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"Among the undergraduates at every college and university are some who
look for ways to contribute to something larger than themselves,
who are inspired by moral ideals or passionate about social
or political issues."
from Educating Citizens*
Roxanne Myers Spencer, ERC Coordinator, invites all education faculty to schedule research instruction classes in the Educational Resources Center for their teacher education students. RI classes include a tour of our unique subject alcoves, the ever-growing juvenile collection, curriculum guides, and online subscription databases. We will teach students to use the WKU Libraries online databases such as EBSCOHost, Digital Dissertations, and FirstSearch. We encourage faculty to ask us to design instruction to suit their particular needs. Please don't hesitate to ask us to create a specific class for your students! To schedule your class for an ERC orientation, please call 745-4552 or 745-4659. ERC staff, Ellen Micheletti, Gayle Novick, and our able student workers look forward to assisting you!
Between the Bookends...
Noteworthy @ the ERC
The Educational Resources Center has a new set of dies for our popular Ellison Machine.
We now have the Greek alphabet in four-inch-tall letters. The Ellison machine can cut anything that
scissors can cut, so these dies can be used to cut paper letters for posters and cloth letters that
can be ironed on to T-shirts and sweatshirts. Anyone can use this machine, just bring your own materials
and have fun!After many years of faithful service, the Ed Center's old laminating machine wore out. We now have a new
laminating machine that is just slightly smaller than the old one. We will laminate material on an overnight
basis for $1.00 per foot. Come by and check it out.B is for Bluegrass, V is for Volunteer, S is for Show Me....
Sleeping Bear Press has published 33 books so far in its Discover America State by State series. They are
picture books in an alphabet book format, one for each state. The Educational Resource Center has bought or
ordered each book so far and plans to buy the whole series as each book is written.
Come by and check out this colorful, informative and fun set of books.TOP
New Curriculum Resources @ the ERC
Textbooks on Review for State Adoption
The Educational Resources Center serves as a display area for textbooks being considered for adoption in Kentucky P-12 schools. This year, the state is evaluating Business & Vocational Education textbooks and related teacher resources. Students, teachers, and parents are welcome to visit the ERC and browse this unique collection.
Some of the subject areas we have textbooks for review:
- Residential Housing and Interiors
- Diversified Health Occupations
- Law for Business and Personal Use
- Equine Science
- Landscaping
- Fashion Merchandising
- Photography
- Modern Welding
- Computer Science and Repair
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"Many students engage in some form of community service as an
extracurricular activity, and this has been shown to have a positive effect on
their moral and civic development."
from Educating Citizens*
Good Reads @ the ERC...
We asked the staff and students at the ERC to come up with some
of their favorite reads from the ERC collection to share with our readers. No bones about it, our intent is to tempt you all with the delights of children's and young adult literature...Here is a taste of what's on offer @ the ERC!
from Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert Heinlein
The boys were surprised to find out how much Mr. Jenkins knew about atomics. They had the usual low opinion of the mental processes of adults; Mr. Jenkins they respected but had subconsciously considered him the anachronism which most of his generation in fact was, a generation as a whole incapable of realizing that the world had changed completely a few years before, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16,1945.
(Robert Heinlein also coined the phrase: "There's no free lunch.")
from The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
There was a girl in the village who loved horses. She would often get up at daybreak when the birds were singing about the rising sun. She led the horses to drink at the river. She spoke softly and they followed.
People noticed that she understood horses in a special way. She knew which grass they liked best and where to find them shelter from the winter blizzards. If a horse was hurt she looked after it.
from Mummies, Masks, & Mourners by Margaret Berrill
"(Tom) Sayers was the last great bare-fisted fighter. He had fought thirty-seven rounds without boxing gloves against an American to a draw in the world championships. His funeral procession in 1865 was a great spectacle, with carriages drawn by black horses wearing black ostrich plumes. The mourners were dressed in black from head to toe, the ladies wearing black veils and black jet jewelry. But at Tom Sayers' funeral, the sad
sight of the chief mourner, sitting alone in his carriage behind the coffin, amazed onlookers and made the children cry. For the chief mourner, a black ruff around his neck, was Tom Sayers' dog!"
Submitted by Gayle Novick
from Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
I suppose my father was used to treating me with a certain roughness, not quite as he would have treated a son, but certainly different from the way he treated Caroline. My father, like nearly every man on our island, was a waterman.
from Rainbow Fish to the Rescue by Marcus Pfister
A long way out in the deep blue sea there swam a school of fish. Not just ordinary fish--each one had a sparkling silver scale.
Submitted by Ashley ReelJohnny went to the surgery, put on his boots and jacket. The wall clock said eight o'clock. It was time to be about. There was no leaving by the front door. The soldiers were leaning against it. Through the curtains of the windows he could see the muskets. He noticed the facings on their uniforms. The Twenty-Third Regiment. The narrow course on Tremont Street was filled to the brim and overflowing with the waiting scarlet-coated men. Like a river of blood. He left by the kitchen.
from The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Soon there were no more lights to be seen. We traveled through cold, dark forests, where lean wolves roamed and white-tailed rabbits hid from our train as it thundered through the quiet wilderness. We climbed mountains so high it seemed as if we would scrape the moon. But the Polar Express never slowed down.
from Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered by Gary Paulsen
I hadn't been there long but I knew when he had that look--it seemed the corner
of his right eye went up slightly and it gave him an almost evil gremlin appearance--
it meant he had a new idea. Sometimes they were good ideas, oftentimes they were bad ideas, but they were never, never boring ideas and always worth interest."What are you looking at?"
"I'm wondering," he said, "what Tarzan would have done had he lived on a farm."
from The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The bow tilted downward, and the next thing I knew we were all in the water. I saw my mother near me and yelled to her. Then something hit me from above.
Submitted by Laura Bertrand
from The Mennymns by Sylvia Waugh
The Mennyms, it must be said, had good reason to hold themselves aloof. It was not that they felt superior...it was simply that they did not dare mix with outsiders.
They were not human you see - at least not in the normal sense of the word. They were just a whole, lovely family of life-size rag dolls. They were living and walking and talking and breathing, but they were made of cloth and kapok.
from The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6) by Lemony Snicket
The book you are holding in your two hands right now--assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you have only two hands--is one of two books in the world that will show you the difference between the word "nervous" and the word "anxious." The other book, of course, is the dictionary, and if I were you I would read that book instead.
Submitted by Ellen Micheletti
from Miss Ida's Porch by Sandra Belton
Miss Ida's house is halfway down Church Street. That's probably one reason folks end up there a lot. Another reason is Miss Ida herself. She and the best time are kind of alike. Soft, peaceful.
But the biggest reason we all end up there is that Miss Ida's porch is a telling place.
from 24 Hours by Margaret Mahy
A couple of minutes later Ellis was sitting at a table in a cafe bay window, with an oblique view of the city center. Because it was so well lit, and yet a little distant, he was teased again by the idea that he was looking onto a stage, and that someone was busily operating a wind machine in the wings.
from Troy by Adele Geras
Everything is transformed at night. Artemis, the Goddess of the moon, is the best of enchantresses, Marpessa thought as she looked around her and saw the buildings that were so familiar to her changed and made beautiful in the silver light that flooded the sky. The air was warm, even though Phoebus Apollo's chariot had plunged into the sea a long time ago; and silence so thick that it almost hummed lay over roofs and streets and stones.
Submitted by Roxanne Myers Spencer
Fridays @ the Movies @ the ERCIt's baaaack! Spend a relaxing Friday afternoon @ the ERC catching
up with old and new movie classics! We'll even provide the pop and
the popcorn! Join us at 5:00 p.m. on the dates below for some
cinematic R&R!
Come One, Come All!Friday, September 25 @ 5:00 p.m.
Celebrate Bowling Green's International Festival with a viewing of Not One Less (Yi Ge Dou Bu Neng Shao), the story of a young teacher in rural Chinese village who must pursue one of her students into the city to persuade him to come back to school.Friday, October 17 @ 5:00 p.m.
"The Most Awesome Thriller Of All Time!"
Thrill to the chills of blonde bombshell Fay Wray
as she tries to evade the hairy clutches of...
King Kong (aka the Eighth Wonder of the World)!Friday, November 14 @ 5:00 p.m.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged): A hilarious romp through the Bard's oeuvre in 90 minutes!Friday, December 5 @ 5:00 p.m.
Take a break from grading those end-of-term projects and take a stroll on the (Oscar) Wilde side with The Importance of Being Earnest(Viewing schedule is tentative, based on availability.
Please share this information with your students. All are welcome!)
"Education is not complete until students not only have acquired
knowledge but can act on that knowledge in the world."
from Educating Citizens*
Electronic Resources @ WKU Libraries
WKU Libraries provides access to a variety of online databases, on campus and off, through our new proxy server. Citations, abstracts, and full-text documents are available. WKU Libraries helps make research convenient and resources reliable! Ask any library student, staff, or faculty member for help tapping into the world of information at your fingertips. For more information on how to access WKU Libraries online databases, go the library homepage: www.wku.edu/LibraryThis time, we'll look for recent news articles on citizenship and civic education, using the Lexis-Nexis Academic database.
Associated Press State & Local Wire. (2003, Jul 7). "Provision in N.C. budget calls for improved
civics education."Boyd, Jack. (2003, Sep 5). "Preparing tomorrow's leaders." Herald Sun (Durham, N.C).
Clarkson, Adrienne (Gov. Gen.). (2003, Mar 23). "When you become a citizen, you take on all the
country has been." (excerpts from speech). Calgary Herald.Daybook Editor. (2003, Feb 14). "President Bush to Address White House Forum on
American History, Civics, and Service. "U.S. Newswire.Editorial. (2003, Jul 10). "Civics Education." Winston-Salem Journal (N.C.)
Glendenning, Don. (2003, June 5). "What's the opposite of bullying? Good citizenship: Schools
need to model what it is that makes for good citizenship." (Opinion). Guardian (Charlottetown).Lindley, Linda. (2003, Jul 14). "Witnessing the real world; Education: Students from across the
country are getting an up-close look at urban decay and poverty through a Johns Hopkins
leadership program." Baltimore Sun.Shulas, Greg. (2003, Mar 23). "Reaching citizenship is a class act." Connecticut Post.
Westheimer, Joel. (2003, Mar-Apr). "Citizenship education for a democratic society."
Teach Magazine.
ERC Hours
Monday through Thursday
7:45 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.Friday
7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Saturday
12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.Closed Sundays and during school holidays.
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ERC Special Resources
Two *brand-new* coin-operated photocopiers are available for copying Reserve Readings and other materials--still only 5 cents per copy! We can also photocopy onto transparencies (50 cents per copy for transparency sheets). The ERC has 12 computers with access to TOPCAT and excellent resources through TIP, Western Kentucky Libraries' Topper InfoPortal The ERC has an Ellison machine with a large selection of letter and figure dies. Please supply your own construction paper. Lamination services are available for posters and other special projects We look forward to helping you find the resources you need! TOP
Dr. Michael Binder,
Professor
Dean, University Libraries and Museum
Dr. Brian E. Coutts,
Professor
Head, Department of Library Public Services
This edition of ERC Bookends was compiled by
the staff and students of the Educational
Resources
Center
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"Finally, college graduates need to be competent in their civic and political
participation. This means they need to develop an understanding of the
particular mechanisms that are likely to be effective in tackling different kinds
of issues and to have the practical capacities and skills they need to use
these mechanisms successfully."
from Educating Citizens**Colby, A.. Ehrlich, T.; Beaumont, E.; Stephens J. (2003). Educating Citizens:
Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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