Media Matters A newsletter for people who love Library Media Centers August 2007 Volume 6, Issue 1 2007 Exemplary and Exceptional Library Media Programs L-R Jill Rose, Steve Piazza (representing Marsha West), Betsy Razza, Janis Hayden, Holly Canup, and Cindy Adair. On June 14, 2007 the State Board of Education recognized and honored the 2007 Exemplary and Exceptional Library Media Programs. State Superintendent Kathy Cox spoke highly of the recipients as well as Library Media programs around the state. The Exemplary recipients include: Cindy Adair: Flippen Elementary (Henry County), Holly Canup: East Jackson Middle (Jackson County) and Jill Rose :Alpharetta High School (Fulton County). The Exceptional Library Media program recipients are: Marsha West: David Barrow Elementary (Clarke County), Janis Hayden: Eagle's Landing Middle (Henry County), and Betsy Razza and Kathleen Disney: Druid Hills High School (DeKalb County). Our Library Media Specialist of the Year Melissa Johnston (not pictured) was also honored. Watch for information about the 2008 Exemplary Program. Inside this issue: Fact Check 2 FCCLa and GRM 3 Best Practices 4 NoveList 5 Summer Instititue 4 Super WebPages 8 District Winners 9 Picturing America 10 Georgia Read More 11 GAIT winners 12 Kelly Bingham 13 We the People 14 Calendar 16 Welcome Back to School! Page 2 Media Matters Thanks to Andy Spinks for this information: We will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 1970 Twin Towers East 205 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Phone: 404-657-9800 Fax: 404-657-6822 E-mail: jserrite@doe.k12.ga.us A new site, http://www.FactCheckED.org , recognizes that kids are growing up in a world of ceaseless and instantaneous communication. Accurate and unbiased information can be an elusive commodity in this constant stream of messages many of which are attempts to persuade the recipient to do or buy something. The website's aim is to help students learn how to become smart consumers of these messages. This website provides tools to help students dig for facts, debunk deceptions, set aside preconceptions and weigh evidence logically, and to help teachers guide students toward good consumer strategies. There is also a Lesson Plans section. Most of the plans are framed around political or consumer advertising, and lead students on a process of discovery to uncover the facts. One section of the site, Straight from the Source, provides a guide to Internet research as well as a list of government, think-tank and advocacy group websites with assessments of their reliability and what they offer. The Dictionary is designed to help decode the bureaucratese and terms of art that often baffle the uninitiated. They invite you to explore. They also invite your comments. If you have complaints about the site or suggestions about ways to do things better, they want to hear from you at Editor@FactCheckED.org. If you like the site they want to hear that, too. They will be offering more material as time goes on. You can help guide them by telling them what you find useful and what you don't. Congratulations to Andy Spinks who was recently named Library Media Coordinator in Cobb county. Page 3 Update Media Specialist of the Year for Bibb County. Cassandra Hicks-Wilson/Media Specialist Vineville Academy Volume 6, Issue 1 Correction: In the May 2007 issue the calendar stated that the Boston Massacre began on 5/5, It actually began on 3/5. Sorry. FCCLA and Georgia Read More Team Up! Lea Copeland won a gold medal during the Georgia FCCLA STAR Events competition for her work she did with Georgia Read More. Lea scored 99 during the Regional Competition and 97 during the State Competition. Another group of students from Babb Middle in Clayton County scored 100 on the work they presented using Georgia Read More. Their project is called Focus on Children. This group, along with Lea, went to the Headquarters Library in Clayton Co. and to Lake City Elementary. School to promote the Georgia Read More Program. These students will compete in the National STAR Events Competition at the FCCLA National Leadership Meeting, July 6-13. Thank You for working with my students and sharing the Georgia Read More program with us. Lillian Mitchell FACS Teacher/FCCLA Adviser It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss. Page 4 Media Matters Best Practices From Cindy Adair at Flippen Elementary (Henry County) FNN Falcon News Network While many schools do a daily live news show for announcements, we decided to take a slightly different approach. We produce a news magazine show. Another teacher and I work with 3 teams of students to create, research, write, videotape, and digitally edit an 8-10 minute news show that is broadcast throughout the school every other week. Fifth grade students apply to be part of the FNN team from whom we select 24 27 students that are divided into 3 teams for the year. We work out a time with their teachers to allow them to meet once a week during the school day. We also have them stay after school about once a month. Students are taught how to research information, write an interesting and timely news story, and conduct interviews. They also learn how to operate a digital video camera, run the PowerPoint teleprompter, set up and stage a setting for taping, write transitions between stories to make the show flow, and finally, how to download video and edit a program using video editing software. Every child on the team is a reporter. They rotate through the jobs of camera operator, director, teleprompter, news anchors, and editors. The FNN students gain an understanding and appreciation of the amount of time and effort required to create a short quality video, while the other students in the school are kept up to date on school and community events and activities. They are exposed to information beyond their own four walls in the school. For example, we have conducted interviews with a child's grandfather who worked for NASA on all the Apollo space missions and with another grandfather who was part of the 1957 gold medal Olympic hockey team. Share your Best Practices ideas with your colleagues. Page 5 Volume 6, Issue 1 NoveList When Gary Paulsen is out, Kevin Henkes is on reserve and Harry Potter is nowhere in sight! One of GALILEO's best kept secrets is the NoveList database! My goal is to make sure this secret is kept no more! I will be sharing this wonderful resource with you in hopes that you will in turn share it with your students and staff! GALILEO's NoveList can become your own personal reader's advisor! Use it for...... Author's biographies & bibliographies Read-alikes Annotated book lists Book discussion guides Thematic lists First chapters Find titles in a series Describe the plot to find the title .......and more! Recently a post on LM_Net featured an article in NoveList that provides some new ideas for elementary folks. Follow this path to a great article by Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series. From the GALILEO home page, you can access NoveList in several ways, including the K-12 database list. The fastest way is to type NoveList in the Find Databases search box. Click the SCHOOL RESOURCES tab, top right. Under Teaching with Fiction, click on Preschool and Elementary Articles. Click on Archives (link in middle of first paragraph) and scroll down to "Desperate Librarians . . .or, When You Need a Few Good Ideas." You will find some good, practical ideas there as you begin planning for the new year. Look for another Desperate Librarians article that will be posted there in late September. "Book Performance Art" is another article in the list by Judy Freeman (www.JudyReadsBooks.com ). Rebecca Amerson, Media Specialist National Board Certified Library Teacher Woodstock High School Page 6 Media Matters Media Specialist Summer Institute Donna Milner, Kathy Politis from GeorgiaStandards.org prepare for a presentation. Jane Roberts & Ann Grantham enjoy a break before getting back to the Summer Institute. Rosalind Dennis, Kathleen Disney hard at work preparing information for the many Library Media Specialists in attendance. Page 7 Were you there? You should have been! Volume 6, Issue 1 The Macon ETTC provided a wonderful venue for the Summer Institute. Fran George, Mabel Solomon, Donna Mavity get to meet, learn, work, and refresh. Dorothy Bland & Yvonne Stuart & friend network with one another. Page 8 Media Matters Check out these Georgia Library Media Center WebPages! Want to add pizzazz and information to your current webpage? Check out these outstanding pages. Alan Arena, "Media Lord" at Shiloh Pt. Elementary in Forsyth County has created a wonderful, fun page. Check it out at: http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/1309208610476293/site/default.asp Faye Williams at Villa Rica Middle in Carroll County also has a fantastic site for teachers and students: http://teacherweb.com/GA/VillaRicaMiddleSchool/MediaCenter/ Andy Spinks and Renee Marsala at Wheeler High School do an outstanding job on their school's webpage. Take a look at: http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~wheeler/academics/library/index.html Want to spotlight your Library Media Center webpage? Let us know. Some school webpages don't even name the Media Specialist or have a link to the Media Center. Remember do not put the GALILEO password on your website. Page 9 Volume 6, Issue 1 Library Media Specialist of the Year: District Winners Announced GLMA has announced the District Winners for this year's Library Media Specialist of the Year. While not all districts were represented, the applications that were received show that the library professionals in Georgia are making a deep impact on student achievement. The Library Media Specialist of the Year for the State of Georgia has been selected from amongst this fine group and will be formally announced at COMO. Congratulations to the following library professionals: Cindy Beatty, Lewiston Elementary: East Georgia Kathi Vanderbilt, R.L. Osborne High: Metro Cassandra Hicks-Wilson, Vineville Academy: Middle Georgia Linda Martin, Sugar Hill Elementary: Northeast Georgia Carole Williams, Matilda Harris Elementary: Okefenokee Melissa Allen, Glynn Academy: Southeast Georgia Michele Entrkin, Anne Street Elementary: South Metro Glovis South, Heard County Middle: West Georgia GLMA would like to thank the District Chairs who helped facilitate this year's selection with a special thanks to Betsy Razza who continues to make needed improvements in the application process. Their commitment to GLMA and to the library profession is truly impressive. Congratulations, District Winners! We'll see you at COMO! Susan K.S. Grigsby LMSOTY Chair Page 10 GRANT WOOD (1892-1942), The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931. Oil on Masonite, 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1950 (50.117). Photograph 1988 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Estate of Grant Wood / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association have announced the recipients of the Picturing America Grant. Congratulations to: Cascade Elementary School Atlanta, GA Glynn Academy Brunswick, GA Freedom Middle School Canton, GA Carrollton Junior High School Carrollton, GA Central Middle School Carrollton, GA Park Creek School Dalton, GA Decatur High School Decatur, GA Oak View Elementary Decatur, GA Coffee County Board of Education Douglas, GA Saxon Heights Elementary Dublin, GA Big A Elementary School Eastanollee, GA South Effingham High School Guyton, GA Hollis Hand Elementary LaGrange, GA Alexander II Magnet School Macon, GA Osborne High School Marietta, GA Rome Middle School Rome, GA Myers Middle School Savannah, GA Cannongate Elementary School Sharpsburg, GA Thomas Crossroads Elementary School Sharpsburg, GA Matt Wilson Elementary School Tifton, GA Tunnel Hill Elementary School Tunnel Hill, GA Valdosta High School Valdosta, GA Russell Middle School Winder, GA County Line Elementary Winder, GA Page 11 Please consider joining a List Service (or two). It is a wonderful way to network with other media specialists, get ideas, ask questions, give advice and find out about conferences, workshops, author visits and more. To join the GaDOE List Service send an email to: join-doemedia@list.doe.k12.ga.us Put nothing in the subject or body of the email. You will receive a confirmation to which you will need to respond. In the confirmation email are directions on how to unsubscribe. Volume 6, Issue 1 Nobody graduated from a library. Nobody graduated without one. Anonymous Georgia Read More will be continuing for Year 3 with exciting new changes. Check out the GaDOE website to watch the videos, obtain the vocabulary list and view the Lexile scores. http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/it.aspx?PageReq=ITReadMore Remember the Georgia Read More DVD and the Film Clips DVDs are for the entire school. Be sure to let the faculty and staff know about these resources. Page 12 Media Matters News you can use...and share. Film Clips Study Guides (Character Education) are now online and downloadable. Go to http://www.filmclipsonline.com and choose "Download Study Guides". GAIT announces Technology Mini-Grant winners! Betsy Razza (Druid Hills High School) will use her grant to purchase computers for the Career/College Counseling Center. These computers will help students with test preparation, scholarship needs, career decisions, and college choices. Kathi Vanderbilt will use her grant to purchase audio books for the ESOL population at her high school. These books will allow the students to improve their reading by participating in paired reading along with additional instruction by the ESOL teachers. Congratulations! Two more grants will be awarded in spring 2008. Please consider applying for one. Information will be posted regarding when applications will be accepted. Juanita Buddy Ginny Harrell Suzanne Mittenzwei GAIT Awards Committee Page 13 Volume 6, Issue 1 In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value. This article appeared in the May issue of Media Matters, but I neglected to include Kelly's contact information. Meet Georgia author Kelly Bingham Kelly Bingham is the author of a young adult novel entitled Shark Girl. It was published in April 2007 and has been nominated by the American Library Association for a Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. It is also being featured in a special insert on debut fiction in Kirkus Reviews. Kelly Bingham was a story artist and later director for Walt Disney Feature Animation, where she worked for twelve years. She received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College in 2004. Kelly lives with her husband and their five children in Ellijay, Georgia. Shark Girl is her first novel and recently received a starred review in School Library Journal. Kelly can be reached at: vermontgrad04@yahoo.com . Kelly's website is: www.kellybingham.net Page 14 Media Matters Congratulations to the Georgia recipients of We the People Books on the Pursuit of Happiness A. Philip Randolph Elementary School : Alpharetta Alpharetta High School : Alpharetta Hopewell Middle : Alpharetta Manning Oaks Elementary : Alpharetta Milton High School : Alpharetta Ocee Elementary : Alpharetta Webb Bridge Middle : Alpharetta North Springs High : Atlanta Sandtown Middle : Atlanta Westlake High : Atlanta Sue Reynolds Elementary : Augusta Glynn Academy : Brunswick Banneker High : College Park Camp Creek Middle : College Park Frank McClarin High : College Park Harriet Tubman Elementary: College Park Heritage Elementary : College Park Long Branch Elementary : Dahlonega Lumpkin County Elementary : Dahlonega Lumpkin County High : Dahlonega Lumpkin County Middle : Dahlonega Herschel Jones Middle : Dallas Blackburn Elementary : Dawsonville Page 15 Abbotts Hill Elementary : Duluth Findley Oaks Elementary : Duluth Shakerag Elementary : Duluth Wilson Creek Elementary : Duluth Conley Hills Elementary : East Point Hamilton Holmes Elementary : East Point Paul D. West Middle : East Point Tri-Cities High : East Point Bear Creek Middle: Fairburn Renaissance Elementary : Fairburn New Quitman County Elementary : Georgetown Daughtry Elementary : Jackson Kanoheda Elementary: Lawrenceville Wilkinson County Middle and High : McIntyre East Fannin Elementary : Morganton Arnall Middle : Newnan Bryan Co. High : Pembroke Bryan County Middle : Pembroke Lanier Primary : Pembroke Bryan County Elementary : Pembroke Hembree Springs Elementary : Roswell Mimosa Elementary : Roswell River Eves Elementary : Roswell Campbell High : Smyrna Redan High : Stone Mountain Northwest Whitfield High : Tunnel Hill Tunnel Hill Elementary : Tunnel Hill Volume 6, Issue 1 August 2007 GaDOE Library Media Services Sunday Monday Tuesday July S M TW T F S 1234567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Septemb er S M TW T F S 1 2345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 1914 : First World 1776 : Delegates 1492 : Columbus War erupts sign Declaration sets sail o f Ind epe nd en ce Saturday 4 1792 : Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet, is born 5 1861 : Lincoln imposes first federal income tax 6 1965 : Johnson signs Voting Rights Act 7 8 1 97 4 : P h ilip Petit 1974 : Nixon walk s on a tig htro- resigns p e b etween the Twin To wers in NYC 9 10 11 1936 : Jesse 1846: Smithsonian 1856 : Hurricane Owens wins 4th Institute created submerges Loui- gold medal siana resort 12 1877 : Edison develops the phonograph 13 1961: The Berlin Wall is built 14 1914 : Panama Canal open to traffic 15 1771: Sir Walter Scott born 16 17 1948 : Babe Ruth dies 1890: Ralph R. Teetor is born. What did he invent? 18 1963 : James Meredith graduates from Ole Miss. Why is this significant? 19 20 21 22 1934 : Adolf Hitler 1833 : Benjamin 1959: Hawaii bec- 1864 : Inter- becomes presi- Harrison is born omes the 50th national Red dent of Germany state Cros s founded 23 24 1869 : Edgar Lee 79 : Vesuvius Masters is born erupts 25 1918: Leonard Bernstein born 26 27 1939 : First televised Major League baseball game 1871 : Theodore Dreiser is born 28 1915: Tasha Tudor born 29 2005 : Hurricane Katrina slams into GulfCoast 30 31 1983 : First Afric- 1864 : Battle of an American in Jonesboro, space. What is Georgia his name? Wh at dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me i n a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen