- Taking down decorations
- Judging student foot traffic and deadlines
- The Cold Weather
- Christmas shopping
- Holiday Assembly
- Prepping for January Behind the Paws shows
Here's a couple pictures that describe the last two weeks of school.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE AUDACIOUS LIBRARIAN!
The Behind the Paws students are preparing for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. show in 2014. Here's a couple of pictures from today's class period.
Students wrote critiques of the current episode of Behind the Paws and researched possible quotes that will be read during the segment.
I'm really proud of my students Myiah and Rossanli. Both ladies are showing strong leadership and technology skills with using the iMovie app. You will see in the picture how the girls are showing their peers how to pull images from Google and insert them into iMovie.
Enjoy!
Just a quick blog post.
The Phillips Library Media Center now has a offical Instagram page. Follow @phillipslmc to view posts from this busy library in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.
I've been really busy over the last two weeks. If you are a school library media specialist you know that it's grant writing season. I've been up to my eyeballs in writing grants and proposals. I'm really tired and I'll be glad to finish writing these last three proposals.
Funding is greatly needed in my library media center this year so I will continue to apply apply apply for grants. My attitude is, 'The only thing they can do is tell you no.'
My friend Rosie texted a picture to me this afternoon. I laughed so hard that I began to cry. Forgive me if I have offended anyone, I just couldn't help but post this picture.
This is my rountine at the beginning and end of each week: dragging in a suitcase full of bottled water to my second floor Library Media Center.
Since Veterans Day was Monday and Report Card Pick Up was yesterday today, Wednesday is the beginning of the work week. This water is not just for me, but also for my students. I'm so grateful I have a elevator in my school!
#TheThingsLMSdo!
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| Jessica is second from the right |
My first post using the Blogger app on my Galaxy 3!
Guess who's #TeamAnimal, my student Dana. Dana is a voracious reader of the genre Street Literature. After conducting a Reader's Advisory interview, K'wan's Animal was the next and natural reading selection for this student.
Dana visits the Library Media Center about three times a week during 8th period. In this case with this book, Dana read the adult Street Lit book in one day. As she explained to me, she gets much of her reading accomplished while using public transportation and when she completes classwork early.
When she returned this book yesterday, she immediately inquired about the sequel. As I informed her, Animal II is scheduled for release on November 19th. In the mean time, she is enjoying reading some of K'wan's previous books.
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| All I can do is say, WOW! |
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| The foundation re-tweeted my post! |
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| INSPIRATION! Picture courtesy of Google Images |
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| Students use the Ask3 app in their Leadership Class to post comments on a discussion thread.. |
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| I call this 'Art Meets Technology'. A student logs onto her classroom laptop so that she can complete a DO NOW assignment. |
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| What would they do without their cell phones? |
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| Two sisters these Galaxy 3 cases! |
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| Now my girls have influenced me. The case on the left is mine! |
A couple of you emailed and wanted to know how I start my day and what my circulation desk/area looks like. Well here it is!
I try to begin my day with forgetting all of the things that annoyed me the day before. Since I'm on the run in the morning, I have to be creative. Smoothies and my detox drink are my weapon of choice. As far as what my circulation desk looks like....A HOT MESS! I'm a solo librarian so I try the best I can to circulate/shelve books, support the curriculum/technology integration and keep a tidy space.
Here's a couple of pictures I've taken over the last eight weeks that I'm willing to share.   |
| One of my Fall book displays, my students helped me with this one. The clock is just struggling on the shelf since it had a disagreement with the wall. |
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| Breakfast smoothie: cucumbers, melons and strawberries. |
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| This is the most uncluttered part of my circulation desk! My trusty Mac Book Pro and LMC iPads. I try to drink a jug of my detox drink of cucumbers, lemons, limes and fresh mint everyday. |
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| One of my new Fall Book Displays. Some of my students created this one and did a good job! |
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| Pictures of family, friends and former students. I keep my Librarian bling shirts on display at all times! |
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| Another bling shirt and pictures with various authors and entertainers. I use this as a conversation piece for my students. |
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| This sign is in support of my football players who are avid readers. I had to move the football behind the circulation desk. The boys were having a little too much fun with it on the floor. |
| Event status: | (Register) |
| Date and time: | Tuesday, October 22, 2013 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00) |
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Booklist Webinars
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| Duration: | 1 hour |
| Description: |
The goal of the Common Core is to accelerate students’ reading achievement to grade level by the end of 2014, but educators can’t begin to make an impact on young adults who are reading below grade level without rich resources to aid them. In this hour-long, free webinar, sponsored by Orca Book Publishers and Saddleback Education, an expert panel will offer tips about how to implement the Common Core State Standards with struggling and striving readers in the middle- and high-school classroom.
Presenters: KC Boyd is a library media specialist in inner-city Chicago and author of the popular blog The Audacious Librarian. Troy Fresch is the Assistant Principal at Tustin High School in Tustin, California and has served on the Tustin Unified School District’s Common Core implementation team. Tim McHugh is the co-owner and VP of Sales/Marketing at Saddleback Educational Publishing. Andrew Wooldridge is publisher at Orca Books and the editor of several series of successful novels for middle and high school readers. |
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| Students are viewing a clip from the award winning series, "Eyes On the Prize" |
