Parkway School District Library Services
Volume 4 | Issue 14
Know & Go Updates @your Library
High School Database Subscriptions Nancy recommends acquiring the quotes, bids, sole source letters, etc. for the databases you wish to purchase/renew with LMS budget funds, in 2017-2018. Your budget amount for databases will remain the same. Completing this now will keep the subscriptions running smoothly. Reminder, if the database is not a sole source, and is over $ 1000.00, you will need to obtain 3 bids (email is fine). If it is a sole source, please request a current sole source letter along with your quote. Once you have obtained all info to renew, please forward/share with Jim Hepler. Jim and Nancy will work together this summer to ensure all databases are renewed in a timely matter. Standing Order Info FYI, if either Guinness Book or World Almanac is on your standing order list, Library Services will no longer order it Nancy will be removing them from our standing order renewal list for 17-18. Parkway did not receive our orders for the academic year 16-17. If you wish to purchase, please do so through Follett. All other standing orders will be ordered/purchased. Surplus Book & Sale The District annual book sale will be at Central Middle this year and open to the public on June 16 from 8:00 am until 4:00 pm and on the 17th from 8:00 am until noon. As you get your books together and send Jim the notification that your surplus books are ready to be picked up, please make sure to follow the following guidelines. ● All books should all be in boxes with lids and not weigh more than 50 pounds. ● Please be sue that the boxes are not much larger than the size box that contains copy paper. Both of these help with logistics and moving those books. Please do not use larger sized boxes. Anything box that we send to you from library services should suffice. NOTE:This month’s surplus property sheet will be the last one approved in time for this summer's book sale. So if you want materials to be taken away for this year's book sale, you need to have your email sent to Jim by April 21st. The procedure guide is located here:goo.gl/aLmrda Destiny Final Due Dates Set Jim set the final due dates in Destiny, which means that these dates will be the last possible day a book will be due, depending on patron type.For faculty members, the final day is May 25th. For students, May 11th. If you would like to move up these dates to an earlier time, you have the ability to do this. It's under Back Office --> Library Policies. Under Patron Type, change the Final Due Date for the ones you'd like. Contact Jim for help. What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?
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Librarians List 2016-17 Who To Call Ordering procedures Follett ordering w/screenshots Follett Acct #'s Follett req Instructions Building budget Sub librarian list Sub Training Videos Ordering/renewing databases HS only Destiny FAQ Free Lib Book District Surplus Property Procedures
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Cont’d Updates @your Library NEW eBooks!
Breakout Edu On Facebook there is a general discussion community that uses the group to collaborate, brainstorm, and connect with other educators using Breakout EDU. Join at BreakoutEDU.com/welcome One of the many valuable posts from this community was for a Symbaloo of breakout resources! Extremely helpful. Another Breakout EDU thought is to use an empty locker as your main lock box. Very clever!
The 2017-2018 MASL award nominee titles are now available as ebooks on the district shelf. They will show on each school’s shelf. I will be sharing Gateway's to 6-12; Mark Twain and Truman will be shared K-12; Show Me K-5. If you wish to hide titles, log on to your Follett shelf and click on: Maintenance >Title Maintenance Title Maintenance lets you hide eBooks or audiobooks at the site level, including titles that were pushed down by the district. To hide or unhide Follett eBook titles You can hide Follett eBooks from being viewed on Follett Shelf. 1. If you are not on the Follett Shelf Setup page, then follow the steps in the blue title bar. 2. Select Maintenance > Title Maintenance. 3. Find a title(s) you want to hide or un-hide, and then select or deselect the Hidden checkbox. 4. Make applicable changes in the drop-downs. 5. Click Save. If you want to find all hidden titles, click the Hidden column name.If you have any questions, please contact Nancy or Jim Hepler.
20 to Watch If you didn’t get a chance to see the article where Bill was nationally named “20 to Watch” in educational technology leadership read it here https://goo.gl/fBcmNq. It is quite an honor and we should all be #ParkwayProud.
#FutureReady Empowers Students as Creators Ozoeasy! Sticker Codes
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Library Services Makerspace Order Form Vendors List: Mobile Makerspace Kit Request Mobile Makerspace Site Mobile Makerspace Stories & Quotes
The Ozoeasy stickers make the coding part of Ozobot activities much more engaging. These pre-printed stickers take the frustration of coloring the code correctly out to the equation and focus their attention on creativity and coding. The eight year old kid-preneur went through the maker process and many iterations to improve the stickers to use with Ozobots. Challenge: We have Ozobots, could our students figure out how to make the color coding stickers? www.ozoeasy.com
#Makerspaces Resources for Students Take a look at Kristen Mattson’s blog, she has created pamphlets to support the creativity and discovery of the “gadgets” she has available for students to use freely during their lunch period. Her thought is to provide students with a few resources to get started and let them create and learn independently. drkmattson.wordpress.com
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21 Chrome Extensions for Struggling or Special
#FutureReady - Curates Resources & Tools AutoDraw...A Fun New Way To Draw From Google! Students are going to love this...it turns doodles into art. The product is called AutoDraw and according to the website it is a new web-based tool that pairs machine learning with drawings created by talented artists to help you draw. It works on your phone, computer, or tablet (and it's free!). AutoDraw would also be a fun tool to smash with other digital tools and apps too. Your students could use it to draw and upload into a Google Presentation to write or illustrate a poem for Poetry Month. To learn more about AutoDraw, watch this video and check it out here. You can also see more about this tool at vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com
Needs Students Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level. See the entire post at controlaltachieve.com
6 Ways to Use Google Cardboard in the Classroom Many of you had a chance to experience Google Expeditions this year. As a follow up Monica Burns on the classtechtips.com blog shares ways to create deeper learning experiences with virtual reality. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Connect to current events with New York Times VR app Provide background knowledge Set the stage for learning: try a KWL chart by taking part in VR experiences before asking what they want to know Energize foreign language practice Take a trip to Mars: Nearpod VR has virtual space field trips Build vocabulary
She also has a free eBook download on how to get started with VR. Engaging Social Studies Tool In February the “Life Timeline” interactive tool was unveiled. By using the “drop-and-drag” menu you can input your birthday, and it will deliver a visually engaging history of the key events that have happened during your lifetime. The timeline includes political, cultural, technological and other kinds of developments, along with an intriguing short summary. Read more about the Life Timeline tool here. Also see larryferlazzo.edublogs.org What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?
10 Google App Tricks to Learn in 2017 These great Google tech Tips from Alice Keeper will streamline what you do with Google Apps for Education. See them all at alicekeeler.com
Google Search Education Help students become better searchers by using this site that contains lesson plans, power searching, Google A Day challenges, and live trainings. Go to Google Search Education.
#FutureReady Build Instructional Partnerships Something to Share with Teachers Sticky Note Prompt and Respond
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National Poetry Month see 30 ways to celebrate School Library Month April - Celebrate National Library Week with the Libraries Transform campaign D.E.A.R. Drop Everything and Read Month (April) April 22nd Earth Day www.scholastic.com April 30th Children’s Day/Book Day - Dia
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May 1- 7 -Children’s Book Week May 4 - Star Wars Day May is National Pet Month so celebrate being a participatory library by hosting a pet’s reading photo contest. Summer Reading Ideas
This strategy supports activating knowledge as well as exploring & discovering. It helps provide initial focus for the purpose of engaging all participants. It may also serve to frame the content that is coming.The team structure that follows the introductory prompts allows for individuals to create shared understanding about the content. Here’s how it works: 1. Ahead of time, prepare several prompts to offer to your group, each prompt relevant to a topic of study. Prompts might be direct quotations from a text, generalizations about the topic, points of interest, or even questions to consider. 2. One at a time, offer the prompts to the group. 3. For each prompt, individuals craft their own response on a sticky note (e.g., participants will generate one sticky note for each statement). Responses might include such things as what the prompt makes them think about, how the prompt makes them feel, what connections they might be making, what curiosities it raises in them, or etc. 4. Participants post their sticky notes in areas of the room that have been designated for each prompt. 5. Divide the group into teams so that you have one team per prompt. Teams convene around the sticky notes for their assigned prompt. 6. Teams organize/combine/rearrange the sticky notes for their prompt in a way that makes sense to them. 7. Teams create a synthesizing statement (or statements) for their group of stickies and prepare to share out whole group. Variations: * Use with a video, stopping at key points to offer individuals a time to craft a response to what they have just seen and heard. This maintains engagement throughout the learning experience. * Use with a reading by dividing the text into sections, and having participants craft a response to each section as they read it. Individuals might then work as a table group to organize and synthesize their thinking. This “how to” strategy was shared by Toni Prickett
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#FutureReady - Professional Learning Content Curation Strategies for Digital Learning In Dr. Tim Clark’s last blog post, Curation for Digital Learning, he detailed the reasons why schools and districts should engage in content curation to facilitate digital learning. He listed the activities that are involved in content curation, specifically within K-12 learning environments. Now, to better nurture digital learning ecosystems, this blog post contains an overview of some specific strategies that schools and districts can undertake to begin, execute, and sustain a successful plan for content curation. Read the entire blog post at byotnetwork.com.
#ParkwayReads The Most Famous Book That Takes Place in Every State From the businessinsider.com see books that are famous from state to state.
5 Way Librarians Connect Students to the World Through Technology To prepare for life and career, it is essential for students to be global digital citizens, connected virtually to others. To empower educators and district leaders to leverage digital technology, the Alliance for Excellent Education created Future Ready Librarian framework. The section on Empowers Students as Creators, states that librarians encourage and facilitate students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products. In this Education Week post Shannon McClintock Miller shares five ways that librarians can empower students by connecting them to digital tools, experiences, and others. What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?
Parkway Summer Reading Lists The Parkway summer reading brochures are under construction and will be available some time mid-May. We are waiting to include the the official lists from AASL.
#FutureReady - Personalized Professional Learning Parkway Credit One option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars and events, such as Edcamps, SLAA events, makerspace open houses etc. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar or go to an event, then record your participation at tinyurl.com/webinars-events. 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.
Library 2.017 mini-conferences The topic for the second of three mini-conferences will be "Digital Literacy + Fake News," which will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 1st, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time . This event is being organized in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander, who will serve as moderator for the opening panel and as the closing keynote speaker. Invited panelists and presenters will look deeply at the foundational relationship of libraries and librarians to media, information, and digital literacy. This is a free event, being held online. REGISTER HERE to attend live or to receive the recording links afterwards.Please also join the Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.
MASL Spring Conference Handouts EdWeb Webinars Edweb.net offer many free, relevant webinars. Check out their monthly calendar and register through edweb.net They also have access to archived webinars that are also applicable.
The handouts and presentation files provided by 2017 Spring Conference presenters are listed on the MASL Spring Conference page. The workshops are listed in alphabetical by title, and additional files will be added as they are received.
Talent Development is very excited to share the Professional Learning Course Guide for Summer 2017. To view courses, click on the tabs across the bottom of the spreadsheet after opening.
EdTech Update See additional webinars on Future Ready and Library topics through www.edtechupdate.com
Courses will open April 1 in PEERS. You will find courses to earn both inservice credits and salary credits. Wondering how this all works? Please click HERE to see the Professional Learning FAQs. Registration Opens: April 1, 2017 at 10:00 am Registration Closes: May 11, 2017 Access: 2017 Summer Learning Catalog What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?
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Science Night at Maston Ridge Hand buzzers created with LittleBits at Sorrento Celebrating Poetry Month and Mark Twain Readers at South Middle
Well said: Librarians provide students with the floaties and teach them to swim the informational tsunami. ~ New Jersey State Library
Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
Vendor Contacts: Undelivered Post Dispatch: Russell Ham rham@post-dispatch.com
Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or www.tinyurl.com/libserv
Undelivered USA Today & New York Times: Wesley Trammell wtrammell@ebsco.com Back Issues of Know & Go: Volume 4 https://goo.gl/Idfr5O Volume 3 http://goo.gl/0Evfcw Volume 2 http://goo.gl/zCsIig Volume 1 http://goo.gl/MtxaUk
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