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Welcome to the Webb Bridge Middle School Media Center wiki!

For those viewing on tablets or smartphones: Symbaloos are visual arrangements of links to various online resources, and are updated regularly on their page. Information about @eBooks is being posted on a new page of our wiki, including tutorials on using our resources. Here is information on @Copyright, Citation and Fair Use Math club information is here ; information on our book club and reading team is here.

October 24, 2014 Decorating and teacher preview for the book fair today!

October 23, 2014 Book fair set-up today. Our theme is Batty For Books!

October 22, 2014 Mrs. Manganelli's classes are viewing and writing their comments on their peers' Pythagoras projects. A few tweaks to get some activated, but that's part of the process!

October 21, 2014

Mrs. Manganelli's classes are working on their Pythagoras projects; remember to post your project number and topic, NOT your name! 1st period Padlet 4th period Padlet 6th period Padlet

October 20, 2014

Mrs. Manganelli's 1st, 4th, and 6th period classes are creating Pythagorean projects this week using the Padlet platform.

Our book fair materials are being delivered this week! On Thursday, we will set up the fair, then teachers will preview on Friday to select items for their wish lists. Students will visit the fair between October 27th and 31st with their language arts and reading teachers, and may also come to shop before school and during advisement times (with teacher permission).

October 17, 2014 Ms. Pardee's classes are in the media center with activities on the rise of Nazism!

Welcome back to school for 2014-15, everyone! We start out the new school year with new offerings through the media center. In addition to new books, audiobooks, and videos (for your teachers to show in class), we have many new online resources, and new ways to access those resources. Through Destiny, you can still search to find which books we have on our shelves and Follett eBooks and Catalist audiobooks. MackinVia, new to our schools for 2014-15, allows you to search for all eBooks and Mackin audiobooks; through MackinVia, you can also access all of our online subscription resources (including GALILEO products) without having to remember usernames and passwords for each database. Fulton County is now also providing access to OverDrive, which offers more fiction offerings, also with your computer log-in information. Check out our READ box to see some of the books available online now!

Digital Learning Days were held May 5th - 7th, 2014.. Our emphasis was digital citizenship and the history and future of technology. As part of the celebration, students submitted digital products with information on digital citizenship to be shared with other students, teachers, and our community. These projects covered digital citizenship generally or one area, such as online safety, fair use, copyright, cyberbullying, etc. Our business education classes also created projects; all may be seen here.

May 6, 2014 Digital Citizenship in 2014 Day in all classes and advisement periods! Mrs. Carter's 6th grade LA classes learning about research with reliable sources and databases (and tree octopi!) Mrs. Paradis's 7th grade LA classes working on research in the media center.

May 5, 2014 1984 Technology Day - using school technology from 1984 throughout the day- no e-mails, no desktop or tablet computers, no cell phones!

May 1 - 2, 2014 8th grade orchestra and band and 6th-8th chorus to Charleston - to perform on an aircraft carrier and at an arts magnet elementary school!

April 30, 2014 Ms Paradis's students are working on free choice research, creating digital projects with what they learn.

April 29, 2014 Ms. Mikle's students are choosing their research topics, starting with SIRS Issues Researcher and evaluating other databases. They understand why learning research skills will help them throughout life!

Ms. McNeal's language arts students are creating found art or digital projects aligned with reading //Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.//

February 27, 2014 Ms. McFarland's classes are working on digital biomes booklets to share with other classes.

February 26, 2014 Ms. Green's science classes

February 25, 2014 Ms. Barker's classes are learning the advantages of using research databases when possible, and how to evaluate websites for accuracy, reliability, and bias.

February 21, 2014 Ms. Mikle's classes and Mrs. Layton's class are in today working on projects.

February 20, 2014 Ms. Fernalld's classes are working with online simulations on balloons and static electricity and voltage today.

January 24, 2014 Ms. Scharfstein's classes start on their research projects - self-selected topics using SIRS Issues Researcher.

January 23, 2014 Ms Manganelli's classes in today working on their stacked discounts projects.

January 17, 2014 Kickoff for Digital Citizenship digital projects contest! Ms. Bartley's videotechnology classes in the media center working their magic!

January 16, 2014 Ms.Bartley's videotechnology classes working on media literacy assignment.

January 10, 2014 Spelling bee in the media center starting at 9 a.m. We had to take a break around 11:30 when we'd used the last of the words in the list and had to get another list. Congratulations to winner Tejas V and runner-up Elise C. You both did a great job!

January 9, 2014 School technology fair - 10 students will advance to Fulton County Tech fair, with eight projects in video production, robotics, project programming, hardware, mobile applications, and Web 2.0. Congratulations to everyone - and good luck at county fair on January 25th!

December 20, 2013 Grandparents' breakfast in cafeteria; music performances in gym. Last school day of 2013 - enjoy your break! Remember to notify Mrs. Brown if you want to enter the school tech fair on Thursday, January 9th.

December 19, 2013 Math Club end-of-year celebration before school in media center - great semester, math kids!

December 18, 2013 Book Club end-of-year celebration before school in media center - remember to read over the break, everyone!

December 17, 2013

December 6, 2013 Desktop Stores presented by seventh graders - great ideas and sales!

November 25 - 29, 2013 Thanksgiving Break - enjoy your week off with family and friends

November 20 - 22, 2013 Eighth grade field trip to south Georgia - visited Plains, Americus, Tifton, Jekyll Island, Darien, and Savannah. Much fun and learning!

October 29, 2013 Book Fair for RBassett, Flanagan, Carter, King Family Night with Orchestra concert and bake sale 5:30 - 8:30

October 28, 2013 Book Fair for Scharfstein, Paradis, Anderson, Barker, Herdina, Hall, Goldstone Mrs. Philipkosky's and Mrs. Manganelli's classes reviewing and responding to classmates' digital projects

October 25, 2013 Book Fair preview for teachers Mrs. Philipkosky's and Mrs. Manganelli's classes working on their digital projects on scientific notation

October 24, 2013 Book Fair set-up!! Mrs. Philipkosky's and Mrs. Manganelli's classes working on their digital projects on scientific notation

October 23, 2013 Mrs. Philipkosky's and Mrs. Manganelli's classes start their digital projects on scientific notation Mrs. Brown's Padlet for the project Mrs. Philipkosky's 1st period class Padlet Mrs. Manganelli's 6th period class Padlet Mrs. Manganelli's 8th period class Padlet

October 22, 2013 Mrs. Sheftel's class in for a WebQuest and Ms Gravitt's class in using the Kindles for an Edmodo quiz.

October 17, 2013 Math team links for club meeting today: CCGPS group link here ; JV group link here.

October 16, 2013 Book Club before school. If you forgot it was a Wednesday after your four-day weekend, and several of you did, next week we will get out the buzzers! Ms. Fiorentino's class beginning research on the American Revolution - books, online resources in Destiny list, and Kindles!

October 15 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS! (Teachers back and diligently working, though. Ms. Brown had a full-day workshop at old Westlake High to learn about eBooks and media literacy.)

October 14 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS OR TEACHERS!

October 11, 2013 The Hispanic Heritage Month Bee was held in the media center between contest winners from the month's trivia contest winners. Congratulations to Sarah, Sebastian, and Nidisha, contest winners!

Ms. Logan's students began their research on World War I, using books and the Destiny resource list for websites. Mrs. Manganelli's students worked on iXL projects.

Book fair volunteers met in the media center to plan a GREAT book fair week. Get ready for a great BOOk fair at the end of this month, and keep listening to and answering each day's clues!

October 10, 2013 The school board community meeting was held in the media center.

October 9, 2013 Mrs. Brown attended the Fulton County Media and Educational Technology Instructors middle school meeting at Stonewall Tell Elementary for the morning, where she learned about some new resources for students and teachers.

Mrs. Walter's and Mrs. Layton's classes filmed their original video for the BOOk Fair in the media center. They did a great job!

October 3, 2013 In a re-enactment of the Swamp Fox, students were encouraged to participate in a contest through the Sons of the American Revolution. This was filmed during first period and then edited by Webb 8th graders to be shown to all 8th grade social studies students.

October 1, 2013 Mrs. Noe's and Ms. Goldstone's 8th grade reading students learned about the new options in Follett Destiny, including how to use Quest and FollettShelf to share their reading successes and to access eBooks from home or school. They also checked out books after they saw the media center does have books of interest to them!

===**October 1st also kicked off a month of reading in anticipation of the book fair the last week of October; there will be trivia questions related to October and Fall, with prizes of some interesting insects!**===

September 27 - October 1, 2013 Mrs. McNeal's language arts class used the green screen area to create videos with iPad and iPhone green screen apps, combining both technology and creativity assets!

September 27, 2013 Ms. Swartz's language arts classes finished their week with a discussion of censorship and Banned Books Week, activated with clips from the school board scene of a book challenge from the movie //Field of Dreams.// They then checked out books, including some from the cart of books which have been challenged or banned in other places in the U.S.

September 24 - 26, 2013 Ms. Gravitt's class used books, computers, online databases and resources (including GALE Student Resources in Context) for their research projects involving the Arab-Israeli conflict. ===**Banned Books Week is September 22nd - 28th! We have several activities and displays during this week, so keep your eyes and ears open. Listen to the morning news announcements for information on BBW, censorship, and freedom to read. **===

In Destiny, you can find a resource list with a number of books which have been frequently challenged in the U.S. over the past 20 years. Check it out and see if you're surprised by some of the titles - then check out one of the books from the BANNED cart set up in the media center this week!

Below is an interactive Google map with details of some of the book challenges reported in the United States from 2007-11. Students and staff may also access this map through print maps with QR code posted around school.

media type="custom" key="23876700" September 20, 2013 Mrs. He, Mrs. Hartley, and Mrs Layton used the media center for Chinese, Social Studies, and Music projects today.

September 3, 2013 Mrs. Sheftel's classes used CultureGrams today in the media center to compare countries' climate, natural resources, etc. Ms. Hall's and Ms. Herdina's classes visited to check out books.

August 19th - 23rd BUSY with sixth grade orientations to the media center this week. Sixth graders learned how to log in to the computers as well as how to navigate Follett Destiny, Follett Shelf, and Destiny Quest. Most had time to find a book to check out as well!

August 5, 2013 Getting ready for the new school year! Here is a link to reading recommendations: []

May 23, 2013 Have a great summer! See the Webb Summer Learning Symbaloo for links to summer reading and activities ideas!

May 20, 2013 MANY THANKS to our GREAT media center parent volunteers! Today we show our appreciation for all they do for us throughout the year with an appreciation brunch!

May 9, 2013 Math Club end-of-year celebration in the media center! Remember to bring your refreshments and any math-related games you'd like to play!

May 8, 2013 Student Book Club end-of-year celebration in the media center! Kick-off to a summer of reading :)

May 7, 2013 Capstone event for Tech Leader Forum at PLC South. Ms. Brown learned much in this group; more tech integration to come :)

May 3, 2013 Eighth graders to Six Flags for their physics field trip!!

May 2, 2013 Seventh graders to Hindu Temple on field trip; Mrs. Shah had a great time with you!

April 26, 2013

Georgia Heritage Day at the Webb! Ms. Brown, Ms. Farr, and Mrs. Lyon enjoyed showing you cross-stitch and Mrs. Shah had a great time with Mrs. Monica Phillips showing how to crochet!

April 24, 2013

PTA Lunch and Learn on Summer Learning in the media center. Mrs. Cline from the Ocee library shared summer activity plans for students at Ocee and Mrs. Brown presented a Prezi on summer online learning options. The Prezi and a Symbaloo with links to summer learning websites is posted on the Webb Bridge Destiny page.

April 9, 2013

Mrs Cargill's and Mrs. Scharfstein's 8th grade language arts class in today for introduction to SIRS Researcher - generously received a trial subscription just for this project :)

February 19 - 22, 2013 Mrs. Hughes's 8th grade social studies classes are working on multimedia projects for their Georgia Civil War battles wikispace. (On February 20th, Mrs. Brown attended a workshop which included many new options for projects, so a second Symbaloo was added.)

February 13, 2013 Ms. Fernalld's classes in to start work on Rube Goldberg projects with intro to tools to use - for both physical and virtual projects. A recording of the demo on these tools is here. Mrs. Winfield's classes in to learn about different types of encyclopedias - and how to locate information on MANY subjects!

February 12, 2013 Mrs. Hubauer's classes in to work on free-choice research projects with many options for sharing what they learned!

February 11, 2013 Ms. Thomas's classes in for introduction to research, citations, and overview of options for project tools for March research project. Remember to look at the Web 2.0 resources on our Symbaloo with your parents and ask permission to set up accounts for ones that interest you.

February 6, 2013 Digital Learning Day! See the wiki page on DLD activities at the Webb, and remember to complete the survey after you use the resources introduced!

February 4th and 5th, 2013 Eighth graders going to Alpharetta High learn about high school options for academics and extra-curriculars. Fifth graders from feeder elementary schools visit to see Webb Bridge this week as well.

January 29, 2013 Mrs. Hubauer's classes in for research introduction, citation and copyright overview, and reviewing Web 2.0 options on Symbaloo for research presentations.

October 29th - November 2nd, 2012 Book Fair in the media center this week!

October 10, 2012

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August 16, 2012

First classes in today since students got their agenda barcodes yesterday. Welcome to our reading classes coming through for mini-orientations and to check out their first books of the new school year.

Ms. Layton's general music class came in to learn about locating resources for their music research project and how they could create presentations in Glogster or Animoto if they don't want to make paper posters.

March 23, 2012 Georgia State MathCounts competition at Georgia Tech - congratulations to the six state qualifiers from the Webb!



March 21, 2012 New reading area in the media center!



March 17, 2012

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Hope you are pinched by any leprechauns today :) Here is a link to Hunger Games overload for those of you eagerly anticipating the movie next week:

Scholastic Hunger Games site EW Hunger Games The Hunger Games Movie

March 16, 2012

Fulton County Media Festival hosted by Webb Bridge Media Center today! Twenty-six judges signed up to judge nearly 160 media projects. Webb Bridge had four projects submitted and two are advancing to the Georgia Student Media Festival. Announcements on Monday broadcast :)

March 14, 2012

New look for the student reading area ... what do you think?

March 13 - 14, 2012

Mrs. McFarland's classes learning about wikis, Symbaloo, Animoto, SlideRocket, Skydrive, Prezi.... Practice with their Vokis, Animotos and Prezis!

March 12, 2012

Mrs. Gillespie's class learning about MAS Ultra and Skydrive - and applying what they learn!

March 6, 2012

Mrs. Gillespie's class in to talk about reliable sources, using databases and GALILEO!

February 27, 2012

Remember that Student Media Festival projects are **//due this Friday//**. Check the GSMF Website or see Mrs. Brown for more information on completing your paperwork for your projects. //**Remember copyright and Fair Use guidelines!**//

December 15, 2011

New resource: GoAnimate!

December 14, 2011



On Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 153,030 students from 2,509 schools around the world participated in the American Mathematics Competition 8. Thirty Webb Bridge students from the 7th and 8thgrades participated in this competition.

Brian C and Derek W, with near perfect scores, positioned themselves in the top 1 percent internationally, earning them “Distinguished Honor Roll” awards. Haiwen G, Andrew F, Andrew K, Anav M, Ben D, Michael H, Brian H, and Charlie T's strong scores positioned them in the top 5 percent internationally, earning them “Honor Roll” awards. The Webb Bridge team was positioned in the top 1 percent internationally
 * At the National / International Level**

The Webb Bridge team tied with Sculley Academy for first place in Georgia. Brian C tied with two other students for individual first place in Georgia
 * At the State Level:**

The AMC 8 is a 25 question, 40 minute multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem solving skills. Many problems are designed to challenge students and to offer problem solving experiences beyond those provided in most middle school mathematics classes.

December 6, 2011

Ms. Immel's classes in the computer lab using their research results to create multimedia projects!

December 5, 2011

Fulton County Schools' Middle School Academic Bowl finals in the media center at 5pm. Webb Bridge maintained their winning streak and claimed the championship trophy. Congratulations to all of the teams, who will advance to PAGE's district tournament in January, 2012.



Ms. Immel's classes begin work on their organ system wiki pages. Students will use various programs and options to add multimedia content to their pages. They will learn how to save and upload pictures (example below) and how to embed HTML codes from websites into their wikis.



They will also decide which other tools they might use to make their wiki page more effective in teaching their system. Examples of tools include: Animoto, Glogster. Prezi. Slideshare Wordle Voki

For pictures, access the Georgia Image Quest trial: Britannica Image Quest

December 2, 2011

December's Read and Estimate begins: How many gumdrops in the jar? You may enter an estimate each time you check out a book! Winner will be announced on December 21st!

Ms. Immel's class starts their research on their assigned organ systems. Research is saved electronically - either on their server space at school, flash drives, or e-mailed.

December 1, 2011

GALILEO - Encyclopedia Britannica - researching, then creating and using Workspaces to collect information and media media type="custom" key="11523000" EBSCO - Consumer Health Complete - research, then creating and using folders for information and media

netTrekker - educator-evaluated websites - send the URLs for websites you use to your e-mail to access later and for citation

GALE Student Resources

Math Team meets after school in the media center. Sixth graders will take the AMC 8 for practice (since they missed it due to Fernbank field trip.) Other students will practice Lassiter Math tournament test. All practice ciphering from 2005 Lassister JV tournament!

November 30, 2011

Ms Immel's Class is starting their research on organ systems - and creating wiki pages to show what they learn in their research!

For research, we will use resources in GALILEO, GALE and netTrekker. Students will carefully collect the information necessary to cite all resources they use - including media as we as print sources.

November 7, 2011

Book Fair Week is here! Family Night will be on Tuesday from 6 - 8:30 in conjunction with band and orchestra concert. Come shop for the holidays and enjoy some music! (We will also have a bake sale as well!)

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October 31, 2011

Mrs. Cargill's 8th grade social studies class is creating a Wiki to explain how the Creek and Cherokee Indians affected the development of GA. They are using the resource list from Webb Bridge's [|Follett Destiny] page, GALILEO (New Georgia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, etc.), netTrekker, and GALE Student Resource Center for research. Groups will create multimedia pages on their essential question on Mrs. Cargill's wiki using various Web 2.0 resources, including Glogster, SlideShare, Prezi [|Animoto] Students will be introduced to Fair Use exceptions to U.S. Copyright law and how to cite all sources used for the project.

For most of a two-week period this summer, I attended CampTEACH to learn about new and exciting technology applications. An example of why we want to use technology - and how we can do it responsibly!

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Welcome to the Webb Bridge Middle School Media Center wiki! Summer is here - enjoy your free reading time!

Gardenias by my front door...



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