LS521WMC

Iva Martin

Designing My Web Site Elective

3/3/02

I have read the article titled, “Tis a Gift to Be Simple,” and I looked at various school web sites. I liked Thurgood Marshall Elementary, Wayside Elementary, and Calvert Elementary in Maryland, and I liked Conewago Township and Barclay Elementary in Pennsylvania. My school is just beginning to develop its own web site, and I definitely want to have a Media link. The three primary objectives of a school library web site should be research to coincide with curriculum, literature promotion and assistance in gaining information literacy skills. In that regard, Conewago is an outstanding example. The media specialist links to grade levels, search tools, reference sources, teacher resources and other schools. She offers her own email address to contact her. Barclay and Thurgood list collection statistics, which I like because I believe media specialists need to toot their own horns about their services. Barclay links to grade levels and student works. Literature links are missing from Conewago and Barclay, which surprises me. Wayside includes library policies and a newsletter. Wayside and Calvert have many good literature links in addition to the reference links. I like the photos on Conewago’s site, and I like the pull-down menus on Wayside’s.

Here is what I want to include.

- the Media Mission Statement that was developed by my fourth and fifth graders.

“Our Media Center focuses on providing skills and technology to do research and encourages students to enjoy authors and books in order to become better readers.”

- a link to the State Media Outcomes

http://mdk12.org/mspp/mspap/whats%2Dtested/learneroutcomes/library%5Fmedia/k%2D8/clarifications1.html

- statistics relating to the Hampstead Elementary’s Media collection such as copyright dates, numbers in the categories, circulation statistics

- a link to the school’s MiniNews since I do a Media News each month

- special events such as the County Photography Contest, Children’s Book Week, Library Month, Book Fairs, Maryland Children’s Book Contest, Black-Eyed Susan Book Contest

- parent information such as when book exchange occurs, class schedules, Smiley Rules

- a link to the Public Library

http://library.carr.org/

- a link to the online subscriptions available to Carroll County Public Schools such as Grolier’s, World Book, SIRS, Electric Library, and Junior Book of Authors

- Kid friendly search engines such as Yahooligans, Kids Click, KidsKonnect, and Fact Monster

www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia.html

www.kidskonnect.com/AlphabetizedList.html

www.yahooligans.com

http://www.kidsclick.org/

- links to reading web sites and book lists

http://library.carr.org/kidsnteens/kidsnteens.html

- links to kids’ magazines

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~KE~26578~~

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/kidspost/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/newszone/snjunior/index.asp

- links to fun sites

“Do We” Really Know Dewey?” http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5002/

“Page by Page Creating a Children’s Book” www.nlc-bnc.ca/pagebypage/

You may wish to check out the schools I previewed yourself.

Barclay Elementary, Warrington, PA - http://www.cbsd.org/barclay/about/library.html

Calvert Elementary, Rising Sun, Maryland - http://www.ccps.org/ccps/calv/media/media.html

Conewago Elementary School, Hanover, PA - http://www.conewago.k12.pa.us/ctelib.htm

Thurgood Marshall, Gaithersburg, Maryland - http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/thurgoodmarshalles/mediacenter.html

Wayside Elementary School, Potomac, Maryland –

http://www3.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/waysidees/pages/classes-mediactr.html