Winder Barrow Middle wins Winstream and Target Grants

Today I worked at Winder Barrow Middle School processing books from their Target grant! I stamped, stamped, and stamped some more! Every school it seems has a different method of processing books. For example, at the Winder Barrow High school the bar codes are on the front cover so that none of the back cover summary are covered, and at the Middle school the bar codes are on the back cover in the middle of the summary. All Librarians have a "secret" page to stamp and write the bar code on! Last week the school found out that they won a $5,000.00 Windstream :) They will use the money for computers in the MC.  I had a blast!

Winder Barrow MIddle School
3 hours

Epiphany

Today I worked in the Media Center at Winder Barrow High School.....it was amazing!  The MC had a makeover when the school was remodeled and it is just beautiful. The ceiling has high sky-lights and natural light brightens the entire room. There are 20 student computers, 3 labs, and 3 MC offices. I learned so much today! The day began with book covering and ended with looking at the Follett list for Science resource books!  The world of High School is just so different.....signing agendas to make sure kids were not skipping was an eye-opener! Also,  I learned that the kids sometimes try to sneak games downloaded on jump drives into the MC to upload on school computers!  The fist time I even looked at the clock was 1:20! I LOVED IT!  We converted the morning announcements to a power-point and uploaded it to a netbook. Next, we took the netbook on  a rolling cart to the lunchroom and plugged it up to the projector and dropped the big screen from the ceiling. Finally, the kids were able to watch the scrolling announcements as they ate.  Also, during lunch, we were summoned to the cafeteria to help the football coach set up the microphone.....we took of the end of the microphone and hit the sinc button on the receiver and mic and he was ready to Pep up the kids for the Winder Barrow Bulldoggs home game!  The rest of the afternoon flew by as classes continued to come in for 45 minute segments on the computers.  I am now more certain than ever that I made the right choice in my career path........this was an awesome day!

Winder Barrow High School
9 hours

Fast Week

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
This week was a busy one. Grandparent's Breakfast was Wednesday for Pre-k through 2nd grade and Thursday for 3-5.  The Media Center was open early both days and it was certainly a crazy week in the Library. No classes came in for lessons, only check-out and book returns were allowed. Many parent volunteers were organized by the Media Clerk and they were definitely needed and appreciated! Although I love book fair, I am ready to get back on the normal MC track next week!
Kennedy
6 hours

Monthly Report

Kennedy Elementary School Media Center Monthly Report

August 2010
William Frame Media Specialist

 Kellie Ouzts Practicum Student Georgia Southern University

Program Instructional Highlights:

•    Pre-K Family Fun Night meeting hosted in Media Center
•    One hundred thirty-four Media Literacy Mini-Lessons taught-15 minute segments for each of 34 classes once a week
•    Forty new AR book titles and AR test added to collection
•    Media committee meeting
•    Two ESOL parent meetings- one in English, one in Spanish
•    Media Club: recommendations sent to teachers, members chosen based on teacher references, and one meeting held.
•    Book Fair arrived on Aug. 30th.
•    Piedmont College classes hosted twice a week for four weeks.

•    Active Inspire lessons taught to third grade teachers.

Kennedy Elementary meeting to discuss monthly report

2 hours

Book Fair Preview

Yesterday Mr. Frame sent an email to all classroom teachers asking them to come to the MC to sign up for a 15 minute Book Fair Preview time. Shortly the list was full and we were set for preview time with all students today!  When the classes entered the MC today they were given a 5 minute "rules of the book fair speech" before being allowed to preview the items.  Children and teachers were provided with Wish List to fill out while previewing. My tasks today was to help keep the smaller kids rounded up, answer questions, and help fill out wish lists! After school we straightened up and got ready for Tuesday when the sales start!

Kennedy
2:30

BOOK FAIR ROCKS!

Thursday I helped unpack books, books, and more books.  I stacked then restacked, created displays and just had fun arranging book fair. I do not remember books fair having so many "toy-ish" items when I was younger! The Media Center looks like party central. We kept the doors closed all day and the MC was closed for classes, open for check-outs and returns! Suprising how many kids had "emergency book return and check-out" situations once the word was out that book fair was being unpacked!

Kennedy 
2:30

Weeding Day 2

Yesterday I printed off the F aa to F zz's that have not circulated in one year. I went through the entire section. I found that of the twenty-nine books, 11 were just older and not appealing to the kids.   I am certainly not saying that all OLD books should be removed.......just that some of these books had black tape on the bindings with the title written in what seemed to be correction fluid. Several of the books had check out cards stamped 1967 and 1968!  The covers were solid with "typewriter" set font titles.  Of the 29, I recommended weeding out 11.  We continued getting ready for book fair this morning.  This afternoon it arrived! Boxes and rolling shelves now sit waiting to be unpacked in the morning! I wish I could be in the Media Center all day! I know my help will be appreciated tomorrow!


KennedyElementary
2:45 hours