OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARYNovember Monthly Report

LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTSAndrea Cremer Author Visit

Book Display Areas Added on 3rd Floor

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This was a great intro to 2.0.  Hope to see many more in the future!

~Response to Presentation

Web 2.0 Presentation to Business Ed. Dept.

Created Web 2.0 Wiki

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Created a mission and leadership team

We agreed on a research process to be used grades 1-12

Vertical team meeting with OPRF librarians

Created and shared the revised Research Process with area librarians

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She did an awesome job after school with APA.  There were students fighting over books, ha.

~ Teacher response to booktalk

- “Thank you again for all your help with the Prezis – in grading them yesterday it was (1) so helpful to have everything together and (2) amazing to see how this tool you showed them how to use really helped them do rhetorical analysis.” (email)

Booktalk at GSA/APA meeting

Teacher response to librarian Prezi instruction:

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“I saw the shelves in the teen area. Great score to improve that space. Good work and thanks for working with B&G to make that happen.” (email)

Response to improved display on third floor

Showcase of student work

HIGHLIGHTS

Attended Web 2.0 professional development at Brooks Middle School.

Hired a parent volunteer on the third floor. Improved magazine display area and teen

lounge area on 3rd floor. Reclassified/relabeled over 380 books for

ease of searching and the creation of the new popular books display on the third floor.

Created mystery books display. Met with library designer to brainstorm ideas

for library remodel.

EXAMPLES OF COLLABORATION Assignment Pathfinder Wiki Pages Created For:

Goldberg – Also gathered books Greenstone – Also gathered books Schwartz and Faust – Also gathered books McGrail – Also gathered books Hill – Also gathered books Wise – Also gathered books Bayer – Also gathered books Silver – Also gathered books Belpedio Holtschlag Lee – Also gathered books Carparelli Fox Walter Tolomeo – Also gathered books Lopez – Also gathered books B. Lee

COLLABORATION

Gathered books for Ms. O’Keefe’s Latin American History class.

Selected lavishly illustrated art books to inspire students in Dr. Campbell’s AP Studio Art Class.

Created a wiki page with supplemental science articles for McGrail.

Used the research process in depth with Doug Hill’s health class.

Met with Gilbertsen regarding reading “pull-out” projects with students.

Met with Nunez to review her class projects and incorporate technology into her curriculum.

COLLABORATION Collaborated with Shipley and McKenzie on the PB

re-classification project. Met with Nancy Bardo about using Google apps for

her 1:1 pilot next semester. Met with Ponce to design an Aztec Project

assignment and incorporate technology into the lesson.

Incorporated the following technologies into projects: Prezi, Glogster, Xtranormal, Weebly, and Wikispaces. Examples of student work after intro from librarian: http://cellstudyandtechnologycelltheory.wikispaces.com/ http://prezi.com/ztkwkk0yncj5/symbolism/ http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7812191/ http://cellstudyandtechnology.weebly.com/index.html

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