Parkway School District
Volume 2 | Issue 4
Know & Go
@your Library Updates Calendar for Library Space Sign-up
I am excited to say that many of you are ready to book and use the library. If you would like to use the library please check the schedule to make an appointment or plan out your usage. The Calendar is a Google Sheet that can be found at www.tinyurl. com/FRlibrary. A couple of things to keep in mind would be: you need to log into your Parkway Google App account to have access and make changes to the sheet, you may want to make a shortcut on your desktop so that you have easy access to view available times, and please everyone’s time and delete any scheduled times you are going to be unable to use. If you need help, let me know.
Databases Once again this year the Fern Ridge databases are up and ready to use. They can be easily accessed at http://tinyurl.com/FR-databases or by going to the Fern Ridge Edline page, under library, and then databases link. The bookmark stickers of the usernames and passwords for students are ready to go. These usernames and passwords are to be used when student try to access the databases off campus. We have some great databases for student research: ● Business Insights: Essentials - Find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports ● Credo Reference - Full-text articles from over 80 of the leading reference publishers ● Discovering Collection - Provides selections of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips in the areas of history, literature, science, social studies, and more ● Discovery Education - Educational videos, images, audio clips, resource materials, and much more to meet your digital media needs ● Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - Over 25,000 full-text records, covering an array of topics. The database contains various images and offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas ● Heritage Quest Online - A collection of American genealogical sources. Includes Federal Census data, Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank Records and more. ● Science Reference Center - Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals. Topics covered: biology, chemistry, health & medicine, physics, technology, and more ● SIRS Researcher - Delivers the pros and cons on today's complex social issues ● Student Research Center - Students can research topics in a variety of subject areas by source type: magazines, newspapers, reference books, primary sources, biographies, photos, and more. ● World Book - Online access to the World Book Encyclopedia. Includes additional content such as primary sources, images, maps, and more
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~ Confucius 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
Highlighted & Circled Technology, Research & Learning Resources
Powtoons - Free Upgrade - Limited Time Offer PowToon, the animated video online creation tool has a standard free vision but is now offering a free classroom account with advanced features. The offer includes 60 free accounts and longer export times for video. This tool creates Common Craft style videos by utilizing a drag-and-drop editor. http://www.powtoon.com/lp/toonup/
25 Interesting STEM Experts Worth Following on Twitter You don’t have to be a science teacher to appreciated this list of STEM experts. By following these people you will gain several classroom resources and strengthen your own PLN (Professional Learning Network). This would be great to share with your science teachers or to peruse if you are entertaining the idea of a makerspaces. http: //www.edudemic.com/stem-experts-twitter/
15 Google Search Lesson Plans & A Google A Day Challenges Since Google is one of the first places students go when giving a research task, Google has created a set of lesson plans that help students to pick the correct search terms, understand the search results, narrow the search, search for evidence, and evaluate source credibility. Each topic has a beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson. In addition to the lesson plans, the Google-a-Day challenge will stretch students to use their skills to engage and use technology in solving a research task. http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html
Mystorybook - Write, Illustrate, & Publish My Storybook lets students easily create simple virtual books with text and images/characters you can insert with a click. You can also draw your own.
Terrific Websites for Science From the people at Graphite (Common Sense Media) we now have a science site that addresses everything from biology to chemistry to physics. These science-oriented websites will help your students learn more about the world around them, make observations, notice patterns, and get important information about plants, animals, and people. http://goo.gl/DN1SQU
5 Reasons You Should Be Teaching Digital Citizenship We can't assume that "somebody else is teaching it" when we're talking about Digital Citizenship. These are 5 good reasons to get started today. Integrating digital citizenship into your lessons will give students skills and knowledge to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital society. http://goo.gl/BFUfxj
Just for Fun - Happy Birthday to YOU Theoworlds allows you to make an online Birthday Cake. You can design its shape, decorations, borders, candles, etc. You can also write a card that goes with it. Students can then email the url of their creation and card, and a teacher can post it on a website.
Google @your Library
Special Characters in Slides, Docs & Drawings
This year's Banned Books Week (held September 21–27), with its focus on comics, creates a particularly kid-friendly opportunity to introduce students to their reading rights.
Have you been creating a document and needed to make a math or science character that is not part of your keyboard? Now, you can create and search for special characters to insert into your slides, documents, and drawings. To perform a keyword search open the "insert" menu then select "special characters."
St Louis County Library Card Campaign!
Google for Education Page
Banned Books Week
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/schoolregistration. 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. Promotional Poster Idea
The site contains many tools, such as the Search & Discovery section where you can experience the world without leaving the classroom. Sites include Google Cultural Institute, Art Project, World Wonders Project, Google Street View Gallery, Google Map Maker, Google Play Books, Constitute, and many more. To get to this information click on the URL http://www.google.com/edu/tools-andsolutions/# then clck on the Search & Discovery button
The Google Educast The people at Edreach have a weekly round up of the newest Ed tools from Google-verse. This resource highlights best practices for students of all ages and is hosted by Google Certified Teachers.
10 Keyboard Shortcuts for Chromebooks Many of the libraries are refreshing with Chromebooks, and what better way to get started than to learn the shortcuts. Not only will you be more proficient but you will look like a pro. Shortcuts covered in this site include: taking a screenshot, opening file manager, locking the screens and several more. http://goo.gl/8Hrlm
Personalized Learning
About Books 14 Goodreads for 2014 Fiction: Gone Girl Divergent What Alice Forgot American Gods I Am the Messenger The Book Thief The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Nonfiction: The Power of Habit The Challenger Sale Outside In Thinking, Fast and Slow How Will You Measure Your Life? Life is a Verb The Gifts of Imperfection This list was based on a blog, http://www.essentiallyeclectic. com/. The author, Gabby went to the pseudo-social networking site for book lovers called Goodreads and created a reading challenge list and this was the outcome. To see what Goodreads said, as well as what she discovered about those books go to http: //goo.gl/vybT4Z
Connected Educators Month (CEM) - October 2014 Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Education, this virtual conference provides hundreds of professional development opportunities with diverse and engaging activities to educators of all levels. For more information visit http://connectededucators.org/announcing-cem-2014/
Google Apps Development Opps Missouri Summit featuring Google for Education Saturday, October 4th - Maplewood-Richmond Heights SD 60 Breakout sessions Registration is $80 More info: www.gafemo.com
Google Educator Group Eastern Missouri Online community hosted in Google+ Interested go to : http://tinyurl.com/gegmo
Student Opportunities Show Me a Movie Contest - Edplus & METC Show-Me a Movie is a digital storytelling contest for students grades 2-12 in Missouri and its Border States (Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska). These students are invited to demonstrate their creativity and digital moviemaking skills in one of five categories. New this year, categories are designated for specific age groups. Also new for 2014, the area of focus for all submitted movies is STEAM related. All winning movies are showcased at a reception in February during the Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC). The students from the winnings movie are invited to attend along with their teachers and families. More information at http: //goo.gl/4iJmFl