Frankly, my favorite story so far has been about Ann Kitchel's "Big, Dusty
Book" presentation.
Just my 2 cents...
Suzy Campbell
Littler Mendelson
San Francisco
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Weller [SMTP:CBW1@cwclaw.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 3:21 PM
> To: 'law-lib@ucdavis.edu'
> Subject: Kindergarten presentation
>
> To all:
>
> Please quit associating what we do with just BOOKS, even to the young! We
> do much more! Kindergartners are already internet savvy or at least have
> some computer knowledge. We must begin to educate this generation since
> we
> are having such a difficult time with the current one.
>
> You could present an information request as a treasure hunt. Describing
> each of formats we might use to find that treasure - finding clues etc....
>
> Kids who have visited their local public libraries see and use computers
> there. Hopefully, they also have a computer in the class room and/or a
> computer lab at their school, perhaps even at home. My daughter's school
> has just been wired for internet access and they are beginning to use the
> computer there. She had a computer in her kindergarten class where they
> played educational games to learn the alphabet, spelling and math.
>
> Bring old CD-ROM disks and explain to them that an entire encyclopedia is
> contained on one little disk. Pass them around, let them keep one. Kids
> love something they can touch. Bring a palm-pilot, cell phone, beeper to
> let them know we are connected to our firms and the information highway.
> Use a laptop or power point demo. Do ANYTHING to show them that the arena
> in which we work is a very cool place to be.
>
> Just my two cents. . .
>
> Cindy Beck Weller
> Cooper, White & Cooper LLP
> 201 California Street, 16th Floor
> San Francisco, CA 94111
> 415-765-6269
> cweller@cwclaw.com
>
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