My Thursday

My day began with the arrival of two interlibrary loan books; both books about building trades requested on the same day by different students. I began a Follett order to cover that gap in my collection: carpentry, welding, equipment operation.

Three boys came in before the first bell in response to the art exhibit posters I had created and set out after school yesterday. Their work was among the dozen 8th grade batik projects displayed on the endcaps of the nonfiction stacks.

Posted an embedded Google slideshow on our Student Projects page of 4th grade longhouse models that I notice in the elementary hall way. Previewed the page with their teacher before posting the like and used that opportunity to chat about the attention to detail of the student work and about the hopes I have for embedded slide shows as vehicles for independent learning.

Took a hard copy of today's "all of the above" library question down to the Global Studies teacher along with he amazing facts behind the answer.

For the second day in a row, the student who answered my "classified" ad came in during lunch to begin taking digital photos of our historic school documents: ledgers, BOE notes, diplomas.
Using a document camera and his own ingenuity and attention to detail he is forging a legacy for us and himself.

The vocal music teacher came to ask about cycling some of her Broadway students to the library to render staging ideas for their play. I suggested using Google SketchUp for the poject. A quick demo and some past 6th grade samples were all she needed to see.

Arranged my comfy chair area to host a first-ever teleconference at the request of an Elementary Reading teacher. The best of times; assembling the necessary technology while trying to maintain some seamless comfort.

Created the design and content criteria for a PowerPoint assignment during the extenuating absence of a colleague in order to establish honorable work for her students.

Accommodated a surge of last period science students and their teacher to read some science articles. Had an important discussion with the teacher confirming her purpose;the priority of reading and understanding articles over finding them. This gave me the opportunity to share a slideshow I had been preparing for faculty on how they or I might created feeds or links to preselected ProQuest documents. We will try it.

Posted updated school Technology Plan to school site upon receiving it.

Read the "Flip This Library" article in SLJ about what our school libraries should become. Liked his thinking. Thinking we are pretty darn close at ACS, but for an administrative reticence to insist that what we have to offer is crucial and obvious to student success, rather that incidental and anecdotal.