Teacher

__**Media Specialist as Teacher:**__ Aug. 24 I had some discussion with our Media Specialist last week about a display of the school wide theme which is: "Mission Possible" The mission that the students have been charged with to make graduating from high school, their top goal. Graduation rates in Walker County have historically been low, however in the past several years the graduation rates are consistently improving. The M.S. and I brainstormed together about how to maybe play off of the spy theme of Mission Impossible and use elements of that as they relate to media/information literacy, books and reading, and technology. She had some really good suggestions and is very open to anything. I really appreciate this as some M.S.'s could be territorial. This is NOT the case at all and I am extremely grateful. (2 hours)

Sept.1 The display is up and coincides with our school wide theme. There are several posters that I made that all go with the "spy" theme of Mission Possible and graduation. I will load some images of this later. It took a while to find the right images and ran some different ideas by the media specialist to make sure she approved. You can see the "Mission Possible" banners across the top of the door. I also had the posters printed and laminated for future use. I need to come up with a virtual component now, maybe a survey monkey survey. (1 hour)

March 17 After much experimentation with Skype and various cameras, the observation through Skype worked well. The connection was never dropped and the audio and video was clear. Seeing Dr. Kennedy on the Smartboard got the kids really excited. They were acting as though they were being observed and doing their very best. The lesson began with a pretest taken on the Senteo Smart Response system. The questions and explanations were part of a larger Powerpoint that the MS gave me to use. She got it from other Media Specialists through the Georgia Media list serve. After the students and I got immediate feedback, we knew what areas to focus on in up coming lessons in my class or language arts. They have the CRCT coming up, which will contain questions related to media and information literacy, so I'm looking forward to getting their test results back. The second part of the lesson was a Webquest focusing on digital citizenship. This was the students first experience with Glogster and they loved. I was told the next day that several had gone home and created their own just for fun. If I count preptime with the lesson and technology (4 hours), and delivering the actual lesson (70 min. x 4) this would add up to around 8.5 hours.

March 23 I set up a survey monkey survey and embedded it in my portfolio with the pictures below. The survey is for students, teachers, parents, administrators or whomever to give feedback to the media specialist. The questions focus on how satisfied they were in their media center experience and to generally get an idea of why they were there, whether it was for research, to use the computers, to look for a fiction book, etc. It took a little while to figure out how to set up the different types of questions in survey monkey. It was convenient in that pretty much any survey type question can be asked.There were some templates, but none of them were really relevant to the media center. The survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=%2bPRYrlRuavRd%2fE2CoV89ng%3d%3d. The survey should pop in the portfolio when accessing the link to the display below. (1 hour)