The Canadian Association for School Libraries is pleased to announce Donna DesRoches & Carlene Walter as the 2008 recipients of the Angela Thacker Memorial Award
The Angela Thacker Memorial Award honors teacher-librarians who have made contributions to the profession through publications, productions or professional development activities that deal with topics relevant to teacher-librarianship and or/information literacy.
Carlene Walter and Donna DesRoches have worked collaboratively to design a series of eight modules to help teacher-librarians learn how Web 2.0 tools could be used in their school library programs. The free online course they posted through the Saskatchewan School Library Association website was entitled Meet The Stars: Books & Web 2.0. Activities in which the tools of Web 2.0 were integrated were developed to focus on student achievement related to the learning objectives of school library programs.
The collaborative team hoped that teacher-librarians would gain understanding of the potential of the social Web within their profession, both as a tool supporting a community of professional learners and as a tool for students to use to become more information literate.
Participants in Meet the Stars: Books & Web 2.0 indicated that the goals of the collaborative team had been met. Success was evident in the following ways. The modules were accessible to anyone online, engendered a passion for reading, highlighted the potential range of emerging technologies, and provided professional development that reflected the goals of a 21st century school library program.
Carlene and Donna have created a resource that exemplifies the far-reaching and positive effects of collaborative work. They are to be congratulated for their excellent contribution to professionalism within school libraries.
The Canadian Association for School Libraries is a division of the CLA/ACB. The Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques is Canada’s largest national and broad-based library association, representing the interests of public, academic, school and special libraries, professional librarians and library workers, and all those concerned about enhancing the quality of life of Canadians through information and literacy.
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