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.