High School Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 50.0 hours
Total hours 96.0

Well, today (actually yesterday) I finished up my practicum hours. I started the day just by chatting with the librarian for some time. We over the practicum schedule of things to do and found out that I accomplished most things. We talked about periodicals and how she does them. I also tried to link the EBSCO articles to my RSS reader so that I could read articles from professional periodicals from MPS on my reader. It works to an extent. I

I did my normal thing and almost finished up with the weeding that she had me doing in the AV room.

Today during the art class's time I sat and worked with a special ed student who was having trouble with his project. I enjoyed this because I felt like I was really being helpful.

That was about it for this day. I guess 4 hours goes pretty quick sometimes!

High School Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 46.0 hours
Total hours 92.0

Yesterday was slightly different from the big projects I've been working on. When I got there I helped the art class for the first 45 minutes. I helped them find information online as well as finding and organizing their powerpoint presentations. I did the same thing for the last 45 minutes. In between, I weeded the AV section as usual, but I also helped out with overdue notices and fines. Ellen showed me how you run reports in Destiny and showed me that there is no good way to do it so that you get it to print exactly what you want. So we ended up printing 400 fee notices, then going through the one that were actually library materials. Then we also separated out the ones that were for materials from other schools, as well as textbooks, because we don't handle that in the library. We also went through and took out the fines that were less than $2.00 because it doesn't make any sense to mail something for over 40 cents only to collect a small fine. We also discussed how she handles periodicals and how many periodicals are going full text on Ebsco, so we don't need to pay for anything twice.

High school Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 42.0 hours
Total hours 88.0

Today was much the same as days past. Today I came in a bit earlier and got to work closer with one of the classes. I actually felt helpful with them because I got to show them some of the links and helpful ways to make their PowerPoint on art movements. So it was a better day than days past with that.

I kept weeding the AV section and I surpassed the goal in mind that I had when I started doing it so that I could be helpful for the librarian there. That made me happy.

Finally, we kind of talked through the list of things that are expected for the practicum hours and went through and checked off the majority of the list because they just sort of happened naturally as we went through the day.

High School Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 38.0 hours
Total hours 84.0

On Friday I again worked with the the first art class when I got there. I helped them learn about how to cite their sources using the website www.bibme.org. In this school, a lot of students do not show up on Fridays so the class was pretty small. This was the same for the afternoon class that I have been working with. Normally they have about 8 students in the afternoon class, but today there were only three. Due to the small numbers I just went back to weeding the AV section. I have a goal that I have set for myself to get through before I finish up my hours on Thursday.

High School Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 34.0 hours
Total hours 80.0

Today was at least a little different than the past 2 days. I came in slightly early and started out by getting involved and showing my example art presentations to one of the classes that I am working with. I then helped them set up their PowerPoints and save them and get started on them for the remainder of the class period.

Ellen then told me that she had to make an instruction podcast for how to use a website. She said that she had done 3 already but would show me how to do it if I wanted to. I wanted to. She introduced me to Camstudio. I then used Camstudio to record a podcast about how to use a site called Bibme.org for bibliographies. After making it, I uploaded it to the website that I have created through the district for my classes.

I also did a small amount of weeding back in the AV history department, then finished up the day doing the same thing as I had done earlier with another class.

High School Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 30.0 hours
Total hours 76.0

Today I did pretty much the same thing I did yesterday. I started out by weeding in the AV section, this time the history section for about the first hour to an hour and a half. Then the art teacher came in, gave me some more of the things that he would like to see in the student's PowerPoints, and then I went back and fixed my templates and examples. I then went on to my Moodle so that I could upload these presentations to my Moodle so that others could have access to them, and that was pretty much my day. Not a whole lot to do in 4 hours I guess.

High School Hours (South)

Today's High School Hours: 4.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 26.0 hours
Total hours 72.0

Today I both started and ended my day the same way. Ellen is trying to weed the AV sedtion. One of the largest sections in the AV is the History section. Since my background is in history Ellen thought that it would be a good idea to have me weed the entire History section. So I spent about the first hour and last half hour of the day watching videos and going through the history section of the AV to weed out anything that is really old, outdated, or irrelevant.

In between, I worked on the project that I am doing with Ellen and the art teacher. I created an example of what we would like to see out of the students so that they know what is expected of them. I found some more books that they could use on art movements, and that pretty much took up my whole 4 hours. It goes by fast.