Observation

Dr. Jones observed me teaching a lesson to Mrs. Spence's American Literature ELL class. I conducted a lesson on Photo Story. The students had completed reading Native American Myths. Mrs. Spence placed the students into groups, and each group was to create a myth. I showed the students how they could use Photo Story as a multimedia tool. The students were very well behaved, and I feel that the lesson went well. Mrs. Spence and I collaborated on this activity, and it gave me great insight into the importance of collaboration and communication as a SLMS. It is important for the SLMS to listen to teacher in order to offer ideas/suggestions to help enhance student learning. This was a great opportunity to step out of my comfort zone.

Weeding

This has been a very hectic week. I have worked diligently on the weeding the entire week. I searched thorough the 600s in Destiny, which was approximately 550 books.  Of the 550 books, 123 need to be weeded as they are over 13 years old. The oldest book dates back to 1964. This week, I will physically pull the books off of the shelf and review which book the media specialist wishes to remove from the collection.

In addition, I will attend E2020 training at Central Office this week. E2020 is an online virtual classroom proven effective at facilitating enhanced achievement for disadvantaged, at-risk, medically challenged and dropout students as well as enabling “behind-the-curve” and accelerated students to learn at their own pace, recover credits and achieve academic success. Through the use of technology, students have a means to access curriculum for the purpose of credit recovery, tutoring, content review, enhanced study, and remediation.

I am also scheduled for a site visit this week where my practicum professor will visit.

Webinar - Checklist Item: 4

On September 10th, I participated in the TeacherLibrarian Cafe webinar. There were 87 people participating in the live webinar.

The first speaker was Gwyneth Jones who presented a PowerPoint. Some of the topics of discussion were: book pass, post it notes – take post it notes and write a quick review about the book, QR code Loo reviews, and Twitter style book reviews. In addition, she discussed how to nuture and inspire reluctant tech users. Ms. Jones discussed community connection through Facebook, Polldaddy, Livebinder, and Wiki,. She reiterated the importance in ascertaining what kind of technology parents have in their homes. Ms. Jones shared her website with the webinar attendees:

https://www.facebook.com/NPESLibraryMediaCenterLearningCommons
She also suggested the librarianslocker.com

Librarian Tiff – shared her library with us.  She just set up a new media center and discussed how she used many vinyl made quotes in library. She communicated the importance of creating a media center that was inviting. In the new school, she wanted the media center to be the best looking space in the school. She does not use Dewey in her media center. All books are arranged by genre and category. She arranged books that made sense to her students. She began with fiction section. She communicated the importance of letting professionalism shine. She suggested that teachers put up diplomas and teaching certificates so others can see their accomplishments.  Dress for success – look professional.

Schoology – learning management system her school system uses. She uses it to teach digital citizenship.

Book therapy  - schoolwide literacy and reading.  – put notes on books “like” don’t like

Jennifer LaGarde – plans staff development for her school system.

http://cybraryman.com/gamepuzzle.html#OtherSites

1.7 millions students drop out of school every year. Five million admit to playing video games every week.

ALA Membership

I joined the American Library Association today.  I am excited to receive information from ALA regularly in order to keep up to date with current information and research within school libraries. I look forward to exploring the ALA site in more depth now that I have membership rights. I know the Continuing Education Clearinghouse will be a great way to always continue building knowledge in instructional technology and library management and current events.

Weeding

I began weeding the 600s of the reference section this week. The SLMS requested that I weed for damaged and out of date resources. Thus far, I have found material dated back to 1993. Weeding is very time consuming. The SLMS requested that I pull the materials I felt needed to be removed and then choose which resources to keep and which of those to discard based on the accuracy of the material. Thus far, I am in the Science section. It is difficult for me to decide which books to weed regarding accurate information since I do not teach science and am unfamiliar with the content. I am attempting to tackle the 550 + books the SLMS asked me to weed. 

Meeting with Media Specialist

I met with my media specialist to discuss the assignments that I needed to complete for my practicum. For the media display, my media specialst suggested that I go to Destiny Quest and locate "Don't Like to Read? Try these" and pull books from this category. In addition, my media specialist recommended that I locate book trailers for the resources I chose, and create a DVD of book trailers so that she can play the book trailers on the library television.
We also discussed weeking the 600-699 reference section of the media center. I am to look at the circulation for the past 3 years and decide which books we can weed. The media specialist suggested that I look at the publication date and condition of the books. In addition, I am to decide which books to keep.
For the reference evaluation, my media specialist suggested that I evaluate the entire high school reference section as opposed to a broad subject area as suggested in Task 1.

http://destiny.hallco.org/quest/servlet/presentquestform.do?site=101&alreadyValidated=true