My first week of practicum was quite eventful. In fact, a good portion of my time was spent outside of the Media Center. After the ten day count, we were allocated two additional teachers. My principal called me in to help think through the logistics of adding the additional staff. We had to find appropriate classroom spaces, locate available technology, edit lunch/lab & resource schedules... all while avoiding too much disruption to the learning environment of the school. We reluctantly decided to breakdown our second computer lab for a first grade class. The laptops from the lab will be used to supplement the technology resources for our third grade classes. With this move, each grade level, second through fifth, will have a COW cart (computers on wheels) with at least 15 laptops to share among them. Having a COW for each grade level should prove beneficial as more and more teaching resources and testing can be found online.
Wow! This makes it seem like I wasn't even in the media center this week. This is not true at all. In fact, an order of ninety-five books was delivered this week.
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| Labeled and Ready for Check Out |
I love getting new books in the media center. Unfortunately, none of the books were processed. There was slight error when the order was submitted to Follett. Yikes! After my clerk and I labeled each book, I made a phone call to Follett and asked them to make sure that all future orders included processing.
I also had another order that came in late Friday afternoon... twenty-eight Chrome base computers.
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| 28 New Chrome Base Computers |
This influx of technology will need to be equitably distributed. To do this I will have to do a physical inventory of the computers in each classroom. Then, I will look at the age and number of computers in each room. This information will be presented to my media & technology committee where we will develop an implementation plan. My goal is to have this plan designed and put into place within two weeks.
