My book fair is going better than I expected. Monday will be my final day, and I hope it goes as well as this past week. I have already exceeded my $2300 goal with one day to spare. The kids have been great! Each day a new group of excited students walks through the book fair monster's mouth. It is even more fun when their parents and teachers take a trip through the wind tunnel with them. it would be nice if I could focus solely on the book fair, but I had to attend several meetings this week as well. The first of which was to go through an orientation for my evaluation at the end of the year. My assistant principal presented me with a one inch binder that contained a colossal amount of antiquated paperwork. Antiquated may be a little harsh, but in this day and age you would think that the evaluation for Library Media Technology Specialist would at least be written in this millennium. Most of the documentation is from 1990. In fact, some of the exemplars talk about processing film strips and cassette players. What are those? Who am I kidding? I had both in my class when I started teaching. I kind of miss the hoop sound on the cassette that told you to advance the film.
Well, maybe the evaluation process will catch up to what the job entails in the 21st century.
I also attended a webinar from teachingbooks.net. What is teaching books.net you say? Their site says it best.
"TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities."
Many of the schools in my district purchased the product last year, but the staff at my school hardly used it. I have to take the blame for this. I did not do my part in making sure they knew what it was and how to use it. This will change this year. I plan on conducting several in-service sessions to illustrate and illuminate the power of the product.
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