1. BENTON LIBRARY
MEDIA CENTER
January 2012
Monday, January 30, 12
2. TYPICAL LIBRARY USAGE
YouTube video
Monthly/Yearly Reports
Prior to 1:1
Independent Use, Class Use, Collaborative Lessons,
Before/After School
After 1:1
Independent Use, Before School
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3. 21ST CENTURY
MEDIA SPECIALIST
Instruction - students
LMS Department Improvement Plan/Research
Component
Collaboration – staff
Technology integration
Program Administration
Monday, January 30, 12
4. PARTNERSHIPS WITH
TEACHERS
LMS Department Improvement Plan/Research
Component (2009-2011)
Data Teams (2011-present)
Organic Instruction (2011-present)
Co-teaching Media Literacy (2012)
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5. LESSON STUDY
CRAP Detection
Seven Simple Steps in the Research Process
old - handout and video
Primary vs. Secondary Sources
Graphic Novel Study
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6. INVOLVING STUDENTS
Before school
Independent use - Reader’s Advisory 2.0
Clubs - OASIS, Book to Movie
Programming/Events - Teen Read Week 2010, Teen
Read Week 2011
Contests - Turn It In to Win, New Books, Scholarship
Social Media - Twitter, Foursquare, QR Codes,
Facebook
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7. PRINT PURCHASING MODEL
Student/teacher input – Google Forms
Fiction vs. nonfiction
Collaborative ordering with Evernote
Monday, January 30, 12
9. BUILDING/DISTRICT
TECHNOLOGIES
Google Docs
Cell Phone Policy
Schoolwires
Monday, January 30, 12
10. EBOOKS
Current services
FollettShelf, Project Gutenberg
Desired services - Overdrive, GVRL
Chicken/Egg Question – devices or books first?
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11. CHALLENGES OVER TIME
Curriculum changes with Common Core
Library in a 1:1 computing environment
Budget (over time) – provided by District
Role of the LMS – library, classroom, embedded
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12. WHAT WOULD WE DO
DIFFERENTLY?
Change the LMS sooner (Dr. Luis Cruz – Admin PD
w/Anthony Muhommad)
Staff appropriately (2.5)
District/LMS professional development and
implementation (better cohesion)
Technology integration (self initiation)
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13. NEXT TRANSFORMATION
Implementation 1:1 – looking outside the box
More LMS classroom cooperative instruction
(information literacy)
Using the space more successfully
Continuing to promote reading in print – paradigm
stability
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