Re: Naming LMC Computer Stations

[Shannon Acedo <acedos@MARLBOROUGH.LA.CA.US>]

We have named ours ever since we got them, named for female
Shakespearean characters (we're a girl's school)--it's been useful, and I'd
recommend it to anyone.



> Here is an idea that is working well for our LMC:
>
> I wanted to name each computer station rather than just number them.  I
> conducted a vote among our 1350 students and 120 staff members to select a
> category: Authors, Animals, State History, and Local History. The local
> history category won.  I collaborated with the State history teacher and
> an art teacher to complete the project. The history classes chose 40 names
> and prioritized them (names of historical sites, people, animals in the
> area, etc.).  Each art student from certain art classes, after researching
> their assigned subject, is designing and producing a thematic collage to
> fit around the sides and top of his/her already named computer.
>
> The ones we have received so far are very colorful and unique.  It has
> been a great collaboration effort and is resulting in student pride of the
> computers in the Library Media Center as well as positively contributing
> to the aesthetics of the whole place!!
>
> Gloria Curdy
> Library Media Specialist
> Big Sky High School
> Missoula, MT
> gcurdy@mcps.k12.mt.us
>
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Shannon Acedo
Assistant Librarian
Marlborough School
Los Angeles CA
acedos@marlborough.la.ca.us

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