Parkway School District Volume 2 | Issue 19

@your Library

ContactInformation

Bill BassTwitter: billbass

Skype: bill.bass3

Kim LindskogTwitter: klindskogSkype: klindskog

Scoopit:www.scoop.it/t/know-goISSUU Newsletter Stacks:

2014-20152013-2014

Nancy IkemeyerSkype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl

Twitter: NancyIkemeyer

Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or

www.tinyurl.com/libserv

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Nancy’s Nook & Other Reminders

Meeting of the MindsIt’s been requested that it's time to socialize. On Wednesday, February 18th Bill and I are looking forward to interacting, brainstorming, and celebrating in a social setting with you! No worries if you can't make it! We will have other days.

Details and RSVP Link:

● When - Wednesday, February 18th, 2015● Where - Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant, 1146 Town and Country Crossing

Drive, Town and Country, Chesterfield, MO 63017 Google Map for directions

● Time - 4:00-6:00 PM (of course you can stay longer if you choose)● Food and drink are on your own

Please RSVP at http://goo.gl/j4vkRI

Missing BooksDo you recognize these books? The

books are from the Junior Library Guild

and were sent to Library Services for

processing. No list was included...if

these books are for your library notify

Joan.

GOT NEWS Button Do you need help, got an idea, have a suggestion, or have an event planned? Then share it by clicking on the red Got News button.

GOT NEWS

Found on jabberworks.livejournal.com

● 10 sites for online educational tutorials and plan for tips on chrome books www.Techlearning.Com/august14

● Share fixed and flexible scheduling notes

● valentines day● superbowl ●

creative programminghttp://midhudson.org/topics/sustainable-libraries/programming/

Library Services Answers to FAQs

● Librarians List 14-15

● Who To Call

● Ordering procedures

● Follett ordering

w/screenshots

● Follett Acct #'s

● Follett req Instructions

building budget

● Sample budget (If you

would like your own

template, email Nancy)

● Standing orders

● Ordering/renewing

databases HS only

● Destiny FAQ Page of

Answers

The Top 50 School Library BlogsThis list features the top school library blogs ordered by website popularity metrics and social media engagement including the number of websites that link to a blog and number of followers on Twitter.

Know & Go

Resource RoundupTechnology, Research & Learning Resources

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Word Dynamo Word Dynamo is an academic review exercises site hosted by Dictionary.com. The Word Dynamo name might make you think that it only offers vocabulary exercises, but there is more to it than that. In addition to vocabulary quizzes and flashcards, it also has quizzes, games, and flashcards for studying topics in various curriculum areas. A full explanation can be found at freetech4teachers.com.

Favorite Resources for introducing Google Earth & Maps Beyond Social StudiesIn this post Richard Byrne shares resources that utilize Google Earth and Maps in other curricular areas, such as science, ELA, and math.

There is an Creative Image App for That (in Edmodo)Photos for Class is a free service that helps students find and cite Creative Commons licensed images. The apps became available to use as an within Edmodo. In a YouTube video there is a demonstration of how to install Photos for Class. and a students’ perspective of using Photos for Class within Edmodo.

5 Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment ToolsThe @coolcatteacher (follow Vicki Davis on Twitter) put together a list with explanations of tools that work for formative assessment. It is always helpful to know the strengths and weaknesses of each tool and she does that in an easy to read format. The article can be found on edutopia.org.

Nearpod This is not the first time that Nearpod has been mentioned but it is always nice when a blog post reminds us of the power of some tools like this one. Nearpod is a tool that takes presentations to a whole new level. Teachers can take already existing PowerPoints or PDFs and upload them to the Nearpod site to create enriched multimedia presentations with interactive features. Some of the features include adding quizzes, drawing tools, and video to the lesson. Teachers can then share the content with the students and control the activity with the Nearpod app. Read about the benefits on the corkboardconnections blog.

relate resources to the learning principles

Best of Fall 2014 from ACTEM Conferencehttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/best-of-web-fall-2014.html#.VDwsn2ddU1I

Helpful Resource for MS & HS Math Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/by-request-ten-helpful-resources-for.html#.VDwtGWddU1I in addition to that provide math chat app http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/math-chat-solve-problems-together-in.html#.VDwtI2ddU1I

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital CitizenshipNine proactive tips -- plus some clever lesson ideas -- to help students feel safe and engaged online. Developing a Culture of Trust and TransparencyWhy not change your acceptable use policy to be an "empowered" use policy instead? The BIG List of Digital Citizenship ResourcesTeach smart digital literacy and fight cyberbullying with this curated collection.from Edutopia supporting our growth measures

digital bytes from common sense media - digital citizenship for teens - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-bytes

Searching twitter fo educational content http://practicaledtech.com/2014/10/27/practical-ed-tech-tip-of-the-week-searching-twitter-for-educational-content/

Weekly edchat on Twitter bit.ly/officialchatlist

want a guice guide to web2.0 tools and projects? Notice that the tools and projects are organized by the essential skill — information management, collaborative dialogue, verbal and visual persuasion, collaborative problem solving — that they are designed to support. The way that I see it, tools are useless if they aren’t being used to help kids master the kinds of core behaviors that define efficient and effective learners. Provided by Bill Ferriter - the Tempered Radical http://bit.ly/TIGquickguide

dec 15Now that we have been through the second annual hour of code: By examining the successful coding

program at Los Altos School District, this

ISTE author has identified “3 ways to get

every student coding.” What integral role

could your school library play regarding

the three key features identified? http:

//bit.ly/1yJ88Xn (To help, AASL has

identified some Best Apps and Best

Websites that teach code.)

Mobile technology is becoming more popular in today’s classrooms, according to a recent survey. A majority of educators—86%—who responded to the survey said mobile technology bolsters student engagement, and 67% said it helps support personalized learning. An infographic detailing the survey results is available: elearninginfographics.com/state-of-mobile-learning-infographic/

Advocating the Library Program @ Your Library

3 ways to get your teachers to the library - advocacy jan 26

http://www.deeplibrarian.com/3easyways/

The alternative book report

http://www.freetech4teachers.

com/2013/05/5-tools-students-can-use-to-

create.html?m=1#.U62JM_ldWSo

HEC-TV LIve Programming Update

Explore! Fossils, January 2015January 28, 2015 at 10:00AM, 11:00AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PMLearning about fossils begins with discovery and continues with meticulous investigation until the conditions are just right to safely remove the specimen from its natural environment. Then the real exploration...

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Afflicted—Issues and Themes, February 2015February 11, 2015 at 10:00AM, 1:00PMThis new play for young people explores the untold story of the Salem girls. Middle and high school students will explore themes of belonging, self-awareness, and group identity through the production of...

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Afflicted—Producing the Play, March 2015March 11, 2015 at 10:00AM, 1:00PMWhat’s the process for taking a new play and creating a stage production from scratch? What are the responsibilities of the designers, actors, stage manager, playwright, director, and dramaturg? Find out as you...

History in the First Person: Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion, March 2015March 25, 2015 at 10:00AM, 1:00PMGo back in time through the power of primary sources and hear from individuals who lived, loved, laughed, worked, struggled, discovered, and persevered as America expanded westward between 1840 and 1880. Interact...

Explore! Fast, April 2015April 8, 2015 at 10:00AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PMA bicycle can pedal 25 miles per hour, cars zoom by at 55 miles per hour, a cheetah can exceed speeds of 75 miles per hour, ever wondered what makes different things go different speeds? Want to find out?

Not a GAFE user? Check out one of our favorite buttons in Google AppsWhether you’re using Gmail or Google Docs, you probably copy and paste from other sources pretty frequently. Normally you would manually change the font, size and color of your text so it fits in with everything else. Learn how the Remove Formatting button can save you TONS of time!

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

How to checkout using homeroom and not needing the barcode book - katie

http://aboutfollettebooks.com/marcrecords.cfmEBOOK RESOURCES

http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/ARTICLES/index.html

Follett Destiny Destiny FAQ Page of Answers

Snap Shots

Library Lessons

Author's Purpose:5 Ways to Find It

One of the tools used is PIE - (persuade, inform, entertain) but with the amount of information surrounding students, they might need to have more strategies to help figure out purpose, identify bias and draw their own conclusions. In the blog post from We areTEachers.com five stratigies are shared:

● start with why● talk about structure● get to the heart● connect it to students

own writing● observe how purpose

changes within a text

Bonus - Three ways to identify bias as students consume information:

● mind the gap● review the experts● seek out stats

Bulletin Board Idea

A fun and informational way to get feedback about your library is to put a bulletin board that contains: Because of this library, I AM able to… Let students write their responses.

library lessonswebquests for byod http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/stinson/

As technology becomes more available in classrooms, it is increasingly important that new teachers be comfortable with new uses of that technology. This article tracks the evolution of “The WebQuest Connection,” a cooperative effort between children and teachers in a local school district and university students enrolled in a secondary reading methods course. The project, which could be replicated in virtually any teacher education program, allows preservice teachers to become comfortable with some aspects of technology use within the context of their preparation for entering the education profession.

When you login into Destiny in the upper right hand corner is a button called Follet Community which is where users can go to discuss, create and collaborate. You will need to register for an account but it’s free. The News and Content Library tab can be used to generate ideas for the library, such as student contests, displays, celebrations, and lessons. It also has a Leaderboard tab if you are looking to connect with some Destiny super users. If you would like to ask a question or start a discussion that can be done under the Discussions tab. It’s a whole community worth checking out.

● Author Visit at Barretts● Utilizing space for a soft

seating area - Hanna Woods

ISTE Standards in Our SettingThe Coaching StandardsStandard five: Digital Citizenship

One of the many hats that librarians wear today would be facilitator of digital

citizenship content. In order to help teachers and students use safe, legal, and ethical

technology practices. librarians are responsive to the needs by coaching them as they

require support.

Iste states that:

Technology coaches model and promote digital citizenship.

A. Model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools

and resources and technology-related best practices for all students and

teachers

B. Model and facilitate safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital

information and technologies

a. Be able to explain key issues, principles, and policies that

define/influence digital citizenship

C. Model and promote diversity, cultural understanding, and global awareness

by using digital age communication and collaboration tools to interact locally

and globally with students, peers, parents, and the larger community

a. Assist in identifying practice examples of how technology tools are

used to promote sharing in a larger global audience

http://www.iste.org/standards/standards-for-coaches

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

ISTE for Teachershttp://www.21things4teachers.net/meeting-standards/

for studentshttp://nets-implementation.iste.wikispaces.net/

ISTE for Teachershttp://www.21things4teachers.net/meeting-standards/

for studentshttp://nets-implementation.iste.wikispaces.net/

PD Teen Librarian Toolbox (TLT) is a professional development website for teen librarians, created by Karen Jensen and collecting the experience of four MLS librarians and over 50 collective years of library work. Our mission is to to help libraries serving teens (and anyone who cares about teens) and to foster a community of professional development and resource sharing by providing quality information, discussions, book reviews and more. We welcome guest posts and our book review policy can be found here. an slj blog with teen issues, review, teen issues, programing prpd makerspace

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/the-path-to-digital-citizenship-andrew-marcinek

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/20-basic-rules-for-digital-citizenship/ inforgraphic

Digital CitizenshipResources

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital CitizenshipNine proactive tips -- plus some clever lesson ideas -- to help students feel safe and engaged online.

Developing a Culture of Trust and TransparencyWhy not change your acceptable use policy to be an "empowered" use policy instead?

The BIG List of Digital Citizenship ResourcesTeach smart digital literacy and fight cyberbullying with this curated collection.from Edutopia supporting our growth measures

5 Excellent Videos to Teach your Students about Digital Citizenship - from Educational Technology & Mobile Learning

Teaching Students About Digital Footprint - Define and understand what it means

Cybrary Man’s Digital Footprint Resources for students, teachers, and parents

Digital Bytes from Common Sense Media - Digital Citizenship for Teens - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-bytes

https://sites.google.com/site/adventuresingrade6/mu

G o o g l egoogle digital literacy curriculum

Not a GAFE user? Check out one of our favorite buttons in Google AppsWhether you’re using Gmail or Google Docs, you probably copy and paste from other sources pretty frequently. Normally you would manually change the font, size and color of your text so it fits in with everything else. Learn how the Remove Formatting button can save you TONS of time!

Google Drive:We know that it’s often helpful to visualize data trends in a spreadsheet, so you can now add miniature charts, or sparklines, into individual cells in Sheets.

Find out more about the types of charts available and get instructions for using the SPARKLINE function in the help center: http://goo.gl/2rWeIF.

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

12/8merge tables in google docs http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/12/01/google-docs-now-lets-you-merge-cells-edit-images-and-more/library of lesson plans

drawing templates for app users http://www.appsusergroup.org/resources/drawings-templates

http://www.edudemic.com/a-look-at-googles-massive-library-of-free-lesson-plans/?utm_content=buffer5979c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Just For fun So how do you know you’re a

21st century librarian? When…1. You have to remind

kindergarteners to turn off cell phones before story time

2. You know what an IP number is but not an ISBN number.

3. You have a student who does a better job troubleshooting the circulation system than the district technician.

4. Your students think both The Princess and the Frog & Meet the Robinsons were written by Walt Disney.

5. You know more librarians in Texas than you do in your home state because of PLNs

6. The best way to remind a student about an overdue book is through Facebook.

7. When answering a reference question, you run to the computer

8. You’ve started dressing like your avatar.

9. Kids look at you funny when you say, “the card catalog.”

10. You have 5th grade girls who sport more tats and metal studs than a biker gang.

11. You have more polo shirts with computer logos than you do book logos - and 25% of your wardrobe comes from vendor booths at conferences.

12. Your students show you how to get around the district Internet filter so you can teach a lesson.

13. You never see anyone copy out of the print encyclopedia anymore.

14. Your index finger has a callous from tapping the SmartBoard.

15. You didn’t get your last grad class assignment turned in on time because the network was down and you haven't attended a F2F class in years.

16. You’ve Googled the new teachers in your building - and all the kids have Googled you.

17. You don’t remember the last time you’ve had to alphabetize something.

18. You have all your passwords and PIN numbers are on a tablet and you can’t remember the password for the tablet

Modified from: Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk blog

IDEAS http://www.thedigitalscoop.com/the_digital_scoop/google-apps-for-education.html

Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship CurriculumTeach your students to be safe and smart online. We’ve teamed up with online safety experts iKeepSafe to develop a curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen.The curriculum is designed to be interactive and discussion-filled, and to allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario-based activities. On this site, you’ll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson, and animated videos to help frame the conversation

The 35 Best Google Search Tips and Tricks

We are always looking for ways to help students navigate and refine searcheing, and in this digitaltrends.com article they have put togeter punctuation symbols, search operators, and other helpful tips and tricks into an helpfuls chart that explains the functiona nd execution of each.

Google Sheets Skills Since the update of Sheets in mid 2014, the Google Gooru compiled essential posts to help users with the new format:

● How to create a hyperlink● Use spell check● Add trendlines to charts ● How to quick sum

To see the entire post of updates and to view the how-to videos check out thegooru.com

Google Life Archive is a wonderful resource of historical images. It features millions of searchable photographs from the Life photo archive stretching from the 1750s to the present day. Most of these images were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of Google and Life magazine.As a teacher, you can use this resource to search images to include in your work and you can also introduce it to your students and show them how to search its database for images to use in their presentations and projects especially knowing that these images are public domain. No worries about copyright issues .

feb 2http://www.shakeuplearning.com/digital-differentiation-with-google-apps1.html

feb 2 share a folder in google classroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXAchtMWLao

how to create custom backgrounds in slides http://practicaledtech.com/2015/01/05/practical-ed-tech-tip-of-the-week-creating-custom-google-slides-backgrounds/

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

relate resources to the learning principles

Best of Fall 2014 from ACTEM Conferencehttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/best-of-web-fall-2014.html#.VDwsn2ddU1I

Helpful Resource for MS & HS Math Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/by-request-ten-helpful-resources-for.html#.VDwtGWddU1I in addition to that provide math chat app http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/math-chat-solve-problems-together-in.html#.VDwtI2ddU1I

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital CitizenshipNine proactive tips -- plus some clever lesson ideas -- to help students feel safe and engaged online. Developing a Culture of Trust and TransparencyWhy not change your acceptable use policy to be an "empowered" use policy instead? The BIG List of Digital Citizenship ResourcesTeach smart digital literacy and fight cyberbullying with this curated collection.from Edutopia supporting our growth measures

digital bytes from common sense media - digital citizenship for teens - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-bytes

Searching twitter fo educational content http://practicaledtech.com/2014/10/27/practical-ed-tech-tip-of-the-week-searching-twitter-for-educational-content/

Weekly edchat on Twitter bit.ly/officialchatlist

want a guice guide to web2.0 tools and projects? Notice that the tools and projects are organized by the essential skill — information management, collaborative dialogue, verbal and visual persuasion, collaborative problem solving — that they are designed to support. The way that I see it, tools are useless if they aren’t being used to help kids master the kinds of core behaviors that define efficient and effective learners. Provided by Bill Ferriter - the Tempered Radical http://bit.ly/TIGquickguide

dec 15Now that we have been through the second annual hour of code: By examining the successful coding

program at Los Altos School District, this

ISTE author has identified “3 ways to get

every student coding.” What integral role

could your school library play regarding

the three key features identified? http:

//bit.ly/1yJ88Xn (To help, AASL has

identified some Best Apps and Best

Websites that teach code.)

Mobile technology is becoming more popular in today’s classrooms, according to a recent survey. A majority of educators—86%—who responded to the survey said mobile technology bolsters student engagement, and 67% said it helps support personalized learning. An infographic detailing the survey results is available: elearninginfographics.com/state-of-mobile-learning-infographic/

PLN http://www.edudemic.com/librarian-blogs/

3 ways to get your teachers to the library - advocacy jan 26

http://www.deeplibrarian.com/3easyways/

The alternative book report

http://www.freetech4teachers.

com/2013/05/5-tools-students-can-use-to-

create.html?m=1#.U62JM_ldWSo

@your Library

Just for Fun @your LIbraryThe Internet of Everything

Library Lovers’ Month@your Library

librarysupport.net/libraryloversTake time to thank those who support your library and be sure to record and share any kudos, greatcomments, or accolades that you receive about your work and the school library. Include these inmonthly and yearly reports as well

February Celebrations @your Library

From School Library Monthly

President’s Day @your LibraryFrom the Classroom Magic blog there are some activities and videos to watch for President’s Day. One video come from School Tube and it is an audio recording of So You Want to be President.

Read Across America @your Library

Plan your Read Across America celebration (week of March 2nd) with materials from MNEA.

Teen Tech Week @your LIbraryInvite teens to celebrate YALSA's Teen Tech Week, March 8-14, 2015. Posters and bookmarks highlighting the topics of makerspace safety, digital citizenship, as well as copyright and fair use are a great addition to your celebration and throughout the year.

School Library Month@your Library

The 30th Anniversary is coming up in April! It’s never too early to start planning the library program celebration.http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm

Personalized Learning One option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar and then go to http://tinyurl.com/LibWebinars to record your participation. Remember that district credit is based on the number of clock hours that you participate. Credit is issued as follows: six clock hours will get you .5 credit and 12 clock hours will get you 1 credit.

EdcampSTL An Unconference - February 7, 2015!At an UNconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a time and a space. UNconferences typically feature open discussions rather than having a single speakers at the front of the room lecturing, although any format is permitted. This form of conference is particularly useful when the attendees generally have a high level of expertise or knowledge in the field the conference convenes to discuss, unlocking the creative genius of the attendees so that all may learn and be inspired! http://www.edcampstl.org/

You Need It: Reading Promotional Programming That Really Works! Tuesday, Mar. 31 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Archived WebinarsView Dynamic Databases: Revolutionizing Today's Research, Teaching, and Learning

Just for Fun

look at school library monthly for december calendar for at your library

.

~ Unlimited Possibilities are available

@ your library every day!

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Professional RelevanceDigital Resources, eBooks, Learning Commons, Scheduling, Leadership, Programing, Makerspaces

Librarians as Leader to Transform Teaching and LearningAASL wants to empower librarians to be leaders and transform teaching and learning in their buildings.

Recently, in School lIbrary Monthly magazine an article defined the role of the 21st century school

librarian and how to be a groundbreaker in making the library a central learning hub.

The feature article, A Call to Action for School Librarians and School Library Programs identified ways to

take action and create that central learning hub through various tools and program advocacy tips. A

transformation point is to implement standards (CCSS or local) into the library program. This is a

natural flow from the classroom to the library and builds relationships with the staff (cross-curricular

collaboration). AASL goes on to offer a CCSS Implementation Toolkit that includes the Standards

Crosswalk, infographics on reading comprehension, inquiry and the six shifts, and Standards for the 21s

Century Learner.

The article also discusses the role of the school librarian in reference to school specific initiatives and

action items. The PDF (above link) proposes that the school library program move away from providing

a traditional warehouse of materials to adopting a proactive role in student learning as today’s

information and technology environment becomes an integral and natural part of life. The ten

initiatives include:

1. Building reading, writing, speaking and listening skills together across the curriculum.

2. Building appreciation of the best literature and informational materials together across the

curriculum as a part of a literate culture.

3. Creating a school-wide participatory culture.

4. Building co-taught research projects in blended learning experiences.

5. Promoting interdisciplinary real-world problems, projects and learning experiences that take

advantage of rich information resources and useful technology tools.

6. Using technology to boost teaching and learning together.

7. Creating cultural experience across the school, community, and across the world.

8. Fostering creativity, innovation, play, building, and experimentation.

9. Assessing the results of collaborative learning experiences.

10. Managing the integration of classroom, school library learning commons, and technology tools

In order to create a path to leadership, librarians need to “… rethink and re-envision the role that the

library can and should play in major school improvement initiatives” (Achieve and AASL 2013, 1). The

school library is going beyond information literacy and moving into the school learning community.

Advocating what the library has to offer in relation to curricular support will create the change in the

librarian’s role within his/her building. Ideas for advocacy include:

● Educate - communicate how to the library can engage and support student learning by

connecting to standards therefore improving student achievement

● Present: share a plan on how the ten initiative and action items can be embedded into school

curriculum

● Meet: work at getting face time with teachers, teams, or grade levels to share your knowledge

and ideas for improving student learning outcomes

● Collaborate: go global with professionals in the field to pool ideas on meeting the standards

within the school library program

● Create: look at current library curriculum, implement the AASL action items, and revise lessons

to meet school initiatives

● Invite: take every opportunity to share with all stakeholders the role the library is playing in

student achievement

● Showcase: share the learning outcomes on the library website, blogs, newsletter, or other

social (remeber COPE - Create Once, Post Everywhere)

Taken from School library monthly, Volume 31, Number 2, November 2014

New Teen Series @STLC St. Louis County Library will begin a new program series in January designed to help teens gain skills to transition to adulthood. The series will explore topics such as budgeting, interview tips, how to buy your first car and more. A full program schedule is available here.

By the Numbers

jan 26librarian as leadersfeb 2communication plan developing talking pointsschool lib monthly march 2014

feb 9the inside of library - flipped classroom

tech terms they should know to get to the table -

see infographic on pinterest

See the full size pictochart here.

Snap Shots

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

relate resources to the learning principles

Best of Fall 2014 from ACTEM Conferencehttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/best-of-web-fall-2014.html#.VDwsn2ddU1I

Helpful Resource for MS & HS Math Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/by-request-ten-helpful-resources-for.html#.VDwtGWddU1I in addition to that provide math chat app http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/math-chat-solve-problems-together-in.html#.VDwtI2ddU1I

primary and secondary sources ttp://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/Teachers/Classroom-Resources/~/media/DDB83FE7F55C45B883A4ACCE4C319DB1.ashx

Searching twitter fo educational content http://practicaledtech.com/2014/10/27/practical-ed-tech-tip-of-the-week-searching-twitter-for-educational-content/

Weekly edchat on Twitter bit.ly/officialchatlist

want a guice guide to web2.0 tools and projects? Notice that the tools and projects are organized by the essential skill — information management, collaborative dialogue, verbal and visual persuasion, collaborative problem solving — that they are designed to support. The way that I see it, tools are useless if they aren’t being used to help kids master the kinds of core behaviors that define efficient and effective learners. Provided by Bill Ferriter - the Tempered Radical http://bit.ly/TIGquickguide

PLN http://www.edudemic.com/librarian-blogs/

Quotes to Share

In any given moment we have two options:

to step forward into growth or to step back

into safety.~ Abraham Maslow

About Books

Student Technology ConferenceThe 2015 Student Technology Conference (StuTech 2015), a student-

organized global conversation about technology in education, takes

place Saturday, January 31st from 9am - 9pm US-Eastern Standard

Time. This online event (held in Blackboard Collaborate) is open to all

and will feature student keynote speakers and conference

presentations by students in grades 6-12. Go to http:

//studenttechnologyconference.com for the hour-by-hour schedule

in your own time zone and links to attend each session

College Essay Contest Penguin Books has launched an Out of the Easy college scholarship

essay contest for students! This title has been nominated for MASL's

2015-2016 Gateway Readers Award. The contest is open to 12th

grade students and homeschooled students aged 17 or 18, and the

prize is a $5,000 scholarship towards college. Click here to learn

more about this contest and how to get your students involved.

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St. Louis County Library will begin a new program series in January designed to help teens gain skills to transition to adulthood. The series is called In the Know @ Your Library and will explore topics such as budgeting, interview tips, how to buy your first car and more. A full program schedule is available here. The series is free and open to the public, but registration may be required.

Student Opportunities

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/01/25/what-if-projects-from-my-theory-of-knowledge-class/

Valentine Day Fun

Books about the Civil Rights Movement