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Buffy Hamilton, School Librarian Roxanne Johnson, School Librarian

Tammy Beasley, Library Clerk

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THE UNQUIET LIBRARY MARCH 2010 MONTHLY REPORT

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Program Highlights

The Unquiet Library celebrated the American Library Association’s Teen Tech Week with Wii gaming for students! Many thanks to Dr. Eddy, our principal, for letting us borrow his Wii system as well as Ms. Schmitt and Ms. Dicks for letting us borrow game accessories and games.

Students and teachers enjoyed the arrival of a new book shipment consisting solely of their requests! We received approximately 100 new books are enjoying heavy circulation.

Ms. Lester’s students were introduced to Evernote for notetaking and bookmarking favorite information sources.

Ms. Lester’s students learned how to create Netvibes pages as information dashboards and cultivating personal learning environments.

Ms. Kennedy’s 4th period 11th American Literature/Composition and Mr. Sapere’s senior 12 British Literature/Composition students learned how to build Google sites for learning portfolios.

Ms. McManus’s French students learned how to create multimedia multigenre artifacts as part of their exploration of Paris and how to embed their learning artifacts in a Google Sites learning portfolio.

Evernote is really simple and easy to use. I am so glad Mrs. Hamilton gave us the opportunity to use this tool. I am really anxious to keep clipping and working with Evernote! Lindy S., 10th grade student Our project is but one of many examples of Buffy’s collaborative efforts with teachers here at Creekview. Not only has she transformed student learning, she has also transformed the teaching strategies of many of our teachers. In the four years in this building, I have seen teachers who thought a Google search was the only way for students to do research expand their requirements, with Buffy’s encouragement and tutelage, to our school’s databases and web 2.0 tools. Susan Lester, English teacher The Netvibes information portal is impacting my research experience in that it helps me stay very organized. When I need to find something or need some quick facts, I can quickly hop onto my netvibes page and find the information that I need. What I found very convenient is that I have feeds to all of the other important sites that I am using for my research project such as by evernote and blog and so everything for me is one click away which has definitely saved me much more time and energy. Netvibes is an essential tool that is helping and enhancing my research experience because of its easy features and the widgets that are available. Nicole T., 10th grade student

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Data Snapshots The Unquiet Library Statistics, March 2010 Number of Class Sessions Served 216 Number of Student Visitors (Morning, Lunch, Afternoon Hours)

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Total Circulation 659

9th Grade Circulation 237

10th Grade Circulation 165

11th Grade Circulation 178

12th Grade Circulation 79

Total GALE Databases Sessions 3199

Gale Virtual Reference Library 1695

GALE Discovering Collection 534

Gale Opposing Viewpoints 315

Gale Literature Resource Center 336

Gale Global Issues in Context 229

Gale History Resource Center, World

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Gale History Resource Center, U.S. 43 The Unquiet Library Blog 10,091

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Collaborative Lessons Learning Activities/Instructional Research Pathfinder Collaborative

Instructional Partner(s)

American Author Study, 11th American Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/american-authors-kennedy

Ms. Kennedy

Research on Spanish Speaking Countries, Spanish I http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/spanish-countries-research

Mr. Tippins

Paris Travel Guide http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/paris-2010

Ms. McManus

The Battles of Saratoga and Trenton, JROTC http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/saratoga-trenton

Mr. Holly and Mr. White

I-Search Paper, 12th British Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/i-search

Mr. Sapere

Veterans’ Research Project, 10th Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/veterans-issues

Ms. Lester

Doing the Right Thing Biographical Research, 10th Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/doing-the-right-thing

Ms. Jackson

Elizabethan and Renaissance Period Research, 9th Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/9th-renaissance-kennedy

Ms. Kennedy

Genetic Disorders, Biology http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/geneticdisorders

Ms. Hendrix