UnCommon Learning
Ignite Inquiry & Creativity in Your Media Center
NCSLMA Conference 2019
http://tinyurl.com/uncommonmedia
Gina Webster, Walkertown Middle School
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The Walkertown Middle School Media Center features a variety of spaces and resources useful for whole/small group instruction, collaborative & personalized learning, research & design activities, hands-on & makerspace products, and literacy promotion in a variety of print and digital formats. The space is shared with Walkertown High School and offers a large flexible learning commons space, research commons area, flexible technology, a virtual makerspace, and many resources to extend research, design and maker creation far beyond the walls of the media center space.
The Walkertown Middle School Media Center features a variety of spaces and resources useful for whole/small group instruction, collaborative & personalized learning, research & design activities, hands-on & makerspace products, and literacy promotion in a variety of print and digital formats. The space is shared with Walkertown High School and offers a large flexible learning commons space, research commons area, flexible technology, a virtual makerspace, and many resources to extend research, design and maker creation far beyond the walls of the media center space.
Walkertown Middle School
Walkertown Middle School
Gina Webster, School Library Media Coordinator
336.703.4154 Twitter: @wmsmediacenter
Website: http://tinyurl.com/wtownmedia
Our Media Quest YouTube Video (feature show)
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Roller Coaster Research & Design Mobile MakerLab
Roller Coaster Research & Design Mobile MakerLab
Using K'Nex Kits, our 7th gr. science students worked collaboratively to design & build a roller coaster as part of their physics unit.
Roller Coaster Research & Design Padcaster Integration
Roller Coaster Research & Design Padcaster Integration
Students were able to use PadCaster video technology to record their trial runs to reflect on their processes & procedures.
All WS/Forsyth County Schools media centers are equipped with a full Padcaster mobile studio to use with students for instruction and student creation projects.
Magnetic Poetry Kits:
Magnetic Poetry Kits:
Thanks to a grant from the Forsyth Educator Partnership, our media uses magnetic poetry kits and easels for a variety of literacy integration & student creation products. Some of the kits we currently offer our students and staff include: Kid Genius, Big Print, Original, Storymaker, Kids French, Kids Spanish, Haiku, Wood Words, Book Lover, Math Poet, Kindness Words, & Encouragement Words.
International Family Literacy Night MakerSpace Stations!
International Family Literacy Night MakerSpace Stations!
Our media center incorporated a variety of international activities into our recent book fair family literacy event. In addition to a guest speaker who discussed the culture of St. Vincent & Grenadines, we included MakerSpace stations for our students & families to create, design & tinker with languages. We featured our new Magnetic Poetry Kits (Haiku, Spanish & French), Asian Brush-Stroke Message Banners, Fiesta Flowers, & other hands-on activities for students to engage in with their parents & siblings. We also included multilingual story time for young readers, helpful digital and print literacy-builing resources for parents, games, snacks & door prizes. Over 200 people participated in this event.
Expert Expo
Expert Expo
Student Enrollment Form (below)
Read All About It Template (below)
<----- Sample Student Portfolio Items
Expert Expo Activity Guide pdf.pdfExpert Expo Read All About It Template pdf.pdfEXPERT EXPO SHOWCASE
EXPERT EXPO SHOWCASE
Personalized Learning Presentations &
Space2Make Poetry Stations
WMS STREAMSS Night Showcase --->
2019 Expert Expo
Sample Topics:
- Classical Ballet
- Deforestation
- Mexican Heritage
- Careers as an Author
- Carpentry & Woodworking
- Unicorns & Mythology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Interior Design
- Physicians
- Army Careers
- Percussion
- Fashion Design
- Careers in Education
- Veterinarians
- Fishing
- Unidentified Flying Objects
- Beauty Industry
Monster Mash Book Buffet
Monster Mash Book Buffet
Ages & Pages: Survival!
Ages & Pages: Survival!
Family Reading Program
Family Reading Program
Ages & Pages: Survival Resources:
- Kick-Off Family Event (above)
- Enrollment Packet Promo Materials
- Survival Stations Guide & Student Field Guide Graphic Organizer
- Survival Family Guide with Activities --------->
- 2019-2020 theme -- FLASHBACK!
- 9/11 (I Survived 9-11)
- Holocaust Hiding Places (Don't Tell the Nazis, Diary of Anne Frank)
- D-Day (Allies)
- Civil Rights Movement: Space/Math (Hidden Figures, young readers' ed.)
- Civil Rights: Local Connections (Greensboro Sit-Ins)
- Lincoln's Assassination (Chasing Lincoln's Killer)
- The Titanic (The Watch that Ends the Night, Voices from the Disaster)
- Kitty Hawk (Race for the Sky)
- Ancient Egypt (The Red Pyramid)
- Great Depression (Esperanza Rising)
- Vietnam POWs (Captured)
Ages Pages family survival 2018.pdf
#Kindness Challenge
In response to data from our Panorama student survey date (social/emotional learning), our media center sponsored a Kindness Challenge at the beginning of the year to promote a positive school-wide climate. Students and staff were invited to participate. #Kindness Challenge
Students and staff who participated in our #KindnessChallenge will be listed on the #KindnessChallenge Honor Roll. We also plan to draw names for special kindness treats at the end of the promotion.
In light of October being declared Kindness Month, we are extending this program into October and featuring books that relate to kindness, friendship, and generosity.
MC kindness challenge card 2019 pdf.pdf
Reading Fun!
Reading Fun!
Use student focus groups and surveys to design promos!
Use quirky trends to generate excitement!
Book Tasting!
Book Tasting!
Don't forget to invite staff to book tastings!
Playaway Audio books paired with print copies of books engage a wide array readers -- from reluctant to avid!
Staff Outreach!
Staff Outreach!
Provide small group intros to resources & personalized attention to teachers! They don't know what you have if you don't show them!
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