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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:24:33 -0600
On Tuesday evening, November 28, the CCBC hosted a two-hour Newbery Award co-sponsored with the Four Lakes Distance Education consortium
(Dane County area public schools except for the Madison schools). More than two dozen public school teachers, library media specialists, school staff members, public librarians, and graduate students from participated, as did the CCBC professional CCBC staff.
For this discussion to occur in partnership with Four Lakes and for these and other participants to have adequate time to read the books, the discussion list was compiled before all eligible books could be considered. No matter when the list was compiled, it had to be a very short one for practical reasons. The abbreviated discussion time and the video conferencing medium are only two of the aspects of this discussion separating it from the preparation and approach of the actual Newbery Award Committee now hard at work.
The CCBC professional staff is always interested in exploring various ways to bring excellent books to wide attention. We are absolutely convinced that most of the participants in this particular discussion would not have come to the CCBC facility for a similar discussion during the late afternoon of the same day. We know that an increasing number of face-to?ce professional meetings will be conducted in virtual modes, and we want to experience and experiment with ways to discuss books in a virtual environment in "real time."
CCBC Librarian Kathleen Horning briefly reviewed information about the actual Newbery Award and facilitated the discussion. She also managed the equipment necessary for everyone to participate from four sites. Each participant was able to see three screens showing the participants at the other three sites, one of which was a Pyle Center studio for participants and facilitator. They could also see one sceen featuring Katy and/or the books or other materials being emphasized. Each person was seated near a mike, so it was easy for each to speak up whenever anyone wanted to contribute to the discussion.
CCBC Guidelines for Book Discussion were used http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/discguid.htm After each book had been discussed, secret ballots were written and tallied at each site. Ballot results were reported and tallied at the main site to determine the outcome. Each person had voted for three books, ranking the three in priority order. First place votes counted for four points each, second place votes each received three points, and third place votes were valued at two points apiece.
The hands-down "winner" CCBC Newbery Award Discussion with an overwhelming number of first place votes is "Silent to the Bone" by E. L. Konigsburg" (A Jean Karl Book / Atheneum, c2000). One other book received enough points to warrant naming it an Honor Book: "Joey Pigza Loses Control" by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux, c2000).
The actual 2001 John Newbery Award & Honor Books will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Monday, January 15, 2001, during the ALA midwinter conference. For news about the actual winners that week and/or for more information at any time about the John Newbery Award sponsored by the Association for Library Services to Children of the American Library Association, visit the ALA web site: http://www.ala.org/alsc/nmedal.html For more information about this CCBC book discussion, visit the CCBC web site: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/newbre.htm
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Director, Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Sat 02 Dec 2000 03:24:33 PM CST
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:24:33 -0600
On Tuesday evening, November 28, the CCBC hosted a two-hour Newbery Award co-sponsored with the Four Lakes Distance Education consortium
(Dane County area public schools except for the Madison schools). More than two dozen public school teachers, library media specialists, school staff members, public librarians, and graduate students from participated, as did the CCBC professional CCBC staff.
For this discussion to occur in partnership with Four Lakes and for these and other participants to have adequate time to read the books, the discussion list was compiled before all eligible books could be considered. No matter when the list was compiled, it had to be a very short one for practical reasons. The abbreviated discussion time and the video conferencing medium are only two of the aspects of this discussion separating it from the preparation and approach of the actual Newbery Award Committee now hard at work.
The CCBC professional staff is always interested in exploring various ways to bring excellent books to wide attention. We are absolutely convinced that most of the participants in this particular discussion would not have come to the CCBC facility for a similar discussion during the late afternoon of the same day. We know that an increasing number of face-to?ce professional meetings will be conducted in virtual modes, and we want to experience and experiment with ways to discuss books in a virtual environment in "real time."
CCBC Librarian Kathleen Horning briefly reviewed information about the actual Newbery Award and facilitated the discussion. She also managed the equipment necessary for everyone to participate from four sites. Each participant was able to see three screens showing the participants at the other three sites, one of which was a Pyle Center studio for participants and facilitator. They could also see one sceen featuring Katy and/or the books or other materials being emphasized. Each person was seated near a mike, so it was easy for each to speak up whenever anyone wanted to contribute to the discussion.
CCBC Guidelines for Book Discussion were used http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/discguid.htm After each book had been discussed, secret ballots were written and tallied at each site. Ballot results were reported and tallied at the main site to determine the outcome. Each person had voted for three books, ranking the three in priority order. First place votes counted for four points each, second place votes each received three points, and third place votes were valued at two points apiece.
The hands-down "winner" CCBC Newbery Award Discussion with an overwhelming number of first place votes is "Silent to the Bone" by E. L. Konigsburg" (A Jean Karl Book / Atheneum, c2000). One other book received enough points to warrant naming it an Honor Book: "Joey Pigza Loses Control" by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux, c2000).
The actual 2001 John Newbery Award & Honor Books will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Monday, January 15, 2001, during the ALA midwinter conference. For news about the actual winners that week and/or for more information at any time about the John Newbery Award sponsored by the Association for Library Services to Children of the American Library Association, visit the ALA web site: http://www.ala.org/alsc/nmedal.html For more information about this CCBC book discussion, visit the CCBC web site: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/newbre.htm
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Director, Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Sat 02 Dec 2000 03:24:33 PM CST
