LIBR265: Materials for Young Adults

San Jose State University

David V. Loertscher

Spring 2009 Greeensheet at: http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/gss/ajax/showSheet.php?id=309- The official guide to this class.

This Fall will be a very high-tech experience, all online in mostly web 2. 0 applications.

• We will MEET on Elluminate every other  Monday evening (check SLISWEB.sjsu.edu for times)
• We will NETWORK on several Web 2.0 technologies and on our Ning: http://libr265.ning.com/
• We will BLOG in book clubs on our Ning.
• We will continue to BUILD a great bibliography of professional resouces on our wiki at: YALiteAndMultimedia
• We will CONTRIBUTE book reviews on the wiki at: YAReviewsWiki
• We will PRODUCE podcasts of booktalks and upload them to http://YouTube.com

It will be an exciting ride!

Calendar:

Sept 15: Topic 1 and 2

Sept. 29: Topic 3 and 4

October 13:  Topic 5 and 6

Oct. 27: topic 7 and 8

Nov. 10: Topic 9, 10, 11

Nov. 24: Topic 12 and 13

Dec. 8: Windup

Check out all the assignments at:  YA265Assignments

And, here are the major topics covere in the class:

• Topic 1: Getting Acquainted with Elluminate and Our Class.  YA265Inro
• Topic 2: Out of Childhood, into Tweens.  YAChildLit
• Topic 3: How It All Got Started.  YALitHistory
• Topic 4: The Juvenile Novel. YAJuvenileNovel
• Topic 5: Pop Culture. YAPopCulture
• Topic 6: It's Very Personal. (Fact and Fiction) YAPersonal
• Topic 7: Give Me Real History, but, I Might Want It Fictionalized. YAHistory
• Topic 8: Give Me Real People. YABiography
• Topic 9: I Wish I Were a Scientist... YAScience
• Topic 10: ... But I'll Take Science Fiction... ScienceFiction
• Topic 11: YAFantsy
• Topic 12: Culture Is a Matter of Taste...YACulture
• Topic 13: ... in a Multicultural World. YAMulticulture
• Topic 14: Move Over Adults, We're Interested in Your Stuff Too... YAAdultStuff
• Topic 15: ...But We're Not Sure We Like the World We've Inherited. YAModernWorld
• Topic 16: We Need Information and We Need It Now! YAReference 

LIBR 265 Materials for Young Adults – Loertscher – Spring, 09

Feb 21

    Topics 1-5: The juvenile novel

March 11

    Topics 6-11 Very Personal though fantasy

April 18

    Topic 12-16: Culture through reference

Assignments:

1.    A collaborative unit with a teacher – similar to Module 3 in 250; Fulvill  Paul Christensen’s requirements as well as Loertscher’s.  Choose a topic that is common to teachers  all over S.F. if at all possible. Have this unit rich in literature, non-fiction multimedia across a wide range of ability levels. Have this unit critiqued by at least two other class members. It will load on the S.F. wiki for use across the city.

2.    All elementary folks help build the S.F. unit for 3rd grades. Again this will go up on the S.F. wiki. Middle and high school folks will select a city wide project to work on.

3.    Demonstrate to the class one Web 2.0 tool for use in instructional units.

4.    Read, view, and listen to half the topical assignments on the web site for this class. Keep a spreadsheet or wiki of your work. List citation and a brief description or annotation. You may substitute children’s literature titles for YA titles if you wish.

5.    Complete monthly reports and see that one other librarian does the same so you will have data to analyze for Dr. Woolls this summer.

6.    Sotes

7.    Attend class.