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Destiny Library Manager Assess automatic overdue fines for lost books that have been returned (after the items were identified as Lost). Destiny Discover “You may also like” title recommendations will appear on the Title Detail pages, including those based on author, subject or series. Allow students to see their resource circulation and fine information in Destiny Discover. Material type and reading/interest level search options will allow users to narrow searches. Collections by Destiny The “Featured Collections” tab will include free collections to provide tools for Lightbox. “Instructor Use Only” field will allow individual items in a collection to be hidden from student view. “Report Abuse feature” lets users notify staff of a collection containing inappropriate materials. Managing Lesson Resources with Collections ● Find, organize, and share OERs ● Pair content with instructional goals - Add already created notes, worksheets, quizzes, videos, pictures, and activities ● Share with Google Classroom
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Personalized Professional Learning #ParkwyReads It takes a Reader to Grow a Reader Helping students create and grow authentic reading lives, is one of our most important jobs as educators. The research on this topic is very clear: Children between the ages of 10 and 16 who read for pleasure make more progress in vocabulary, spelling, and math than those who rarely read. (Sullivan & Brown, 2013) Further, we know that volume matters. Students need enormous quantities of successful reading to become independent, proficient readers. Read more from Jennifer LaGarde and Todd Nesloney scholastic.com
Book Marketing Strategy Students recommend books to others in personal notes on the inside cover. This #booklove moves year to year, connecting students across time. Penny Kittle
Advocate This, Not That In a article, Advocate This, Not That, in the January 2018 edition of School Library (https://goo.gl/RwgDjv) Jonathan Hunt discusses four bold strategies to elevate your school library. This information is quite relevant as we look at our program evaluation guidelines (Topic 1 - Advocacy, Topic 2 - Responsiveness to Community, and Topic 3 - Instruction and Programming) and think about curriculum revision. He states that too often, school libraries are seen as peripheral, not central to teaching and learning, so how do we create programs with the greatest impact on the highest priorities? This is about creating influence and in order to be seen as a very highly valued resource. Typical advocacy talking points simply don’t cut it anymore and school libraries need to reframe key library elements to bring into better focus on meaningful contributions to four important system level priorities. ○ Equity and access, not reading ■ What good is it to motivate students to read if they don’t have access to books? ■ Having books available at home has a measurable impact on academic achievement (research ow.ly/1ftu30h6bAT) ■ It’s time to honestly examine the myriad ways that our school system denies access to students who need it the most ○ Curriculum and instruction, not information literacy ■ There are two ways that librarians can powerfully impact curriculum, instruction, and assessment: collaboration and curation ● Collaboration is not coordination (juggling schedules and resources) or cooperation (teaching skills in isolation for classroom learning) ● True collaboration is when the teacher and librarian share in the planning, teaching, and assessment of a lesson - The goal may be each librarian collaborate with every teacher in the school at least once during the year ■ As schools increasingly supplement or replace textbooks with ORE or proprietary resources (databases, ebooks,), librarians become invaluable not only because the curate the resources but more importantly because they teach students and staff how to navigate them. ● Curation is the opportunity to shift money from textbook budget to library in order to maintain a high quality instructional materials (ultimately spending the same amount of money but on better digital content). ○ College and career readiness, not ed tech ■ Information literacy and educational technology are so intertwined it’s difficult to separate them. ■ Engagement is especially crucial for information literacy, because the library is the only classroom that promises academic freedom. ■ Personalized learning is trending but the library has always been about helping students immerse themselves in information and experiential learning. ■ Know as connected learning - student interest, peer culture, and academic content. ■ Learning in the library is a progressively immersive learning environment that allow young people to discover and develop their talents. ■ Libraries can capitalize on connected learning because of access to school libraries. ■ This area is an opportunity to collaborate with counselors and CTE teachers. ■ The library is the route to more pathways and propelling students from engagement to purpose.
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL), not collection development ■ The Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is an integrated, comprehensive framework designed to help all students succeed academically, socially, and behaviorally. ■ Leverage every existing support into a cohesive whole. ■ The rationale of UDL is to create curriculum, instruction, and assessment that will meet the learning needs of our diverse populations. ■ UDLs core principles are three fold - representation expression and engagement - supporting various learning styles. ■ Library collections typically include diverse media and formats:multiple books on a single topic with different reading levels and different design aesthetics; interactive databases with text-to-speech and translation features; streaming video and audio; models, manipulatives, and puppets; curated websites and apps. ■ The library is a goal mine of representation and expression. ■ The library—especially one with a makerspace —offers a multitude of options for how students can demonstrate their learning: digital storytelling, podcasting, coding, robotics, arts and crafts, graphic design, and gaming. They can create, remix, and share information with innumerable technology tools. They can work collaboratively in project-based learning groups or individually with personalized learning goals. Read the entire article and comment at www.slj.com
More on Universal Design Universal design (UD) means that rather than designing your facility and services for the average user, you design them for people with a broad range of abilities, disabilities, and other characteristics—such as age, reading ability, learning style, language, culture, and others. Keep in mind that students and other visitors may have learning disabilities or visual, speech, hearing, and mobility impairments. Making your library accessible to them will make it more usable by everyone and minimize the need for special accommodations for those who use your services and for future employees as well. Ensure that everyone feels welcome, and can ● get to the library facility and maneuver within it, ● communicate effectively with support staff, ● access printed materials and electronic resources, and ● fully participate in events and other activities. Taken from University of Washington
Empowers Students as Creators Don’t Forget to Doodle! Students in grades K-12 are invited to take part in the 2018 Doodle 4 Google contest, and create an uplifting doodle that tells the world “What inspires me.” From crayons to clay, graphic design, or even food, young artists can utilize any materials to bring their creation to life. Like all Google Doodles, each doodle must incorporate the letters G-o-o-g-l-e. One national winner will receive a $30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 technology package for their school/non-profit organization, and a behind-the-scenes experience with the Doodle team to transform their Doodle into an interactive experience on Google.com. The contest is open for entries from January 8th – March 2nd, 2018 – only 8 short weeks! https://doodles.google.com/d4g/
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Empowers Students as Creators Add Audio & Video Notes to Padlet Walls Padlet is a versatile tool that has been used and promoted for years. When it originally launched it only supported text and picture notes. Over time new features have been steadily added to it. The latest feature added to Padlet is an option to make audio recordings directly in the notes on a Padlet wall. In this video Richard Byrne demonstrates how to add audio, video, and picture notes to a Padlet wall. Padlet's audio note recording option could be a good one for students to use to create short podcasts. Or you could just have students record short audio notes as an exit ticket at the end of a lesson. Some of the other ways that you can use Padlet in your classroom include voting on responses, making flowcharts, and creating distraction-free video playlists.
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Builds Instructional Partnerships Top 10 Sites to Help Students Check Facts In a political climate here sharing fake news has become commonplace, it’s more important than ever to rely on trustworthy and dogged fact-checking services to vet information. Our job as citizens requires more than just being informed. We must also be vigilant about verifying information before posting it on social media. While taking a second look at claims made by politicians and even journalists is a start, we still can’t outsource our brains and our judgment, says Tessa Jolls, president of the Center for Media Literacy. “In my view, we have to look as critically at the fact-checking sites as we do the news articles themselves,” she says. A good fact-checking site uses neutral wording, provides unbiased sources to support its claims and reliable links, says Frank Baker, author of Media Literacy in the K-12Classroom and creator of the Media Literacy Clearinghouse. He adds, “Readers should apply the same critical thinking/questioning to fact-check sites.” Here's a rundown of 10 of the top fact- and bias-checking sites to share with your students. AllSides. While not a fact-checking site, AllSides curates stories from right, center and left-leaning media so that readers can easily compare how bias influences reporting on each topic. Fact Check. This nonpartisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. political players, including politicians, TV ads, debates, interviews and news releases. Media Matters. This nonprofit and self-described liberal-leaning research center monitors and corrects conservative misinformation in the media. NewsBusters. A project of the conservative Media Research Center, NewsBusters is focused on “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.” Open Secrets. This nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit website run by the Center for Responsive Politics tracks how much and where candidates get their money. Politifact. This Pulitzer Prize winning website rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials. Run by editors and reporters from the independent newspaper Tampa Bay Times, Politicfact features the Truth-O-Meter that rates statements as “True,” “Mostly True,” “Half True,” “False,” and “Pants on Fire.” ProPublica. This independent, nonprofit newsroom has won several Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2016 Prize for Explanatory Reporting. ProPublica produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Snopes. This independent, nonpartisan website run by professional researcher and writer David Mikkelson researches urban legends and other rumors. It is often the first to set the facts straight on wild fake news claims. The Sunlight Foundation. This nonpartisan, nonprofit organization uses public policy data-based journalism to make politics more transparent and accountable. Washington Post Fact Checker. Although the Washington Post has a left-center bias, its checks are excellent and sourced. The bias shows up because they fact check conservative claims more than liberal ones. By Jennifer Snelling, Feb 2018 www.iste.org
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10 Overlooked Google Slides Features Like any robust presentation tool, Google Slides has many features that often go overlooked by users. Some of these features will let you accomplish the things that you used to do in PowerPoint or Keynote while others will just save you a bit of time. Either way, here are ten features of Google Slides that you should know how to use. 1. Word Art Word Art is different than just changing your font size or style. Inserting word art lets you apply custom borders, colors, and shading to your font. It also lets you dynamically resize font to fit almost anywhere in a slide.
6. Play videos without using YouTube. Last year Google finally added the option to include videos in your slides without those videos having to be on YouTube. Upload any video to your Google Drive account and then you can import it directly into any slide.
2. Live Q&A Launch a live Q&A channel forum for your audience directly from the Presenter View menu. Your audience can submit questions by going to the Q&A link that is automatically displayed across the top of your slides when you have Q&A activated. You can also disable this feature at any time.
7. Make Interactive Diagrams Richard Byrne made a video about this last week and featured it in the Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week. By using the hyperlinking tools in Google Slides you can link multiple parts of one slide to other slides within the same presentation. Take the model to its fullest extent and your students can begin to build choose-your-own-adventure stories in Google Slides.
3. Import Google Keep Note Open the "tools" menu while editing your slides and you can choose to open a Keep Notepad. That will display all of the notes that you have saved in Google Keep including pictures and links.
8. Voice Typing Speaker Notes In the "tools" menu in Google Slides you will find an option for speech-to-text. This function only works for the speaker notes and not for the body of slides.
4. Integrated Unsplash Image Search You can use the "insert image" menu to launch a Google Images search, but that's not the best option for an integrated image search. Unsplash Photos has a free Google Slides Add-on that provides access to hundreds of thousands of images that are in the public domain.
9. Chart, Diagram, and Timeline Templates. Within the "insert" menu in Google Slides you will find a handful of chart, diagram, and timeline templates that you can customize.
5. Add Audio to Your Slides There are two ways that you can do this. You could place a YouTube music video in your slide and then shrink it down and hide it in the corner of your slide. Or you could use the AudioPlayer for Slides Add-on which makes it quite easy to play music behind your entire presentation.
10. Import your old PPT slides If you still have PowerPoint presentations and want convert them to be accessible and editable in G Suites, you can import your old PPT files into Google Slides right from the "file" drop-down menu in Google Slides. By Richard Byrne, January 2018, Free Technology for Teachers
Personalized Professional Learning Google Certification Levels 1 & 2 Are you Googly? Do you want to be? Did you know that Google has an entire training program where you can get certified as a Google Educator? This course is online, self-paced, and is meant to get you to earn your Google Educator Level 1 Certification. In order to receive salary credit, you must pass the Google certification test and submit certificate to Amy Johnson. Prior to beginning the course, you will receive a Google Classroom invitation where all content is stored. When you are ready to take the certification exam, you will need contact Amy Johnson or Bill Bass 48 hours in advance to get a code for the exam. For level 2 there is a prerequisite: You must complete Level 1 Certification before you are able to complete the Level 2 Certification class.
Program Evaluation Guidelines Topic 1: Advocacy Parkway libraries will strive for clear communication of the role of school librarians. Topic 2: Responsiveness to Community Parkway libraries will be responsive to the community and have a finger on the pulse of each individual building.
Look for these courses to be offered in the PEERS spring offerings.
Want to connect with other educators and transform learning? See upcoming spring learning opportunities offered through ConnectED Learning at connectedlearningstl.org Visit the edWeb Calendar for upcoming free webinars. Now you can also easily search and view over 1300 recorded edWebinars.
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.
Topic 3: Instructional & Programming Parkway libraries will support classroom instruction and provide relevant, timely programming to meet the needs and interests of each individual community. Topic 4: Educational Leadership & PD Parkway librarians will strive to be seen as leaders in buildings and will have access to just in time, targeted professional learning for librarians. Topic 5: Library Physical Spaces Parkway libraries are multi-use spaces that are inviting and available for learners of all ages.
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