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We recently revised two sections of our Digital Literacy Guide at https://lam.alaska.gov/digitalliteracy :
Feedback is welcome from all. Suggestions for additions/deletions welcome from librarians, archivists and museum folks. The Digital Literacy guide is intended to be a usable set of starting point and NOT a comprehensive tutorial directory.
Now available at lam.alaska.gov/sway, join Alaska State Museum Curator Steve Henrikson as he does a virtual walk through the Museum’s exhibit on the sacred textiles known today as “Ravenstail” and “Chilkat” robes. Two dozen robes carry the story of Native weaving among the Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit of Alaska and British Columbia, representing both ancient and modern ceremonial robes made by Alaska Natives and First Nations weavers.
From our friends at Sealaska Heritage Institute:
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Registration is now open for Sealaska Heritage’s fourth education conference for teachers and administrators in Southeast Alaska, which is part of a larger effort to promote culturally responsive pedagogy in schools.
For the second time, the three-day event will be held virtually because of the COVID-19 virus. The conference is scheduled August 5-7, 2021.
The goal of the conference, which is offered through SHI’s groundbreaking Thru the Cultural Lens program, is to provide participants with a deep understanding of culturally-responsive education and equip them to transform their classrooms, pedagogy, and curriculum to fully support all students’ success—especially those who have been historically underserved, disenfranchised, and marginalized by colonized systems.
Register today at the conference website.
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Reprinted with permission of MSU News Service:
By Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service
JUNE 22, 2021
BOZEMAN — Fifteen educators who work in Montana and Alaska have been selected to receive scholarships that will help them complete a Montana State University library media certificate program infused with Indigenous perspectives.
The recipients will receive tuition and fees for the entire three semester, 21-credit library media certificate program that they will begin this fall, as well as a stipend to purchase books needed for coursework and funding to attend a state library conference.
The scholarship recipients were selected based on their commitment to serving Indigenous populations, becoming school librarians and enacting culturally relevant pedagogies, according to Deborah Rinio, assistant teaching professor and program director for the library media certificate program. They were chosen from among 60 applicants.
The 15 educators work in a range of educational positions across Montana and Alaska, including as elementary school, middle school and high school teachers; librarians; and instructional coaches.
“We believe these students have great potential to positively impact their schools and communities by becoming school librarians who are ready and able to develop diverse and inclusive libraries that meet the needs of their entire school community,” Rinio said.
She added that, in some cases, the educators are working in schools where there is currently no school librarian, which creates tremendous opportunity.
“In this way, their training is also an opportunity to demonstrate to their school administrators and the broader school community the importance and positive impact of a thriving, inclusive library,” Rinio said.
Funding for the scholarships comes from a three-year, $574,910 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, which is funding the program known as Indigenous Perspectives in School Librarianship. As part of the grant, Rinio, Ann Ewbank and their partners have redesigned MSU’s library media certificate program curriculum to be culturally relevant and prioritize Indigenous perspectives in alignment with Montana’s Indian Education for All initiative as well as Alaska Standards for Culturally Responsive Schools. The redesigned curriculum also follows the newest standards for school librarian preparation programs, Rinio said.
To ensure that the curriculum redesign is culturally appropriate, meaningful and pedagogically sound, an advisory board consisting of Indigenous education, library and e-learning experts from Montana and Alaska has guided its development. Rinio added that the curriculum will continue to be refined as the group learns from students’ experiences.
The scholarship recipients are listed below by state, name and town:
The MSU library media certificate program is housed in the Department of Education in MSU’s College of Education, Health and Human Development. The graduate program is offered completely online and prepares educators for K-12 library media specialist positions. It also leads to a K-12 endorsement/certificate in Montana and other states, as well as in Department of Defense schools and international schools. In addition to the 21-credit certificate program, students have the option to take an additional nine credits and complete a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction.
Scholarships to complete the program will be offered one more time for Montana- and Alaska-based teachers who apply for fall 2022 admission to MSU’s library media certificate program. More information about the program is available at montana.edu/education/grad/librarymedia/.
Contact: Deborah Rinio, assistant teaching professor and program director, library media certificate program, deborah.rinio@montana.edu or 406-219-1046
Last month we noticed that the Institute for Museum and Library Services had made two awards to museums in Alaska. We wanted to share this good news with the rest of you:
Log Number: MN-249617-OMS-21
2021
$99,976
Sealaska Corporation will create five culturally responsive lesson plans for use by elementary and middle school students in Juneau, Alaska. The 200 students to be served by the project will visit the Sealaska Heritage Institute with their teachers to participate in inquiry-based educational programming focused on the museum’s 1982 Biennial Celebration, which revitalized the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures. The project builds on previous grant awards from IMLS and NEH to digitize and edit footage from the Celebration festival. The Sealaska Heritage Institute will draw from content in 24 edited videos of the event, as well as from resources in its archives and collections to create the lesson plans. . The project team will use pre and post student and teacher surveys to write and deliver a paper on the project to the museum community.
Log Number: MN-249570-OMS-21
2021
$66,914
The Native Village of Eyak’s Ilanka Cultural Center (ICC) will purchase supplies and equipment to create a digital collection documenting its history and traditions. The project will begin with the creation of a digital collection policy to guide the work. The project team will meet with tribal elders and their families to acquire historical photos, which will be scanned and documented with related information. Acquiring the digitizing equipment and providing training for the staff will allow the cultural department to access more historical photographs from tribal members in future years.
Normally we wouldn’t report on a new sign for a library, archives or museum. But as radio station KSTK reported on 6/24/21, the new sign for the Wrangell Museum is unusual, “It’s is a 16-foot log, planted on its narrower end. At the top sit a carved and painted raven, and an eagle with a silver salmon in its talons. The letters M-U-S-E-U-M sit stacked, one on top of the other. A few leaves of Devil’s Club frame the lower letters.”
For a look at the sign and more background on how it came to be, read:
Wrangell Museum gets a new sign. By Sage Smiley. KSTK, 6/24/2021.
Microsoft recently announced that Windows 11 will be released later this year. Windows 11 may not run on older computers, but Microsoft has committed to supporting Windows 10 through October 14, 2025. By then, you really should have replaced any of your computers that are already too old for Windows 11.
If you’d like to start educating yourself on Windows 11 and whether it might be a good option for your existing Windows machines, we think these two articles are a great place to start:
While arriving too late to include in the last Bulletin in time for Juneteenth 2021, we wanted to share these resources from the Library of Congress for your celebrations next year:
Juneteenth Content from Across the Library of Congress
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