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Karen
McIntyre's Homepage Technology allows us to accumulate and manipulate information with great speed, and in ways that add depth to our store of knowledge. . We must find more hospitable ways to teach and learn based on student's questions and interests. Technology allows us to let students interact with information based on their personal learning styles. It also demands that we, like our students, must become lifelong learners. But learning is not enough! Technology cannot save us. In the end we must be wise. Like the Old Testament Rabbis we must learn to "Number our days that we may apply our hearts unto Wisdom." Psalm 90:12 You
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ProfessionalThese are links which take you to information about my professional experience and beliefs. Karen's Resume describes my work experience and educational background. Karen's Work outlines my personal philosophy of school librarianship and how living weaves in and out of belief. Designing a Kids Library This was a presentation designed to convince the design team at my elementary library in Texas to use child friendly furniture in the overall re-design of the school library. Songs to charm Young Children! This is a song I use with my younger children to help them settle in and get ready to listen to stories. It is a good way to memorize nursury rhymes! I know of nowhere this song is written down. I learned it from my mother who learned it from her great-aunt from Canada in the early years of the last century! You will be prompted to download a Sibelius plug-in which will allow you to actually play the song by clicking on the notes. It is an amazing program which even let's you control the tempo!
1st grade students experienced a lesson in McGuffy's Reader. They used slates, made butter, explored pictures of school children in 1912 and wrote with quill pens after watcing Minnie make them using her penknife. They touched century old books and looked at the world through century old eyes. Authentic experience teaches! Minnie Strohman Grum - Teacher 1908 - sitting next to her steamer trunk in period dress Answers Questions A
school library must be the
place where children come to
connect with great literature,
with questions, with excitement
for who they are and what they
are becoming. It
must be a place where change is
generated and supported. The
librarian is always available to
educators and students for
help in planning units and
locating resources. S/he must be involved in
teaching information
fluency and media literacy to students. Students
must learn to access and evaluate
the information in a variety of formats. A new role for libraians is provision of
technical support and software
education to patrons. Being a teacher-librarian is as much about living well as it is about skills or facts. Living
in cities and university communities
stimulated my thinking and lead to an experience with many different cultures and
ideas. It was the isolation
of the Great Plains which instructed me in life .....and change. My columns from the Morton Tribune (Morton is a tiny
community in West Texas) illustrate
this. Painting
became part of me on the plains where I
learned that art is really about looking
at life! Storytelling, has long been a part of my life as a librarian. Librarians were responsible for the preservation and resurgence of this art, and stories can instruct about our deeper selves. You can learn to tell a story
from my "Tell
it Again" presentation. Kindergarten self-checkout Students are trained to check in and presort books onto the return shelves and to check themselves out. Students examine primary sources
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