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Technological processes and resources enhance learning and serve as an infrastructure for administering a properly staffed and well funded library media program.
For circulation and management we use Destiny by Follett. This is the system we use for reports, check in/check out, patron information, inventory, etc.
A search for The Crossover by Kwame Alexander rendered 7 title results including e-books and audio books.
Here is a screen shot showing Destiny being linked on the Media Center Webpage
Launchpad is a single sign on service that all BPS students and teachers use to access everything from Google Classroom, to Focus (grade system), to their textbooks, and it also has Follett Destiny linked right on the front page for easy access. Overdrive and SORA are also directly linked there as well as all of our databases.
We have 36 Breakout boxes and access codes per 6 boxes. Last year we only had a few teachers willing to try to use them so this year we used 16 kits and did a team building activity during pre-planning so all of our teachers would see what it would look like to utilize the boxes and technology.
Our maker space materials are used mostly as stations. We have:
**We also have regular access to District technology such as class sets of VR goggles, Ada fruit, and portable green screens.
Students using Breakout boxes with a Civics review.
Coding Dash to destroy a city built of Keva blocks.
Learning to use Gale databases!
Circuit building with Little Bits.
Drawing and designing a superhero (with time lapse video of drawing process) through Osmo.
Basic coding with Ozobots.
Virtual Reality field trip to see Historical Landmarks recently covered in Civics class.