2. Elease Franchini assists with the technology planning for the Teachers as Advisors Committee as well as the School Council.

3. Elease also was one of the coaches of the first Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Team for Sequoyah.

4. Senior Project is a big undertaking every year. Jan and Elease help with the technology issues on Student Board Night as well as give teacher support in implementation and new ideas. Elease met with the Senior Project Committee to discuss using flashdrives and a generic presentation login to speed up student presentation times. Jan and Elease also hosted two afternoon sessions for students to test their presentations on laptops that would be docked in their assigned rooms for Boards. Jan and Elease stayed for both sessions of the Senior Board as well as helped set up and take down the equipment.

5. Jan and Elease head the Media Committee who met several times this year to review and discuss policies, budget issues, new technology, etc. as well as create and Exemplary Media Center Narrative for this school year that was submitted to the GDOE this month.

7. This year we piloted using the Google Documents part of Noodletools with Dr. Bragg’s Senior Project. We are still discussing the strengthes and weaknesses of as it relates to MLA format.

8. We promoted Glogster as a means of fulfilling the poster requirement for Senior Project and most Senior Project teachers not only used it but asked for assistance in setting up the account and/or instructing the students in its use.

9. One way we have assisted in meeting subject matter standards is by teaching the research paper process. Research papers for English classes consumed most of our media program during the months of October and November and then again in February through early May. We met with the teachers to discuss what role we need to play in the planning and instruction of the assignment. We set up pathfinders, make book lists, pull books, and make username/password sheets.

10. Here are the FOUR Performance Standards for writing and research that we assist students to achieve: ELA9W3, ELA10W3, ELA11W3, and ELA12W3.

11. We have had numerous collaboratively planned lessons plans this year. Note: many of the lesson plans were shared by multiple teachers.

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13. One way we collaborate is through the creation of pathfinders. Our pathfinders are PBWorks wiki pages that are linked to our Sharepoint page and created to aid students in finding selected resources in a variety of media on a topic they are researching. Some pathfinders are glogs (digital posters) and other are not. They are accessible at home or at a school. They provide a head start for students as they begin their research project. Teachers collaborate with us what they would like to see in the pathfinder—certain sites or resource requirements.

15. We also ensure that all students have access to readings appropriate for their differentiated needs and offer books in a variety of formats—Spanish titles for popular books/Playaways for auditory learners.

16. Shelf displays are customized each month to coincide with content area learning—such as medieval fiction (Social Studies Castle displays), thematic arrangements (such as vampires), and National Promotions (Teen Read Week theme, etc).

17. The GA Peach Books are marked with a sticker and are displayed prominently for easy access. These displays encourage recreational and content area reading.

18. We market books using social networking tools like Shelfari, and LibraryThing. E-book previews are also embedded in our website to encourage reading.

19. A new endeavor is to place a QR code on our Book Trailers site as well as on the inside cover of the Peach Book Award Nominees that links to a wiki page of book trailers (many from booktrailers4all) for these books. A laptop webcam is used as a QR Reader. We are working with students to create more book trailers beyond the Peach Books to add to booktrailers4 all through SHS Media 4shared.com. One published trailer can be found here.

20. Students can share a good book by adding a recommendation on our Wallwisher account or offer a larger review or recommendation on the brand new Page Turners blog.

21. To meet the needs of those students who just do not seem to find time to get to the media center, Jan wheels a book cart with the “latest” reads and popular titles over to the cafeteria with a laptop and scanner. Jan decorates the cart seasonally and make this service available to all lunch periods twice a month. The students can return books, clear fines, request books, and place holds during this time as well.

22. SHS participates in the GA Teen Peach Book Award program, the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl, and special weekly promotions such as Banned Books Week, Teen Read Week and School Library Week. Throughout these weeks, we have special activities and contests for prizes. These promotions serve to place the spotlight on the importance of reading across the curriculum and for a lifetime. We support teacher-initiated contests such as book cover contests.

23. SHS had its first Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl team this year (Elease as Co-Coach). Jan was a scorer at the meet.

25. An additional activity open to all students is the SHS Book Club sponsored by the English Department. The media center tries to provide copies of their chosen books.

26. New Manga was purchased to support the Anime Club.

28. Instruction in the ethical use of information is included, enabling students to create accurate and credible assignments.

29. Some times we have the opportunity to work with teachers on research beyond pathfinders. These teachers want us to co-plan and co-teach a lesson wit them. They provide the content instruction and we assist in the resource traiing, research skills, digital citizenship, and resource location. For example, Mrs. Flynn (Special Education) wanted to try some new Web 2.0 tools so she and Elease collaborated on a project together using Glogster, VoiceThreads, and Dipity. Mrs. Flynn provided the content and Elease instructed the students in the technology. Both of them created theassessment rubric. We have done quite a lot of instruction on Glogster, Noodletools, PhotoStory, MovieMaker, FLIP cameras, and much more. Another example would be the creation of web quests. Elease colaborated with Mrs. Levine-Male to create a webquest and glog about modern Spain.

32. We added 2 oversized chairs and a loveseat to form a new reading area! Thanks, Mr. Berman!

33. We added 4 secure laptop stations in the back of the media center for students on pass when all the desktops are full with class use.

34. The media center helps host the statewide Autumn Argument Debate and other events each year.

36. Monthly Statistical Report for Administration—posted on Media Sharepoint

37. Tribal Chant Newsletter

38. Media Center pamphlet for new teachers (resources, ways to collaborate, policies, procedures, rules)

40. Reflections Contest Information and Displays of Winners

41. Booster Club Meetings: Football, Basketball, Soccer, Cheerleading, Debate

42. Autumn Argument Debate

43. National Honors Society meetings

44. PTA Meetings

45. AP Test Reviews and Practices

46. VALIC Rep.

47. Testing Trainings

48. GHSGT Testing

49. Christmas Tea--

50. EOCT Testing

51. Scheduling PPG Meetings

52. Faculty Luncheons

53. Beta Induction

54. Relay for Life Fundraiser <br />Christmas Tea (Family and Consumer Science)<br />Reflections Contest Winners<br />Program Budget:<br />Books27%Databases39%Periodicals3%Equipment10%Licensing/Testing5%AV7%Supplies8% (toner, etc)<br />Inventory:<br />Our inventory is complete. We have 18,124 titles and 22,580 copies.<br />We have had 14 Lost and Paid items this year as of May 27.<br />The list below reflects the inventory as of May 27. We will hopefully find some of the missing materials at the end of school—lockers and the like.<br />NameAccounted ForUnaccounted ForFiction5,512 1Story Collection2102Playways70Easy380ESOL Fiction4310ESOL Story Collection690ESOL Nonfiction1640Biography (921's)1,1301000's840REF 000's820100’s3380REF 100’s820200’s2470REF 200’s160300’s2,0320REF 300’s2270400’s1520REF 400’s690500’s7720REF 500’s540600’s1,2300REF 600’s510700’s8800REF 700’s890800’s8780REF 800’s7950900s (before Biographies)2950REF 900s (before Biographies)2260900s (after Biographies)1,604 2REF 900s (after Biographies)990Careers3150Periodicals2420Pictures200Student Elevator Keys240Vertical File620Equipment77012Office570Library Use Only4350Professional 2010-113180CDs - Nonfiction470Classroom CDs1190AV DVD6160AV Fiction Cassettes517 0AV Fiction CDs3740AV Fiction DVDs3680AV NF Cassettes300AV NF Kits40AV VID NF1,0934AV Videos Fiction2540<br />Goals for 2011-2012<br />To improve our book security system.<br />To update look of circulation desk and computer tables.<br />To use Skype to empower a new form of learning.<br />To create more book trailers.<br />To purchase more FLIP cameras.<br />To purchase some café tables.<br />To get training on the Creation Station Adobe programs.<br />To have more participants in the Peach Book Award voting.<br />To complete elements of the Capstone Project.<br />To continue to build our eBook collection.<br />To provide the best quality service we can provide considering budget and media staff concerns.<br />