Week 5

Week 5

On Monday, Mrs. Milner was out with a sick kid and there was a substitute in. The day was a little hectic. In the morning the program used to check-out materials was down and wasn't up for another hour or two. It was a problem with SWOCA, the internet host. So the day started out with having to write the names of students checking out materials and the bar codes. The substitute didn't think to write down the barcodes at first and I had missed telling her what to write down because of several students asking questions. Students also tried to check out laptops from the library. The policy is that students may not check out technology materials if they do not have a technology permission slip signed by their parents. I couldn't tell whether all the students knew of the policy and were trying to get around it without Mrs. Milner there or whether some of them were genuinely unaware of the rule. Though it could have been a mixture of both. I did a few projects, and talked to some of the preschool teachers about storytime. Though I will need to set up another meeting with the head preschool teacher as she was also absent that Monday. I got some suggestions on the craft I was planning for storytime that would make it more timely and a little easier for the kids to do. Storytime is next Tuesday. Another project that I worked on was making a Prezi showing how to make a Prezi. I used screenshots to show how to apply the different features. It could come in handy when we teach the auto collision classes about Prezi and VoiceThread. I also started working on a VoiceThread on how to make VoiceThreads. I helped several students throughout the day finding books that they would like and I also talked with and helped a few teachers find books that there students had requested (or thought they lost).

Tuesday was just as hectic as Monday. Maybe even a little more so because there was a Skills competition going on at the school. Mrs. Milner was still out with her child so there were two substitutes in today as well. Unfortunately both the substitutes assigned to the library didn't really have any experience to the point where they didn't know how to check out books. This resulted in them asking me questions at such a frequency throughout the day that it made it somewhat difficult to get work done. Lots of students and teachers both were in and out of the library today. Searching for books, or even just parking classes that had nowhere else to go during the competition. This meant lots of questions and phone calls as well. Everyone did get managed alright in the end and both students and teachers were patient about the process. I did manage throughout the brief interludes to create a VoiceThread on How To Use VoiceThread. In addition to these possibly being helpful for the auto collision's introduction to VoiceThread they could also be useful to me in the future when I have my own library, or even when I'm interviewing.


On Wednesday there was another substitute. Throughout the day I spent time creating a Cartoonist on how to make Cartoonists and I also did several book suggestion presentations to one English teachers class and then helped them to find books once I was done with the presentation. This one was slightly different then the first book suggestion presentation that I gave. I did this one using a the Book Suggestion Prezi that I had made so it was visually a little more interesting to look at for the students. I also had less time because the teacher wanted to give the students time to start reading and time to type out a poem for a class assignment. So I went through as much of the presentation as I could before we had to stop and I varied the focus of the presentation by watching what the students were interested in and focusing on those genres.

Cartoonist on How To Make A Cartoonist

This is a Cartoonist that I made to help walk students through how to use and create in Cartoonist.

VoiceThread on How To VoiceThread

This is a VoiceThread that I created to walk through first time users of VoiceThread on the different features and how to make their own.

Prezi on How To Prezi

This Prezi was created for the same purpose as the VoiceThread. It is a Prezi introducing first time users on How To Make A Prezi. It walks viewers through the different features and the ways to use them while creating a Prezi.

ALA/AASL Standards for Initial Preparation of School Librarians

Standard 1.4 Integration of twenty-first century skills and learning standards

Creating the Prezi, VoiceThread, and Cartoonist How-to's will help students and teachers have a reference guide that they can use on individual projects or refer to with questions at home.

Standard 1.2 Effective and knowledgeable teacher

Adapted the book suggestion presentations to the classes interests and to the time allotted for the presentation

Standard 2.1 Literature

Presented the new book suggestion Prezi presentation to detail and better promote different types of books to students

Standard 2.2 Reading promotion

Gave the Prezi presentation to promote reading to students