Staying Busy

    I've been trying to make a lot of progress on my required activities this week.  I have scheduled my staff development lesson with the principal of the middle school.  I emailed him a flyer and an agenda to present to his staff.  The training will be next week, so I am working on preparing all of the materials.  I will be using the new computer lab at the middle school, so I plan to go over well in advance and find my way around the lab.  I am creating a PowerPoint to use as well as a hand-out for the teachers to take with them.  My topic is how teachers can use blogs.  I'm pretty sure that most of the teachers are not familiar with this content.  Now that I am the presenter, I find myself thinking of my past experiences in different types of trainings.  I definitely want my lesson to be informative and interesting for the participants. 
   I have been weeding during the day at the elementary media center.  There were years and years of old periodicals stored in a back room of the media center.  Some dated back to the early 1990s.  I decided what to keep and then put all of the discarded items out on some tables for the teachers.  After three days, there are some periodicals that have gone untouched.  I guess that speaks volumes (not an intentional play on words, but it was what came to mind).  I've also been processing some videos that were in the media center but not cataloged.  Since I learned how to use ZMarc for processing books that had no Marc record, these videos seem to take so much time. 
  This afternoon after school, I worked in the middle/high school media center.  I shelved some books and straightened all of the fiction sections and some of the non-fiction section.  I also spent some time working on the display for that media center.  I wanted to focus on the middle school students since the media specialist reports that they are the most frequent patrons.  I'm still working out some parts of the display, but hopefully I can finish it soon and post the results in a few days.  

Hours in the Atkinson County Middle/High School Media Center: 2.75