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.