WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE
April 9, 2017
Welcome to Day 1 of my PCE Learning Center blog. Please bear with me as I am new to blogging and will most likely stumble a little bit along the way. The idea for this blog is to keep you informed as to what exactly we do in the Learning Center throughout the school year. Since it is late in this current school year, I will begin with a brief summary of the year so far. Students come to the Learning Center twice a week for Media classes. These classes involve a combination of library and computer skills that make up what is called information literacy. Students learn how to safely find information using multiple Internet and library resources. The library also has quite a few databases for students to use. Links to these databases can be found back on the LC web page by clicking the Resources link. I try to work collaboratively with classroom teachers on projects throughout the school year that tie into their grade level curricula. We also spend about a trimester learning how to keyboard. And of course. . . we still take time to enjoy stories from many different genres throughout the year and discuss those stories. A new thing for me this school year is the use of a research model called the Super 3. It is an offshoot of a larger research model called the Big 6 (which normally would be introduced to students around 3rd or 4th grade). Since this is the first year for this type of research technique, I decided to begin small by starting all students out on the Super 3. The three steps are Plan, Do, and Review. Plan-- Have a plan to guide your research. What questions need to be answered? What needs to be accomplished through the research/project? Where would be the best place to look for this information and why? What will you use to present your information? Do-- Execute the plan that was created. Revise the plan if needed. Review-- Look over the finished product/project. Did you do everything you were supposed to do? Did you answer all the questions? Is your name and class on the finished work? Did you look the project over for mistakes and correct them (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.)? Did you do your best work? Are you proud of what you did? Currently--
Oh, and please pardon our dust. Right now in the library, we are trying to process all of the many wonderful books we received from other libraries in the reorganization of our school district. You may see piles of books everywhere around the library (different phases or stations) and many people working diligently on making those piles become a part of our ever-growing library collection. It is a work in progress that will hopefully be finished by the time school starts back up in August. My thanks to everyone who is helping make this giant task seem less overwhelming. :) Thanks for reading through to the end. . . .I will try to keep up with adding onto this blog as a way to let you know what is going on in the Learning Center and appreciate all the support that parents have shown to our Learning Center over the years.
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