Girls Inc. Summer Summit Workshop
GOALS & OBJECTIVES- Provide an opportunity for participants to meet the head librarian and Information Center Director at an urban community college
- Involve participants in basic web posting techniques for text and image display
- Raise awareness of how math and science are evident through the emergence of patterns in the everyday physical world
- Experience making connections among images and individual experiences for increased understanding and appreciation
- Understand how technology is used by librarians to manage and deliver information
- Have experience with recognizing geometric design and patterns
- Be better able to make connections between ideas and images and articulate those relationships
- Know how to construct a basic journal web file to display text and images
DISCUSSION -- As time allows, workshop discussion segments may include:
- What a librarian does and how it relates to math, science and technolgoy
- Paths to discovering career options and making life choices that relate to women and work
- Formating information for organizing & sharing
- Using kaleidoscopes & mandalas to practice recognizing patterns and design in the physical world
- Discovering and disclosing our private and public selves
- Communicating through images and text
Links & Tools
Science Technolgy & Librarians a NOVA preview
Science Technolgy & Librarians an example
Science Technolgy & Math in our world
Sample Journal Web File Architecture & Metaphor -- Here's an approach to getting your ideas organized so you can present them on a journal web page...
The Process: Look around until you see something that you could use to help express some of the ideas in your life story. For example, the Stada building at MIT has an interesting look and offers elements that could be used to represent ideas in a person's life story.
It's interesting to note that the architect, Frank Gehry, thought he'd design the buidling with a few themes in mind: chaos, collision, symmetry and surprise. Photos of parts of the building might be ways of capturing reflections on those themes that could be used to reflect on similar themes in a person's life.
Make a Mandala -- Practice recognizing patterns before you go looking for photos that represent patterns in your life.
Steps to build a mandala:
- Build: Drag and drop from the left
- Manipulate: Use the tools on the right
- View: go back if you want to make a change
- E-mail: if you want to see it later
Journal Template Journal Web File Skeleton. Follow these STEPS to copy the template and use it to make your own journal page...
- Instruction Support
- On your browser menu bar, go to VIEW
- Select SOURCE to view the template html tags
- Make your changes
- On the browser menu bar, go to FILE, select SAVE AS, and name your file yourname.htm ( leave the file type " Text Documents " )
Animated Images Pick your own moving image
Find Photos at the Library of Congress -- STEPS to selecting photos:
- Identify subjects with a high number of images
- Select a subject by considering which might best connect with the story you want to tell on your journal web file
- Look above the item list, find the word GALLERY & Point & Click
- Select your pictures by using the button on the right side of your mouse & save to your desktop (Right-click the graphic and choose "Save this Image As..." from the pop-up menu. Choose DESKTOP as the location on your own computer where you want to temporarily save the image file. Click OK.)
Web Pages Demystified -- understanding how web files work and how you can make them work for you
Feedback Form (PDF) Print out the feedback form, fill it out and put it in the box at the front of the room before leaving
NOTE: To view a PDF document you must have the acrobat adobe reader installed on your machine.
To download the software click here Adobe Reader
Some SMART Websites:
SciGirls
Why doesn't money dissolve in the washing machine?
Check out Roller Coaster Physic!
Did you know the USA has a National Zoo?
Need a science project idea?
Comic Strips that explain Earth Science
Nova, PBS: Fun info on lots of topics