Week 8

Week 8 March 4-8

On Monday of this week I went about cataloging a few new books that were available, and then Mrs. Milner showed me how she would like the iPad's to be cataloged. The iPad's, since they are an electronic resource needed to be done a bit more manually then other items. We found a MARC record that was what Winnie wanted through the INFOhio SmartPORT. Then we went in to the record and added and changed some information to match the product that Warren Country Career Center had specifically. Then I added all ten iPad's into the system, but each iPad needed it's serial and call number to the MARC record as well as to the actual catalog information. This was important in case of theft. In general, Monday was a day of catching up with some of the day-to-day jobs that the library needs to have done.

Tuesday the entire day was spent in the Career Connections: Southwest Work Group meeting. This was a meeting of curriculum and career specialists all over the region to meet and plan the career connection learning strategies among grades 9-12 to the courses in each content area. I worked with two other people on connecting the social studies standards to the career connection learning strategies. This was an interesting process and a little enlightening on what, Ohio at least, has to go through to develop it's different standards. The day also proved to be good for networking. I got some pieces of advice for job hunting from the two other members of my group. We also exchanged ideas, and I showed them how to use Google forms and how the end results can be automatically tallied for you and presented colorfully in a bar graph. They really seemed to like this. One of the members even credited me with keeping them on-task and moving through the project. I felt comfortable enough within the group to submit my own ideas about different ways to connect the careers with the content area and we were able to have a discussion about the pros and cons and develop each others ideas. Overall it was a good experience, and I was happy to have taken part in it.

Other highlights of the week were teaching a make-up INFOhio lesson to Miss Cooper's 8th period class, but this time it was done in her room. This presented a few problems as her SMARTboard wouldn't let me click and the laptops had to be taken down to her room. Also with the zombie video project we started blocking and running through the scenes with the 'actors'. We also had a few students from the class that's videotaping it come down and see if our blocking was feasible with their cameras and if they liked the angles and such. I was supposed to give the copyright lesson that I had created to Miss Cooper's class on Friday, but because of a Snow Day it has been canceled. I will have to talk to her to see if she'd like to reschedule. Instead, Friday was spent planning things for the upcoming week. There are a few Early Childhood Education classes coming in to do projects with technologies that need to be taught to them and that needs planned out, as well as Preschool story time. The extra day of planning is nice, although I must admit to being a bit disappointed about the Copyright lesson, I was excited about it. Hopefully it will be able to be arranged to be done in the future, but if not at least I've got some lessons that can be adapted and done at other schools. Also this week I developed a brief survey for students to take, most likely in their English classes. The survey just asks some basic questions about their genre preferences and their likes in TV shows, movies, and books. This is done as a basis for research into what types of genres the students enjoy reading. That way the library can see if there's a gap in any one area and work to close that gap when it comes time to purchase books. It will be useful to have the information for collection development purposes.

ALA/AASL Standards for Initial Preparation of School Librarians

Standard 4.1 Networking with the library community
Meeting with the Career Connections group gave me an opportunity to network with other educator's throughout the region and share resources.

Standard 5.4 Strategic Planning and Assessment
In the Career Connections meeting many of the ideas that I contributed involved using some of the tools available on INFOhio or other online resources, giving librarians the opportunity to collaborate on such projects.

Standard 5.1 Collections
I worked again on cataloging and had to catalog in different ways to get the most accurate information on iPad's in the system.

Standard 4.4 Advocacy
At the Career  Connections meeting one of the members of my group, as well as the facilitator, were from the Ohio Board of Education. By being a willing participant as well as staying on task and contributing good ideas they were able to see that a librarian can be an asset, or at the very least took positive notice of the role I played. This is an important step in advocating for a school library program.

Standard 3.4 Research and knowledge creation
I created a survey for students to take that will in essence find their favorite genres. This will help to improve the libraries collection development and help illuminate any areas that are lacking in books.

Week 7

Week 7 February 25-March 1

I caught up on some simple tasks that had just fallen by the wayside with the craziness that was cataloging last week. The first thing that I did was edit the Soren Bowie article so that it would be appropriate to distribute to students. I had gotten permission to edit and distribute the article last week from Soren after I found him on Facebook and messaged him. Below is a picture of the conversation that took place between myself and Soren as well as the edited article. From there I made up a lesson plan to teach students copyright. The copyright lesson plan is also included below. I'm rather excited to teach the copyright lesson because I've got a couple multimedia resources in addition to the Soren Bowie article that I think help to make the subject a little more fun and engaging for students. I also created a lesson plan (that was also part of a project for one of my classes) on using INFOhio databases to search for sources for research papers. As part of the class in addition to teaching the lesson I needed to gather evidence to see if the lesson was effective so I created a checklist/survey to see how well the students were understanding and liking INFOhio. My thoughts are the more students like INFOhio to more they understand the different features and how to use them. The checklist was created through Google forms and is below as well as a link that will go to the results of the survey.

This week Mrs. Milner, myself, and Mrs. Fandoni (who teaches English and some Drama classes) worked to plan out a video advertisement for the library based around a zombie theme. In addition to starting to plan out the story line with the kids and in conjunction with the other teachers, I also started to go over and teach the students the Thriller dance. This kind of fell to me. It's an interesting experience as I have very little dance background and don't actually consider myself a good dancer, but it seems that when I'm going through and practicing the dance with them the students themselves will get a little more involved with it. It takes a little more effort to keep the students under control with such an active activity and to make sure that everyone is up and involved but so far we've gotten through a decent portion of the dance. We are going off of a tutorial that I found online at YouTube, but every once in awhile I pause the video and go through the steps with all the kids. I count out the beats and walk them through what we learned asking them to tell me the next move and putting it all together. This seems to help them get the different moves down a bit better.

I've also started to notice that teachers in the school are comfortable coming to me and asking me questions as well. That seems to be where I need to be at. Other good news is that I've officially passed both the required Praxis tests that I was required to take.

Soren Bowie Permission/Edited Article

This is an image of the conversation that took place between myself and Soren Bowie where he gives me permission to edit and distribute his article.

The following is an image of the finished, edited article. I did not make many changes at all, just took out a few of the words or phrases that weren't appropriate for students.

The original article can be found at the following link.

INFOhio Lesson Plan

This is the INFOhio Lesson Plan that I designed and presented to students.

And this is the checklist/survey that I designed to see if students understood the concepts of the lesson. There understanding was mostly based on their ease of use and if they liked INFOhio and would use it again.

To see the results of the checklist/survey please click the following link. As shown through the various graphs (which since I used Google forms to create the checklist/survey are tallied and created automatically) the students overall understood the different features on INFOhio and why it is such a great research tool to use.

Copyright Lesson Plan

This is another lesson plan that I developed this week. It includes a lot of multimedia aspects that I think will help to engage students in a subject they might otherwise find dull and confusing. This lesson will be given to at least one class on Friday, March 8.

ALA/AASL Standards for Inital Preparation of School Librarians

Standard 3.3 Information Technology
Use of INFOhio and discussion of search techniques

Standard 1.2 Effective and knowledgeable teacher
Collaborated with teachers and introduced and reinforced information relevant to the research project in a way that would teach the students the subject and allow them to take the information and incorporate it into their own research

Standard 1.4 Integration of twenty-first century skills and learning standards
Took the information literacy and the use of technology i.e. INFOhio and incoporating it into the lesson

Standard 1.1 Knowledge of learners and learning
Able to anticipate possible shortfalls of the class setting and have methods in place to adapt the lesson to engage the students further

Standard 3.1 Efficient and ethical information-seeking behavior
The lesson focuses on showing students a more efficient way to seek reliable information for research projects

Standard 3.2 Access to information
Allows all students access to INFOhio, and show them how to use the resource and the benefits available with the resource, and grant them access to the resource for home-use

Standard 3.3 Information techonology
Used INFOhio to further student learning
Standard 5.2 Professional Ethics
Promoted digital citizenship and educating the school community in the ethical use of information and ideas

Standard 4.2 Professional development
Explored different internet resources that have good information and activities on copyright as well as explored the different features of the INFOhio program.

Standard 4.3 Leadership
Promoted the copyright lesson to teachers as a way to collaborate with the library/librarian for a way to promote student academic achievement. Had to pitch the lesson and push for it with several English teachers.

Standard 4.1: Networking with the library community
Edited the Soren Bowie article and shared with teachers in the school and sent the article to Mrs. Milner to share with the OELMA list serve and then contacted the author and got permission for some minor editing and distribution of the article