a Comic…Using Graphic Novels to Engage Readers of All Levels”
Anita Gonzalez, Ohio Resource Center

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: Exploring Teaching and Learning with Comics in the Classroom” - Caitlin McGurk, The Ohio State University

3:00 pm Visit to OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum (optional)

Workshop Cost is $20.00 and includes the workshop, continental breakfast, lunch and museum visit. Please note the cost of parking is $11.25/day

CMCIG Spring Workshop 2014

Keeping Pace: Changes & Trends
in Curriculum Materials Centers
The Ohio State University
Newark Campus
April 4, 2014







Spend the day learning about how to keep pace with rapid changes and trends in Curriculum Materials Centers. Three main topics will be covered; edTPA basics and how CMC’s can support the teacher candidate assessment process, how to use Pinterest to market CMC’s and library resources, and round table discussion connecting CMC programs and events to your community.

A tour of The Works, Newark’s Children Museum and lunch are provided with registration.

Interested?  
This year's CMCIG workshop will be  held at The Ohio State University at the Newark Campus, Warner Library & Student Center Rm. WC #126, 1219 University Drive, Newark, OH 43055

Need more information?
Visit the ALAO web site for details and registration.

Have questions?
Contact Sharon Kerestes (skerestes at cedarville.edu) or Cheryl Ghosh (Cheryl.Ghosh at uc.edu). A workshop flyer is available on the ALAO web site.

CMCIG 2012: Managing eBooks for Kids

Kathy Yoder, Education Librarian

William T. Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University

What do Curriculum Materials Centers want in an eBook platform for children? The same thing all libraries want: an easy, logical, and attractive interface for users, unlimited access for unlimited users, a variety of publishers offering both fiction and informational texts, titles that are tablet/smartphone compatible, and MARC records for our catalog. Yes, we want all this and we want the final puzzle piece: affordability. All of this is good and well, but the world isn’t a wish-granting factory (thanks, John Green for reminding us), so what is a Curriculum Materials Center to do?

My quest for answers all started because I simply couldn’t ignore eBooks for kids anymore, although I’ve tried. Early examples of children’s eBooks were often clunky and uninspiring and my strategy was to wait until publishers offered a product I could be excited about. Finally my tipping point arrived based on three things: kids’ eBooks are becoming user friendly and in some cases quite impressive, Education faculty are starting to show a real interest in them, and eBook purchases at our institution are moving past the experimental stage. I wanted to get in on a piece of the eBook pie at the ground level .

At this point I decided to try to get my head around what is available. My experience with eBooks at my public library has been rocky at best. As much as I hate the hassle of being on the reader end of eBook checkouts I knew I didn’t want to be on the other end of that headache. So I came up with my dream list as described in the first paragraph. I considered how children’s eBook might be used by pre-service teachers in the classroom. I took into account the requests by faculty on what they would like to see. The last thing I did was take a whole lot of test drives on various free trials and watched demo after demo.
While checking out the different platforms I kept in mind how I thought the eBooks might be used by our Education students. Since interactive whiteboards are nearly commonplace in classrooms in our area, I want kids’ eBooks that can be projected and used interactively on them. To me, this option is very exciting for student teachers and how they will be sharing books in the future. A web-based eBook format fits this type of use.

Tutoring is another very popular way our students interact with children and I want them to be able to use eBooks for that. Our School of Teaching and Learning recently acquired tablet computers for tutoring use, so children’s books that work on iPads would be ideal. For this use a downloadable format would be required. I determined that I’m primarily looking for picture books of various complexity, both fiction and nonfiction while I am not interested in providing children’s texts that download onto standard eReaders.

The following are some of the products that I’ve looked at. Some are platforms provided by aggregators, while others are platforms from publishing companies. Follow the links and check them out, and please add suggestions for others in the comments.

Mackin VIA
http://www.mackin.com/ESERVICES/MACKIN-VIA.aspx
This one will be demonstrated at our workshop. This platform offers a large selection of children’s eBooks and is particularly strong in informational texts.

Follett Shelf 
http://www.aboutfollettebooks.com
Another platform from an aggregator. Allows you to select titles in bundles or individually.

Epointbooks 
http://www.epointbooks.com/ 
This platform offers books from Rosen, Gareth Stevens, Britannica Education, and Windmill publishers. It suffers from severe unattractiveness.

Freading
http://freading.com/index 
The children’s collection doesn’t have much for pre-service teachers.

Overdrive 
http://overdrive.com/Solutions/Schools/K12/SDL/
Strong in text, and is compatible with many types of devices, but can’t be used with shared devices (everything has to be downloaded).

Axis 360 and Blio 
http://www.baker-taylor.com/axis360/index.htm
Baker and Taylor’s platform. Not clear about the extent of children’s content.

Scholastic BookFlix (grades PreK-3 ) 
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bookflixfreetrial/index.htm
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TrueFlix (grades 3-5) 
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/trueflix_freetrial/index.htm 
Scholastic publishers offer a small but focused collection, designed with whiteboard use in mind.

TumbleBooks 
http://www.tumblebooks.com 
For younger children. Since they don’t require a log in this can be viewed at library websites such as http://kids.nypl.org/reading/Childrensebooks.cfmInfobase 

Publishing eBooks 
http://www.infobasepublishing.com/GradeLanding.aspx?eBooks=1 
Offers Facts on File, Chelsea House, World Almanac among others.

Disney Digital Books
http://disneydigitalbooks.go.com/ 
Institutional subscriptions not available as a stand alone. In some aggregators.

ebrary for High Schools 
http://www.ebrary.com/corp/schools.jsp
Even the promotional material is boring, but then again I’m more interested in content for younger kids.

Capstone Interactive Library 
http://mycapstonelibrary.com 
This one comes from the publisher.

Sesame Street eBooks 
http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org/ 
Like Disney, this is for home purchase as a stand alone but is available in some aggregators.

Crabtree ebooks
http://www.crabtreebooks.com/Store/SearchByCategory.aspx?CategoryCode=540
Another single publisher offering.

* Submitted by Kathy Yoder

CMCIG Spring 2012 Workshop

CMCIG 2012: 
The Future of Ohio Libraries

State Library of Ohio  
274 East 1st Avenue - Columbus, OH 43201

Friday, May 18, 2012 - 8:30 am to 3:30 pm

Establishing and Maintaining an eReader Collection
Sue Polanka, Head of Reference & Instruction, Wright State University
Approximately 15-17% of academic and school libraries are lending eReaders to their patrons. There are a variety of ways to establish this service in a library. During this session, the nuts and bolts of establishing and maintaining an eReader collection will be discussed and demonstrated. Device selection, collection development, purchasing, policies and procedures,and budgeting will be discussed and debated. 

eReaders for Kids
Kathy Yoder, Education Librarian, Bowling Green State University
As academic libraries grapple with presenting electronic content to their patrons, curriculum materials centers also want to serve pre-service teachers with children’s eBooks from a variety of publishers. In this session we will take a look at what we want and need from an eBook platform: MARC records, unlimited access, affordability and more. Guest Lindsey Newman will demonstrate one such product, Mackin VIA, and Kathy Yoder will share her search for a children’s portal that meets the needs of an academic setting.

Grade School eTextbooks in the CMC
Ann Raney, CMC Director, University of Dayton
With the release of the new “Digital Textbook Playbook” by the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Education to help advance the federal governments initiative to bring digital textbooks to all American students within the next five years, it is imperative that our collections begin the transition from print to digital format. During this session, PreK-12 textbook reps will share their digital textbook options.

State of Ohio's Libraries
Beverly Cain, the State Librarian.
Ohio’s school libraries are at a crossroads. State Librarian Cain will share information that has been gathered about them by the Working Together to Support Ohio’s Libraries Committee.

Event Registration:
Registration is now open! Visit the ALAO Web site and view events for more information.  The $35 registration fee includes a continental breakfast and lunch (options available at time of registration).

Register Now! CMCIG 2012: The Future of Ohio Libraries

Questions? Contact: CMCIG chair Stephanie Bange
Email: stephanie.bange - at - wright.edu

CMCIG 2012 Spring Workshop Save the Date!

Mark your calendars! The CMCIG Spring Workshop hit a major bump in the road this spring and have had to do some scrambling the get it together. It is the same date announced earlier -- Friday, May 18th -- but has changed venue and theme. It will now be held at the State Library of Ohio, 274 East 1st Street, Columbus.

With the theme: The Future of Ohio Libraries, the program will be full of applied technology changes coming down the pike. ALAO Vice-President Sue Polanka will open the day with a presentation about establishing and maintaining an e-reader collection. We will have presentations and begin discussions on using e-readers for kids and access to grade school e-textbooks for our university students. Tours of the State Library and Ohioana Collection will round out the day. Registration information will be posted on the ALAO website shortly.

We look forward to seeing you there and thank you for your patience.