Archive for the ‘Media Centers’ Category
Active, engaged learning . . . always
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: November 8, 2009
A photo of middle school age students wearing headphones, viewing action on a small screen and looking like they are having fun was haunting me. I had to find it. I did! I also found a photo of four students sitting at a media center table working with books and notebooks; in the background are [...]
Have you ever been a coach? You always have such upbeat suggestions. . . .
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 23, 2009
Someone asked me that today. I have never been a coach. Like many media specialists these days, it’s easy to whine now and then. We get frustrated with policies, declining budgets, limited time, NCLB, and a multitude of daily challenges.
There’s been a fair amount of discussion (and whining) lately about the Valenza/Johnson article Things [...]
Your media center’s web site. An essential tool for advocacy and visbility
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 23, 2009
How’s “your’ media center web site doing these days? Is it a “Let’s stop here first” shopping center for information? Is it current? Or, has it been left behind as you move forward with nings, Twitter, blogs, wikis or other web 2.0 tools are there for us to use? Or, [...]
Get recharged! Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: July 22, 2009
In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” With the beginning of each new school year, media specialists have a chance to start fresh.
Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists is your opportunity to get recharged and energized to deliver a media program that [...]
The Challenges and Opportunities of NCLB
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: May 16, 2009
NCLB_and_Media_Programs (PDF) presentation created in 2007 for state media organization conferences in South Dakota and Kentucky.
NCLB and Media Programs.Multimedia & Internet Schools Article July/August 2004.
Love it, hate it. It doesn’t matter. NCLB is here to stay. Like many other media specialists, I am concerned that it has deprived us and the teachers we [...]
Biometrics. . . continued
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 24, 2008
It’s working! Students at an elementary school and our high school are enrolling their fingers in the biometric system for media center checkout and school nutrition services! A few senior high students protested; most are eager and enjoying the experience as are many teachers. We have learned to use the proper teminology –Finger ID–Stay [...]
Biometrics
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: March 12, 2008
Biometrics! I have no idea how many schools are using biometric systems for student identification–it looks like we are about to embark on a pilot project for school nutrition services and media center checkout at one small elementary school and our large high school. The amazing thing was how quickly people approved of [...]
Thing #6: Tagging. . . and university partnerships
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: March 1, 2008
I’m negligent; I haven’t learned to use del.icio.us yet; it’sone reason I signed up for 23 things so I need to get going. Increasing information overload is motivating. . .
Yesterday Vern from Winona State University’s Krueger Library and a student in one of his classes worked with a group of senior high students to [...]
