KCVL for Teachers Minutes

Present: Miko Pattie, Jackie Kinder, Diane Culbertson, Barby Hardy, Jane Smith, Cathy Watson, Paula Whitmer

The first meeting of the KCVL for Teachers committee was spent brainstorming about what a "KCVL for Teachers" would look like, what is available now, what it should include, where to get content, what our (KCVL and the committee members) responsibilites will be and workflow.

KCVL will be the portal for "KCVL for Teachers" and will have a facilitator role.

KCVL will build a listserv for the KCVL for Teachers committee and most of our communication will take place through the listserv. The committee will not meet in person very often.

KCVL will add a "KCVL for Teachers" link on our website, under About KCVL/Committees.

KCVL will send email to the other listservs to let them know about this new project.

The committee members will act as liasons with their colleagues throughout the state to let people know what we are doing so that we can get input about teacher resources and what they want, directly from the teacher community.

The committee looked at several sites to review what is already available at the school, district, and state levels and through KCVL. We looked at the Academic Village sites from KDE and there was some concern that we might be trying to duplicate something the Villages are already doing. The consensus was that KCVL could organize and publicize resources for the teachers in a way not being done by the Village sites and could include them as links on our site and get the Villages to include KCVL on their sites.

To get content we need to get the cooperation of content experts (teachers in the field). We agreed that there would be no problem getting content and that what we will do is concentrate on the structure that is needed.

KCVL for Teachers could include things such as the library catalogs and databases, the tutorial, Professional Resources (links to professional associations, grant information, copyright, online electronic journals, etc.), Teaching Resources (links to sites for use with students, curriculum guides, lesson plans, etc.) For websites, we decided it would be most helpful to teachers if we use the Core Content Subject Headings from KDE-Arts and Humanities, Mathematics, Practical Living/Vocational Studies, Reading, Science, Social Studies, and Writing.

The top page will probably look very similar to the regular KCVL VRD page. The left hand column will have the Core Content Subject headings, which will be subdivided by subject strand. Then sorted by Grade level- Primary (P-3), Intermediate (4-5), Middle, High. There could be links to the catalogs and databases and tutorial on the regular KCVL. There will be a form for web suggestions.

The process would be that if a person had a website suggestion for KCVL for Teachers, they would fill out the online suggestion form, submit it to the coordinator responsible for that area who would then either accept or reject. Accepted sites would be sent on to KCVL for uploading.

Ideally, the resources would be in a searchable database so that they are integrated and not double-posted. Jackie and Susan will be attending Sitesearch training this month and will see if Database Builder could be used for this. For the present time, the resources will be listed like they currently are in VRD and GIA pages.

Assignments-

Starting now, each committee member will come up with a top 10 list of good quality general sites for the top page.

Barby will create a form to submit these to her so she can put them in a database. She will send the url for the form to our listserv. The group will use these to choose the top 10 sites for the first page.

We hope to have the top 10 sites in place by mid-July for publicizing to people at the LMS refresher workshop and the ITL training camp (July 18-21) and have the site up by July 30 and be ready to go public by August 15.

Diane will get people together to coordinate web sites for each of the core content areas and check to see if they could receive professional development credit for their work.

KCVL will set up the listserv and the section under About/Committees/.

Jackie will post the minutes to the About section and email to the members.