Tikatok provides free "Writing Across the Curriculum" content for educators

Posted in eSchool News on September 21. Designed for K-8, this guide covers the writing process from prewriting to publishing, and included activities, organizers and worksheets.

Michigan Online Resources for Educators (M.O.R.E.) debuts its Facebook page

The new M.O.R.E. Facebook page will include announcements, new resource updates and plus chances to win prizes in online scavenger hunts, photo contests, lesson plan contest and other fun activities. Go to the new M.O.R.E.Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/more.mel.org and select “like” to become eligible for all contests.

Don’t forget to visit M.O.R.E. at http://more.mel.org and create your free account to organize selected lesson plans aligned with the Michigan grade level and high school content expectations.

Visit AFT Teach on Facebook

AFT TEACH (Together Educating America’s Children) provides educators with practical tools, professional knowledge, and inspiration to meet current challenges in education. Through TEACH, you can find out about resources, conversations and innovative work that educators need to know about.

JSTOR Moving Wall increased for Taylor & Francis Titles

The "moving wall" for education titles from Taylor & Francis publishers has increased to 7 years from 5 years in JSTOR.

British Educational Research Journal
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Cognition and Instruction (available through current through InformaWorld)
Comparative Education (available through current through InformaWorld)
Journal of the Learning Sciences
Language Acquisition (available through current through InformaWorld)
Oxford Review of Education
Psychological Inquiry (available through current through InformaWorld)
Rhetoric Review (available through current through InformaWorld)
Theory into Practice (available to 1 year ago through Business Source Complete)

This means the most recent 7 years of these publications will not be available in full-text through JSTOR.

Articles from journals not avaialable through WSULS may always be ordered through our Request Digital Delivery service.  You can easily get to the form by using the 360 link to full-text link in a library database, or by looking up the article using our Citation LInker

 

 

 

Education Dept. Withdraws Federal Support for School Libraries

American Libraries reports that the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program was zeroed out under the Department of Education’s allocation for FY2011 funding (PDF), released on May 17.

Thirty Sources Added to ERIC

The ERIC digital library recently added thirty sources to the collection. Content will become available as it is received from the publishers.

Journals:
• American Educator
• Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
• Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
• Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal)
• Current Research in Social Psychology
• Education in Rural Australia
• IEEE Transactions on Education
• International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership
• International Journal of Learning and Change
• Journal of Adult Education
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Creative Behavior
• Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research
• Journal of Research in Character Education
• Journal of Technology Education
• Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
• Pedagogy, Culture & Society
• Personnel Psychology
• Research in Comparative and International Education
• School Social Work Journal
• Science Education International
• TESL-EJ

Grey Literature Sources:
• Horizon Research, Inc.
• Math Solutions
• New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)
• NZCER Press
• Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
• Teaching and Learning Research Initiative
• Tennessee Higher Education Commission
• Washington State School Directors' Association

From ERIC News. To subscribe, go to http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/resources/html/news/index.html and follow the directions under @ERIC Update

WGVU Interview with MORE

Listen to an interview on WGVU with Deb Biggs-Thomas, director of the MORE--Michigan Online Resources for Educators initiative.

New Multicultural Databases at the libraries

See our 3 most recently added library databases: African American Experience, Latino American Experience and American Indian Experience. Each of these has an Education category which covers topics like access to education, discrimination and topics specific to the experience of the group like Brown v. Board of Education, Bilingual Education and Linguistic Genocide. The databases also include access to primary resources, topic guides and K-12 lesson plans which may be used to our TED students.

To access the databases, go to the library homepage and click on Article Databases. You can type in the name of the database, or select the beginning letter of the database name to select and access from the alphabetical list.

To directly access the databases, use the following links:
African American Experience http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=e1000738~S47
Latino American Experience http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=e1000770~S47
American Indian Experience http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=e1000769~S47

Remember that you can directly link these databases in your course Blackboard or website by using the direct links provided above.

Michigan Online Resources for Educators Debuts!

The Library of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Education and Wayne State University today announced the official launch the Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE), a growing Web-based collection of thousands of high-quality, digitally available information resources that are aligned with State of Michigan grade-level and high school content expectations.

MORE contents are culled from well-known education resources like ThinkFinity and include lesson plans, curriculum guides, interactive games and Web sites, career-development guides, parenting information and much more.

Each MORE category includes links to sub-categories that distill the resources down to individual teaching concepts. For example, within the English Language Arts section, users can choose from sub-topics like American Literature, Debate, Expository Writing, Listening Comprehension or Speech, and then dig deeper into lesson plans and creative teaching aids like ABCs of the Writing Process and the Linguistic Lesson Plans Database.

Helping Michigan educators even further, many of the resources available within MORE are already aligned with the State of Michigan’s grade-level content expectations (GLCEs) and high school content expectations (HSCEs), and additional resources are on track for alignment. This alignment is not done by machines but by Michigan educators working in their content areas. Flanagan applauded the efforts that have made MORE a reality.

Seeking to keep educators firmly a part of the GLCE and HSCE alignment process, the MORE partners will hold spring and summer alignment workshops and teacher participation is crucial. Teachers and media specialists interested in being a part of this valuable work should contact Barbara Fardell, manager of educational technology in the Department of Education’s Office of Grants Coordination & School Support, at fardellb@michigan.gov.