I visited Holcomb Bridge Middle School again this week as a chance to see more of what the media specialist does during her day-to-day activities. She does not teach technology classes, but throughout the day teachers came in with their classes to work on projects. During these class times, I also helped the students to use PhotoStory to create a presentation about a selected country. The 6th grade social studies teacher said that they were starting this project as part of a grade for their final. It is meant to replace them simply writing an essay about a topic.
I have used PhotoStory before so I was able to help the students during the day. Although they were usually it as basically another form of PowerPoint, this program has the capability to make a voiceover photo film. I used this program in grad school to talk about a library I visited. I was able to not only upload photos, but also add my voice in the background and even some music and credits. This program could be a useful stepping stone to more advanced video editing programs or tools.
During the school day I also had the opportunity to talk with the parent volunteers, an area I struggle to build up in my own library. The volunteer I talked to actually has a child now in high school, yet she enjoys volunteering at Holcomb Bridge because there is often more to do. Our conversation gave me ideas as to how I can recruit more volunteers. For instance, she said that she enjoyed helping label books or changing student data in Destiny as it makes her feel accomplished. These activities are tasks I would love to have volunteers help complete. I will need to plan more in advance for these tasks to be available, but if volunteers feel like they are accomplishing something, then maybe they will be more inclined to be a repeat volunteer.
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