North Wilkes High School

Media Center Newsletter

Hours

7:30am - 4:00pm

Staff:

Cindy Caudle, Media Coordinator

Sherry Hicks, Media Assistant

Media Skills Assistants

North Wilkes High School is so fortunate to have a wonderful group of Student Media Assistants this term. We have 14 students who are taking Library Media Skills. These classes are curriculum and service oriented. We tell the students that they are students to Mrs. Caudle and Mrs. Hicks: however, they are teacher assistants to everyone else who comes into the Media Center during their class period. Their duties include all aspects of Media Center organization and management; from dusting book shelves to maintaining the computer labs, laptops and Smartboards. The student assistants must be very self directed and independent due to the fact that each assistant has a different set of duties to carry out each day. These duties rotate on a weekly basis between students in each class.

Thanks Gang for all you do for the students and staff of NWHS.

Media Assistant Curriculum

There are five major goals in the High School Media skills Curriculum:

The student media assistant will:

1. experience and appreciate a wide variety of reading, listening, and viewing resources to interact with ideas in an information‑intensive environment.

2. employ strategies to access, evaluate, use, and communicate information.

3. understand the important issues of a technology-based society and will exhibit ethical behavior in the use of technology.

4. demonstrate knowledge and skills in the use of technology that supports the media program.

5. use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply and communicate information.

WEBSITES

Media Assistants are responsible for helping students and staff with logging onto the computers and with certain websites. The assistants need to know how to login and the passwords for these websites. These are free for all students to use at school and at home if they have internet access.

Gaggle – student email accounts

www.gaggle.net

username: initial of first name, last name and last 4 digits of your student number @wcs.gaggle.net – no spaces

password: [REDACTED] of first name, initial of last name and your student number

Ex: John Doe student number 123456

username: jdoe3456@wcs.gaggle.net

password: [REDACTED]

NCWISEOWL – (NC Online Windows for Learning)- resources for use in research projects and homework assignments. Using WiseOwl for online research places students in a safer, advertising-free environment with age-appropriate information and tools that assist students with the research process.

www.ncwiseowl.org

wiseowl is the password anytime a password is requested from this site.

World Book Online – Worldbook Online Resources including World Book Advanced, World Book Student, World Book Kids, World Book Spanish Version

www.worldbookonline.com

Username: nwhs (all lower case letters)

Password: [REDACTED] (all lower case letters)

SIRS – (Social Issues Resource Series) Editorially-selected reliable resources supporting research assignments for students

North Wilkes subscribes to two knowledge sources from SIRS.

1. SIRS Issue Researcher: covering the leading issues most studied and debated by students.

2 . SIRS Government Reporter: historic and government documents, directories and almanac

www.sks.sirs.com

Username: nc0955

Password: [REDACTED]

After logging in select SIRS Knowledge Source. Then you may choose which resource that best fits your needs. Sometimes there are extra sources that SIRS makes available for students dealing with special topics. Check these out also.

Just a reminder: Basic computer login in for all student at NWHS is:

Username: Student ID number

Password: [REDACTED] date with no numbers in front of the month and the day and all 4 digits of the year.

Example: Username: 123456

Password: [REDACTED] for January 16, 1994