Waving

Waving (communicating) consists of communicating ideas to others through presenting, publishing, and sharing. Students share their ideas, try out new approaches, and ask for feedback (Lamb). With this final aspect of the project finished I am feeling relieved. I have put together four pages for my son's scrapbook and enjoyed it tremendously. I did realize that I like to use background paper that is already a theme. I just don't have the patience to measure, cut, and adhere a variety of papers to make the "ground" paper.

I have followed closely to Kuhlthau's Information Search Process but found that the wrapping and waving stages seem to be overlooked in the ISP model. It did not seem to me that there alot of stages in between Preparation and Assessment. I felt like I needed something more after preparing my information and before the assessment process. I was curious as to how the other models compared. I really liked the simplicity of the Alberta Inquiry Model. I thought it provided that phase that was missing in the ISP. The Alberta Inquiry Model has 6 Phases: Planning, Retrieving, Processing, Creating, Sharing and Evaluating. During the Creation stage students are organizing information, creating the product, thinking about the audience and revising/editing. During the Sharing stage students have a better understanding of the audience, are presenting information, and demonstrating appropriate behavior (59).

I took the scrapbook to school today to get feedback from a couple of coworkers. They liked the layouts, etc. and one thought the birthday page was a little busy but all in all a good response. My husband really enjoyed seeing the pages take shape. He did think that I should not have gone from hospital/birth pages straight to the 2nd birthday page. That's the beauty of scrapbooking, you can do it in any order that you want.

I did find a rubric geared toward middle school that was specific to scrapbooking: http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/rubrics_sec/scrapbook.html
This is something I plan to share with my coworkers.

Resources:

Callison, Daniel, and Leslie Preddy. The Blue Book On Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy. Westport: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

http://virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/waving.htm