Reading Celebrations:
I've been using the daily broadcast to promote our quarterly reading celebration and leisure reading. I had the broadcast kids make an ad suggesting students read daily, turn in their reading logs and then they will get to come to pancake and hot cocoa breakfast in January. Last quarter we have over 300 kids eat hot dogs with us. I hope we are able to meet or exceed this goal next quarter.
Media Literacy Mini-Lessons:
6th and 7th Grade Social Studies--working on research for their social studies fair projects. Students have needed small group, whole class and individual instruction. I collaborated with 6th grade social studies teacher and gifted facilitator on this project.
6th grade ELA invention project-Students were given a writing prompt relating to an invention they thought was important. Students were then asked to research that invention or research to create their own invention. I shared Galileo and Destiny Web Path Express with Bullock's classes. We talked about how these resources are more reliable than using google, etc. We also had several print sources that were useful including the invention encyclopedia Eureka!
New Fiction--Collection Development--
In the last few years I have weeded and worked very hard to update most of the non-fiction collection. An ongoing project is to add the latest fiction titles. I have about $4000 worth of new fiction in boxes ready to be processed and added to the collection. I can't wait to get these books out there for the kids. It's very important to promote leisure reading and improving reading scores that we have books that are of interest to our students that entice them to read!
To Promote Media Literacy and Galileo:
I am currently working on a bulletin board for Galileo. The theme is the same as the question on the MC website.... Doing Research? Use Galileo! Then I highlight the benefits of using Galileo over standard search engines such as Google.
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