2020-21 Evidence and Reflection

Evidence & Reflection

-Meeting Agenda/Minutes

-Request for Members 

-Request to combine SIT/MTAC

Reflection:

It has been a difficult year to have a functional MTAC this year for multiple reasons, but mainly because of the COVID-19 Pandemic and virtual instruction, due to the overwhelming amount of time that staff and students have to spend online.  Ms. Barkley has continued to work on the Family & Community Partnerships objective.  She has created and regularly updates the WYMLA Media Center Website that includes technology assistance to both staff and families.  She has used Class Dojo to share out information related to Media/Tech Services to parents and students.  Several staff members to include Mr. King, Mr. Murray, Mrs. McGlade, Mrs. Hetzell, and Ms. Barkley operated  the WYMLAhelp Google Meet to assist staff, students, and parents during the first semester.  Issues assisted with included but not limited to: schedules, PowerSchool Login issues, WakeID Login Issues, Google Meet, Zscaler, Pop-ups, Flash, Resetting Passwords, etc.  Ms. Barkley also ran a help desk prior, AskBarkley, to the creation of WYMLAhelp where she was available to assist students as needed.  Ms. Barkley functions as a Tier 1 support for all staff and students/families in which she troubleshoots technology issues and forwards those she cannot assist to the WCPSS HelpDesk.  She has provided to support for our school families through email, meets, phone calls, and text messages at all hours of the day/week to help mitigate as many issues/concerns as quickly as possible, especially at the beginning of the year to ease technology frustration for our parents/caregivers/students. 

This year, the media center has created & deployed a new website for students, families, and staff members to help with locating resources, reading for enjoyment, technology assistance, and research skills.  In addition to the the media center website, information has been disseminated through Google Meets, phone, direct email, the Principal's weekly message, Staff Weekly Updates, ClassDojo, and the WYMLA website.  

Directly emailing students has proven to be a productive way to communicate any media center information.  Our students seem to respond positively to direct email, which is something that will continue beyond this school year.  Some examples of direct email communication include advertising new eBooks, free audiobooks for summer reading via Sync, opportunities such as illustrator contests and poetry/writing contests, as well as media and technology Q & A/troubleshooting.  

The new Media Center website has had good traffic, but I will be replacing the page counters for the upcoming year.  Overall the MC website has had over 400 hits.  It seems like the hit counter collects it for almost all the pages together vs individual page hits.

Thank you to our PTSA for providing money to purchase over 30 new eBooks this year.

Evidence & Reflection 

-WYMLA with the help of WCPSS Technology Services facilitated the Chromebook Distribution to our students.  We have distributed over 154 Chromebooks to our students this year.   

-WYMLA with the help of WCPSS Technology Services facilitated the distribution of 39 Hotspots to our school families.

-WYMLA Media Center is updated regularly with the latest Media and Technology information.

-Purchased over $500 worth of eBooks for students' reading pleasure.  Big thanks to our PTSA for providing the funds!

-HS ELA is now using MackinVia Class Sets for the ELA Curriculum.  We have had 130 copies assigned to students to date.

-HS Civics purchased 24 copies of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.

-Several digital collections have been created to help support classroom curriculum.  These collections include: Volcanoes, Energy-Waves, Earthquakes, Spanish, and Spanish Research.