I did something that I thought was fun this week while teaching a 9th grade social studies class research skills. As they entered the media center, I had “Honky Tonk Women” by the Rolling Stones playing overhead. The students were very confused by this but I assured them that they’d understand everything by the end of the lesson. Once they were seated, I asked them if they knew who was singing the song and one student said, “the Rolling Stones.” I said, “Correct! Now, if Mick Jagger was to write a book about his life as a Rolling Stone band member and you had to do a research project about The Rolling Stones’s influence on rock and roll, would his book be a primary source or secondary source?” a student correctly said that it would be a primary source because it was an autobiography. I then held up a book titled A History of Rock Music and asked if that book was a primary or secondary source. Another student correctly replied that it was a secondary source. We went on to learn more about primary and secondary sources, ethical uses of information, plagiarism, and how to use GALILEO. When we got to the GALILEO portion of the lesson, I told them to remember back to how we began with the Rolling Stones. I asked them to enter “rolling stone” in the keyword search of GALILEO. Over 700,000 records were shown. I explained to them that GALILEO didn’t understand if they were looking for a band, a magazine, or actual rocks or stones, therefore, they had to use the advance search and the Boolean modifiers to help narrow down exactly what they were looking for. Long story short, the 9th graders actually understood what it was that I was teaching them and the session went great! I was so pleased!!!
It was prom week this week. All faculty are required to attend as workers/chaperone for at least 1 hour. I was lucky to have been given the first shift (7:00pm-8:00pm) and my job was to check the tickets of the students based on the list of those who paid. My artifact this week is my picture with our Teacher of the Year, Roddy Hatch. He is one of my favorite people at Windsor Forest and I will miss him when he retires in 3 years! I also worked on wrapping up the work for my professional portfolio this week. I can’t believe that I walk in graduation in May and this summer, I will finish up the 2 additional courses that will complete my time in the master’s program. I have learned so much about technology, resources for the media center, how to better myself as an informational specialist, and most of all, I learned that I had the stamina at age 43 to be a mother, a wife, a “taxi driver” for my kids and their friends, a team mom for 2 different teams because I have 2 daughters, a full time media specialist, and a full time student. Wow!
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