Teachers and Kids Work Group

• Charge: To advise the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) on how to support Kentucky's K-12 teachers and students.
• Membership
• Next Meeting: To be determined.
• Meeting Minutes
  • March 18, 2002
  • March 5, 2002
  • Jan. 30, 2002
  • Nov. 27, 2001
  • Sept. 19, 2001
• Assessment
  • Report from Shere on usability tests of 1st HTML version of portal and tutorial, April 2002
• Work on Portal and Tutorial Spring 2002
  • Schedule for tutorial construction 3/6/02
  • Outline of tutorial from Shere 3/4/02
  • RFP for Kids site due Jan. 31, 2002
• KYVL for Kids support documents
  • Tutorial Outline Fleshed Out 5/7/01
  • Tutorial outline/content developed on 2/2/01
  • Draft 1 (Fall 2000) -- outline of content
  • Draft 2 (Fall 2000) -- outline of content
  • Info Zone
  • Graphic Organizers - good collection of graphical organizers that might be used in the tutorial.
    • Evaluation Checklist (PDF)
    • Annotations
• Websites designed for kids
  • Froggy Tales
  • Colorado Virtual Library
  • Great Kids CT
  • Inspire Kids
  • Lycos Zone
  • Alfy - the flash is a bit too much but it is bright and inviting.
  • PBS Kids
  • Arthur - This site has interesting characters (art work) and simple but engaging animation.
  • Ben's Guide - we like the art on this one. It's very easy to understand where to go.
  • FBI for Kids - we liked the moving bones. The art is good too.
  • Paw Island
  • Cricket - we liked the artwork and the movement on this page.
  • Louisville Zoo - this page was created by Power Creative. We like the color, art, and movement.
• Information Literacy/Other tutorials
  • For K12--
  • AASL Information Literacy Best Practices
  • Big 6 for K12
  • Information Literacy. ERIC Digest. -- access for Kentuckians only.
    This defines information literacy and describes the evolution of the concept of information literacy, and goes on to discuss the following: the three predominating themes in research on information literacy; the new workplace of the future; national and state standards; K-12 educational reform and restructuring; information literacy efforts in K-12 and higher education; and information technology as the enabler of information literacy.
  • For Undergraduates --
  • ACRL's Information Literacy info for college's and universities.
  • KYVL's new info lit tutorial
• Helpful Links:
  • Information on the old Teachers Work Group
  • Information on the old Kids Work Group

Last updated: Friday, 15-Aug-2008 15:20:09 EDT