Grade Level Meeting:
This morning I attended a grade level meeting on Google Calendar. The school has recently converted from the old system to Google. For many of the teachers and staff, anything besides gmail and Google search is new to them. This new system is being implemented as a way to streamline communication by providing 'In the Cloud' Web 2.0 technologies as part of the 21st Century Technology initiative. Today's meeting was a brief overview on how to set up and share Google Calendars. The Media Center has a Google Calendar that can be accessed by everyone in the school for easy viewing (no one but the media specialist has editing rights). This should make it easier for teachers to keep track of when they are scheduled for the media center and to also see when times are available in which teachers can request whole class media services. In addition to the grade level meeting, I instructed a new parent volunteer on book check-ins and check-outs as well as book re-shelving. Book fair preparations were initiated with the completion of posters to be displayed throughout the school.
