Leon High School Media Center

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Leon High School Media Center

• Ninth Grade Orientation

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Welcome to the Media Center!

• We are very pleased to welcome you to the Leon
  High School Media Center.

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The School Library Media Program

• The Vision
• Information Literacy - the ability to find and
  use information-is the keystone of lifelong
  learning.

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The School Library Media Program

• The Mission
• To ensure that students are effective users of
  ideas and information.

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Media Center Hours

• 700 a.m. - 330 p.m.Monday Friday
  

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Visiting the Media Center

• ALWAYS sign in at the CIRCULATION DESK!
• No passes needed before, after school or during
  lunch.
• Official school pass or a pass in your agenda
  book is needed during school day. No scraps of
  paper accepted.

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Back Library Doors

• Back library doors are always locked except for a
  case of an emergency.
• No students are permitted to cut through the
  media center.

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Media Center Procedures

• Always sign in the red notebook at Circulation
  Desk upon arrival. (whether you have a pass or
  not!)
• Sign your name, time, date, and teacher who sent
  you.
• Show us your pass leave it on the circulation
  desk.

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Computer s

• All students must sign up for a computer at the
  circulation desk, unless you are coming in with a
  class.
• During all periods, teachers with classes have
  priority over everyone. (even if you have a pass
  from your teacher)
• A clear purpose must be stated when you sign in.
  Show us your assignment at the desk.
• Computers are used for school assignments and
  school related work.
• E-mail is prohibited, if you need to use e-mail
  for a homework assignment always ask for
  permission from the media staff.
• Usernames and passwords are not to be shared.
  This is a serious violation and will result in
  the disabling of accounts plus disciplinary
  action.

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A Learning Environment

• Our Media Center is the
  information hub for the
• entire school.
• A place for learning, providing students with
  resources and activities.
• Therefore, you must have a purpose for coming to
  the Media Center.

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Expected Behavior

• NO FOOD OR DRINKS.
• Use quiet voices
• 3 to 4 students per table
• Do NOT move chairs from the tables
• Clean up your area (push in chairs, put books on
  carts, pick up trash)

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Library Card

• Use your student ID/library card each time to
  check out materials -- may check out up to 5
  books at a time.
• 2 weeks circulation
• Books may be renewed once
• Overnight checkout for magazines --To check out
  you will need a library card.

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Printing in the Lab Media Center

• Each copy costs .10
• Every student has a personal printing account.
• Each semester you receive 1.00 to print (10 free
  prints)
• You must put a minimum of 1.00 at a time up
  to 5.00
• Preview before you push the print button!

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Network, Internet Computer Use

• Student must fill out an Internet Agreement form
  with parent/guardian signature to have a student
  user account
• Computers are intended for research,
  communication with teachers, word processing and
  educational purposes only.

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Logging On Making a Password
Log-on Last name, first initial, birth month,
birth day (4 numbers.) Example John Smith
would log on smithj0429 Password Must be at
least 7 characters and include 3 of the
following capital letters, lower case letters,
numbers, or a sign. Example Popeye1
Make your password easy to remember and using a
number at the front or back is helpful as you
will be asked to change it each nine weeks.
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Internet Email Rules

• ACCESS IS A PRIVILEDGE, NOT A RIGHT
• Students are responsible for their own account
  and usage of the Internet PRIVILEDGE WILL BE
  REVOKED if caught on sites that are not deemed
  appropriate.
• When using the Internet ,the following are NOT
  permitted
• Chatting, instant messaging, e-mail, game
  sites, My Space, etc. shopping, sending or
  displaying offensive or sexually explicit text,
  graphics or pictures
• If you need to E-mail a teacher
• tell us when you sign in.

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Copy Machine

• Each copy costs .10 eachpay at the desk.Sign
  on the yellow clipboard the amount you have used
  in the copier after copying your material
• E-mailing a document on the copier is free!
• Please allow a teacher to use the copier first.
• Remember You must pay for all prints it does
  not come out of your computer printing account.

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Available For Use

• Daily newspapers
• Current magazines
• Reference books
• Online Catalog
• Contemporary fiction
• Computers for research
• Copy machine

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Production Room

• Paper cutters
• Bulletin Board Paper
• (.25 /transparency)
• Laminator (.50 /foot)
• Video cameras /for use in classrooms or in Media
  Center
• Accu-cut machine for making paper letters
• Color printer
• You must have permission to enter!
• You are responsible for cleaning the area you
  used and returning equipments to the proper
  location.

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Computer Labs

• 30 networked computers
• Teachers sign up in Media Center to have classes
  come in to do research or word processing.
• Students are not allowed
• in labs by themselves.

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Online Resources

• Online resources are useful in locating
  materials. They can be accessed from school or
  home through the Leon HS homepage.
• Destiny Online Material Catalog in the media
  center at home
• every computer has access to
• our entire collection!

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Online Resources Online research databases
subscribed to by the Leon School District

• ProQuest - eLibrary has over 1,500 full-text
  sources.
• Proquest - Historical Newspapers
• Grolier Online English Spanish
  Encyclopedias, Popular Science, more.
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• InfoTrac - Literature Resource Center, literature
  timeline, biographies,
  select criticisms.
• Bridges - Career Explorer, occupational,
  college information
  for students.
• Sunlink Online catalog of most public
• schools in Florida

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Accessing Home Page

• 1. Log on a computer
• 2. Go to the Leon Web Site
• www.leon.leon.k12.fl.us
• 3. Scroll to Media Center
• 4. Click on Online Resources
• 5. Scroll to the resource you need

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Other Important Resources

• Turn it in your teacher will show you how to
  access this online tool and set up an e-mail
  account for this purpose.
• Noodle Tools Create the perfect bibliography
  automatically, just by filling in the blanks.

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For Your Information

• Saving documents is so easy!
• Go to File, then Save As
• Choose My Documents
• Your work will be accessible at any networked
  computer in the Leon School District!
• Be smart back up your work on a disk or USB
  Flash Drive. You may E-mail it to yourself!

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Any Questions?

• Please give us a call
• 850 617-5700

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