EMC News Blog

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Principles Protest Role of Testing in Evaluations

A few days ago the Education section of the New York Times ran an article with the intriguing title Principals Protest Role of Testing in Evaluations. As the article states, it's rare to hear about principals protesting. Here's the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/education/principals-protest-increased-use-of-test-scores-to-evaluate-educators.html?_r=1

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Graphic Novels in the EMC

I've been asked a number of times this semester for graphic novels. Since they're not always so easy to identify in the library catalog, I created a bibliography of graphic novels housed in the EMC. This bibliography includes the new graphic novels that were recently purchased. Here's the link to the bibliography: http://www.uwosh.edu/library/emc/Bibliographies/graphicnov.pdf

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Teaching Is More Like Gardening Than Engineering

This newspaper article headline caught my attention. The subject of the article, Sir Ken Robinson, addresses such issues as standardization, grades and child development. Here's the link: http://losaltos.patch.com/articles/teaching-is-more-like-gardening-than-engineering-9fda60e5

Thursday, November 10, 2011

K-12 Physical Education Materials in the EMC

Check out the revised bibliography K-12 Physical Education Books & Videos in the EMC
Here's the link to it: http://www.uwosh.edu/library/emc/Bibliographies/physicaleducation.pdf

Friday, November 04, 2011

Picture Book Database

The Picture Book Database is an exciting new research tool for children's literature enthusiasts. It enables the user to identify picture books by artistic media and style, literary devices, country of origin, character traits, theme, format, genre, age range and more. In addition, the records link to WorldCat and Google Books. This allows the user to see whether a particular book is in the EMC collection.

To access the database, click this link http://www.uwosh.edu/library/subjects/education.html, scroll down, and click Picture Book Database.