September 2007 CMC Newsletter

Welcome back! I trust that your year is off to a rousing start. The newsletter this year will be published here at the CMC blog, rather than at the website. As the year goes on, please use the Newsletters label in the column on the right to access previous issues of the newsletter. The CMC blog is used primarily for announcing all new resources that are added to the CMC. Please check often to stay up-to-date on what's new or subscribe to the RSS feed in the column to the right.

The 40th Anniversary of the CMC

During this academic year, we will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the CMC. During this time, the CMC has been located at various places across the campus, including Williams Hall, where it was once part of the education department. Stay tuned for announcements about our celebration.

Visiting Children's Author

Last year, children's author and illustrator Kevin O'Malley visited the CMC, where he spoke with Dr. Sweigard's children's literature class. This year's visiting author will be children's author and illustrator Adam Rex. Adam has drawn the illustrations for a number of children's books, including the popular Lucy Rose series by Katy Kelly. He has also written and illustrated several books, including Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Tree Ring Circus, and Pssst! His visit is made possible through a cooperative agreement with the Xenia Community Schools Visiting Author program, and we are indebted to the Xenia Schools for this exciting opportunity.

Featured Resource

The CMC subscribes to a series of educator guides to free teaching materials. These include guides to such things as free science, social studies, multicultural, and health resources, as well as guides to free videotapes, free Internet resources, and free general curriculum resources. The guides, which are available for all grade levels, are located in the CMC Reference collection.



New Materials

Many new materials were added over the summer, including textbooks, teaching aids, and trade books. For a complete list, click these links: May, June, July, August.

Website of the Month

Yahoo! is developing a new social networking, collaborative tool for teachers called Yahoo! Teachers. It has been quietly tested for several months, and will be released laster this fall. You can sign up to be included in the release announcement at http://teachers.yahoo.com. Yahoo is billing it as an "easy-to-use... peer network designed by and for teachers". Users of the site will be able "to create, modify, and share standards-based curriculum". This could prove to be a very beneficial, helpful site for anyone in K-12 education.

Your Recommendations

As always, suggestions from faculty, staff, and students for materials for the CMC are most welcome. Please send your suggestions to the CMC Librarian, Greg Martin.