Week 4

Week 4 January28-February 1

Monday I was not at the school because I was taking two of the Praxis tests that I am required to take, so my week started on Tuesday. Tuesday Mrs. Milner and I were required by the school to do Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) presentations. The Principal of the school wanted them done quickly and simply this year so neither Mrs. Milner nor myself was able to make the presentation, but had to do a premade one. I observed Mrs. Milner through the morning presentations and then did the presentations for the afternoon. While I was giving the presentations Mrs. Milner sat and watched and she was able to give me feedback after each presentation. This allowed me to improve on her suggestions each time and by the end of the presentations I was giving them well and had developed a teacher voice. The presentation itself was a bit dry and out of touch so I had to make sure that I was able to keep the students focus on the video, if they talked to each other or used their cell phones, it meant they would have to rewatch the presentation on Friday. After getting suggestions from Mrs. Milner I eventually took to walking around the room more and standing next to those whose focus needed redirected. Also, when it was called for, I would call out to students I saw on their phones or talking. Mrs. Milner and Mrs. Powell (the early childhood education teacher I did the graphic organizer lesson for) commented on how much I had improved by the end of the day, and Mrs. Powell said I had gotten a good teacher voice. I had started projecting more through the room and commanded the students' attention. I also was speaking more confidently then when I had first started. This helped me to project an aura of authority in the presentation and the students were more apt to listen to the rules and what I had to say.

Wednesday I was in the library by myself as Mrs. Milner had to give the CIPA presentation to all the students at the Warren County Career Center satellite schools. Things went smoothly and I spent the day doing projects that I had been given. I wrote a proposal for the Landscaping teacher to use a multimedia creation site, like VoiceThread or Capzles, in his class. I also researched circulation policies different schools had on iPads as well as how iPads could be used with SMARTboards. I copied relevent links that could be helpful to Mrs. Milner into a Google doc. and shared it with her. The rest of the day I worked on helping students in the library and on planning a February storytime for the preschoolers. During 8th period Mrs. Cooper brought her English class down to look for books so I helped the students find the books and checked them out. The only even slight problem there was during the day is when a group of boys came in near the end of the day and asked if they could "dip". They seemed to think that I would let them get away with it, since I wasn't a regular teacher.

On Thursday, Mrs. Milner was back. In the morning I informed Mrs. Milner of a news item I thought she would be interested in. The news show that I work for had announced the previous night that at 2:00 on today there would be a presentation that Governor Kasich was giving to superintendents on school funding and that presentation would be streamed live. Mrs. Milner was interested in seeing it and sent an e-mail to the staff inviting them to the library at 2:00 to watch the presentation.  Several teachers and a few people in administration including the Principals RSVP'ed to come and see the Governor's presentation. So at 1:40 I signed into the SMARTboard and opened up two different sites that it was scheduled to live stream on. It went smoothly and approcimately 15 people came to watch in the library. Other highlights of the day include editing (adding Mrs. Milner's suggestions) a notice to place on the laptops with tips on how to easily troubleshoot the three most common problems students have when they come to the desk with a laptop problem. I then took the finished cards to the Graphics teacher for lamination. Once laminated they will be put on the laptops for student reference. I then worked on the Book Suggestion Prezi. Mrs. Milner informed me that next Wednesday Mrs. Cooper, an English teacher, would be bringing her students down to select books and she wanted a presentation done. The original presentation was a PowerPoint show so I uploaded that into Prezi and started updating it so that it would be more interesting to students.

On Friday I finished the Book Suggestion Prezi, incorporating the suggestions Mrs. Milner had to make it smoother for the viewers. I also added a few more book trailers to it, particularly ones for books that would appeal to boy readers. After finishing the Prezi I worked on planning the February storytime for the Preschoolers. I picked out a craft that I thought would be age-appropriate (a paper plate wreath with construction paper and a crazy heart guy on it) and found some books that I think the children would like at the Fairborn Community Library. I will make the craft this weekend and pick up the books and present them to the Preschool teacher next Monday.

Book Suggestion Prezi

A Prezi that I created from a PowerPoint show that suggests books by genres and topics to students. It is used as a presentation to students who come in as a class to search for books. The PowerPoint was uploaded to Prezi and from there I modified the content and rearranged it and added a few original frames and more book trailers. The book trailers I added focused on guy books.

 

ALA/AASL Standards for Initial Preparation of School Librarians

Standard 3.2 Access to information I informed the faculty and set up the resources so that those that wished in the school could watch the Governor's presentation to the Superintendent's on school funding; this was particularly important since the funding varies on those with disabilities and really effects the resources available to the students.

Standard 2.3 Respect for diversity
I worked to plan a storytime for Preschoolers in various stages of development; ages range from 3-6, finding themed reading materials and coming up with a craft that all are able to do.

Standard 5.3 Personnel, Funding, and Facilities
Helped to organize the library facilities so that book suggestions are always sitting out on the tables in a flippable display, Also designed and created a troubleshooting list for the laptops so that students using them would have the information available to solve simple problems themselves, and also begin to learn certain troubleshooting techniques so they can develop problem solving when it comes to computers.\

Standard 2.2 Reading promotion
Created a viewer-friendly, interesting to students, Prezi filled with book suggestions.

Standard 1.4 Integration of twenty-first centruy skills and learning standards
Gave the Child Internet Protection Act presentation to students.

Standard 1.3 Instructional partner
Created a proposal to teach multimedia presentation technology to the landscaping classes, that would benefit the students and the teacher

Standard 3.3 Information technology
Used the SMARTboard to present the Governor's presentation to the faculty who wished to view it; also created a Book Suggestion Prezi that would be more engaging to students.