North Media CenterSeptember Highlights

and Statistics

Monthly Highlights--Collaborative Lessons

The Library Media Center is now using Libguides to create pathfinders for all lessons and professional development resources this school year. Embedding content and instruction in Libguides will assist in achieving the Library Media Center’s 2011-2012 goal of increasing transparency, transliteracy , and collaboration at HS North.

The LMC is also using Google Calendar appointment slots. Teachers are now able to book class slots online using this feature.

Monthly Highlights--Events in the Media Center

The book club met for the first time this year. Many new students expressed interest, and we selected our first book, Airman, by Eon Coffer.

Library orientation this year included a discuss of the TED talk, Beware the Filter Bubble, a discussion on website credibility, as well as an introduction to our growing YA Fiction and Non-Fiction collection. Mrs. Stout looks forward to working with the new freshman class this year!

Monthly Highlights--Professional Development

° Mrs. Stout introduced Tech Tuesdays to the staff. Tech Tuesdays are intended to provide brief, voluntary training on technology topics of interest to the staff. As a result of the Tech Tuesday session on using Weebly for class websites, many staff members including Ms. Murphy and Mr. Wilson created new class websites. They even included RSS feeds so their students can stay up-to-date on current events in their content areas.

September Statistics

18Orientation Classes

1183 LibGuides Usage

190After School Visits

522Lunch and Pass Visits

448Before School Visits

176Circulation

20Drop In Class Sessions

48Direct Instruction Class Sessions