2nd+Assignment

Here you will find my Library website. I plan to use a Middle School as my audience as this is where I have been spending much of my time this semester and have found some inspiring programs, websites and situations I would like to use as a driving force in my website. I will start with the basic pages: a welcome page; resource page, teachers page; contact information and blogs. The welcome page will have a link to the catalog, a Quote of the month, a wordle of the month (based on either the educational theme or other research subjects), and other things that will give the viewer a look into the personality of the library and what the monthly happenings are. The resource page will be for the students, it will have a link to the catalog, suggested website for research, possibly a wiki/pathfinder for widespread projects. The teachers page will have information about coll berating, what other teachers are doing, and school news that effect them. And the Blogs page will have the library media specialist blog, with incite into what is happening and will be happening in the library.

That's what I got so far as my vision for my website. You can find my website and follow its progress through the think bellow

A. My website can be found at: http://ms101libraryweb.weebly.com

B. [|Scarsdale Middle School] This happened to be a local school I decided to try and observe. One the reasons was based on their website an to see it on this list just emphasized why the website called out to me. This site is simple and to the point, and yet it is still engaging and informative. Education and information are the main focus of the site. The site is designed to be a learning and collaborative tool. Pages for resources that are designed for individual class projects are easily found from the home page. This allows teachers to simply point student's in the direction of the library website to find online resources. The databases are well organized by subject and this is emphasized within specific project pages. The strengths and goals of the librarians are highlighted with links to author visits, literary recommendations, and websites which have been selected with the teacher's objective in mind. Much simpliar then other sites, the reason for this site making the list is content and ease of use over looks and "hipness"

Westbrook Middle School This school website resonated with me because of its simple, yet catchy design and its abundance of helpful resources at a touch of button. This was a well thought out site which takes the entire community in to consideration. I really enjoyed how the creators of the site did more than just make this an extension of the physical library. Even the website teaches students things such as how to avoid plagiarism and why this is important, proper citing techniques, and even how to spot a good and authentic source. The simple resource lists seem helpful without spoon feeding information to students. It seems that the idea of helping students start the thinking process without doing it for them was well thought out. And listing some of the Web2.0 students should be learning and using not only helps students have easy access to these tools but shoes teachers and parents how important they are.