Know & Go Volume 3 | Issue 14

Parkway School District

Volume 3 | Issue 14

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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Meeting of the Minds - Thursday, March 31st 0 4:00-6:00 Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant (always the popular choice), 1146 Town and Country Crossing Drive, Town and Country, Chesterfield, MO 63017 Please RSVP at http://goo.gl/j4vkRI Growth Assessments - Completion April 1st With the Growth Assessments the idea is to have a pre and post assessment or two points of data over time. That being said feel free to do the post assessment any time from now until April 1st. Remember, do your best to administer the test to all of the same kids that you did before. If you miss a few, that's perfectly fine.The biggest thing to remember is that in order to show growth, students need to be diligent in inputting their student numbers.

This is how we match their previous score with this current score. For elementary, here is the link to the Google Form with your assessment http: //tinyurl.com/4thgrowth MO School LIbrary Snapshot Day - MASL would like to remind our members that Missouri School Library Snapshot Day is just two weeks away.

While we are looking for a snapshot of a "typical" day in a school library, we ask that you make plans now to capture the events of the day. No elaborate stunts are needed, just data collection and hopefully some fun and inspiring stories and pictures. Check out the 2016 Snapshot Day page of the MASL website for details and submission instructions.

The suggested last day for Library book checkouts is Friday, May 6th.

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

Nancy’s Notes & Other Reminders ●

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Budget Spending The last day to use the Library Services budget is April 15th, and Follett will ship all orders by May 13th.

MSPCL Documentation Just a friendly reminder... If possible, when working in your MSPLC groups continue to use the same Google Doc agenda all year. Just add pages each month in the originally shared Doc will ensure that it is already shared with Nancy.

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

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

Resource Roundup Technology, Research & Learning Resources

Wonderopolis

The Google Goodies Google Drive: Shared with Me is a Filter, Not a Folder In an effort to better organize and manage Google Drive items in Shared with Me should be moved to a folder in My Drive. This can be accomplished by a single click on a file (to select it) and press the Shift+Z keys to MOVE it to folder. See the video from Alice Keeler.

Context for Managing Chrome Extensions Sort extensions into groups and easily switch between them. Take a look at your extensions, do you really use all of them all the time?

Rather not. Do you know that these unused extensions are taking resources and space from you? They may also bug you with distracting icon animations and notifications.

With Context you can stop that. Simply put extensions that you use for work, fun, shopping, socializing etc. into different groups ("contexts") and with one click switch between them.

Google Hangouts Update If you didn’t get a chance to see Bill’s post in the PIN (Parkway Innovator Network), Google Hangouts expands to allow up to 25 people at once. Check out the post and help center for more information.

This fun, nonfiction resource shares a wonder everyday of the week with a focus on science and social students for grades upper elementary and middle school students. It’s also a great place to teach students how to use the comment feature in a school environment.

Richard Byrne’s Tips for Using YouTube One of last week’s most popular posts on FreeTech4Teachers.com was 3 Tips for Using YouTube Videos in Your Classroom.

Remove distractions by using ViewPure ViewPure is a service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com.

ViewPure offers a free browser bookmarklet that you can use to clear the sidebar content while viewing a video on YouTube.

You can search for YouTube videos through the ViewPure website. When searching for videos through ViewPure you don’t see sidebar content, you only see videos. You can choose to use strict filtering while searching through ViewPure.

Show just a portion of a video with TubeChop TubeChop gives you the ability to clip a section from any YouTube video and share it with others via a link or via an embed code added to your own blog or website. TubeChop lets you select a start time and an end time for an video that you share.

Create a playlist of videos.

Save yourself some classroom downtime by having a playlist of videos ready to go when you need them. You can create playlists directly in your YouTube account. Here is how https://www.youtube. com Last but not least…always preview the video before showing it to your class. Along that same line, try to refrain from conducting YouTube searches in front of the class...who knows what will pop up.

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Timely Topics & Trends

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Makerspaces, Gaming, Library Spaces, Advocacy, Genrefication, and more

April is National Poetry Month See thirty ideas for celebrating at https://www.poets.org. More resources at Edutopia.

April 5th MO School Library Snapshot Day April 10 - 16 National Library Week - Celebrating “Libraries Transform” This is a great time to share the data stats you’ve been collecting. Resources: http://www.ala.org, #NLW16, #LibrariesTransform April 23-30 Money Smart Week http://www.ala.org/ April 24-30 Preservation Week Saving Your Stuff - http://www. ala.org/ April 30th - DIA Children’s Day/Book Day - http://dia.ala. org/ ○ Kick off your Día year by thinking about Building STEAM with Día!

May 1-7 - Choose Privacy chooseprivacyweek.org/ National Readathon Day - May 21st #Readathon2016, #Parkwayreads - Not only does Readathon Day present an opportunity to generate excitement among readers of all ages, but it also enables children and students everywhere to get involved in an effort that supports youth literacy - Readathonday.com

Tween Read-Alouds Older students can benefit from parent-child story time Highlights from ALA - americanlibrariesmagazine.org march/april 2016 on the importance of read-alouds. ● Reading programs are fine but they place emphasis on the results of an algorithm that calculates word frequency and sentence length. Is this a good way to select a book? What families need from libraries are other ways to appraise and pick books, especially as kids reach the tween and teen years. The answer is a read-aloud. ● Benefits to reading aloud ○ Vocabulary building ○ Reading as a pleasurable experience shared with others ○ Creating background knowledge ○ Providing a reading role model ● The best thing a librarian can do is to promote the act of reading aloud and recommend books to make it happen ● Librarian can host a parent session on reading aloud skills - reading to engage and enthrall ○ Build a display of books from the resources below ○ Distribute bookmarks with the hallmarks of good read-aloud skills - expression, inflection, pacing, etc. ○ Demonstrate a read-aloud of interesting excerpt (better yet make a video) ○ Invite parents to read a portion of their selection one another or the whole group ○ Constructively critique each other’s performances ○ Invite tweens to join adults to select a take-home read-aloud ○ Interact with families and aid in the selection process ● Libraries transform the conversation around books in the home throughout the community ●

Resources: ○ https://www.bankstreet.edu/center-childrens ○ Reid’s Read-Alouds 2 http://www.amazon. com/Reids-Read-alouds-2-RobReid/dp/0838910726 ○ E B White Read Aloud Award Winners - http: //www.goodreads.com/award/

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More MakerED

Student Opportunities

Design Thinking Maximizes Makerspaces

Kids Inventing Day - St Louis City Library (Downtown

The makerspace movement is transforming school libraries into places where students not only find resources and information but also experiment with their own creations.

Librarians, however, might want to follow the principles of design thinking before they invest money in buying a lot of materials and equipment. This ideas from School Library Journal. Read the entire article here.

location) - Saturday, April 2 2016, 10:30-12:30 inventstl. info to register

Summer Art Camp Laumeier offers one-week sessions of Summer Art Camp in half-day sessions for ages 4 to 6 and full-day sessions for ages 6 to 15. Campers learn about artists throughout history, explore Laumeier’s woodland trails and find inspiration in the artworks on view for drawing, painting, sculpting and more.

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.

Google Academy is coming! This year, Google Academy will be held on July 25th and we want to invite you to come and present. Being the innovators that you are, we know that you have a lot to share with other Parkway teachers. Each session will be 70 minutes long. Certified teachers whose proposals are accepted will receive $150 to compensate you for planning time and .5 service credit for presenting the session and attending the event. The number of sessions needed will determine how many proposals are accepted. Proposals (submissions) are due by March 28.

Scholastic Reading Summit June 21st - $170 payable with Scholastic dollars.Scholastic Reading Summit Join Scholastic for a one-day, professional-learning conference, designed to inspire educators with a fresh view of independent reading strategies for their school communities. Network with nationally recognized educators and authors, participate in two professional development workshops of your choice http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/reading-summit Library Journal Announces Movers & Shakers Checkout the people changing the future of libraries. These are the go-to people for 2016 that are shaping the face of libraries. The categories are comprised of advocates, change agents, community builders, educators, innovators, and tech leaders. One of my favorites for makerspaces is Colleen Graves @gravescolleen, @ryan_library (Twitter); colleengraves.org. Library Journal, March 2016.

What will you make @ your library LittleBit Launches STEAM Kit in April To help plant a more solid stake in the educational market, LittleBits has announced a new STEAM Student Set for grades 3–8. Perhaps more importantly, the company has developed a curriculum for the kit and a separate educational course for teachers called STEAM PD. ***Also... You can now purchase Makey Makeys and Little Bits through Scholastic with book fair proceeds.

#ParkwayMakes Makerspace Shoutouts and Stories This link will take you to a Google Form to record the great quotes that are being heard throughout the district about makerspaces. I would like to use, share, and promote those quotes. Please take a moment anytime you hear something that great and share it. These are also great to share on any of your library stationery, pamphlets, bookmarks, etc.

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Snapshots From left to right: ● The many faces of makers at Claymont ● Learning about digital and print encyclopedias at Ross ● Author, Donalyn Miller visits MSPLC at Riverbend ● Learning walks go to NHS to talk about library spaces ● Eve & Chris preparing the 3D printer ● Bill presenting at SLRLN conference ● IAT (Innovation Action Team exploring breakout EDU

Well Said...

#ParkwayReads How Do We Inspire Our Students to Love Reading?

There are four great tips in this month’s Edutopia post by LeVar Burton on instilling the love of reading and supporting literacy efforts.

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