I'm finished!

Yay!! I had a great time last night eating out with everyone in our class. We had a lot to do when we got back to class, but it was all worth it for Carrabba's! Last night my controversial group did our power point on religious controversial. I think we all did a great job. My group wore our lime green t-shirts with our library quote on the front of them. On the back it said, Equal Opportunity Offender. Everyone was impressed. Tina even brought her cheese braid again for everyone to eat. It was a great way to wrap up the class. After we all presented our power points we had to go around and talk about what we did for our Copyright Project. Everyone in the class made a brochure mostly. I really wasn't sure about making a brochure because I felt like I would copying everything that is already given out on Copyright chart from our school website. I actually did all the "grunt work" that my MC usually does for Copyright. She was actually glad to see that I needed to do this, bc that was one of her goals before Thanksgiving break, was to give out the copyright information. She usually just emails all of the materials out to everyone. I also added a quiz for them all to do. Another thing that I did was to enlarge the copyright chart guidelines and post them in the copy room for everyone to see. The last thing that I did was to make an informational poster that explained the color codes for the video collection.
I can't believe this semester is over!

Update

I have everything typed and ready to turn in for my copyright project, but I'm still waiting for a reply back from my media coordinator to email everything out to the school. I am sending an email that has a copyright quiz, copyright chart/ guidelines, and I am also informing them of the large copyright chart that I posted in the copyroom. I hoping this is going to be enough. I thought about sometime up brochure to help out with understanding the video policy better, but everything is pretty explanatory on the chart from the school website. We also have video and music guidelines that teachers must follow before showing videos. I'm sending those guidelines out along with the email. I will hopefully have everything finished for this project by Monday night.

Last Class

Last night we were suppose to present our controversial issue group projects, but it decided to snow in Boone and Dr. Nita couldn't make it down the mountain. We ended up trying to do our class using our microphones. I went to Tina's house because I knew I didn't have a power point program on my computer. It was kind of nice having someone there to help work through on the logistics of setting up the microphone. It took us an hour before we could get anything started. We did get to hear gang topic from one group. They had a really good presenation and you could tell they put a lot of work into it. My group wanted to wait until the next class session because we want to wear our t-shirts that we had made for the presentation. Tina even made cheesebraid...which I got help eat since I was at her house. :)

Today I worked on my copyright project a little while at school. I had a poster made last week from the print out that the librarian sends to everyone about copyright. I just made it much larger and laminated it. Now I just need to get hung up in the copyroom. I am planning on sending out a situational quiz about different copyright issues and then send out all the information that my librarian usually sends out. I am going to try to work on the other parts to this project maybe tonight or tomorrow. I am going to have a quiet night to myself while my husband is off hunting!

Things are wrapping up...I can't believe we're almost finished with our first semester. I can't wait to eat at Carraba's for our last class in 5010!

controversial Project Meeting

Today I met with my group at the Higher Edu. Center to finish up on the final details of our controversial issue project. I feel a little better about this project, but I just hope I don't get up there and mutter through it. I think overall our power point is going to look really good. We've got our t-shirts made, we have a video from YouTube, we have clip art, and many more cool things on the power point. Tina did most of the work with putting the power point together. We helped her figure out what to put, but since we were using her computer she was the one that did most of the typing. If all else fails...we'll look good while presenting with our flashing t-shirts!!

Last Class

Last week I went to class and found out that I had completed the weeding project a week early! I actually was excited about that because I had to go out of town this past weekend. Dr. Nita gave us some time in class to work on any projects that we needed to catch up on. Having that time was great for our group. We were able to continue working on our power point presentation for the controversial project. Shea had actually finished her weeding project early as well, so we were able to help our group more.

This past weekend I went out of town to Asheville for an art conference. I was able to go to many art workshops and I had to help present a workshop using powerpoint. It has been a long time since I've actually presented anything using power point. I think it's a great tool, but it does take time in putting everything together. One good thing about it is once it's made...it's made!!!

Collection Development Action Project

I liked putting this project together because I was able to learn some important things about weeding. During our last class session we had a visitor, Karen Lowe, to come show us how to weed through our collection. She has a chart that she made that shows every area of the Dewey Decimal system. Each section is broken down into the smaller sections..for example the 520s, then the 530s....Then we are to look on the chart at what years books should be discarded and what books should be kept, and what books are useful. This little chart helped us when weeding our own shelf list for our action projects. She also gave us some criteria to determine what should be weeded and criteria for selecting replacements. All of this helpful info was put together in her resource alignment book. I worked on the 520s section for my project. I should be finished with the project tomorrow and ready to turn in!! I can't believe we're almost finished with this semester!!

Critique #4 and Weeding project

Yesterday I was able to complete my last critique. I wanted to find one about copyrighting b/c it looks like our next project is going to be about copyrighting. It was called Digitizing 101. It basically was telling how you should always give ownership to anything that is transferred into an electronic format. Putting older historical documents on an electronic format can make viewing these items much easier...but you always have to remember to find the source or owner of the document before it's formatted into an e-format.

I am just beginning the weeding project. I have a shelf list printed from my librarian at school. I have chosen the 500s section. Or actually the 523s. I emailed Dr. Nita to see if I starting this project correctly! We'll see!