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October Student Visits: 5469 November Student Visits :5990 Student Visits/Day: 352 400 350 300 250 2009/10 2010/11
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Librarian’s Report
We started off the month with MAP testing and ran right through the 19th, testing every school day. We were able to get over 90% of students tested, and Richard again did a great job with scheduling. The testing definitely adds another dimension of “busy-ness” to our days! This time, all Math and English teachers will have logons that will allow them to access test information on all of their students. All other teachers can get logons through Richard. Hopefully, the information gained from testing will be put to good use in the classroom. The first week of November, I was also able to attend VTFest in Killington, and as usual, it was a great conference. The keynote by Hall Davidson was great – lots of good information about where digital classrooms are headed. I was also able to attend sessions on connecting with community through web2.0 tools, the Vermont Internet Safety Program, digital field trips, podcasting, using Gale databases, and instant response technology in the Classroom. I’ve got some great tools to pass along to faculty and staff during our upcoming professional development series! I also participated in several committee meetings. The Battle of the Books Committee continues to work toward this year’s Battle, which will take place April 22 in the MRU Auditorium. I hope that 7 th graders will participate this year, in addition to the district’s 5 th and 6th graders. I also facilitated several meetings of the MRU Tech Committee, which continues to work toward developing a tech plan for MRU. I was also able to work with Laura Cornwall (my former assistant, now K-8 Librarian for Rutland City Schools) as she completed her peer observation. She was surprised by all the changes we’ve made in the Library since she’s been here (more than three years ago).
Librarian’s Report
I also met with Sam Hollander (SAP) to begin work on developing a Technicool presentation for 7th and 8th graders. Sam has attended the Technicool training, and Prevent Child Abuse Vermont provides a PowerPoint for presenters to use, but the PowerPoint needed a lot of work to run in our building (designed to run on 2007, and the download package they provide doesn’t include embedded videos). I have been making changes to ensure that the embedded videos play and things display properly. I’ll be co-presenting with Sam for the first few, until he has his feet under him with the presentation. I was also very pleased to begin my first session of professional development courses in the media lab. I plan to offer several sessions on using Google Apps, and then move onto other cool tools after the holiday break. The first session was well attended and faculty members seemed to enjoy the course. The first session was on Google Docs basics, while the second will cover Google Docs in more detail (using more advanced features and settings). After those two, we’ll move into other tech topics including photo editing with free web tools, creating video on the web, using graphic organizers, as well as some specialty tools, such as PollEverywhere, Museum Box, Newspaper Clipping Generator, Symbalooedu, and others.