Media Specialist Internship

Ashley S. SaintSpring 2015

Sarah Cobb Elementary School Grades Pre-Kindergarten through Fourth Americus, Ga Title I School 100 Percent Free Lunch

Location Description

Full-Time Media Specialist Media Center Hours 7:10- 3:30 Leadership Team Member SACS Team Member Georgia Milestones Online Administrator Technology Specialist Website Manager

Job Description

I accepted the Media Specialist Job in early May and began working in late July.

Passing of the Key

I was lucky enough to able to learn hands on how to catalog an entire reading program for our school.

Journey’s Houghton Mifflin

New Reading Program

I began this year, by weeding out teacher materials from years past.

Also, we decluttered the Media Center and made it more child friendly.

Media Center Clean - Up

I opened Sarah Cobb’s Media Center with a Media Center Orientation for all grades at different scheduled times.

Library Orientation

Soon after the year began, I noticed my students did not understand how to find a book in the library.

I began teaching a class in the lab to help students understand the set up of their Media Center.

Click on the image below to view PowerPoint.

Understanding The Order of the Media Center

Not to exaggerate, but this Media Center had not be weeded in about 10-15 years.

Weeding has been an on going process. My Para and I are using Library Girl’s Media

Weeding Guide.

WEEDING, WEEDING, and MORE WEEDING

Chehaw Animals Game Day! Jumping Castles, Slide, and Freeze Pop Party

Accelerated Reader Celebrations

On the last Friday of each month, we have organized a time for our local Kiwanis members to read with our students.

Kiwanis Readers

We received new desktop computers to create a second lab in out school!

New Computer Lab Set-Up!

We received 270 Laptops with carts and 180 IPads with carts for students to use in classroom. I had to inventory and create a checkout system to maintain location of all items.

I also learned to use a new system, Meraki, to manage the Ipads’ applications and location.

New Technology

Our system went through a Federal Title I Technology Audit this year.

Each Media Specialist had to inventory every piece of technology purchased with Title I money and record the location.

Title I Technology Inventory

Sumter County went through SACS Accreditation this year.

I was in charge of helping staff understand and collected data for Standard 4.

Click ribbon to view PowerPoint. Sumter County received SACS Accreditation.

SACS Accreditation Team

Click the Image to view the PowerPoint of activities for DR. Seuss Week.

Dr. Seuss Week!

Our school is required to test 30 students online this year.

I am in charge of the Technology required to test these students.

I went to all training sections.

Georgia Milestones Technology Coordinator

Sumter County School System has decided to combine city and county schools. My school will become Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten only.

We are in the planning stages of figuring out how we will transfer Media Center Books, Technology and Textbooks.

Wish Us Luck!

Journey Ahead…..

You are flexible and can do many jobs. For some reason, teachers think I control

the Wifi. Google It! Students Love You! The job never ends.

Top Five Things I Have Learned as a Media Specialist.