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Volume 5 | Issue 7
Notes & Reminders Follett Ordering To satisfy auditor questions, and meet federal regulations, we have had to revise the way Follett ordering is completed and how it is entered into Munis, Parkway's finance system ●
Most everything will remain as is. Nancy still needs to be emailed before you order with list name and amount. ● What she needs from you is immediately after you place your order on Titlewave, you print, scan, and share with her. The need to print immediately is of the utmost importance. This is when the order is pending and has not been assigned an invoice number. If an invoice number is created and showing on Titlewave before you print, the order will be canceled. ● Once you have printed, scan a copy to yourself, drag to your desktop and rename to your list name. Nancy has created a folder for you to share your orders. You can drag and drop from your desktop. You will need to use your school name as part of your list name in order for me to distinguish what school the order belongs to. The link to the folder is here. Please contact Nancy with any questions.
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Ordering procedures
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Follett req Instructions Building budget
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Sub librarian list
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Sub Training Videos
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Ordering/renewing databases HS only
Google Certification Levels 1 & 2 Are you Googley? 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. Look for these courses to be offered in the PEERS spring offerings.
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Destiny FAQ
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Free Lib Books @ Lib Serv
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District Surplus Property Procedures
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Record a PD event
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Travel & Reimbursement (BOE) Guidelines
Use of Space & Time 4 Important Spaces Every Digital Age Library Should Have There is a promising potential in making use of the library’s services in new ways. This is why libraries are more valued now for their spaces and the opportunities that they create for the community, such as support for classrooms, access to innovation/technology, and collaboration with teacher/administrators.. When thinking about what to do with the library spaces it is important to explore what types of services you want to offer. Through program evaluation we found that students wanted access and opportunity to the most up-to-date resources and devices. That being said there are four important spaces that digital age libraries should have to keep up with student/community needs and attract patrons. ● A social space for interaction and knowledge exchange - think storytelling, experiences, and play that provide opportunity for community engagement ● A quiet space for contemplation - a place without the distractions of modern society ● A space for innovation or making - access to opportunities through shared resources, projects, networking and building ● The library as a neutral and secure community space - that supports a broad range of grades levels, social backgrounds, cultural diversity While this article centers on public libraries, it does provides a good insight on what to focus on in regards to space.
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6 Library Trends of 2017 and INto the Future Recently a variety of library trends for 2017 were collected based on interviews with library thought leaders and curated from innovative libraries around the world. If you are looking for new ideas going into 2018, these could give you a great starting point!. ● Community involvement - librarians have expressed the need to actively engage the community in what the library has to offer. In this case we might think about our Main Topic 1: Advocacy from the Program Evaluation guidelines and consider ways to involve not only students, but also parents. ● Focus on a variety of library users - exploring different initiatives to personalize library services to diverse groups of students. Reaching out through character education, social justice, or diversity in action (Program Evaluation - Main Topic 2). ● Reinvent the services offered - This is why libraries have started using their spaces for new purposes, such as to enable innovation and knowledge exchange, to create cultural experiences, and most importantly to create participatory centers of learning by partnering with the community. This trend even has a name: the library of things! ● Knowing more about the library’s non-visitors (as well as the visitors) - Get insights into your most devoted users’ minds but most importantly into the minds of the non-users. The main ideas is to find out what is not working and change it. ● Create an image of your library - there is a need to have a “big loud voice” in the community and challenge wrong perceptions (Program Evaluation - Main Topic 1). ● Focus on emerging technologies - hot topics include: artificial Intelligence, robotics, self-service solutions, rich digital collections. Read this article in depth at princh.com Also look at Trending Now...And Into the Future
Personalized Professional Learning #ParkwyReads A reading challenge can be simple, silly, serious, genre-based, or any combination of these and many other attributes.
Go beyond the 2018 reading challenge (free printable pdf on site) and try out the 50 DIY reading challenges to make 2018 the best year of your reading life. Ideas include: Read 52 comics—one comic per week, pick ten countries you have always wanted to visit. Read one book that takes place in each of those countries, read a book for every letter of the alphabet. You can use the author’s first name, last name, or the title, and so many more.
In with the New Standards Now is a great time to be a librarian, there are many foundational and guiding documents that provide a roadmap to creating dynamic, participatory libraries. As a library program we have embraced the Future Ready and Project Connect frameworks to support what we do in our building and at the district level. We have also adopted the ISTE standards for students and the new AASL standards. In the new AASL Standards there are three Frameworks: one for learners, one for school librarians, and one for school libraries. All three have the same structure so you can see how the same Domains (Think, Create, Share, Grow) and Shared Foundations connect. This structure makes it easy to compare them and once you have familiarity with one framework, you can comfortably grasp the others. As we think about our role in Parkway the most likely place to begin is with the AASL Framework for Learners. This framework ties very nicely to Goal One of the Parkway Strategic plan which relates to student growth, personalization, and engagement. The AASL Framework for Learners is a free download and only eight pages. The suggestion is to spend time with the centerfold that lays out the standards for learners. Read the Key Commitments for each of the six Shared Foundations. You will find your old lessons almost always included aspect of the four : (1) Inquire, (3) Collaborate, (4) Curate, and (5) Explore. As library lessons evolve you may have already incorporated Include and Engage but now we can reflect on how we have supported these two newer foundations. The Include foundation articulates the need to incorporate diversity and global .citizenship into student learning opportunities. Engage focuses on the ethical use of information. Both have been components of our practice, but the six Shared Foundations keep them in front of you. The important thing to remember these Share Foundations and Domains are not linear or meant to be included in every unit of study. They are a guide in constructing lessons/units and it’s up to you to decide where they fit best. Once you have your copy of the Framework for Learners, it’s recommended to look at How Do I Read the Standards? It boils down how the six Shared Foundations and four Domains combine within the three Frameworks, defining the competencies we want to achieve. In addition, it explains how to identify which of the Shared Foundations and Domains you are using in a lesson. Another great resource is to check the AASL portal for the Standards regularly. If you “enter” as School Librarians, you will find resources to support you in getting started with the new National Standards for School Libraries. New ones are added frequently. Adapted from hildakweisburg.com
Empowers Students as Creators
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Top Ten Makerspace Items of 2017 This year's New Media Consortium/COSN's 2017 K-12 Horizon Report deemed makerspaces the future of edtech and predicted full adoption in K-12 in one year or less! It is more important than ever that we plan and create GREAT makerspaces! Part of doing so is selecting the right materials, resources and supplies to support the experiences you want your students to have in your makerspace. In what has become an annual tradition, Laura Fleming is thrilled to highlight some of her favorite makerspace-related things for this year. Her hope is that this year's favorites encourage you to think 'out of the box' as you choose products to support your makerspace themes. Go to the Worlds of Making blog and see the Top Ten Makerspace Favorites for 2017, 2016, and 2015. And remember, when thinking about what to purchase for your makerspace be sure the items are worth the return on investment. Also ask these questions: Are they extendable and flexible? Do they offer features, challenges, or options that grow as students do? Also be sure to ask students what it is they would like to learn about since this will help you put ideas into themes and streamline the purchasing process. Need help deciding, checkout this purchasing rubric based on Laura Fleming’s M.A.K.E.R acronym.
One item on the top ten favorites list this year is Kids Invent Stuff' YouTube channel Not everything that is GREAT for a makerspace has to cost money! Here is one that is FREE! Be sure to check out the Kids Invent Stuff Youtube channel. where kids can get their own invention ideas built by real engineers!
Builds Instructional Partnerships Something to Share with Teachers Too Much Sitting? Five Movement Strategies That Get Students Thinking Each day more research confirms the link between movement and learning. However, many teachers struggle to integrate movement into the classroom. In this blog post from teachthought.com there are five strategies that teachers of any content area can use to integrate movement into lessons. When you have a lesson that looks “sedentary,” integrating one of these strategies will surely increase students’ learning and engagement. Read more about gallery walks/chalk talks, whiteboard meetings, north pole-south pole/continuum, musical mingle, and stationsat teachthought.com.
How To Scaffold Learning Through Station Teaching One movement strategy is stations, so what might that look like? Think about it in terms of the gradual release of responsibility (GRR) model where students move through four strategies: show me, watch me, help me, let me.
This approach requires unique classroom management strategies, precise time management, and a clear relationship between the design of each station and the learning objective itself. If you can meet these demands, station teaching can allow you to differentiate and personalize learning for students, meeting their needs while reducing your workload. In the teachthought.com blog the GRR model is explained, used at any grade level, and with a little tweaking, for any content area.
Curates Digital Resources & Tools
Direct from Richard Byrne - Five Favorites to Start 2018 1.
The beginning of the new year is when many of us set goals for ourselves. Flippity’s Progress Indicator template for Google Sheets provides an easy way to keep track of progress toward a goal. The template makes it easy to create a progress chart that will update whenever you update the data in your spreadsheet. In this video an overview of how to use Flippity’s Progress Indicator template is shown.
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Toontastic 3D is a free app for creating animations on Android devices, iOS devices, and on some Chromebooks. In this video a tutorial on how to create an animated movie with Toontastic 3D.
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Flipgrid is a great service for collecting video responses to prompts that you pose to your students. The basic idea behind Flipgrid is that it enables you to post a video prompt and then have your students respond through video by using the webcams in their laptops or through the cameras on their smartphones or tablets. All responses are collected and displayed in a grid format. Watch an overview of Flipgrid in this video.
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Plum’s Creaturizer from PBS Kids is a free iOS and Android app that lets students create fun cartoon creatures then place them into outdoor settings through the use of augmented reality. The purpose of the app is to have students learn and show how the characteristics of an animal help it thrive in its environment. See the demonstration in this video.
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Metaverse is a free platform that lets anyone create an augmented reality app. Metaverse’s programming platform is based on the premise of using a storyboard to outline the actions that you want your app to perform. You then connect each frame of the storyboard with action commands that you pick from a menu of action commands. The more scenes you add to your storyboard, the more options you can add to your app. Essentially, creating an augmented reality app through Metaverse is the same process as designed a good choose-your-own-adventure story. A video introduction to programming in Metaverse can be seen here.
Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings Activity In this ditchthattextbook blog post Laura Steinbrink and Matt Miller share four activities that are similar, involve different levels of thinking, and will keep students engaged all while using Google Drawing. Note that the Google Drawings tool is like a digital poster board or paper. Made for just one image. If everything you plan to do goes on one image then Google Drawings is perfect. The four activities are: Annotate, Caption This!, Caption This & Comment, and Picture This and Take a Stand. See how to do these activities, tips, and tricks at ditchthattextbook.
Personalized Professional Learning EdCampSTL February 10, 2018 8:00 - 3:00
Program Evaluation Guidelines
Ritenour High School 9100 Saint Charles Rock Rd St. Louis, MO 63114 Click here for registration
Topic 1: Advocacy Parkway libraries will strive for clear communication of the role of school librarians.
January 3rd K-8 PD Morning Here's the presentation and information from Jan 3rd. We didn't do everything on there but you'll find most of the information there including a link (on the first page) to all the documents we used. goo.gl/rgdKyN
Follow the 35th annual METC conference on February 12-14, 2018 on Twitter at #METC18 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.
Contact Information
Vendor Contacts:
Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
Undelivered Post Dispatch: Russell Ham rham@post-dispatch.com
Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog
Undelivered USA Today & New York Times: Wesley Trammell wtrammell@ebsco.com
Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
Topic 2: Responsiveness to Community Parkway libraries will be responsive to the community and have a finger on the pulse of each individual building. 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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