(1988). The Effective Librarian: Educator, Politician or Practitioner. Proceedings of the Spring Meeting of the Nebraska Library Association (Kearney, Nebraska, May 20, 1988). This report provides the text of four presentations from a joint meeting of the College and University and Special and Institution sections of the Nebraska State Library Association. In the first, "Cooperation among Multitype Libraries," Sherri Dux-Ideus describes the cooperation between Beatrice Public Library and the Beatrice Developmental Center Media Resource Center, including sharing an OCLC terminal and direct access to each other's collections. Issues discussed include helping library administrators conceptualize how resource sharing could provide better library service, the logistics of implementing a cooperative program, and future possibilities. In "One Short-Cut for Accessing Uncataloged Materials Using dBase III+ for Cartographic Materials," Greg Armento describes how a database management system was used to develop an extensive listing of maps by area and subject, and notes that, since the implementation of this database, which brings together… [PDF]
(1987). Rainbow Around the World: A Multisensory Global Spectrum of Societal Interdependence for Primary Children. This practicum implemented a 13-week multisensory-based unit of study designed to assist the 25 first grade students in the target population in developing good citizenship. Opportunity for the students to glean an understand that sharing and caring, and interdependence, the major components of good citizenship, are universal necessities was provided. For, as various countries of the world were focused, the similar need for and reality of personally oriented, nationally oriented, and globally oriented interdependence, and sharing and caring were explored. To facilitate a more assured optimum opportunity for the students to develop these understandings, auditory, visual, tactual, and kinesthetic learning activities and devices were very carefully designed and staggered throughout the length of the program. Evaluation at the conclusion of the 13-week program indicated that success had been achieved, with all students attaining 72 percent or higher posttest scores and at least a 13…
(1974). Cable Television and Education: A Position Paper. Based On the Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Learning Resources Association Sponsored CATV and Education Conference, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Champion, Pa., May 11-12, 1973. Cable television (CATV) has often been put to educational uses too quickly, too comprehensively, too superficially, and for the wrong reasons. In Pennsylvania, as in other states, there is a need for a systematic approach to coordinating CATV with other educational resources. The Pennsylvania Department of Education can promote the more effective use of cable by: 1) identifying the educational needs which can be served by CATV; 2) maintaining current information on available cable facilities; 3) designing a plan to provide cable channels to education; 4) encouraging the development of educational programing; 5) providing evaluation services for cable-related activities; and 6) fostering research on new uses of CATV. Cable's technology is powerful and its potential great, but educators must begin to make use of this promise or cable's channels will be given over to other purposes. In order to actualize this potential, educators will have to develop subject matter programs, have their… [PDF]
(2008). Online Communication and Adolescent Relationships. Future of Children, v18 n1 p119-146 Spr. Over the past decade, technology has become increasingly important in the lives of adolescents. As a group, adolescents are heavy users of newer electronic communication forms such as instant messaging, e-mail, and text messaging, as well as communication-oriented Internet sites such as blogs, social networking, and sites for sharing photos and videos. Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia Greenfield examine adolescents' relationships with friends, romantic partners, strangers, and their families in the context of their online communication activities. The authors show that adolescents are using these communication tools primarily to reinforce existing relationships, both with friends and romantic partners. More and more they are integrating these tools into their \offline\ worlds, using, for example, social networking sites to get more information about new entrants into their offline world. Subrahmanyam and Greenfield note that adolescents' online interactions with strangers, while not… [PDF]
(1978). Forms and Formalities: A Resource Containing Forms Currently Utilized by Members of the National Diffusion Network to Facilitate the Adoption and Implementation Process. This resource provides examples of participant forms utilized by State Facilitators and Developer/Demonstrators from over 55 National Diffusion Network projects for communication with each other and with Local Education Agencies. A revision of the 1976 Forms and Formalities, this edition concentrates on sharing of form development expertise, ascertaining rationale for form revision, and providing alternative approaches to the adoption and implementation process. Forms are grouped in seven categories: (1) needs assessment; (2) preworkshop information-gathering; (3) adoption agreements; (4) adoption and implementation monitoring; (5) evaluation and impact assessment; (6) project recordkeeping and documentation; and (7) miscellaneous. (Author/JAB)…
(1979). The Library Committee of the Capitol Consortium for Continuing Higher Education, Richmond, Virginia. This report on the work of the Library Committee of the Capitol Consortium for Continuing Higher Education, one of six regional Consortia in Virginia, focuses on cooperative projects, including a proposal for a Periodicals in Richmond Area Libraries List. The proposed list, which is judged essential for resource sharing and for continuing education library support in a 12-county area, will follow a MARC format and other recommended standards for machine compatibility. Disposition of college program funds by the committee is also discussed as a brief review of cooperative library efforts in the Richmond area over the last decade. (Author/CWM)…
(1974). Environmental Attitudes, Ethics, Values and Their Communication. Proceedings of the National Conservation Education Association Conference (21st, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York, August 11-14, 1974). Over 250 participants of the conference spent four days examining the implications of human interaction with social and physical environments for environmental education. These individuals came from 36 states and Ontario, sharing a common concern for environmental attitudes, ethics, values, and their communication. This publication contains conference papers that identify those concerns and indicate prescriptions for the communication of attitudes, values, and ethics appropriate to sanative environmental management. The papers, discussions, and sessions are edited and present only the major findings of the conference. A list of the participants is included at the end. (Author/MA)… [PDF]
(1999). Teaching Out Loud: A Middle Grades Diary from MiddleWeb. This book presents an eighth grade science teacher's diary. For 36 weeks during the 1998-99 school year, this middle school teacher explored her teaching life on the World Wide Web. Each week, hundreds of visitors to MiddleWeb followed the ups and downs of her professional journey, experiencing her enthusiasm at the opening of school, watching as she raised difficult issues before her Critical Friends Group and as she questioned the effectiveness of her own teaching, sharing her grief and puzzlement over the Columbine tragedy, and following her as the school year drew to a close. (SM)…
(2005). Key Words in Instruction: Student Journals. School Library Media Activities Monthly, v21 n7 p32-35 Mar. Student journals have taken many formats and have increased in their use over the past decade at all education levels from grade school to college. These journals may be called day logs, diaries, and even think-books. Although still usually documented with pencil and paper and in loose-sheet formats so that portions can be shared with peers and teachers without sharing the entire journal, more and more use of personal laptops allows for students to process their thoughts. This article discusses general characteristics of student journals and guidelines for assigning journals based on specific assumptions about language and learning…. [Direct]
(2005). Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Wage Shocks. Journal of Political Economy, v113 n5 p1088 Oct. Fundamental tax reform is examined in an overlapping-generations model in which heterogeneous agents face idiosyncratic wage shocks and longevity uncertainty. A progressive income tax is replaced with a flat consumption tax. If idiosyncratic wage shocks are insurable (i.e., no risk), this reform improves (interim) efficiency, a result consistent with the previous literature. But if, more realistically, wage shocks are uninsurable, this reform reduces efficiency, even though national wealth and output increase over the entire transition path. This efficiency loss, in large part, stems from reduced intragenerational risk sharing that was previously provided by the progressive tax system. (Contains 20 endnotes.)…
(2005). Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative. Resource Sharing & Information Networks, v18 n1-2 p167-181 Aug. New technology and knowledge push organizations to upgrade and improve the skills of their staff. Paying for professional development programming is a common way of providing continuing education. This article describes a collaborative training program introduced to develop baseline competencies in Canadian academic libraries to support data services. In conjunction with an initiative between Statistics Canada and sixty-six Canadian universities, a data literacy program has delivered thirty workshops over a seven-year period training librarians how to provide services for statistics and data. A cost-sharing arrangement keeps these training expenses to a minimum for individual universities. (Contains 13 notes.)… [Direct]
(1999). Online School Performance Reports: Grading the Schools, Giving Citizens Data for Reform. For over two-thirds of the public schools in the United States, it is now possible to see a report on school performance over the Internet. Such reports can include student demographics and performance, teacher qualifications and salary levels, funds expended per pupil, and sources of funding. Often, bases are offered for comparing a school with other schools with similar student populations or financial resources or from similar locations. This paper examines the following factors that have made this aggregation of readily available information possible: a national drive toward education reform; the widespread availability of computers and the Internet in school systems; and advances in methods for collecting, sharing, and displaying information. The paper also summarizes policy trends and changes in the ongoing national debate about schools that the availability of these reports will make possible. (Author/MES)… [PDF]
(1979). Information and Communications: Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, Chautauquas for Congress, March, 1979. This report contains excerpts from the proceedings of a month-long program of workshops, panel discussions, and other activities that involved legislators and representatives of the communications industry and that focused on the future of communications and information. The first section presents an edited summary of a panel discussion that addressed questions concerning two areas: the social impact to be expected over the next decade as a result of changes in information and communications technology, and the most important action Congress can take in the coming years to deal with the impacts of these changing technologies. The second section offers recommendations and commentary drawn from eight workshop discussion groups that dealt with the following topics: consumer services, sharing versus restricting information, the role of the media, intergovernmental information sharing, federal government policies and practices, private sector activities and services, international… [PDF]
(1973). Management Rights Issues in Collective Bargaining in Higher Education. The research reported here is a small part of a much larger research program that will focus on changes in the sharing of authority that takes place after collective bargaining in higher education institutions is initiated, stressing especially the points where sharing is difficult and where rights questions arise. It is the eventual goal to develop models of academic administrative power before and after the initiation of collective bargaining. The analysis of the 91 collective bargaining contracts in higher education that are in force at the present time reveals that governance matters such as budgeting and long range planning still are largely management territory. The contracts have much more to say about the personnel area. Without doubt, the employment status of the faculty member is receiving new emphasis. Still slightly over 50% of the agreements said nothing about appointment, evaluation or promotion, and less than 10% had achieved strong voice in these areas. Analysis of… [PDF]
(1985). Improving School Climate and Reducing Teacher Isolation. A survey of 196 elementary and secondary education teachers attending graduate programs in the University of Central Florida's College of Education provided data supporting previous research on teacher isolation. Over 80 percent of the teachers felt their classrooms were private worlds entered only by themselves and their students. The teachers reported that formal and informal visits to their classrooms by observers or evaluators were rare, as were their own visits to the classrooms of other teachers. The teachers indicated they would welcome more informal contacts with and visits from their peers. High school teachers appeared more isolated than other teachers. Strategies for alleviating teacher isolation include developing a climate of trust within the school, sharing decision-making power, and using professional development activities to improve communication and team-building skills among teachers. Additional strategies to consider include forming quality circles or other…