For this competency I chose the LibLit database. For this database, I started with three keywords: library research skills, technology or computers, and teacher. Technology and computers had the most records at 35257. Teacher had the second most with 5610. Library research skills had the least number of records at 588. When I put them all together, the database came up with 14 hits. Several were about the importance of teaching teachers (at the college level) how to use technology in the classroom. The one I found most useful for my blog is "Taking the Lead in Developing Learning Communities" by Violet Harada. The article focuses on building learning communities in the schools by involving teams of people to work on curriculum. Specifically, it references Loertscher's taxonomy to "flesh out the degrees and levels of collaborative involvement specific to school library media centers" (Harada 1). Loertscher's taxonomy is 10 levels of involvement of the librarian. Level one is no involvement, level six involves gathering material in advance at the teacher's request, and at level ten, the librarian is involved in curriculum development as part of a team. Basically it says that more collaborative efforts on the part of teachers and librarians relates to more successful students.
I thought LibLit was a user-friendly database. One interesting feature it has is once you find an article, you can choose to hear it in an audio file. You can even chose to have a male voice or a female voice read to you.
Harada, Violet H. "Taking the Lead in Developing Learning Communities." Knowledge Quest 31, no. 2 (2002): 12-16. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790ea6d588b6d0aa3367b523a65f238a7deeb242741dc9a8ed65a25cbf913f64c86c&fmt=H Harada, V. H. Taking the Lead in Developing Learning Communities. Knowledge Quest v. 31 no. 2 (November/December 2002) p. 12-16
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