CvMS Media Center Highlights
January 2014
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen...
1st Technology Wednesday
Nearpod- http://www.nearpod.com/
Kahoot- https://getkahoot.com/
Socrative- http://www.socrative.com/
Mrs. Whitaker and Mrs. Cravens introduced teachers to Webpath Express and Onesearch. Webpath Express is an educational search tool providing students and teachers the ability to search for a topic and retrieve age appropriate, relevant, and reliable websites. This tool integrates more than 85,000 sites into the Destiny library catalog and encourages students to do more than "google" resources. Teachers can search a topic, find resources, and add the selected resources to a list for students to publicly access during instructional time or from the teacher's website.
Onesearch is also integrated with the Destiny catalog; it organizes research databases so students and teachers can quickly search, view, and utilize library resources, databases, and subscriptions. This tool promotes information literacy skills and prepares students to search effectively and efficiently. Teachers can also add these resources to a particular list for students to access publicly.
Both Webpath Express and Onesearch allows students to save resources to their personal lists and can generate a citation list for the resources used. Teachers, if you missed the Technology Wednesday, the media coordinators are happy to assist you in learning more about these modern-day research tools.
Gearing Up for the Olympics in Sochi
Virtual Sign Up a Success
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
What's Really Happening in the Library?
HOW MUCH ARE CvMS STUDENTS READING?
~Please keep in mind that our media center was closed several days because of the holiday, workdays, and snow days...we missed our students!
- Total Circulation: 2611 books and other resources
- Nonfiction: 935 nonfiction books
- Fiction: 1065 fiction books
- Class Novels: 577 class set novels
- Spanish Books: 11 spanish books
- Open Access: 133 students visited the media center independently to check out books, use computers, or take a test
- 46 language arts classes taught by media coordinators
TRACKING TECHNOLOGY:
*There were 13 school days in January.
- Computer lab booked 36 times
- 8 Chromebook carts reserved 110 times
Extra! Extra!
- Troubleshooting technology i.e. projectors, computers, chromebooks,
- Demonstrating how to access Follett Shelf eBooks and Destiny Library Manager tools
- Setting up teacher DVDs/Videos for classroom viewings on the Bogen
- Decorating displays
- Locating materials for students and teachers
- Attending professional development activities
- Preparing for Book Fair
- Coaching Battle of the Books team
- Teaching Student Media Helpers
- Ordering, covering, and cataloging new books and materials
- Interlibrary loan: Borrowing from media coordinators in the county and allowing them to borrow from our collection