www.digital-literacy.syr.edu.datamomentum.com Open in urlscan Pro
192.95.22.33  Public Scan

Form analysis
1 forms found in the DOM

POST /search

<form method="post" action="/search" class="main_search">
  <input type="text" id="keyword" name="keyword" value="Search Site:" onfocus="if(this.value=='Search Site:'){ this.value=''; }" class="text">
  <input type="submit" value="GO" class="submit">
</form>

Text Content

 
 
 
 
 



Center For
Digital Literacy

 * Home
 * ABOUT CDL
   * Mission
   * Funding Sources
   * Partners
 * RESOURCES
   * Project ENABLE
   * S.O.S. for Information Literacy
   * White Papers

 

Project ENABLE Produces New Materials for Libraries to Use to Train Their Staff




Project ENABLE (Expanding Non-discriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere) is
a project of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies' Center for
Digital Literacy. It provides high quality, comprehensive, and totally free
online disabilities training to library staff nationwide, a database of more
than 1300 (and growing) relevant resources in various formats and a blog with
important and timely information.

 

The project also includes original, free Train-the-Trainer packages for
librarians wishing to provide in-house training to their staff and a variety of
unique learning support materials, including a series of challenge videos,
featuring interviews with 13 school, academic and public librarians who have
faced specific challenges and devised successful solutions to those challenges.
Each completed video is divided into two parts: "The Problem" and "A Solution."
Our database also includes impact stories, brief stories written by librarians
who share a low-cost idea and how they implemented it to make their libraries
more accessible and inclusive and pathfinders that can be printed and given out
to patrons.

 

Just visit the Project ENABLE website at https://projectenable.syr.edu and click
on Resources in the main menu. Pull down the Format menu to reveal the many
types of resources you can access. All Project ENABLE resources are free for
educational use.



 

Project ENABLE (Expanding Non-discriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere) is
a collaborative project of Syracuse University's School of Information Studies,
Center for Digital Literacy, and Burton Blatt Institute, providing a high
quality, comprehensive, and totally free online disabilities training to
librarians nationwide.
 
Project ENABLE's most recent IMLS grant  with non-profit Califa and its
professional development arm, Infopeople, to provide professional development to
librarians and library staff nationwide, through courses, large group webinars,
and small group discussion forums, all using a problem-based learning approach
to help librarians learn how to create more accessible and inclusive libraries
to meet the needs of patrons with disabilities.
 
The project also includes original, free Train-the-Trainer packages for
librarians wishing to provide in-house training to their staff and a variety of
unique learning support materials, including a series of "challenge videos,"
featuring interviews with 16 school, academic and public librarians who have
faced specific challenges and devised successful solutions to those challenges.
 
You can see these videos for yourself by visiting our Project ENABLE website
at https://projectenable.syr.edu. Just click on Resources and pull down
the Format menu to Video. Each completed video is divided into two parts: "The
Problem" and "A Solution." All Project ENABLE resources are free to nonprofit
educational organizations only.





 

 

 

 

CDL Interviews Young Inventors


CDL is a totally virtual research and development center and all of our work is
conducted online, stretching from North Carolina to California and from
Minnesota to Alabama.
 
For several years and over two IMLS grant projects, we have been interviewing
successful young inventors from kindergarten through grade eight and from
throughout the U.S. Each interview was closed captioned, edited by question into
more than 500 brief videos, and put into a resource database. You'll find
everything for our Young Innovators Project on the project's website at
https://theinnovationdestination.net. You will find the video interviews by
clicking on the Inspiring Innovation tab at the top of the home page. Each young
inventor can be searched by name, by type of innovation or by interview
question.

 

         

 

 

Recent Funding to CDL for Young Innovators Project




CDL's Young Innovators Project (YIP) was has been funded by two grants from the
Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). Our first YIP grant explored
youth invention processes and how young inventors (grades 4-8) can be mentored
by librarians and inspired through through literature.

Our most recent IMLS grant funded Connecting Literacy and Youth Innovation
extends our video interview database with interviews with successful young
inventors (grades K-3). The project also partnered with eight small rural
libraries to deliver an invention education program to inspire inventive
thinking and creativity through stories. To date, the project has produced more
than 50 video interviews with successful, young (K-8) inventors, investigating
their underlying motivation to invent, the processes and resources they use, and
the people who support and guide them along the way.   

One finding from our interviews was that sometimes, young inventors don't use
the best sources to answer their questions and make their decisions during the
invention process. This led to our newest CDL grant from The Lemelson
Foundation, a foundation dedicated to supporting and promoting invention
education programs nationwide. Our grant funds the development of our Get SET!
(Source Evaluation Tool) tool, a quick and easy digital tool for young inventors
(grades 4-8) to use to quickly and easily assess the resources they use. As we
complete this project in fall 2022, we'll be posting the tool, lesson plans and
other related materials to the Young Innovators Project site
https://theinnovationdestination.net), making then freely available in late fall
2022.

 

What's Happening


















 

New on this site…

 

Video interviews with K-3 inventors

 

Inventor Mentor videos

 

Materials from latest grants










 

 




Coming in Fall 2022…

 

Get SET! resource evaluation tool for young inventors  

 

 

 











Syracuse University, School of Information Studies

105 Hinds Hall, Syracuse

New York 13244-5290

CONTACT US             tel: 315/443-6144

        email: cdl@syr.edu

 

We thank artist Roberta Dixon for allowing us to use her painting "Sub Rosa" as
background for our banner.    http://www.rdixonart.com


CMS login





There are no products in your shopping cart.





ShareThis Copy and Paste