1. North Media Center
February Highlights
and Statistics

2. Monthly Highlights
--Collaborative Lessons
 Thesis papers are underway in the HS North Media
Center with several classes, including the Freshman
Humanities classes, working on this significant
undertaking. Students are working on database search
skills, website credibility activities, paraphrasing direct
quotes into online Noodletools notecards, and using
other organizational tools like Scoop.it and Google Docs
to create successful papers on many self-selected topics.
 The HS North Libguides page received over 9,800 hits
this month. We are so proud of this testament to the
students’ use of our database sources and how-to-
tutorials made accessible to students from school and
home.

3. Monthly Highlights
--Events in the Media Center
 The book club met twice in February to
discuss Room by Emma Donohue. The
book club was the first group to pilot the
new Nook Simple Touch e-readers.
They loved the experience and we are
now circulating the readers to any
interested student.

4. Monthly Highlights
--Professional Development
 Mrs. Stout, along with members of the HS North Tech
Committee presented several workshops at the February 17th
Professional Development Day. Topics including using Google
Apps for Education, Voicethread, Edmodo, and Twitter. Mrs.
Stout intends to hold follow-up up workshops for any teachers
who are interested in continuing work on infusing these tools
into their lessons.
 Mrs. Stout continues to attend the District Technology
Committee Meetings as a HS North representative. HS North
hopes to be able to pilot several of the new devices available on
the market in order to best understand how they may fit the
unique needs of our student population.
 Mrs. Stout also joined the District Professional Academy Board,
and intends to stay involved with the Board’s endeavors to
continue to foster meaningful PD opportunities and teacher
leaders.

5. February Statistics
Direct Instruction Class Sessions 110
Drop In Class Sessions 6
Classes scheduled for Presenters/
Events
0
Circulation 117
Before School Visits 404
Lunch and Pass Visits 522
After School Visits 170
LibGuides Usage 9843