Effective Strategies

  The items listed below are strategies that librarians have submitted this
  school year that they found were effective in promoting Pioneer Library
  at their institution.

• Distributed information about Pioneer to every class.

• Gave to each class stickers to put on or near the computer so they could
  remember the web site.

• Showed each teacher how to use it.

• Requested the PTA put an article in their newsletter on how to use it
  including the new passwords for this year.

• Presented information about Pioneer during 10th grade orientation of the library/media center.

• Presented on Pioneer to all classes when they came into the library for orientation.

• Mailed letters home.

• Training students on how to use Pioneer Library.

• Ask students to start every project in WorldBook so they can read a
  background article on their topic.

• Invited UEN trainer to present to faculty.

• Distributed information including home access instructions on
  Pioneer Library to all faculty.

• Explained the use of a database with reliable information, versus the web.

• Explained pioneer to all the classes and their teachers.

• Handing out the parent letters at SEP Conferences so that parents are informed.

• Showing all the resources that are available.

• Encouraging the teachers to have the students use Pioneer in the computer lab.

• Creating worksheets for 5th and 6th grade students and have them complete the questions using Culturegrams for States and Countries.

• Using ideas from the Welcome to Culturegrams Online Edition workbook.

• Introducing all students in grades 4-6 to Pioneer during their class time in the media center.

• Having Pioneer set as the browser home page on all media center computers.

• Teaching students how easy it is to use Pioneer compared to Google or other online search engines.

• Collaborating with the computer teacher so follow up and additional research time is available for students during computer class.

• Providing students with a copy of the Pioneer's home page so students can mark websites visited during demonstration and can have the home access information to take home.

• Small highlights of Pioneer in library class and faculty inservice lessons.