|
Greensheet
Assignments
|
|
GREENSHEET
Course Description:
An overview of literature and information materials, including media and websites, for children ages 6-12. The emphasis will be on the evaluation and selection of materials for school and public libraries. The course will also include history of children’s literature, current trends, multicultural materials, and use of these books in library programs.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate a familiarity with a variety of children’s literature and information books as well as various media for this age group,
- Critically review and evaluate materials, and use related collection development resources and selection tools,
- Use children’s books and other materials for library programming,
- Develop a Children’s collection policy for a school or public library.
The course supports the following SLIS Objectives:
- One or more specialized aspects of information management, and
- Evaluating and utilizing relevant research studies from a variety of disciplines.
Course Format:
This is a web-based course. All of our interaction will take place on the SLIS Blackboard site; you should be able to enroll in our Blackboard course by May 25, 2004 . Course materials will be available primarily through the Course Documents and “External Links” sections of the Blackboard, books from your public library, and journal articles available on the SJSU library database. Assignments for the course should be posted electronically. Our class discussions (worth 20 percent of your grade) will be conducted using a Blackboard “chat room” and/or your responses to a different discussion question posted each week. You can either attend the chat or post to the discussion questions, or do both. Use whichever method is most comfortable to you, but always post to the Discussion Question before we have the weekly chat on that topic. You will be graded on both the content of your posts (not just “I agree”), and meeting the minimum of posting or chat at least once a week. The weekly “chats” will be held on Mondays from 7:00-7:50pm. The first “chat” will be held on Monday, June 14, 2004, and the last on Monday, August 2, 2004 ; last day to post to the Discussion Board is Friday, August 6, 2004 .
Textbooks:
Horning, Kathleen T. From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books. HarperCollins, 1997. $13.95. ISBN 0-06-446167-X.
Tomlinson, Carl M. and Lynch-Brown, Carol. Essentials of Children’s Literature: Fourth Edition. Allyn and Bacon, 2002. $46. ISBN 0-205-33593-4.
Available from Amazon.com and from several used book websites.
Other assigned reading:
Be sure to see the Course Documents on the Blackboard for the assigned readings for the class, including the journal articles assigned for the class. You will also see a sequence of lectures, the weekly topic for the chat and the discussion question, and more extensive descriptions of the assignments.
You will also want to visit your local public library to find the children’s books you will use for the assignments as well as reading book reviews in School Library Journal, Horn Book, Booklist, and Publishers’ Weekly.
Assignment 1: Due Tuesday, June 22, 2004, by 11:59pm.
Assignment 2: Due Tuesday, July 6, 2004, by 11:59pm.
Assignment 3: Due Tuesday, July 20, 2004, by 11:59pm.
Assignment 4: Due Tuesday, August 3, 2004, by 11:59pm.
Assignment 5: Due Tuesday, August 10, 2004, by 11:59pm.
All assignments should be a Word file posted to the Blackboard site in the Digital Dropbox, or sent as a Word document attachment to email. All assignments must use APA format for bibliographic data and sources.
Grading: Class discussions are worth 20 percent of your grade; Assignment 5 is worth 20 percent, all other assignments worth 15 percent.
Top of Page |
|