Making More Progress

  Well I finally feel that I am making significant progress on my assignments again.  I was able to get more hours in at the middle/high school level this week through my work on the staff development lesson and putting the display up in that media center.  I was anxious about teaching the technology lesson because I have been in the participant role many times in the past.  I tried to think of ways to keep the teachers' attention and keep the lesson moving at all times.  All in all, I think things went very well.  There were 15 participants including the principal and assistant principal.  I had to set everything up in the computer lab, teach the lesson, wait for everyone to leave the lab, and then shut everything down in the lab.  I now realize how involved such trainings can be. 
  My display for the ACMS/ACHS media center is complete and in place.  I focused on the middle school's theme and tried to prepare a display that can remain in place for several weeks.  I took pictures of my display and made a wiki about the project.  The wiki can be accessed at http://mediacenterdisplay.pbworks.com/ .
  I was also able to get pictures of the plagiarism posters that were made to accompany the collaborative lesson that I taught with a third grade teacher.  She hung the posters on the wall in her classroom for the students to use as a resource during the writing assignments that will be done during the rest of the school year.  The poster is a reminder of the points that we covered in our lesson on plagiarism and note-taking.
  This weekend I plan to start checking the various assignments to make sure that I have included all of the required elements.  Once I have checked them, I will start adding them to my portfolio.  I also need to begin developing the technology lesson into a self-instructional tutorial.  There were actually a few middle school teachers who asked how they could get the information since they weren't able to attend the training due to after-school classes or duty.  I told them that I would be preparing an online version of the training, and they seemed glad to hear that.
  There's one more thing that I needed to include in this post.  In a post on October 14, I gave a link to my Personal Learning Network, but I did not realize that was a private page until some time later.  I have made some changes to the PLN, and here is the new link that should allow anyone to view it:  http://www.netvibes.com/adeems#Media_Specialist_Info.

Hours Spent Delivering the Technology Lesson at ACMS:   2
Hours Spent in the ACMS/ACHS Media Center:    4.75