Looking to the Future

After taking time to review the suggested web links from the media meeting, please note two or three new ideas you would like to use in your media program. Describe briefly how you would adapt or implement the ideas.

Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers

Each year teens have the chance to vote for their favorite Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee. The selection list includes twenty titles. The books on the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers list are also the books used for the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. Students can vote at their school library media center or a the public library. The Georgia Library Media Association organizes and promotes the event each year in March.

Both Bradwell Institute and Liberty County High School encouraged students to vote. Although the state of Georgia found The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins to be the popular winner, Bradwell and Liberty County High School had other favorites.

Bradwell's favorite pick was Lesson From a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles.

Liberty County High's favorite pick was Getting the Girl by

Susan Juby.

You can visit the included peach award link to see the complete list of nominees and read a brief summary for each of the nominees.

Teen Tech Week@ LCSS

Teens today are living in a technology enriched world. The school library media center is part of that world. The American Library Association sponsors Teen Tech Week each year. Teen Tech Week is a national initiative that celebrates and encourages teens to use the non print resources found in libraries and media centers.

During Teen Tech Week, March 7-13, Bradwell Institute and Liberty County High School offered teachers the chance to learn more about non-print information services and web 2.0 tools that can be used with students to express learned content. Some of the workshop topics offered included:

United Streaming/ Discovery Online Digital Content,


Animoto.com,


netTrekker,


Adobe Premiere Elements


Students in Ms. Sue Bell's literature class are seen here filming in front of a green screen. The group filmed a short talk show segment where they pretended to be Olympian curlers. Students learned how to import the footage into Adobe Premiere Elements and the chroma key effect to place themselves on the ice and in a curling rink!

Next year, Teen Tech Week is scheduled for March 6-12. Check in to your library media center to check out the fun!

Flipping for Technology at the Liberty County Student Media Festival

March 19th was the Liberty County Student Media Festival. A total of 187 student projects were submitted to the county festival. (All projects must have earned a superior ranking of 96-100 at a school-level media festival prior to advancing to the county level.) Button Gwinnett Elementary, First Presbyterian Christian Academy, Frank Long Elementary, Jordye Bacon Elementary, Joseph Martin Elementary, Lewis Frasier Middle School, Liberty Elementary, Taylors Creek Elementary, and Waldo Pafford Elementary all submitted projects to the festival.

Volunteer judges worked in groups of three to score projects using rubrics provided by the Georgia Student Media Festival. The festival was sponsored by Tech4Learning Software. Five lucky judges won free software provided by Tech4Learning in a lunchtime raffle.

Students that created an individual project entry that earned a superior score at the county level of the festival won their choice of one of the Tech4learning software titles to install at home!

Now the superior projects from the Liberty County Student Media Festival will advance to the state level of the competition. An outstanding total of 112 projects are advancing! The Georgia Student Media Festival will be April 30th in Jonesboro.

The media festival is a wonderful opportunity for students to work individually, in groups, or as a class to create a computer-based project. A special thank you goes out to all the teachers, media specialists, instructional technology specialists, curriculum coordinators, and other support staff that assisted, guided, and judged.

Once the results are in from the Georgia Student Media Festival, all students that earned a superior score at the state level will be invited to walk the red carpet! A special Hollywood style evening of awards and veiwings of the superior student projects will be held at the newly acquired fine arts complex.

A Wrap on the Reading Bowl

The 2009-2010 school year provided for a wonderful year of the reading bowl! As in years past, the Liberty County School System had its share of the excitement. Bradwell Institute, Liberty County High School, and Joseph Martin Elementary all advanced to the Division B level of the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl February 6th.

The Division B bowl consist of the first and second place teams from the Southern Regional HRRB, Middle Georgia HRRB, and East Georgia HRRB. The bowl was held at Southeast Bulloch High School. Several media specialists from LCSS volunteered to show their support for the event.

All of the student teams participated with enthusiasm and pride. The elementary level of the competition concluded with Matilda Harris Elementary of Camden County earning first place. Our own Joseph Martin Elementary came in a close second place.

The middle level of the competition concluded with St. Mary's Middle School of Camden County earning first place. Our own Midway Middle School came in a close second place against St. Mary's at the Southern Regional Reading Bowl in Valdosta.

The high school level of the competition concluded with Houston County's Warner Robins High School earning first place. Liberty County High School was not far behind earning second place. Bradwell Institute was recognized for participation in the bowl.

Incidently, both Matilda Harris Elementary and Warner Robins High School both advanced on to win the state level of the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. The bowl was held March 20th as part of the Children's Literature Conference in Athens.


And so it begins again... Just as sure as the pollen is flying and covering everything in Liberty County, our school media specialists are feverishly ordering, reading, and writing questions to help prepare our student teams for next year!

FLE County Media Festival Winners

The Liberty County Media Festival was held Friday, March 19th at the Board of Education.  Frank Long’s projects fared well, with 18 out of 21 receiving a superior rating.

Projects advancing to the Georgia Student Media Festival are:

One, Two, Three…Let's Count at FLE!

Our Book of Animal Rhymes

Texting and Driving, a recipe for disaster

Horsin' Around with Karoline

What do I hear?

Our Class Garden Book

Puppy Mills: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Talking Pencil

Living with Aspergers Syndrome

All About Me

Oodles of Okra

Fun With Friends

My Crystal Experiment

Dance Off From the 70's

My Summer Road Trip

A-Tack Man

Egypt Explorers

The Benjamin Project

The next level of competition for these students will be at state level, to be held on Friday, April 30th!  We are so proud of the hard work our students have done and look forward to the results from the state media festival. 

* Teacher and student participates can be found in the FLE Book Nook posting from Thursday, February 25th.
 

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