October 20, 2009

A Change of Scenery

Today I spent the day working in the Media Center at Islands Elementary School in Savannah, Georgia. This is a relatively new media center that serves a population of Pre-K through 5th grade students. There are six student computers and a multi-media station. The media specialist is Susan Hill. I spent my time correcting class assignments and adding new students to the online catalog system. This was necessary because of the reshuffling of staff after the initial school start-up. In addition, I created shelf/marker library cards for several classes who were visiting the media center today. There was also a great deal of shelving to do.

The school was having testing so the media center was not very busy on this particular day. However, several classes visited. The first graders were checking out books for the first time. It was very interesting being in the media center at an elementary school. There is much more class interaction and much less individual interaction and research. I also saw much less collaboration and teacher interaction than at Johnson High School. It may have been because of the testing.

Total Hours: 7 Hours