1. Using WISEdash to understand young patrons as students
2. Digital Learning Day: Wisconsin tops with 436 registered activities
3. BadgerLink Resource of the Week: Black History Month resources
4. Website of the Week: Digital Public Library of America
5. Calendar
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1. USING WISEDASH TO UNDERSTAND YOUNG PATRONS AS STUDENTS
Customize your library's programs and services for children, teens, and families by discovering what's happening in the district, grade levels, and schools in your area. Explore data related to academic performance in reading and math as well as enrollment groups such as economic, disability, ELL, and migrant status. Find out how to capture data for use on applications and reports that require identification of library demographics.
Youth services librarians and public library directors are encouraged to attend this informative and instructive webinar about WISEdash Public Portal. WISEdash is a data portal that uses "dashboards," or visual collections of graphs and tables, to provide multi-year education data about Wisconsin schools. As a public reporting tool, WISEdash is used by districts, schools, parents, researchers, media, and other community members to view data published by Department of Public Instruction. Webinar participants will participate in a guided exploration to gain an overview of WISEdash as well as examine search techniques.
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:00-1:00pm
Presenters: DPI Division of Libraries & Technology staff Melissa Straw, Manager, Data Warehouse and Decision Support Team; Melanie McCalmont, Business Analyst, Data Warehouse and Decision Support Team, and Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, Youth and Special Services Consultant, Public Library Development Team.
For more information about WISEdash, visit http://wisedash.dpi.wi.gov/.
The webinar will be recorded and posted online under "Professional Development" on the DPI Youth Services page: http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_ys-sn#prof-dev.
No registration is required; simply join the Blackboard Collaborate session. Note--Internet Explorer is the preferred browser for this platform (Java required).
Blackboard Collaborate session: http://tinyurl.com/pqn7svo
- Attendees who need telephone audio (versus VoIP) should use the conference number:
1-877-820-7831
1-877-820-7831 and enter participant passcode: 697156. - Test your system beforehand
- Blackboard Collaborate overview video
- Blackboard Collaborate online support or phone (877) 382-2293(877) 382-2293
2. DIGITAL LEARNING DAY: WISCONSIN TOPS WITH 436 REGISTERED ACTIVITIES
Last week, students at Wausau elementary schools connected with each other via Skype, and then had the job of asking each other "yes" or "no" questions to figure out what community and school their counterparts were sitting in. It took about ten minutes, according to WAOW television in Wausau.
It was a Digital Learning Day activity that provided an opportunity to practice not only technological but also collaborative skills, said Keshia Mashak, the district's instructional technology integration specialist, in the report.
That activity was just one of many activities Wisconsin schools and libraries registered with the national Digital Learning Day website as Wisconsin participated in the third annual event sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education.
Wisconsin was by far the top state in events registered with national Digital Learning Day. Thanks to the efforts of schools throughout Wisconsin, the state hosted a record-breaking number of events both in terms of the DPI records and also in the national Digital Learning Day listings (schools could report their plans to one or the other or both).
The DPI's own database registered 261 events, while the national records included 438 in Wisconsin. The runner-up states, North Carolina and Alabama, came in well behind, at 216 and 199. The DPI is keeping online, searchable records of the events from 2012, 2013 and 2014.
3. BADGERLINK RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
Celebrate Black History Month with BadgerLink! Did you know that the inventor of the traffic signal was African American? Garrett Morgan (1877-1963) is also known for inventing a breathing apparatus that aided firefighters. http://ow.ly/sxL1E
4. Website of the Week
Digital Public Library of America -- http://dp.la -- The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) offers access to millions of items - photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more - from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. (Website reference courtesy of refdesk.com)
5. CALENDAR
March 12, 2014 – Spring Interlibrary Loan meeting, Madison
March 14, 2014 – Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND), De Pere
March 21, 2014 – Growing Wisconsin Readers Early Literacy Symposium, Stevens Point
April 2, 2014 – Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee Meeting, DeForest
April 30-May 2, 2014 – Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians (WAAL) annual conference, Wisconsin Dells
May 7-9, 2014 – Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL) annual conference, Sheboygan
May 16, 2014 – Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Madison
May 16, 2014 -- Special Services Consultants Meeting, Madison
October 2, 2014 – Annual Youth Services Liaisons Meeting, DeForest
October 3, 2014 – Annual System Continuing Education and Certification Consultants Meeting, DeForest
November 19, 2014 - Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee Meeting, DeForest
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Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries and Technology
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439(608) 266-6439
FAX: (608) 267-9207