Summer Seminar 2004 Press Release
August 4, 2004
Kent State University’s Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE) sponsored a series of ILILE Summer Workshops in July 2004 for teachers and school library media specialists. ILILE held three workshops in July, one in each of the following content areas: Social Studies (July 7-9), Science (July 13-15), and Language Arts (July 28-30). A total of 86 teams (183 participants) were chosen from a pool of applicants from across the state of Ohio and included ____________________, ____________________ and ___________________ who were selected from the _______________________ school district.
The ILILE Summer Workshop participants worked collaboratively to develop lesson plans they will use in their local school district which are based on the Ohio Department of Education's Academic Content Standards. Teachers and librarians will work to incorporate information literacy strategies and the electronic resources of INFOhio (The Information Network for Ohio Schools; http://www.infohio.org) into their activities throughout the academic year. Both the teacher and school library media specialist will receive two hours of graduate credit from Kent State University following workshop attendance and completion of assignments.
Participants heard presentations with nationally recognized experts including Alice Yucht of Rutgers University, Terrence Young, Jr., of West Jefferson High School and the University of New Orleans, and Dr. Cynthia Bowman of Ashland University, who spoke on collaboration, information literacy and specific strategies for content area lesson planning.
Kent State University
received $1.975 million in federal funds from the Institute of Museum
and Library Services for this library education project as part of the
Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2003 signed into law by U.S.
President George W. Bush. In 2004, Kent State received an additional $750,000
from the U.S. Department of Education to continue this project. U.S. Rep.
Ralph Regula (R-OH), Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee
on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education was instrumental in
securing this funding. Grant partners at the University include the School
of Library and Information Science, the College and Graduate School of
Education, and Libraries and Media Services.
