cousins middle school media center
It’s New! Digital Cameras have arrived at CMS! Be the first in your grade level to use our class set!
Document field trips • Create a class book • Create postcards and “passports” • Photograph plant growth • visual prompts for creative writing • make a calendar of memories • create an Open House slide show • create a family tree. • record a “sales pitch” for advertising on video • digital scavenger hunt • Document the life of a caterpillar to monarch butterfly. • Shoot a “day-in-your-life”!
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August 2009
Welcome Back to your Media Center media centers Support student acheivement
CMS media center specialists are here to work with Y our students and partner with teachers and administrators in order to integrate information skills into the curriculum and to make a positive impact on student achievement. A media center is so much more than books. It’s a place to explore, with resources that include; books, magazines, film, video and audio tapes, TVs, DVDs, media projectors and computers, with access to many databases. And more importantly, there are media specialists available to assist everyone in our school community.
Students: Need to be aware of and know how to use an array of media materials. Media center teachers can guide them towards a variety of sources, help with research and assist in finding sites you never knew existed. • Have them explore the world with us! Teachers: Media specialists search for, select, assess, procure and make use of instructional tools and electronic resources. We are here to save you the time it takes to research emerging technologies and their uses. We are available to host and teach workshops on the use and care of hardware. And most importantly we wish to work with classroom teachers on cooperative and collaborative projects in order to help you to continue to be effective educators. Welcome back to everyone in our Cousins’ community. We encourage you to have fun becoming first-rate users of ideas and information.
Teachers
Digital CAMERA BASICS Professional Development Media Workshop August 24 & 25 your planning period The Media Center
Don’t Forget... Galileo provides Georgia students with quality age appropriate content through a collection of subscription and specially developed content. Find articles from thousands of articles, magazines and books, and be confident that the information provided is current and trustworthy.
http://www.galileo.usg.edu
Windows Movie Maker 2 makes movie making easy
So... Now that you took all these photos, what are you going to do with them? Windows Movie Maker makes movie making so easy and fun. You can import photographs and sound and create, edit, and share your films. Save it for your next class and use it to reinforce con- Task cepts in math and science! Pane • You may save it for the lesson plan catalogue we will be making this year. • Share with students and with parents. • Send your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. • You can even take movies you’ve made and turn them into DVDs. It’s all at your media center. Pick up a step-by-step handout. We are also here daily to ask for help.
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Do You Blog? A blog is a very simple way of hosting a user-created page and allows you to determine what goes on it. Organized in short entries which scroll chronologically from the top. Edublogs.org is a site for teachers, students, media center professionals, professors, administrators, and anyone involved in education. It is easy to set up a blog of this type and educators and students can make use of these immediately. There are many ways you can use an edublog in your teaching.
• You may post materials and resources. Just upload, or copy and paste, materials to your blog. They’ll be instantly accessible by your students from school and from home and you can manage who gets to access them through password safety measures.
• You may host online discussions. Students may respond to blog posts
and discuss topics you’ve set them. You can easily manage and edit all responses through your the administrative panel on a blog.
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Get your students blogging. Your blog becomes a hub for student work. Your blog can be used to glue together your students blogs Media Specialist John Graham
jGraham@newton.edu.ga.usa