Check Out My Updated Webpage!

I have been working really hard on creating and completing my media center website. It is now complete. It has lesson ideas and helpful links for teachers, research tips and reliable sources for students, helpful tips for parents, and a community volunteering page. There is no current link to a live library catalog, but that will come eventually. I also have a page about myself with links to my recent projects. Please take the time to look at the site. Any comments are welcome. The website is chsmediacenter.yolasite.com

Thoughts on Technology in Education

Technology can be useful, but we need to take care in how we use it. Students are going to be exposed to technology whether it is included in school curriculum or not. For this reason I believe it is important to teach students information literacy skills. I think it is important, however, to really think about the other uses of technology in the schools. We need to make sure that technology is really helping our students, and not just there to entertain them.

Newsletter Ideas

Constant Contact seems like a very reasonably priced program. I could see it being very reasonable in a school. I think it would be great as a media specialist to have a newsletter that is sent to the staff about new things coming to the media center that will be helpful to them, and ideas for using the media center. I think it would also be nice to be able to send newsletters to interested parents. As a classroom teacher, newsletters to the parents would be very easy if they were done in this way. The only problem I see is reaching those who do not have internet. In this case the newsletter will need to be printed and either sent home with the student, or mailed.
 I will be creating a newsletter using Constant Contact. I will create it for the staff of my building. For one article I will be talking about the new Lexile Levels spreadsheet I am creating to help them find books for their students' reading levels. I will also reinforce the importance of media center rules that students must keep. Finally, I will include an idea for collaborating with the media specialist on a research project. I may include a few other reminders as well.