Volume 4 | Issue 11
Parkway School District Library Services
Know & Go Updates @your library
Groupwise to Gmail Notes The Technology Department has created a website to help with common questions regarding Gmail and Google Calendar. It is the GroupWise Migration to Gmail site. The web address is /sites.google.com/pkwy.k12.mo.us/migration/home. Within the site is the GroupWise DL's to Gmail Address Groups. This list displays the District's Distribution Lists as they were in GroupWise and how they are in Gmail. For any questions or concerns, please contact your building's Technology Specialist or the Parkway Technology Help Desk helpdesk@parkwayschools.net
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#ParkwayReads The Power of Teaching with Magazines Shannon Arish Booysen has take the time to research and compile articles and blog posts and has found evidence that the use of magazines to promote literacy in school, at home and in the classroom is an essential factor when trying to reach a diverse group of learners. The resources presented in this digital article were put together to help educators, librarians and parents utilize magazines when developing lifelong readers. See the eight keys to magazines over textbooks and curriculum on her Smore. Links to Support Keys Five Ways Using Magazines in the Classroom Improves Student Performance from Ebsco The Power of Magazines and Comics for Literacy from Magazine Literacy Magazines in the 21st Century Classroom from Scholastic Access the library catalog from anywhere!
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Innovation is a process, not a product. The Innovator’s Mindset, George Couros - @gcouros
#FutureReady Build Instructional Partnerships New Future Ready Schools (FRS) Programs
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Celebrate February ○ Black History Month ○ National Library Lovers Month ○ Take your child to the library 2/4 ○ Send a Card to a Friend day 2/7 ○ Safer Internet Day 2/7 ○ President’s Day 2/10 February 23rd - Digital Learning Day 2017 March 5 - 11 - Teen Tech Week March - Freedom of Information Day April - School Library Month April - Celebrate National Library Week with the Libraries Transform campaign May is National Pet Month so celebrate being a participatory library by hosting a pet’s reading photo contest.
Last summer FRS announced its new Future Ready Librarians program that supports school librarians as they lead, teach, and assist their school’s and/or district’s FRS goals through their professional practice, programs, and spaces. Due to the program’s tremendous success, FRS will be adding additional educator programs throughout 2017, including Future Ready Teacher, Future Ready Students, and Future Ready Principals, with more on the horizon. Together these programs build on FRS’s belief that all educators’ voices should be heard and supported throughout the digital transition from planning to implementation.
Bonus Resource from SLJ’s Top 10 Tech A favorite resource, the Smithsonian Learning Lab hits a sweet spot in curation. Offering millions of digitized objects, the Learning Lab is a first-ever assembly of treasures from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, and National Zoo. The image-driven interface is optimized for discovery. Rather than provide a set curriculum, the Learning Lab features educator-created collections—from “Catcher in the Rye” to “Mummy Science”— teachers and students alike are encouraged to add their own content and annotations. Flip the learning and have students curate their own collections.
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Google Classroom Update
#FutureReady - Curates Resources & Tools Thinking about Digital Storytelling Help students use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning while participating in the social exchange of ideas, both electronically and in person. Adobe Spark Adobe Spark defines itself as “a bit of art, a smidge of science,” and that is just what it delivers. With a gigantic collection of professional fonts, thousands of photos, layouts and icons, this powerful tool helps you and your students create beautiful social media graphics, videos, and web stories that can be shared anywhere on the web. The inspiration gallery is a wonderful place to browse for ideas, but to also help students consider message design in engaging media literacy lessons. Appropriate for grades 3-12 Biteable Biteable is a three-step animated video maker that lets the user choose from animation styles, upload pictures, select and change font, colors and text, in an incredibly easy process. Final videos can be emailed and shared at the click of a button. With new video templates added frequently, Biteable makes for a great addition to your digital storytelling toolbox. Appropriate for grades K-12. There is a free and paid version. Office Sway Office Sway is a great tool for creating interactive reports, newsletters, presentations, and personal stories. All the user needs to do is upload content and then select a design. Sway does the rest! Add video, music, pictures and more to enrich the interactive component and take advantage of Sway’s suggested search result features (pulls in tweets, images, and other relevant content). Formatting is automatically taken care of and templates can be swapped with ease. Creations are easily shared online and privacy settings help you determine the breadth of your audience. A good website for use with grades 5-12. This is a microsoft product with options to create in the web browser. Taken from the ALA Best Websites for Teaching & Learning www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/websites/2016
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For those of you who use Google Classroom, it has added a differentiation and grouping feature that will allow you to assign and grade work to individual students and groups. Here is a link that explains how to use the feature and includes some ideas for applying this new feature in the classroom.
Are You Using Add to Google Classroom Extension? The extension Add to Google Classroom from the Chrome Web Store allows you to easily save websites to Google Classroom as Announcements or Assignments.
What About the Classroom Split Extension? Another helpful extension for students to add is Alice Keeler Classroom Split, which will allow students to have a split-screen of Classroom open and a split-screen of a Google Doc or a website so that they can refer easily to Google Classroom as they are working. To add a Chrome extension, simply go to the Chrome Web Store, search for the extension, and select Add to Chrome.
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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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