Volume 3 | Issue 14
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April is National Poetry Month - See thirty ideas for celebrating at https://www.poets.org. More resources at Edutopia. April 5th MO School Library Snapshot Day April 10 - 16 National Library Week - Celebrating “Libraries Transform” This is a great time to share the data stats you’ve been collecting. Resources: http://www.ala.org, #NLW16, #LibrariesTransform April 22 Earth Day - Celebrate with resources from Edutopia April 23-30 Money Smart Week - http://www.ala.org/ April 24-30 Preservation Week - Saving Your Stuff - http: //www.ala.org/ April 30th - DIA Children’s Day/Book Day - http://dia.ala.org/ ○ Kick off your Día year by thinking about Building STEAM with Día! May 1-7 - Choose Privacy chooseprivacyweek.org/ National Readathon Day - May 21st #Readathon2016, #Parkwayreads - Not only does Readathon Day present an opportunity to generate excitement among readers of all ages, but it also enables children and students everywhere to get involved in an effort that supports youth literacy Readathonday.com
Contact Information Kim Lindskog Library System Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106 Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
ISSUU Newsletter Stacks: 2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or www.tinyurl. com/libserv Parkway Innovators Network
Professional Learning Mark your Calendars! Google Camp Parkway Google Camp 2016 Grab your laptop, your sense of adventure, and your curriculum and get ready for Google Camp where you'll learn more about Google Drive, get your Parkway issued Google Apps account and collaborate with others around how to use Google tools in the classroom. This one day camp is meant to get you started with Google Drive and to explore ways to use these tools with your students. Throughout the day you'll get practical ideas on classroom use while learning how this online collaborative tool can simplify and digitize your classes. Be sure to reserve your spot and get a little more Googley summer. Google Camp is offered for .5 district in-service credit. Sign up in PEERS Google Academy This year, Google Academy will be held on July 25th. Each session will be 70 minutes long. Parkway Google Academy is a one day mini-conference focusing on all things Google. If you attended Google Camp in the past and have been using Google in your classroom, this is the development to help you take your digital classroom to the next level. All sessions will be led by Parkway teachers who will share how they are using a variety of tools in their schools. Some Topics: - Google Classroom - Google Expeditions - Assessments in Google Drive - YouTube - Creating Self-Grading Quizzes, Chrome apps and extensions - And many more - Sign up in PEERS.
Well Said...
#ParkwayReads How Do We Inspire Our Students to Love Reading? There are four great tips in this month’s Edutopia post by LeVar Burton on instilling the love of reading and supporting literacy efforts.
Resource Roundup Technology, Research & Learning Resources
Wonderopolis This fun, nonfiction resource shares a wonder everyday of the week with a focus on science and social students. The site is geared toward a middle school reading level. It’s also a great place to teach students how to comment responsibly and within a school environment.
Google Drive: Shared with Me is a Filter, Not a Folder In an effort to better organize and manage Google Drive items in Shared with Me should be moved to a folder in My Drive. This can be accomplished by a single click on a file (to select it) and press the Shift+Z keys to MOVE it to folder. See the video from Alice Keeler.
Context for Managing Chrome Extensions Sort extensions into groups and easily switch between them. Take a look at your extensions, do you really use all of them all the time? Rather not. Do you know that these unused extensions are taking resources and space from you? They may also bug you with distracting icon animations and notifications. With Context you can stop that. Simply put extensions that you use for work, fun, shopping, socializing etc. into different groups ("contexts") and with one click switch between them.
Google Hangouts Update If you didn’t get a chance to see Bill’s post in the PIN (Parkway Innovator Network), Google Hangouts expands to allow up to 25 people at once. Check out the post and help center for more information.
Richard Byrne’s Tips for Using YouTube One of last week’s most popular posts on FreeTech4Teachers.com was 3 Tips for Using YouTube Videos in Your Classroom. Remove distractions by using ViewPure ViewPure is a service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com. ViewPure offers a free browser bookmarklet that you can use to clear the sidebar content while viewing a video on YouTube. You can search for YouTube videos through the ViewPure website. When searching for videos through ViewPure you don’t see sidebar content, you only see videos. You can choose to use strict filtering while searching through ViewPure. Show just a portion of a video with TubeChop TubeChop gives you the ability to clip a section from any YouTube video and share it with others via a link or via an embed code added to your own blog or website. TubeChop lets you select a start time and an end time for an video that you share. Create a playlist of videos. Save yourself some classroom downtime by having a playlist of videos ready to go when you need them. You can create playlists directly in your YouTube account. Here is how https://www.youtube. com Last but not least…always preview the video before showing it to your class. Along that same line, try to refrain from conducting YouTube searches in front of the class...who knows what will pop up.