Media Weekly
August 16, 2024
Library Checkout
- Checkouts: Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday from 8:45 - 3:00; K-3 weekly, grades 4 & 5 bi-weekly
- Complete Google Form with your checkout time request ASAP. We will finalize by Monday 8/19.
- Checkout will be a 30 minute block. Each class will hear a story, book talk, or quick lesson to start your time with us.
- Checkouts begin Monday, August 26.
- Please send books by 8:45 on your checkout day. We will hold & renew books for students. You will get renewal slips.
- Open library checkout - 8:00-8:20 before the school day and during clerk hours M, T & Th 8:45-3:00. Students can come Wednesday and Friday, but the library may be unstaffed.
Checkout is not just for kids! We have things for you!
- Resources / non-fiction sets / SEL
- Seasonal / topical books
- Displays
- Read Alouds
What's New?
Student Passwords
Username = CPS login ID
Password = 24+id+student ID
Example:
Username: 34abc01
Password: 24id123456
Grades 4 & 5 will change PWs by 9/20 in Media... you’ll get a list of those new passwords.
Beanstack
Create reading challenges, track reading minutes, track reading streaks, earn badges, etc.
Found in Classlink for teachers and students.
What's Staying?
Novel Effect & BookBreak!
Look for emails about both in the next few days!
Guinea Pigs Needed!
Nearpod & Peardeck
District has purchased some licenses for Peardeck and Nearpod as content delivery models.
Anyone wanting to try it out and provide feedback? Let us know by next week and we'll get you one.
Teacher Device Swap
Thursday, September 12 during plan time or lunch
Who gets a new device @ BEU?
K-5 teachers, counselors, EL teachers, IM/ICs, SLPs, Learning Specialists, OTs, PTs
Turn in both laptop and iPad with chargers
Back up any files before turning in.
Sign out of Apple ID on iPad and erase the iPad.
Student Device Deployment
- First week of school - August 20 - 23
- Sign up for a time using Bookings page
- Come to the Media Center to get your devices (grades 1-5)
- Setting up your students’ iPads - directions will be provided
- Would you like help with set up? Book us through Bookings
- Standards for iPads to consider - Selfie as wallpaper / lock screen, try to use Apple Classroom!, teacher permission for downloading apps
- Labels - please use just painter's tape or something that won't leave a residue
- Keyboards - grades 2-5
Book Room
- Organized by level, then Fiction / Non-Fiction
- Lit Set / Guided Reading books from the Book Room need to be checked out in Destiny before using in the classroom.
- Please take the whole bag when checking out.
- Turn in complete sets to the Media Center… we’ll check them in and put them away for you.
ClearTouch Panels
Need training? Contact Katie C. or Erika
New from Tech Services:
Do not unplug or toggle the power button off... updates for the board are pushed in evenings when board is on
Library Passes
We will be putting 2 library passes in classroom teachers' mailboxes. These can be used for independent visits to the library. Feel free to use these or others you already have. If you are not a classroom teacher but would like library passes for your classroom, please let Erika know.
Book Us!
Need to place a work order? Here's how!
The help desk phone number is 25888
Beulah Ralph Elementary Media Center
Erika Fitch, Library Media Specialist
Katie Canepa, Library Media Specialist
Jennifer Imhoff, Media Instructional Aide
Mara Williams, Media Instructional Aide
Katie Groner, Media Clerk
Latrel Tanniehill, Technology Support Analyst
Email: efitch@cpsk12.org
Website: https://www.cpsk12.org/Domain/6239
Location: 5801 South Highway KK, Columbia, MO, USA
Phone: 573.214.3852