Teacher (2H), Program Administrator (3H), Information Specialist (1H)

Teacher: I began teaching my reading enrichment unit with my classes. At my school, it is the responsibility of science teachers to deliver the Mendez drug and alcohol awareness program. Although this is a good program, it lacks a connection to real people with real stories. I decided to incorporate a serious of short stories about real teens facing some of the issues that the Mendez program focuses on. Students create journal entries in response to the stores. I also created a blog for students to use as an alternative to turning in handwritten journal entries.

Program Administrator: I am almost finished with the grant writing process. I have decided to actually apply for a Dollar General grant to purchase technology to promote reading among below grade level readers. My proposal involves the purchase of audio books and the equipment to use them as audio books have been shown to have a positive impact on students' reading skills. In addition to work on the grant, I have also complete the monthly report on the operation of the media center. I did this in collaboration with the media specialist at my primary site. I explained to her that it was a good practice to outline the monthly activities for the principal so that he/she could have a better idea of the work load that is involved with the operation of the media center. When the report was complete, we were both impressed by the volume of student and teacher activity within the media center as well as the number of technology assistance requests performed.

Information Specialist: With CRCT week, I was not able to log any hours in the media center, but I was able to attend a technology meeting in the afternoon with the media specialist and county technology coordinator. This meeting took place to help teachers with their Interwrite PRS for students. Although only two other teachers attended, the meeting was very productive. We were able to get one teachers PRS up and running for him to be able to use.

Instructional Partner (8H), Information Specialist (4H), Program Administrator (1H),

Instructional Partner: The past few weeks have seem the completion and delivery of my Information Literacy Unit. It was a scheduling miracle, but I was able to work with two other science teachers who are always willing to work together to find a solution. We were able to stagger the project work days between our classes so that I could teach the information literacy lessons to their students. I believe that this is the best biome project that we have completed so far. We have worked really hard to come up with a project that really challenges our students. This will probably be the first biome project that we actually repeat with our next group of students.

Information Specialist: I have been able to log 4 hours in the media center during my planning period to re-shelve books, assist students, and put up a new media center display.

Program Administrator: It is back to the drawing board on the grant process. The first grant that I tried to apply for, did not meet the requirements for technology. I have spent about an hour on preparing a technology grant through Dollar General Corporation.

Teacher (3 H), Instructional Partner (2 H), Information Specialist (7 H), Program Administrator (3 H)

Teacher: The past few weeks have been busy. I put together my reading enrichment unit for my classroom. I am doing a booktalk to go along with the drug and alcohol awareness unit that I teach at the end of the year. I have set up a blog site for my students to utilize outside of school.

Instructional Partner: We are continuing to work on the information literacy unit. We have almost finalized every aspect of the project. I am still working on a final assessment rubric. When that is complete, the project will be finished.

Information Specialist: I have also finished work on the materials order for the reference section of the media center. I continue working on the annotated wiki of the 20 supplemental websites. I have also completed the age appropriate information about ethical uses of information. I decided to focus on avoiding plagiarism by properly citing sources as I tried to gear the resource toward high school age students.

Program Administrator: I have also completed the GA DOE 2009 Library Media Program Evaluation Rubric along with the summary memo.

Instructional Partner (1 Hr), Information Specialist (22 Hrs), Leader (2 Hrs), Program Adminstrator (1 Hr)

Instructional Partner: Last week, I spent an hour on my information literacy unit. The teachers that I am collaborating with have decided to have students complete a travel brochure for an assigned biome. In addition to the CRCT test results, we used the 7th grade writing predictor test to decide on what type of project we wanted students to complete.

Information Specialist: The last two weeks, I have been able to complete both of my required shadow days. I completed one at my elementary site and one at my high school site (16 hours). At the elementary site, I was able to finish weeding the old fiction section of the media center. I also checked out students, helped students find books, and led a class review of CRCT practice. This particular media center has a fixed schedule, and the media specialist has been doing CRCT review with the classes that come in. At the high school site, I re-shelved books, checked out students, helped many students find the books they were looking for, helped students with research projects, and helped weed the college and career materials. I have also spent two hours on my reference collection assignment. At my primary site, I completely processed 13 items into our automated system. Even though it was only 13 items, it took 3 hours because we have a new automated system this year. It took a while for the media specialist and I to figure out how to actually get it done. I also created a wiki page that provides students with an easy to use guide for properly citing sources to avoid plagiarism (1Hr). I will use this wiki for the travel brochure project that we are working on for my information literacy unit.

Leader: The last two weeks, I delivered my effective use of technology lesson three different times. I delivered it during my shadow day at the elementary site. I also delivered it at the elementary site one day after school and at my primary site after school (2hr).

Program Administrator: I have also spent an hour on the evaluation of the media center using the GA DOE 2009 Library Media Program Evaluation Rubric. I have done this in collaboration with the media specialist.

Teacher: Visual Display & Media Specialist & Leader & Instructional Partner (12H)

Teacher: The past two weeks, I have worked on several projects. I completed my visual display and the virtual display to accompany it. In honor of Dr. Seuss's Birthday, I created a visual display that showcases his most famous character: The Cat in the Hat. I also created a virtual display using the media center's information board which consists of a large digital picture frame. The virtual display is a slide show of some interesting Dr. Seuss trivia. I spent about three hours in the media center on this project.

Media Specialist: I was also able to log six hours these past two weeks in the media center. During my available planning periods, I have spent time straightening shelves, re-shelving books, and checking out students.

Leader: I also completed my staff development unit this week. I spent about three hours polishing it up. I think I finally have a finished product.

Instructional Partner: I also spent an hour more collaborating with the other science teachers at my school on our Ecology Unit. We spent the time discussing which aspects of the biomes we would like for students to focus on during their project.

Instructional Partner & Leader & Information Specialist (13H)

This week has been a great week. I feel like I have gotten a lot accomplished. I have begun collaborating with the assistant principal and the science teachers at my school to identify an area of weakness related to information literacy at our school. We spent some time reviewing the ITBS and CRCT scores for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. After review we noticed a trend. From the 6th to 8th grades scores dropped significantly in the area of reference skills. We only have one unit to complete for the remainder of the year. Students will most likely be assigned a specific research project within that Ecology unit. We have looked at several possible projects, but have not yet decided the specifics of that project. We have spent about 2 hours on this unit.

I have also begun work on my staff development unit. I will be teaching differentiation with the use of podcasts. I have spent about 8 hours on this project this week. I have begun to turn this into a distance ed class as well.

I worked the book fair for 2 hours last Saturday from 4 to 6 just before the pageant. It was great to see some of the parents discussing books with their children.

I am continuing work on weeding the old fiction section at one of my practicum sites. I was only able to spend 1 hour on that project this week. Hopefully I will have that finished soon.

Information Specialist: Professional Learning Community- Wiki (1H 30M)

I forgot to mention that I set up a wiki for the science teachers at my primary site. Once a week, usually Monday, all science teachers are expected to meet and discuss student performance, lesson plans, lesson ideas, etc. These meetings are called data team meetings. At these meetings we are required to log how we are working to increase student achievement. Often these meetings are unproductive because not everyone shows up due to scheduling conflicts or sometimes not everyone brings ideas/materials to the table. To help facilitate the exchange of resources and keep an accurate and fair record of data, our last meeting was spent on learning how to use the wiki that I established. Each person is expected to go on to the website once a week and discuss how specific instructional strategies impacted their students that week. Teachers are required to post that lesson activity or resource in the appropriate unit folder for others to be able to use. I think the wiki was well received. The teachers appreciated not having a specific meeting time in which they had to arrange to be somewhere. This way they can work at their pace and time, and everyone is held a little more accountable now. I spent about 1 and 1/2 hours on this activity.