Mustang TV - New Background

Mustang TV is how our students at Park View get  their daily announcements on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday each week.  The students deliver the announcements as well as run all of the equipment so that the announcements can be viewed by the student body.  Ever since Mustang TV developed, well over a decade ago we have been used a couple of bed sheets as our backdrop.....see picture below.

As you can see this background did the job we needed it to do, however we have often thought, wouldn't it be nice to have a more professional looking background?

We are proud to show you the new background that Mustang TV was able to purchase thanks to the Education Foundation awarding Mustang TV the Paul Strobel grant.  This grant is awarded to help student in public speaking.  We are so grateful to have received this award and want to send out a huge thank you to the foundation.  See how great our new background looks?

Maker Room Projects

The students have been working hard in the Maker Room again. This time they used Lego's to make a "pumping machine" as the students named it.  Once again, it was great seeing the students work together and troubleshoot to make a working model.

November 17 - November 25

Our students created some great comics on the 5-themes of Geography, see below for some examples. They were on task and working hard and it paid off - they told great stories about their states while including the themes.  Mrs. Nowak made an impromptu stop in the library after having some trouble with the Chromebooks in her class, way to troubleshoot quickly!

Ms. Pozolinski's class will be in Friday and then next week Monday and Tuesday to create slides on a Native American group and then use Movenote to make that slide into a presentation for the rest of their class to view.

The student in the video below will recap the week for you.  Have a great Thanksgiving Break!

5-Themes of Geography Comics

Students from House 7C were in the library working on their 5-themes of Geography comics this week. Students create a storyboard making sure that they incorporated location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. Then they used the comic creator Pixton to show their story. All of the students worked hard and made incredible comics. Take a look at a few of the comics.

What are they building?

Study hall students have been busy this week creating a vehicle that can travel over rugged terrain. They created, found the flaws in their design, and then adjusted to make the vehicle work in the way they wanted. Check it out!

Photosynthesis Powtoon

Students in Mrs. Schmidt's science class have been creating movies about photosynthesis using the program PowToon. For most students this was the first time that they used PowToon. They found it easy to use and created some great movies. Below are a couple of student examples.

November 10 - 14

Well, the temperature dropped by about thirty degrees this week, but that didn't stop our students from coming in ready to learn how to use new tools online.  Take a look at the video below to see what is going on in the library this week.

November 3 - November 7

This week in the library we are working with the web tool Thinglink, using Noodle Tools, doing research, and creating QR codes.  Take a look at the video for more details on our week.

Fall Displays

One of the ways that I can help showcase the awesome books we have in our libraries is through displays.  I have had the opportunity to work with  students and staff members in creating some of our fall displays and thought that I would share them. A special thanks to Mrs. Caulley for all of the detail she puts into the library displays.

For Teen Read Week, students were asked to take a book selfie - this is where they put their favorite book in front of their face.  We had lots of students take pictures and the word spread quickly.  By the end of the week students came in and asked if they could get their book selfie taken.  This display was a great success!

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The library also had a display for Halloween, take a look!