Practicum Log Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning Library Media Specialist - Char Harteau Student - Liz Bransky July 29, 2010 through August 18, 2010 Date Time Hours Experience Questions/Comments 7/29 Thurs 1:00 Met with Char-discussed Practicum, school, schedules, project ideas, expectations Very busy, vibrant library! About 47 staff members, 700 or so students. 14 New teachers (nearly 30%) for the 2010-11 school year. 3:00-4:00 3 (3) Barcoded Books with other staff members IRC processes all textbooks and classroom books. 7/30 Fri 8:30 Barcoded books and Organized books with other staff members. 9:30 Char introduced me to staff members and discussed possible project ideas. Two collection development projects are in the works. I will be working with Kristi Gettelman - room 19 (5th grade) and Renee Scianni - room 7 (3rd grade). But still have not found 2nd project. I will meet with Renee and others on Monday. 10:30 Barcoded books and visited with staff about school and IRC 1:00 Met with Kristi Gettelman. She showed me the textbook she will be working from. I went through her classroom collection. 2:30 Barcoded books 3:15-4:15 7.75 (10.75) Discussed with Char expectations for Monday morning. I will be assisting her with her classes. Helping process books and working on my projects. We discussed me putting together an instructional sheet on how to customize a toolbar for her students using Paint. Char showed me how to use paint by creating a Paint document on how to make a Paint document. Young friendly staff. Lunch for Renee is 12:30-1:15. This is a good time to discuss her Rock/Land Formation Unit. New program for me - Paint. Char says it is an accessory on every pc. This is a great software for cropping screen shots on a pc. As well as creating instructional documents. 8/2 8:15 Barcoded Books: Explained the tradebook room; re-freshed my memory of the circulation system; checked out tradebooks to teachers, moved processed tradebooks 10:00 Web Design Class - reviewed expectations, worked on moodle slc where they posted a response to a discussion question and responded to 2 other questions 11:00 On moodle, I wrote comments on students posts and marked spelling/gramatic errors. Helped negotiate getting teachers to the IRC to check out textbooks. Moodle/slc is a great tool for structuring a class 11:48 8th Grade Technology Class - helped with login, answered questions as student did moodle work. 12:40 More moodle comments. 1:15 Searched IRC catalog for Explorers. Printed out a list of possible resources for Gettelman project. Spoke with Renee Scianni about a technology project and a collection development project. She is available to chat Tuesday at 12:15. I also spoke with the other 3rd grade teacher on Renee s suggestion about doing a project. She seemed interested only if Renee was interested 2:00 Got on computer and organized login information and tried to navigate through systems on my own. 2:47 Web Design Class 3:35-4:15 8 (18.75) More moodle comments on 7th hour class. 8/3 8:15 Schedule update, check-in, high school teacher meeting, Moodle comments for students. 11 Moodle comments for students. 11:48 8th Grade Tech Class 12:30 Met with Renee and worked out a technology project with resources and Moodle.
1:15 Moved books from IRC and Jr High Lit Classrooms 2:00 Worked on the toolbar project to test IRC computers to see if toolbar settings stay. 2:47 Web Design 3:35-4:15 8 (26.75) Logged back in and checked toolbar settings. And checked on default search settings. 8/4 8:15 Checked on toolbar settings. Started powerpoint on Paint.. It was during this time that I met and shook hands with Dr. Thorton, the MPS Superintendent. He was a tall man with a firm handshake. He knew about the instructional standards in a library. He asked Char about her teaching and wanted to make sure he taught elements of research. I am hopefully this man can make some changes that will benefit the students of MPS. 11 Paint Powerpoint 12 8th Grade Tech Class 12:45 Commented on 8th grade Moodle discussion posts. 2:30 Paint Powerpoint 3:35-4:15 8 (34.75) Created Sample Paint Poster for my Paint lesson which I am scheduled to teach on Friday with Hour 2. I also typed up an assignment sheet. This will be handed out to students so they can see their requirements for their assignment at their computer station. 8/5 8:15 Printed out WCLL library list of books on ecplorers that I had made earlier. Then, I pulled books from WCLL library shelves 10:06 Web Design Class 11 Processed books and kits in classrooms with the literacy teacher. We barcoded and Ms. Murphy scanned after us. 12:00 8th Grade Tech Class. In this class, I continued to circulate around the room helping students learn aspects of Powerpoint. 12:45 Processed books and kits in classrooms with the literacy teacher. We barcoded and Ms. Murphy scanned after us. 2:00 I met with Kristi Gettelman. She gave me feedback on the books she is interested in and more specific information on the explorers. I had gotten two picture books on explorers. She too appreciated the illustrations and thought the reading level and content looked good. She narrowed the topic to only New World Explorers. So we will leave out the Lewis and Clark type explorers that came into the picture later. Except, I will leave in the few African American Explorers that often acted as scouts as Kristi requested. - Helped students with their Powerpoint Presentations 3:35-4:15 8(42.75) Went through the lesson I would be teaching 2nd hour tomorrow using the Smartboard. 8/6 8:15 Shelved books and reorganized a section in the 820 area. 9 Helped an 8th grade English Class with their login, settings and use of Wordle. They signed up to be in the library. - I presented on how to use the Paint software and explained the 11 Helped a 6th grade class use Microsoft Word for an assignment where they put a photo of themselves behind a poem they wrote. Also helped students set default printer. 11:48 4th hour - 8th grade Tech Class 12:30 Met with Carolyn Messer. Everyone was positive about the experience. It was good to hear this from Char as I she is a very busy woman. She takes time to explain the details to me. I appreciate that she is comfortable delegating projects. This has allowed me to learn so much about the library, teaching and the use of technology. She could not find a signature page for all of us to sign. We will meet again next Thursday. 2 Helped another 6th grade class. 2:47 Web Design Class - continued to help students with their powerpoint presentations. 3:35-4:15 8 (50.75) Replaced a broken mouse. In the process I learned about how
8/9 8:15 Faculty Meeting and where they secure their mouses and keyboards. 8:50 Checked over my tech requirements, PPT, and support material for Tuesday s lesson. Worked on handouts for Tuesday s assignments. 11 TitleWave - worked on putting together Explorers Order for the Gettleman Project. 11:45 8th Grade Tech Class 12:30-2:15 6 (56.75) TitleWave - worked on putting together Explorers Order for the Gettleman Project. Left early today to see my kids perform at state fair. 8/10 8:15 Talked with Char about the timing of lessons and which class gets what lesson. Web Design will do the bookmark The Tech Class will not do the bookmark 9 Char went through her resources for classes. She shared with me lists of sites, lessons, resources for lessons. Excellent resource for library instruction. 11 I developed a Bookmark PowerPoint Handout 11:45 I taught the Tech Class how to use Paint and went over the 12:30 Entered books into school catalog 2 I continued to work on the Bookmark PPT Handout. 3:30-5:00 8.75 (59.50) I finished up TitleWave Explorer order, wrote up assignment sheet for bookmark project and checked production tool links/ open source sites. Came up with 12 links for the production tools folder. 8/11 8:15 Entered books into the catalog. 10 books were already numbered but I could not find them in the catalog. So I started the process again. Later checked with Tracy Murphy. And she could not find e- copies. So all was fine. 10 Taught Web Design Class how to customize a toolbar on internet explorer. They then developed their own toolbar. Made a print screen with their folders open and submitted a printed out copy of the print screen with their names. Great They seemed to enjoy the I would love to try to teach this to the 7th hour class. I fear they are getting so far behind that I will be gone when they catch up. 11:00 Char found some book requests. I added them to the book order. 12 Intro to Tech Class. Continued to help this class on their About Me Powerpoints and sports posters. Dramatic difference between kids with computer experience and those with little to no experience. 1 Char found more book requests for the titlewave order. 2 I checked in with Renee about the Moodle project. She is swamped and will not be able to send me what resources she has available. Char wanted me to check with another teacher about book requests for the Titlewave order. She added two additional series to the list. I added them and printed out the final list. The outcome of our conversation is that I will proceed based on reading level and types of activities at her other stations. Titlewaves search capabilities are not as powerful as Amazon. I found myself finding things on Amazon and using the information to locate titlewave books. 2:45 7th Hour Web Design Class. Helped students with their projects. 3:40-5:00 8.75(68.25) Processed books. Lots of books to handle. 8/12 8:15 Processed Books 9 2nd Graders came in. Checked in and out books. A few 6th graders came in to check out books. Very difficult to hear young children say their last names. Also challenging to hear the many unusual names. I discussed this with Char. We decided to print out classlists with barcodes.. Students finished their toolbar 11 I played around with classlists with barcodes. I reset the find student checkboxes settings. Processed books.
11:48 Intro to Technology Class 12:30 We met with Carolyn Messer. We talked about what we have been working on. We discussed my Moodle project and lots of other tech resources and their uses. 2 Organized barcode classlists by grade level, classes and homeroom classes. 3:40-4:15 8 (76.25) Finished organizing barcode classlists in a three-ring binder. 8/13 8:15 Tabbed Glogster and Delicious to share with Char at her request. We never got to Delicious. She was quite taken by the examples in Glogster. 8:45 Read Char s book that she wanted me to read to the 4K students, Petunia Beware by Roger Duvoisin. I hung up pictures of the wild mean creatures. They came into the library at 11:10. I would not have chosen this book for 4-K students. 9 I monitored student helpers on processing books. completed an internet safety I helped when needed but the assignment was self-explanatory. 11:10 I read to the 4K class. They are so young and did an amazing job given the circumstances. I went through the list of words that Char wanted me to read. I gave an intro to the story. To engage the students a bit more, I had them read a repeating phrase. Unfortunately it only repeated 4 times. I referred to the bad guy pictures as we were reading. 11:48 Intro to Techonology - completed their powepoints and graded other powerpoints from their own class and from other classes. 12:40 Processed books 2 Char showed me where the MPS policies and procedures are located and then she printed out 70% of the documents for my records. 3:30-3:45 7.5(83.75) Cleaned up the library 8/16 8:15 Talked with Char about doing a pamphlet for the library. She mentioned this on Friday in passing. She is still interested. I went over elements she would want included in the brochure. We discussed the classes I would teach for today (Monday) and tomorrow. 8:55 Worked on library brochure 9:10 Taught two student helpers procedures for book check in and check out. 9:20 Typed up student monitor circulation procedures and included these instructions in the student barcode book. 9:45 Worked on library brochure 10:06 Web Design Class 11 Worked on library brochure 11:48 Taught lesson on screen shots. Helped students complete assignment to make a How to PowerPoint on some element of PowerPoint 12:30 Worked on brochure and helped checkout more literature textbooks 2:47 Web Design Class - Taught lesson on Screen Shots. They had such a hard time learning this feature and understanding the Not all ears and eyes were focusing on my lesson. It was a challenge. The challenge arose from a student causing a distraction during the first 2 minutes of class. 3:35-4:15 8(91.75) Cleaned up, checked log on requirements for MPS linked sites such as Discovery Education, Nettrekker 8/17 8:00 Explored NetTrekker 8:15 MAPS testing meeting in the library. 8:45 Worked on Moodle Project. Great site and wonderful way to organize resources for the classroom. I am eager to develop this resource for my own classroom. 11:48 Taught 8th Grade Toolbar Customization They did a fantastic job with this
difficult project. I enjoy working with the middle school kids. 12:30 Met with Renee about Moodle project. Although the resources were not new to her, she did appreciate the organization of the resources. She will write up feedback on my Moodle work. 12:50 Talked with MIke the computer tech guy from MPS about a student who was not able to add any favorites to her Int Explorer toolbar. He was super friendly and fixed the problem right away. 1:10 Worked on IRC Brochure 2 Logged onto teaching computer and reset toolbar elements in preparation for 7th hour. 2:15 Worked on IRC Brochure 2:40 Web Design Class-I reviewed Screenshots and introduced the toolbar development. They did a much better job today. 3:40-4:15 8.25(100) Showed Char Delicious, got feedback on brochure. Char took picture of Donald Goode s dedication plaque.. 8/18 8:30-10:30 2 Wrapped up projects observed interactive video.