Parkway School District Library Services
Volume 4 | Issue 1
Know & Go Updates @your library
Discovery Education Login Change There is a new way to login to Discovery Education. You will now go through Clever (a signal sign on platform new to the District) and use your Google username & password. The Shortcut may have been pushed out to your laptop during an update. If it was not, you can go to clever.com/in/parkwaysd. The direction sheet can found at https://goo.gl/UyTEZ8
Destiny Library Catalog Manager Updated Several updates of interest were released: ● BryteWave (eBook Reader) is now Destiny Discover Follett has consolidated its previous Library Manager search/discovery and digital content user interfaces and mobile apps (including Follett Shelf, Universal Search and BryteWave) into one simple solution, Destiny Discover. - See more at: http://goo.gl/AursA0 ● The new Destiny Discovery App for Google App Store, Apple App Store, Kindle, Nook, MAC desktop, and Windows desktop can be found at http://goo.gl/Z973Ah ● Destiny is now offering a Chrome extension - it provides library resources right within Google search results, which will help bring library resources to teachers and students - There is set up involved: student credentials will be needed to set up the extension once the extension is loaded from the Chrome store.
This G+ community provides the opportunity to engage and connect with others inside the Parkway district. We have a lot of innovative things going on in the district and want to provide a space to share experience, thinking, and innovative ideas with each other. We will also post a variety of professional learning opportunities, resources, tools and other events that you might find interesting. We encourage you to share and post your thinking and ideas here and contribute to the collective knowledge of innovation in Parkway.
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Literacy Activity Reading Bingo increase the love of reading and literacy and to community by playing Reading Bingo class to class or with individuals. http://ebookfriendly.com
Well Said: The written word closes the distance between continents, between the dead and the living and the not-yet-born, between the real and the imagined. It can change minds, hearts, and even the world. ~ Traci Chee, author of The Reader
ISTE Announced New Student Standards
Promote #FutureReady Learning with the New ISTE Standards for Students
Tinkercad for Teachers Tinkercad now allows teachers to invite students to their Tinkercad Classroom through Project Ignite using an invite code so that students don't have to create their own accounts. This allows teachers to have students under the age of 13 use Tinkercad for their class. Check out Project Ignite here‌ projectignite.autodesk.com
Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. Zip codes and borders no longer determine the learning opportunities, skills and careers that students can access. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process of exploration, creativity and discovery no matter where they or their teachers are in the thoughtful integration of ed tech. ~ www.iste.org The 2016 ISTE Standards for Students emphasize the skills and qualities we want for students, enabling them to engage and thrive in a connected, digital world. The standards include: empowered learner, digital citizen, knowledge constructor, innovative designer, computational thinker, creative communicator, and global collaborator. View the the definitions and indicators at www.iste.org
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ISTE 2016 Google Announcements ISTE Conference Roundup ISTE is the place to gather content, see keynotes, and experience poster and playground spaces. In addition to that it is the opportunity to build on PLNs and get involved in your own personalized professional learning. Here are just a few takeaways: ●
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Constitute - www.constituteproject.org This site hosts a database of constitutions from around the world. Anything digitally available has been aggregated here. It is searchable by topic and will pull out specific excerpts related to search terms like “freedom of speech.” It also has a compare function so students can look at one aspect of citizens’ rights across various constitutions. Suggested people to add to your tech PLN: ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
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Jason Ohler, TechEd Brian Lewis, CEO of ISTE Jaime Casap, Google Education Daryll Adams - Edtech Leadership Angela Meirs - Student Voice James Steyer, Common Sense Media Hadi Partovi, Code.org
Five Tech Ed Trends Reshaping Education Ohler’s session offered much more than a pep talk: It presented a sweeping view of current and emerging technological trends that are shaking things up in the K–12 space including: big data, augmented reality, the semantic web, extreme BYOD, and transmedia. Read more here. 3 things students should have before they leave high school: A professional social networking, a digital portfolio and an About Me page (George Couros). Two tools to help in this process:Digital portfolio Seesaw gives students a platform for showcasing their photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs and links. All content is accessible to teachers as soon as it’s uploaded, but students still have the ability to organize their work. Adobe Spark provides users with three options: Post, Video and Page. Post lets users create attention-grabbing images optimized to social media, while Video’s narration function makes it ideal for creating oral presentations online. www.edtechmagazine.com
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At the June ISTE convention new functions and product releases from Google promised to bring lessons to life in new ways, and make it easier for teachers to engage students.
Students Explore The World with Expeditions Following the success of its Expeditions Pioneer Program, Google released its Expeditions app to all teachers. The move gives students across the globe the chance to embark on more than 200 VR field trips via Google’s low-cost Cardboard headset.
Connecting Wirelessly with Google Cast for Education The free Chrome app Google Cast for Education simplifies screen sharing in both directions: Using the devices they already own, students can display their screens on the projector at the front of the room, and teachers can display their screens on each student’s device.
Google Form Quizzes Educators assessing their students through Google Forms will now have the ability to grade multiple choice and check-box answers automatically so they can spend more time teachers. The upgrade to Quizzes also lets teachers provide immediate feedback to students who answer a question incorrectly. Read more at www.edtechmagazine.com
Back to School Resources from ConnectED ● ● ● ● ● ●
Back-to-School Resources for Parents Emotional Intelligence- The Skills Our Students Deserve | Ronen Habib | TEDxGunnHighSchool The Top 8 Professional Reads for Educators 2016 Becoming Innovative: 15 New Ideas Every Teacher Should Try Classroom Bridges - Making Classroom Connections More Accessible What’s the Difference Between Coding and Computational Thinking? connectedlearningstl.org
#ParkwayReads In preparation for Banned Books Week check out the Dirty Thirty. While the list was compiled in an older blog post, it is still worthy of review. http://activerain.com This list was compiled based on surveys from 1965 to 1982 of the most challenged books. I kept the list to mark off books as I read them.
goo.gl/BiMwC2 Lynda.com Update Lynda is a site that provides a variety of tutorials on a great many topics related to technology and software programs. Our usage statistics no longer justify have a subscription for all secondary students but, because of our library card initiative, we can give students and teachers access through SLCL. Here are the directions for access that we have gotten from them. Teachers who don't currently have a library card can get them even if they don't live in Parkway. They just need to take their district ID and driver's license to a local branch and they can get access. Directions: ● From the library home page, www.slcl.org, "click" on the word "Research", one of the categories listed just below the colorful St. Louis County Library (SLCL) logo/letterhead. ● On the "Research" page, find the category "eCourses", listed below the word/category (bold blue background) Research, on the left (basically) column area of this page. ● Once you "click" on "eCourses", you will find 6 eCourse publisher/categories and Lynda.com is in the middle. ● "Creating a Profile", establishing a user name/login/password, will require a valid SLCL library card #. ● (Another "entry" to Lynda.com homepage - at the very top-left of the SLCL homepage, you will find a box for a "Catalog" search....if you change it to a "Site" search, a tab option just below the search box, you can type in "Lynda.com" and it will take you immediately to a Lynda.com entry page - well, you have to select it)
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Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog
Nancy Ikemeyer Administrative Assistant Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer
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