February 2011 Monthly Report

Program Highlights

Author Laurel Snyder spoke to students in all grade levels in 3 sessions: Prek-1st,

2nd

-3rd

, and 4th

-5th

. She highlighted the many revisions that text goes through

before being published and had interactive writing sessions with students.

Multiple digital projects were created this month. 5th

grade completed a unit called

Bigger, Better, Faster: Our Changing Nation. Students created glogsters, animotos,

photo stories, and power points. Many of these products included multiple

products integrated within one another. One 4th

grade class completed persuasive

photo stories using images from creative commons and text written writer’s

workshop. Another 4th

grade class created Animoto book trailers for authors that

they had been studying for several weeks. These students also used creative

commons images in their products.

Preparations were made for the upcoming Exemplary Media Center Open House

being held on March 3.

A major weeding project was completed which has updated our collection to an

average age of 1999.

A professional learning session was held for all teachers on using Literacyhead.

Our school is now a lab school for this online resource.

Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist

Sharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional

Website:

http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/aplemmons

Blog: http://barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com

Barrow Media Center

Number of Media Center Patrons: 4,045 estimated. We use a

tally system for individual student who visit the media

center, so some students may not have written a tally mark.

Check Outs: 2,860

New Materials: 57 titles

Facebook: 187 fans and 146 visits (however facebook went

through some changes for fan pages and not all data was sent

to me.

Blog Visits: 503

Media Center Website: 2,730 visits

Data Snapshots

Barrow Blog Posts:

January Monthly Report

Bigger, Better, Faster

Laurel Snyder Author Visit

GLMA Blog Posts:

Literacyhead

Conference on Children’s Literature

Exemplary Media Center Open House

Collaborative Lessons

Black History:

Quilts of Harriet

Powers

Multiple classes

Prek-5th

Groundhog Day All K

Power Point 4th grade spectrum

Photography and

Poetry

All 5th grade-

collaboration

w/art teacher

Persuasive

writing

2nd

grade-Brink

Bigger, Better,

Faster: Our

Changing Nation

All 5th grade-

multiple research

and final product

sessions

Black History

Month-3 lesson

series

Prek-Spurgeon

Enrichment

Cluster-Stitching

Stars Storytellers

K-1 group of 9

students every

Wednesday 9-

10AM

Animoto Book

Trailers

Selleck-4th grade

Black History:

Ella Fitzgerald

Li, Boyle, Wyatt,

Spurgeon,

Shealey (Prek, K,

1st, 3

rd)

Laurel Snyder

Introduction

All Classes

Laurel Snyder

Author Visit

All Classes

Persuasive

Photostory

4th grade-Freeman

& Landstrom

.

February 2011 Monthly Report

Barrow Media Center

Stitching Stars

Storytellers

Enrichment Cluster

Laurel Snyder

Author Visit