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Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Pics4Learning 35000+ Copyright Friendly Images for Education Projects http://ow.ly/oaSeW Where did Wallwisher go? Well it’s now Padlet.com (kinda like a real-time wiki) and it acts like an online sheet of paper where students can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Who else changed their name? Edcanvas is now Blendspace . Everything you had on Edcanvas is exactly where you left it. To access your account, simply sign in with your usual account credentials. They've changed their name but you can still rely on it to be the easiest way to blend your classroom with digital content!

In-Practice Curriculum Connections, Strategies, Literacy, & Bes t Practices

Collected the Week of August 26, 2013

HEC-TV Live For the 2013-14 school year, they are offering many programs that you may find beneficial to your classes. They are continu-ing the following series, Constitution Day, Inside the Artist's Studio, The Science Behind , and History in the First Person. This year they are also introducing a new series, called Explore for grades 3-6. Each program will have its own website with materials for teachers and students. Once the program has aired live, its achieve and program materials will be available on their website for anytime on-demand (free) viewing. Check out the sched-ule and visit the website often. If you would like to enroll for a specific program or be added to their e-list to get updates, just email them at live@hectv.org Some of the upcoming program dates and times (central standard):

Tuesday, Sept. 17 Constitution Day 2013 10:00 am & 1:00pm 60 min

Wednesday, Oct. 9 Explore—Life of an Explorer 9:30am & 11:30am 30 min

Wednesday, Oct. 9 Explore—From Farm to Home 10:30 am & 1:00pm 30 min

Wednesday Oct. 23 Rendezvous with a Comet 10:00am & 1:00pm 60 min

Wednesday, Nov. 13 Inside the Artist’s Studio—The Art of Stained Glass

10:00 am & 1:00pm 60 min

Wednesday, Dec. 11 History in the First Person—Building the Mercury Capsule

10:00am & 1:00pm 60min

Date Program Time Duration

Reminders • METC Proposals—Deadline September 15th! This includes all 50 minute and 1

hour and 50 minute BYOD sessions. Check out the 2013 searchable program to see what was offered last year. All general session presenters receive up to a 75 percent discount on the registration fee for the day they are presenting. More information on presenter discounts can be found on the Presenter Info page. All information on the proposal process can be found on the Call for Proposal Info page

• Requests for Travel and Conferences Participation—D eadline Sept 15th —complete forms and request funds at http://parkwaypl.weebly.com/other-opportunities.html Look under the conferences section.

• If you are making purchases for your library be sure to talk with Nancy first to ensure reimbursement!

• If you are new to library and don’t have a copy of the Standards for the 21st Century Learner In Action, please let me know so that we may get you a copy.

Learning Opportunities

Discovery Education Back-to-School Webinar There is still time (through September) to participate Register at http://teachers.discoveryeducation.com/professionalDevelopment/ and get Parkway credit at http://tinyurl.com/LibWebinars

Booklist Webinar — Sept 17th—Don’t miss the latest titles from three top youth nonfiction publishers in this free, hour-long webinar! Join representatives from Boyds Mills Press, DK, and Simon & Schuster to learn about new nonfiction titles, plus ways to incorporate these titles in the library and classroom. Moderated by Booklist senior editor Ilene Cooper. http://goo.gl/dFZqYL

Digging into Databases — Sept 12th—Next up on American Libraries Live—Marshall Breeding will lead our expert panel in a discussion of how databases are changing and shaping the present and future of libraries. This interactive discussion will incorporate live audience questions and comments and cover a variety of topics. goo.gl/RxcY8G

Participation Credits— After you have participated in the webinar, in order to get credit, you will need to go to http://tinyurl.com/LibWebinars and record your participation. This link will also be found on the Library Services website at http://tinyurl.com/libserv under the "Personalized Learning" button. Remember that district credit is based on the number of hours that you participate. 6 hours will get you .5 credit and 12 hours will get you 1 credit.

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The links were customized on www.tinyurl.com to shorten those Edline addresses up!

Ice cream social at Bellerive—rewarding summer reading! Involving those students at West Middle!

A little ELA humor @your Library