Team activity overview, strong and weak aspects of your teams programs

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• Team activity overview, strong and weak aspects
  of your teams programs
• 2. What impressed you most during the program
• 3. An interesting, moving story from your
  volunteering experience
• 4. What do you think are the possible impacts of
  your presence and programs, in
• what ways
• 5. How have you changed during the program
• 6. What would you have done differently if you
  were to do it again?

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Dream Corps 2007 Jiangxi team conclusion forum
presentation Team members Margaret
Bailey Jingyuan (Linda) Tan Fan Yang Lei
Yu Mengqi Zhang
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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Site overview

• Desheng central elementary school
• Desheng middle school
• Lichuan Dream community library

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Site overview Desheng central elementary school

• School profile
• Around 300 students, range from preschool to
  grade 5
• Around 20 teachers and administrative staff
• Ranks 2 among rural elementary schools in
  Lichuan county
• Four satellite village branch schools

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Site overview Desheng central elementary school

• Past DC work
• Around 470 books
• Experimental site for electronic management
  system
• One volunteering librarian trained
• Collaboration with local book rental

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Site overview Desheng central elementary school
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Site overview Desheng middle school

• School profile
• Around 650 students, range from grade 6 to 9
• Around 25 teachers and administrative staff
• Ranks 1 among rural middle schools in Lichuan
  county
• Past DC work
• - Visits in 2005 and 2006 but no substantial work
  done

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Site overview Desheng middle school
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Site overview Lichuan Dream community library

• Library profile
• Established in 2004 through collaboration with
  the Tu family
• Over 1000 books and 200 magazines
• Volunteering librarians were the Tu family
  members
• Closed since last summer due to lack of time
• Past DC work
• 2005 Jiangxi team helped with getting media
  attention
• 2006 Jiangxi team conducted a puppet show and
  helped with promotions
• DC and the Tu family (big brother Tu Jiong, and
  younger sister Tu Xiaohua)
• kept in close contact throughout the years

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Site overview Lichuan Dream community library
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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
  
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Rural elementary school library project

• Library conditions when we arrived
• 3rd to 5th graders and teachers all have library
  cards (around 200)
• Library opened to students every Monday and
  Friday lunch time
• - Operation largely depended on availability of
  librarian Tao laoshi
• 1000 borrowing/returning activities recorded
• 42 members never borrowed and 42 borrowed over
  10 times
• Computer was taken away last term
• Lost library cards never replaced
• 16 lost books out of 470

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Rural elementary school library project

• What we did 1 school library expansion
• - From TXX 200 books for 1st and 2nd graders
  (type I)
• 800 books for 3rd to 5th graders (type II)
• 50 books for teacher (type III)
• - From Ai Xin Yi Jiao book rental 100 books for
  1st and 2nd graders (type I)
• All type II and type III books were added to
  existing electronic management
• system
• We suggested weekly reading class for 1st and
  2nd graders
• students can borrow 2 books at a time
• compensation-based lost card
  replacement (2 yuan)

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Rural elementary school library project
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Rural elementary school library project
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Rural elementary school library project

• Advantages
• Electronic system efficiently provides user
  history, statistical information
• Students already highly familiar with public
  library practice
• Librarian Tao laoshi is responsible and has
  organizational strategies
• School government has ambition in improving
  library
• To be improved
• - Tao laoshi does not receive formal
  recognition/compensation
• - Many teachers lack initiative in library usage
• Computer may be borrowed

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Rural elementary school library project

• What we did 2 reading program
• Reading/reciting contest
• Purpose build interest and confidence in
  sharing reading materials
• Participants 1st to 4th grade classes
• Prizes for all participants books
• Essay contest
• -Topic My favourate book or any book/reading
  related topics
• Participants 3rd to 5th graders
• Prizes for 11 winners more books
• Reading award
• Winner 16 students that have borrowed over 13
  times in a year
• Prizes stationary

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Rural elementary school library project
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Rural elementary school library project

• What we did 3 library survey
• Participants 148 randomly selected 3rd to 5th
  graders
• Survey was designed to minimize bias and
  misunderstanding

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Rural elementary school library project
What we did 3 library survey (Cont.)
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Rural elementary school library project

• What we did 4 Revisiting seedling fund
  receivers
• 9 students all from satellite schools
• Gifts books and stationary

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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
  
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Rural middle school English teaching

• The Kids!
• I was able to teach three classes two grade 2
  and one grade 1
• Grade 2 students were more shy most did not
  have a firm grasp on English at all
• Grade 1 students were extremely energetic and
  eager to show me how well they comprehended the
  language and wanted to continue to improve

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Rural middle school English teaching

• The Teachers!
• 3 English teachers
• Grade 1 teachervery strict, concentrates mainly
  on vocabulary and sentence structure
• Grade 2 teachervery laidback, will revert back
  to speaking Chinese if no one responds to his
  English questions
• Grade 3 teacherhas the best English,
  concentrates mainly on listening comprehension
  and grammar

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Rural middle school English teaching

• What I Did
• Reviewed past textbook chapters
• Focused on confusing grammar points, sentence
  structure, vocab, and pronunciation
• Encouraged them to come up with their own
  creative sentences

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Rural middle school English teaching

• What I Could Have Done Better
• More English teaching experience
• More concentration on COMPREHENSION of vocabulary
  and grammar
• More diverse exercises
• Better understanding of Chinese
• Worked more with Liang Laoshi Lan Laoshi
• MORE TIME!!

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Problems That Are Basically Unsolvable
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Surveys
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Connection to Dream Corps
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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
  
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Township community library project

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Township community library project
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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
  
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Proposal unified electronic library management
system
Definition an identical set of accessories,
software and core methods that
enables electronic library management on all DC
libraries. Advantages reduce cost
build on previous experience our unique
branding
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Proposal unified electronic library management
system
Balance sheet (Lichuan example) 1000 library
cards 350 yuan 2000 barcode stickers 100
yuan Barcode scanner 100 to 300
yuan Computer Donated or shared Computer
software Pirated Building on our past
experiences Priceless!
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Proposal unified electronic library management
system

• Past experiences
• Rural elementary school children capable of
  using such system
• Potentially promote borrowing/returning books
• Bar-coding and data entry not very challenging or
  time consuming
• Need to find/purchase simple and complete
  software
• - Require a certain amount of input from
  school/collaborator

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Proposal unified electronic library management
system

• Branding
• Q What is one of DCs main projects?
• A To bring electronically managed library
  systems to rural China.
• Being unique and professional helps with
  promotion, fundraising,
• recruitment, training

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Proposal unified electronic library management
system

• Specific suggestions
• Uniformly purchase/obtain all hardware
  (including computer software)
• Choose sites and volunteers with right capacity
• Provide specific training during training camp
• Choose successful sites as examples for lateral
  expansion and
• posters

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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
  
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Charge-based community library operation
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Presentation outline

• Site overview
• Rural elementary school library project
• Rural middle school English teaching
• Township community library project
• Unified electronic library management system
  proposal
• Charge-based community library operation proposal
  
• Future plans for Jiangxi site

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Charge-based community library operation
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Charge-based community library operation
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Acknowledgements

• Many thanks to our partners and friends
• Tu family
• Desheng elementary school
• Desheng middle school
• Lichuan Bureau of Education
• Ai Xin Yi Jiao book rental
• Rifeng police station
• DC University of Toronto chapter
• DC University of Virginia chapter

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