Volume 2 | Issue 9
Parkway School District
Know & Go
@your Library
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Updates
~Albert Einstein Contact Information Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog Scoopit:www.scoop.it/t/know-go
Nancy Ikemeyer Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or www.tinyurl.com/libserv
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For the love of reading...don’t forget there are magazine available Ever heard about augmented reality...wanna know more, just ask me eBooks...we have 39 of them on the shelf...ask me how to access them
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Highlighted & Circled Technology, Research & Learning Resources
Curriki http://www.curriki.org/ is an online, free, open education learning resources service. The curricula and instruction materials are available to teachers, students, and parents. The majority of the resources fall under the creative commons license and the materials are peerreviewed for quality and adherence to standards. Another nice feature is that this website can be accessed within Destiny. Students and staff can select the Universal Search feature, put in their keyword search, and then click on the See All Websites button to access the Curriki resources. Just look for the logo.
Classtools.net Classtools.net is a site that offers teachers creative and organizational tools. Teachers can access the website to create quizzes, diagrams and educational games, which can then be hosted on their own site or blog. The Classtools.net site offers a list of templates to choose from, such as Arcade Game Generator, Random Name Picker, Fishbone, Lights Out, Hamburger and Jigsaw Diagram.
Would You Rather? Rrrather.com is a collection of user-submitted controversial or thought-provoking questions. These questions always have two possible answers, usually start with the words "Would you rather". Leave your vote, compare your answers, and discuss in the comments. The questions can be used as a conversation game, often played by students, teens, and young adults. The game goes like this: one by one, each player asks a question that starts with "Would you rather", sometimes with two horrible choices. Participants must choose and defend the best option, or at least the least worst of the two. The fun of the game is the discussion it sparks. The best questions usually have very divided answers.
For the Chemistry Teacher goREACT is a drag-and-drop laboratory. Experiment with chemistry virtually by combining elements from the Periodic Table to create chemical reactions. Features include: ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
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Nearly 300 virtual chemical reactions by dragging elements into the Reaction Area. Amazing images and videos illustrate the molecules you create. Select alternate views of the Periodic Table to discover different aspects of the elements’ chemical properties. Touch any of the Periodic Table's 118 elements to see an image and fun fact about it. With helpful hints about reactions to try, there’s always something exciting to explore. “Featured Reactions” menus guide you through themed sets of chemical reactions related to particular applications, such as the environment, beauty products or cars. Learn more about how the Periodic Table is organized, and follow links to additional educational resources.
http://www.msichicago.org/play/goreact/
321 Free Tools for Teachers From eLearning Industry we can now share free educational technology tools with our teachers. The nice thing about this site is that it separates the tools into 18 categories, like creating infographics, digital storytelling, social bookmarking, video tools, and much more. http: //goo.gl/OgtVDH
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Google How to use Google Research Tool within Docs While in Google Docs you can conduct research and add citations automatically as you go. Bill Bass has created a YouTube video on this helpful tool and Edudemic. com has a blog post on it as well.
Library Activities 10 Activities to Compliment Nonfiction Reading
Poll your High School Students with G+ Google has added a new option to Google+ in the form of polls. Google+ polls allow you to create a poll to share with the whole world, one of your circles, or members of one of your Google+ communities. You can add multiple pictures to your poll to add a visual component to your questions and answer choices. Your poll respondents can add comments to the poll just as they can with any other Google+ discussion. That option allows people to explain their votes on the poll. Taken from freetech4teachers.com
Screencastify App in Chrome Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software that uses your microphone and camera for recording. The app can be found in the Chrome store. Once installed you installed the app you will have the choice to to store you recording in Google Drive or locally on your device. http://goo.gl/su66JK
From http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/ Loreen Leedy
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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.
St Louis County Library Card Campaign! The St. Louis County Library is still running the library card campaign. This year SLCL has implemented an online registration module to streamline the process. They encourage schools to direct students and staff that do not already have a SLC Library card to http://webpac.slcl. org/screens/schoolregistratio n.html to submit the online library card application. The staff will create library cards for those students and staff and deliver the library cards to your school to be distributed.
Tons of Opportunities @your Library
Connected Educator Month (#CE14) - October 2014 Throughout the month educators can participate in a series of online events and conversations to promote professional learning communities and share best practices. You can find a list of events, activities, and resources on the Connected Educator Month Calendar. Check out the site for really amazing online learning opportunities happening throughout the day (and night). IT IS FREE! Here's how you can earn .5 District In-Service Credit 1. Register in PEERS "Connected Educator Online Event" 2. Attend six sessions of learning (outside of regular school hours). 3. To get credit - create a google doc with the following information (share with emorrison@parkwayschools.net when completed (no later than Friday, October 31st) - Your Name, School and Position - For each "session" you attend: Title, time and date of the class in which you participated Summary of the key learnings AND how you plan to apply the learning in the library.
Global Education Conference The fifth annual Global Education Conference, a free week-long online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, will be held Monday, November 17 through Friday, November 22, 2014 (November 23rd in some time zones). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity. Last year’s conference featured 200 general sessions and 19 keynote addresses from all over the world with over 8,000 participant logins. To attend this year's conference and to be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please join this network.
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About Books
Student Opportunities FBI Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched the FBI Safe Online Surfing (FBI-SOS) Internet Challenge for the 2014-2015 school year. Open to all public, private, and home schools nationwide, the initiative is a free, age-appropriate, competitive, and fun online program that promotes cyber citizenship and teaches students in third through eighth grades how to recognize and respond to online dangers—like Internet predators and cyber bullying—and covers topics such as social networking and gaming safety
St. Louis County Library Teen Mini Conventions Each Friday night in October a different Mini Con is happening at one of our branches. Mini-Cons are for teens age 12-18. Friday, October 17, 6:30 p.m. at Tesson Ferry Comic Con Comic book fans assemble! Superhero-sci-fi-zombie-anime-fantasy fans will over take the branch. Powers will be tested at the arcade, comic design workshop and so much more. Dress as your favorite superhero or fantasy character and interface with friends... or foes. Are you ready to show off your fandom? Friday, October 24, 6:30 p.m. at Grand Glaize Fantasy Con Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Mortal Instruments, Lunar Chronicles and other beyond our realm fantasy at this spectacular event. Crafts, games, food, cosplay, dueling and other activities included for the fantasy character in you.
Take Advantage of a Free Research Skills Course for Students Research Basics is a series of free, self-paced, online lesson modules that provide general instruction and practice in scholarly research skills at the high school level. Research Basics is a beta program produced by JSTOR that aims to support librarians and teachers tackling the complex task of helping teens learn how to conduct scholarly research.
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Get the printable map at epicread. com
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