Southeast Bulloch High School | As I have no high school teaching experience I was excited to see the difference of experience as I arrive to Southeast Bulloch high school. The first day was met with learning basic day-to-day procedures and Covid protocols as well as tasks. The school has a learn and work program where if you high school students are given the opportunity to work in the library as a librarian assistant. They are giving certain specific tasks and training on customer service. As multiple things that I did at the site ran into multiple days I will write on each activity instead of each day. My attached activity log bullets out these activities by day however. Library Guests & Utilization | Classes are also required to sign up if they are do utilize the library. One literary instructor uses the library every day for two of her classes. I got the opportunity to discuss with her different instructional technology techniques she uses for her class. Google was another recurring theme but she also uses web applications like Newsela and Grammarly to enhance her instruction. She showed me the lesson she created which asked students to provide multiple forms of media and organize it onto a template in google slides for later presentation. As I have never taught high school I asked my supervisor many questions about the differences but she sees here and potential new instructional tools utilized at a high school level. Extensive list of new website where that is available to the students in the school is in my daily bulleted log of ours attached this post. Quadrics Ticketing System & Other Admin Programs | We also tag teamed the new ticketing System for troubleshooting problems with families that we learned about in the media specialist meeting. We were able to work through on average about 2 to 3 tickets a day that week. The problem is ranged from class is disappearing to assignments restarting for parents not be able to view progress. I was also shown different library ordering software that was utilized such as Doc-e-fill which is an ordering system for equipment that Hass to acquire administration approval as well as a PO number to go through. They were also many different publishers the library used in order to obtain it's books. (List provided in activity log ) these books had varying programs from subscription-based to previewing and sampling. Junior library guild was a favorite. There was a selection of books however from broad reach books that was just sent in about digital citizenship. My supervisor explained to me that they would send her these books to review and she didn't have to pay for them unless she wanted to adopt them. If she did not then all she would have to do is send them back after reviewing them. I took this opportunity to review them as digital citizenship is a huge focus in our instructional technology program. School programs | If you mornings out of the week I observed the newsroom in action which is located in the media center. This newsroom had a, camera, mic, broadcaster, Teleprompter, as well as a close circuit system video audio live broadcast. The students used a logitech presenter Bluetooth device to switch slides on the Teleprompter in the channel 1 news network server broadcasted this to a web application known as safari. This live broadcast was sent to every classroom in the morning and then downloaded and posted to the school website by my supervisor. In addition to this the media center used to host a few stem programs for students before Covid such as the SECME club and a book club that now meets virtually via Google Hangout. Instructional Technology and Assisting Teachers | The school also obtained Promethean boards for every classroom but as it is a new technology there is a learning curve. Basic assistance on how to connect one's personal computer to the board as well as use the basic tools that came with the board we're not known by many of the teachers. This caused an influx of questions to both the media center specialist as well as a technology liaison. Assisted with a few of these problems as well as some Google drive software issues. One issue in particular was having trouble zipping files and downloading it onto their local computer as well as successfully sharing these files to parents who did not have a district email. Both of my supervisors were unable to solve her issue so I requested that I try. I was able to get both of her requests accomplished and showed everyone how I did it so they can help other teachers in the future. One day I got the opportunity to observe a medical class that had a Simulator hospital room as well as an instructional classroom. She had a bunch of instructional technology that I've never seen before including an augmented reality system called z-space. I was very excited about seeing this in action. This however was not to be the case that day as the system and software were not working and the IT professional could not understand why. Requesting permission to tinker, I spent the better half of the day diving through system operations to isolate the issue. The website help was very poorly documented as it seems that they migrated sites last year and neglected to update pathways on the app software themselves. I ended up deleting and re-downloading the app managers and after reading a few forums noticed that they changed downloading channels. After updating this and reinitializing all apps off or download on the device I was finally able to enter in the licensing keys and gain access to the programs once they downloaded. There were three more other devices like this in the school and I did it for all of them while showing the IT professional what I did so that she can troubleshoot later problems. I finally got to play with augmented reality and I couldn't be more thrilled. Using 3-D glasses the human body in the various layers came to life and with a pen I was able to spin it in the air and click on areas for more information. There was a tablet version to utilize with a life-size human body map. As you scanned the tablet across the human body different aspects of it would jump out and you can manipulate it in the air with the pen in front of the camera. While I was assisting the classroom again on another day, I set up the instructors live broadcasting microscope with her Promethean board. She was then able to utilize this microscope to place organic samples under the microscope at her desk and have it project onto the Promethean board. Chromebook Management | The chrome book check out system was unique due to Covid. Because some students were part of a dual enrollment program. There was certain chrome book carts they had to come in and check out in the media center. Late students also could not go to their first period class room to check out a chrome book they must come to the library to check out a temporary chrome book that has been sanitized so not to disturb the first period class. Students are not allowed to take home their chrome books unless they are distant learners specifically. There are however about 30 chrome books that are available for overnight check out or weekend check out if needed. As these chrome books come back in the morning daily it is part of the main tasks to sanitize these laptops before replacing them in the appropriate cart. Digital Citizenship | Before Covid the freshman classes will come into the library for a basic digital citizenship lesson accompanied with library protocol. This digital citizenship lesson is now an abbreviated online video that is shown in the classes homeroom at the beginning of the year. The media Center has a wealth of digital citizenship information as well as posters on the wall that talk about best practices when it comes to online research and behavior. I was shown a Facebook group called future librarians. This Facebook group was home too many media center specialists in instructional technology professionals across the United States. Here they share their ideas, tips, and tricks with other brand new media Center specialist. My supervisor told me that she got many of her digital citizenship materials and ideas from this Facebook group. I quickly made my own professional Facebook profile page and requested to join the group by the administrators. The Southeast Bulloch high school website also has some information about digital citizenship that is available to parents and students. In summary my supervisor was a wealth of information and she was eager to learn as she was to instruct me in the inns and outs of being a media center specialist. This truly was a comprehensive experience into the ins and outs of this job at the high school level. Staff Development Needs Assessment | Brooklet Elementary has requested that I do a Flip Grid professional development with an emphasis on virtual learning techniques and student use of video. I will be sending an additional needs assessment for more focus points and areas of confusion and need. Week 6 Site Hours = 30 Staff Development Needs Assessment Hours = 3 Social Media Research & Post Hours = 1 Total Practicum Hours =78
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