Staff,
This first part of the post is for Kindergarten and 1st Grade teachers.  This week we will be moving into some Technology areas practicing Keyboarding and Mouse control.  As we all know, controlling those two becomes a life time of practice.  The standard and sites covered for Kindergarten are as follows:  Operating a Mouse or Keyboard.  The standard and sites covered for 1st Grade are as follows:  Identifying Letter Keys.  Please let me know if you have any questions. 

As for 2nd grade - 5th grade we are continuiing to work on the "process" towards completing the book trailers based on their non-fiction books.  This week all students created a folder on the desktop and found their exact book cover on google.  They learned how to save the book cover to that folder.  They also began saving 15 - 20 pictures into that same folder.  Next week, the plan is to select 7-10 of those pictures and learn how to insert them into a "power point" slide show.  From there, the students will take those slides and import them into "photo story."  Once all of the slides are imported, students will narrate each slide and include a book cover, title page, table of contents, glossary and index.  Each page, once concluded, will have background music and recorded narration.  When I see that all of that is included in their presenatations, I will upload them to an internet link on the school library home page.  It will be several weeks worth of work. 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Dave

Staff,

What a nice week we are starting.  I feel refreshed after some reading, shoveling and skiing.  This week we will be diving into our informational text book trailers.  It will take several weeks to complete them.  I'd like 2nd - 5th to bring their non-fiction books to the computer lab during their computer time for the next several weeks.  They do not have to check them in until we are done with this project.  Also, I will let them check out 2 fiction books when they come for the library time.  There should be a total of 3 checked out to each 2nd-5th grader until we complete as much as possible on the "book trailers."

For the Kindergarten - 1st grade please have them bring their non-fiction book to the computer lab.  We will be using them for their  projects.  Here is an example of one I created:  bookr (ex.)   Again, I will let K-1 check out 1 fiction book for a total of 2 until we complete the projects. If you'd like to try one yourself, the following link will guide you:  bookr (home page).   I'm hoping pairs of 1st graders will complete these projects.  With the Kindergarten groups I will most likely build several of the projects for them with their help.

Let me know if you have questions concerning the above.  Have a good day.  Again, here is a sample of "fiction" book trailers done in the past at Corral:  Book Trailers (link). This link is also on the Corral Drive Library page (at the bottom) under "student work."

Dave

Staff,

This week we will be using a site called Bookr to create a template for our Book Trailers.  For Kindergarten - 2nd, the Bookr site will be used exclusively for completing our "book trailers."  In the case of third grade through fifth grade, they will be using Bookr to create a template for the rest of their Book Trailer progress.

Please feel free to contact me about how Bookr works and how you might use it in your classroom.
Again, our goal this month, is to create book trailers from the information gathered from the informational texts / non-fiction books.

dave.sisson@k12.sd.us

Dave

Parents, Students, and Staff,

I will be using this blog to keep everyone updated on the activities in the library and computer lab.  This year the Rapid City School District has combined the two jobs of Library Media and Standard Support into one job title "Information Media Specialist."  In the fall we have been busy with several different projects.  One of the main goals with every project is to use a series of "problem solving steps."  We call them the "Super 3" or "The Big 6" for older students.

The "Super 3" is plan, do and review.  The "Big 6" is broken down further into six different steps

1.  What do we need to do?
2.  What can we use to find what we need?
3.  What information should we use?
4.  How can we show what we've learned?
5.  How will we know if we do well?
6.  How do we know we are done?

In January we are starting a project involving "informational texts" and what's included: Cover page, Title Page, Body, Glossary, Index, Pictures (Captions).  Each group will be gathering information from non-fiction texts and using that information to create a "Book Trailer."  A book trailer is similar to a movie trailer.  It is a short advertisement for a book.  I have done fiction book trailers in the past and this year we will be completing "non-fiction book trailers." The following link shows the "fiction book trailers" done here at Corral 3 years ago:  Corral Drive Book Trailers

One other note, if you'd like to check out more books as a family, I can easily sign parents up as patrons of the Corral Library which allows you to come in and check out more books. Friday afternoon is the best time for me to check out families.

If you have any questions regarding the "Information Media" program at Corral Drive, please contact me at the Corral Drive Library or call 394-6789.