Know & Go Volume 3 | Issue 9

Parkway School District

Volume 3 | Issue 9

KNOW & GO Updates @your Library

Dates at a Glance Library Services Answers to FAQs ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Librarians List 2015-16 Who To Call Ordering procedures Follett ordering w/screenshots Follett Acct #'s Follett req Instructions Building budget Sample budget Substitute librarian list Sub Training Videos Standing orders Ordering/renewing databases HS only Destiny FAQ Page of Answers Mobile Makerspace Kit Request

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Nancy’s Notes & Other Reminders Elementary Refresh During the week of Thanksgiving a team met to discuss what the computer refresh might look like. Many ideas were presented and various classroom models were identified. These models are being looked at by several district committees at this time. What does this mean for libraries? Technology will be refreshed in the libraries and is dependent upon which model the district finds most appropriate for the classroom.

Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass Kim Lindskog Library System Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog

Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106 Nancy Ikemeyer Administrative Assistant Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or www.tinyurl.com/libserv

@your Library December ●

Hour of Code Dec 7-13th It’s not too late to get started with the how-to guide. Remember to take a lot of pictures, share them on social media, and use the hashtag #parkwayschools when posting.

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SLCL Reading Warm-up St. Louis County Library is pleased to offer our popular Winter Reading Club again this year to all ages. Winter Reading Club runs from December 1-February 29th.

Teachers will be able to sign up and participate as a class. Just contact the Youth Specialist at your branch for more information to get started. Teachers may request either group log sheets, for ages 0-11, or individual log sheets depending on which will work best for their classroom. Each student will receive a sponsor coupon and a raffle slip to be entered into the prize drawing once they have completed the program.

January ● ALA Youth Media Awards Monday, January 11, 2016 http://www.ilovelibraries. org/yma

Nancy’s Notes & Other Reminders Hour of Code Pictures Many of you are participating in Hour of Code or some sort of variation, please remember to send us pictures! Publication relations is wanting to put a piece together on our participation in this global event. Remember, if you share your pictures on social media, use

the hashtag #parkwayschools and #hourofcode when posting.

You can put the Hour of Code pictures in the shared Google Drive Folder called Hour of Code 2015. You will need to log in to your Parkway Google account , create a school folder, and add your photos. This is a great experience for Parkway students and we thank you for giving them the experience. https://drive.google.com/a/pkwy.k12.mo.us/folderview? id=0Bxn9AC3xkO8PZ0NJb0QxNEZyMVk&usp=sharing

Other Upcoming Dates January 4th PD Day As break quickly approaches, we wanted to let you all know what will greet you on your January 4th return. This day will focus on our role as a librarian in the digital age as well as give you some update/work time. We will meet from 8-11 in the Northeast Middle library.

End of the Year Meeting Save the date… Thursday, May 12th from 4:00 - 6:00pm at Central High School Library Classroom.

If you haven’t joined the Parkway Innovators Network, I highly recommend it. Through this community the hope is that you will have the opportunity to engage and connect with others inside the Parkway district.There are a lot of innovative things going on in the district and we want to provide a space to share experience, thinking, and innovative ideas with each other.

A variety of professional learning opportunities (both in and out of the district), resources, tools and other events that you might find interesting will be shared on a regular basis. You are encourage to share and post your thinking and ideas here and contribute to the collective knowledge of innovation in Parkway.

If you want more info or to get started with Google+, this video may help. https://youtu.be/3ihsXlcgMeI

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Reaching Teachers Tip

Resource Roundup Technology, Research & Learning Resources

When you have the opportunity to present to faculty or administrators be strategic and model a technology integration piece each time. By doing this you are optimizing the face time with them by providing your original library message and a technology integration opportunity. This justin-time learning strategy becomes a personalized learning experience.

Let students publish research in a newspaper format using two templates for Google Docs.

The templates can be found at Educational Technology & Mobile Learning.

For Fun @your Library Take a peek at the hypnotizing animation of 55 vintage book covers (video) at ebookfriendly.com

Library Activities The Selfie Shelfie This activity is great way to encourage patron participation. In this bulletin board students match the Shelfie to the Selfie (teacher to their home bookshelf or favorite book). Here is a photo of it in action at SWM.

Want to work with a real open source software organization while earning cool prizes? Try your hand at Google Code-in. The contest begins on December 7th through January 25th.

Timely Topics

Makerspaces, Gaming,, Library Spaces, Advocacy, Ge

Big Huge Labs Big Huge Labs offers a great collection of free tools for creating digital products with your pictures. Some of the tools that they offer include motivational poster creators, magazine cover creators, and trading card templates. Read more on how to implement this tool into your lessons at http://www.freetech4teachers. com What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

More Maker Stuff Got Spheros, want more ideas to use with Sphero? Checkout the SPRK Lighting Lab where you can explore, build, and collaborate in a Sphero community. Sign up at http://www. sphero.com/education The Lightning Lab is the latest version of the existing SPRK app. Save your progress, jump from desktop to device, and continue the discovery.

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Professional Learning 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 go to http://tinyurl. com/webinars-events 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.

Archived Webinars Worth a View

KINETIC TRANSFERIUM

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HERE'S MY AREA... WHAT'S MY PERIMETER? 2-4 HOURS

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SPHERO SLACK LINE ENGINEERING CHALLENGE MULTI-DAY

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Getting the Most out of Integrating eBooks in the Classroom: 10 Proven Lessons Makerspaces: The Now Revolution in School Libraries You Need It: Reading Promotional Programming That Really Works!

Primarily Speaking: Tips and Tricks for Integrating Primary Documents into Teaching & Learning

LIGHT PAINTING ½ HOUR - 1 HOUR

What will you make @ your library Creativity is thinking up new things.

Innovation is doing new things.

#ParkwayMakes Being in the hospital is no fun – especially for young patients.

But a group of students at Parkway Northeast Middle are embarking on a Makerspace project to help chronically ill children and their siblings get their minds off hospital and on to something more fun.

Read the article at http: //westnewsmagazine.com/

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Who is the elf?

Yep, that is Bill at the Macy’s Day Parade in NYC. Career Fair for 8th graders at SLCC Sphero training at McKelvey BitsBox training at IAT

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Well Said...

More Bitsbox training at SHS Gone is the Circ desk at Wren...Now a service center and genius bar #ParkwayReads

A library is a house of hope. It’s a place where we all, whatever our situation, can feed our ideas and develop our dreams. ~ Doug Wilhelm

Check out School Library Journal’s Ideas for Maker Book Lists and collections in the library.

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