Category Archives: LIBE 467

Theme 3 Blog Post: Critical Literacy in Accessing Internet Reference Resources

Inquiry-based practices expect students to question, reflect, and respond to their inquiries.  Research skills are required to effectively answer questions.  However, in today’s digital world, with unlimited and instant access to videos, live streams, social media, and news reports, students … Continue reading

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Assignment 3: Evaluation Plan to Improve Reference Services in H.E.S. LLC

This evaluation plan documents the reference collection in the Highlands Elementary School Library.  Below details an overview of the school population, analysis of references, rationale for suggested improvements, action plan, timeline, and communication to stakeholders. Overview, Analysis of Reference Collection, … Continue reading

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Assignment 2: Collaboration with Teachers to Evolve Their Practice Using the Concerns Based Adoption Model

This report documents the collaboration and implementation of two non-fiction units for Science and Social Studies with a focus on the effective use of reference resources guided by the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM). Collaboration took place with Teacher A (gr.2), … Continue reading

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Theme 2 – Five Reference Tools a School Library Learning Commons Should Have for Staff and Students

When deciding on five reference tools that would be most beneficial to the students and staff in my elementary school community, I referred to Riedling et. al.’s work where they list the essential criteria for TL’s to look for when … Continue reading

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Assignment 1 – Evaluation of a Reference Work

Evaluation of a Reference Work for an Elementary School Library Learning Commons Collection: The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Animals, 1st Edition, & National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Introduction The purpose of this report is to inform School Community stakeholders … Continue reading

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Theme 1 – Reference Sections – A Thing of the Past? – A Case for Keeping Reference Material in an Elementary School Library Learning Commons

Eliminating reference sections in school library learning commons isn’t just something to ponder, it is an event that is in the past; meaning, in my SLLC, it has already happened!!! I work in an elementary school, and I have not … Continue reading

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