References and Resources for Just-in-Time Teaching

http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/justintime/references.html

The scholars at the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College have created this set of Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) resources designed for the busy educator. Visitors can learn how to use these resources in a range of different disciplines, including biology, chemistry, economics, and the history of photography.

Additionally, there is a list of general resources, such as newsletters and articles, that discuss how to implement these practices into the classroom. In the Complementary Pedagogies area visitors can look over helpful "how-tos" in peer instruction, reading question development, and more. Finally, visitors can also sign up to learn when new resources are added to the site.

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2014. https://www.scout.wisc.edu

Digital Collections of Newspapers for Kansans

From the Kansas Historical Society comes this news about KSHS digital partner websites.

Kansas residents with a valid driver's license or state ID may freely access KSHS content on the following sites by logging in below.

Ancestry.com includes millions of Kansas records from the State Archives and Research Collections, among them Kansas State Census Records from 1865-1925, Civil War Enlistment Papers of Kansas Volunteer Regiments (1862, 1863, 1868), and selected World War I manuscripts.
Newspapers.com is digitizing historic Kansas newspapers from the Society's near-comprehensive collections.

Please use the form below... (on their website)

Other digital newspaper projects we have access to are found on their Kansas Digital Newspapers page, including Chronicling America and the Ft. Hays State Forsyth Library Digital Collections.

I hate to hear of so many people paying for access to Ancestry.com when it's already been paid for by our taxes. The other major genealogical database is also subscribed to by the State Library of Kansas: Heritage Quest. This and other resources are on the State Library Website, Online Databases page.

State Library of Kansas Highlights New Website

Reposted from the State Library:

We are pleased to announce the completion of our website redesign—thank you for your patience during our transition period. All glitches seem to be resolved, so if you are still experiencing problems, please let me (candace.leduc@library.ks.gov) know. In most cases, a clearing of your browser’s cache does the trick.

Please take the time to navigate through the new site and check out the links we’ve highlighted below.

Online Databases
www.kslib.info/eor

Student Research
www.kslib.info/students

Research for Kids
www.kslib.info/kids

Digital Book eLending
www.kslib.info/digitalbooks

Kansas Library eCard
www.kslib.info/ecard

Talking Books
www.kslib.info/talking

Job & Career Tools
www.kslib.info/jobtools

Kansas Kids & Parents
www.kslib.info/kidsandparents

Links for Librarians and Educators

Continuing Education
www.kslib.info/ce

Librarian & Educator Resources
www.kslib.info/librarian-educator-resources

Youth Services
www.kslib.info/youthservices

Grants
www.kslib.info/grants

We hope you find the new kslib.info useful and we welcome any feedback you may have in helping us to continually improve our online presence.

Many Thanks,

Candace LeDuc
Communications Coordinator
State Library of Kansas
300 SW 10th Street
Room 312N
Topeka, Kansas 66612
(785) 291-3230

The Comic Book Librarian Strikes!

Mike Hall says,

Hello, everyone! My graphic novel review blog has a new home: just visit www.comicbooklibrarian.com and update your bookmarks accordingly! Everything I've posted to the old blog is mirrored at the new one. I've added a few more goodies, too!

If you've never visited the blog, what the heck are you waiting for? Spoiler-free graphic novel reviews for readers and librarians, plus collection development notes and readers' advisory tips...all for the low, low price of NOTHING! What a deal!

www.comicbooklibrarian.com

Mike Hall
Staff Supervisor, Independence Public Library
(620) 331-3030
www.iplks.org
mike@iplks.org

Nicole Hennig, from her newsletter Mobile Apps News, May 29, 2014, says:

If you haven’t had a chance to read
this new book yet, I recommend it.

It’s Complicated: the Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd.

It’s an interesting read, especially if you care about the ability of teenagers to become thoughtful, engaged citizens of cyberspace.

To make it easier to spread the word, she has posted a free PDF version of the book, which you can download here:
http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf

All the buying options are listed on this page:
http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

Chapters in the book, published by Yale University, include:
identity
why do teens seem strange online?
privacy
why do youth share so publicly?
addiction
what makes teens obsessed with social media?
danger
are sexual predators lurking everywhere?
bullying
is social media amplifying meanness and cruelty?
inequality
can social media resolve social divisions?
literacy
are today’s youth digital natives?
...and
searching for a public of their own


Nicole's new book is Best Apps for Academics - the ebook she co-authored with Pam Nicholas of MIT. She also says, "Please share this newsletter with your friends who might be interested. They can sign up here:
http://nicolehennig.com/mobile-apps-news/

Follow @nic221 I tweet about libraries, mobile web, apps, ebooks, and emerging technologies."

Celebrate L. Frank Baum's Birthday May 15

The Map of Kansas Literature, put together by Washburn University in Topeka summarizes the authors and locations in Kansas of their work. Baum visited Kansas once, briefly... Baum's page links to his thoughts of Kansas as described in "The Wizard of Oz," his bio and bibliography, and some unique Oz locales. Odd that it looks like a rather softened, rounded-edge Kansas:

Happy Birthday, Frank.

Brittish Report Quantifies Art, Library and Sport Value to Living

Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Quantifying and Valuing the Wellbeing Impacts of Culture and Sport

From Chapter 2:
Summary of findings
Key Findings

Arts engagement
Arts engagement was found to be associated with higher wellbeing. This is valued at £1,084 per person per year, or £90 per person per month.

Library engagement
A significant association was also found between frequent library use and reported wellbeing. Using libraries frequently was valued at £1,359 per person per year for library users, or £113 per person per month.

Sport participation
Sport participation was also found to be associated with higher wellbeing. This increase is valued at £1,127 per person per year, or £94 per person per month.

These three were the only statistically significant 'wellbeing impacts' discovered in the research.

(My thanks to Worldcat email linking to article, April 29, 2014))