03.+Standards+Project

READ AND DIGEST: //Empowering Learners//: Chapter 1, "Developing Visions for Learning"

You are the lead presenter in an in-service for the other librarians in your district. There hasn't been a lot of discussion of the new AASL Standards even though they came out in 2009. In order to get this workshop going, you decide that you need a set of visuals to describe the interrelationship of the various components of the standards.


 * The AASL Standards are built on nine common beliefs, four learning standards, four stands of learning and all are built around the five roles of the school librarian.

PROJECT: How would you visualize this information to get it across to your colleagues? Teach me.

For this assignment you are create as many graphical representations as you need to explain the relationships of the chapter 1 information. A thought is mind mapping. Here are a lot of random examples to give you ideas. [|Mind maps]. That didn't work so well for me when I did this assignment. I ended up using clip art from Wikimedia Commons.. Use whatever you need to illustrate your points.

If you can come up with a different way to visually represent the information, you are free to do so. If you are handy with graphics and clip art you might try infographics. [|Here are some examples.]

Keep in mind all of the areas in this chapter. Figure out a way to relate the 9 common beliefs, the 4 standards and the 4 stands of learning that run through the standards. In addition, illustrate the 5 roles of the school librarian and use as many visualizations as you feel you need in order to get the message across to your audience. Some things to keep in mind:
 * Don't make me read the screen for a lot of information. If I'm reading the screen, I'm not listening to you.
 * Make your points perfectly clear. Keep in mind that I don't know anything about the topic you are discussing.
 * Make it interesting. Be creative in how you put this together. You don't have a lot of time, but avoid the dreaded MEGO (my eyes glaze over).
 * In the notes section of the slides, tell me what you would be telling your audience.

GRADING 25 points
 * Creative and labeled visualizatios of the 9 common beliefs, 4 standards, 4 strands of learning that run through the 4 standards (10)
 * Demonstrate how the four strands of learning run through the four standards (5)
 * Individualize the roles of the librarian (even better show how the roles have changed) (5)
 * Your discussion in the slide notes is comprehensive enough to tell me what is going on in the slide (5)

DON'T look at my example if you are easily influenced by other people's work, but here is my version of visualizing the learning standards