Parkway School District Library Services
Volume 4 | Issue 6
Know & Go Updates @your library
#ParkwayReads Book Lists for Teens Follow St. Louis County Library on Pinterest for teen booklists with 40 boards from teen favorites to summer reads. pinterest.com/STLCoLibrary/
25 New Books in the Library Recently put on the shelves at The Ridge library are books that are tagged thriller, action & adventure, realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and much more. Just a few of the titles:
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23 minutes by Vande Velde, Vivian The 5th wave. Books 1 and 2 And I darken by White, Kiersten The boy in the black suit by Reynolds, Jason Drowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Brown, Don The fall of five by Lore, Pittacus Flamecaster by Chima, Cinda Williams Half lost by Green, Sally I am number four: the lost files. Zero hour by Lore, Pittacus I am Princess X by Priest, Cherie The kite runner by Hosseini, Khaled The last star by Yancey, Richard A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier by Beah, Ishmael The lost files series by Lore, Pittacus March. Book three
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Well said: “The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” ~Anatole France
#FutureReady - Professional Learning The #GoOpen Movement As part of program evaluation we all looking at providing equitable, free access to quality, vetted resources that support a variety of literacies. As we look to be #FutureReady this has to include digital content and possibly OER. Librarians are being brought to the table to discuss this topic because they have the expertise in resource selection, meta-tagging, organization, and curation. Parkway has registered as a #GoOpen District, which means we are looking at the possibilities for implementation.
@your Library Upcoming Events ●
November is Picture Book Month
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International Games Day - Nov 19
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Hour of Code The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week. December 5-11. Get started at hourofcode.com/us
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January - ALA Youth Media Awards
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March 5 - 11 - Teen Tech Week
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March - Freedom of Information Day
What is this OER you speak of? Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, and research. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation describe OER as the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use and reuse knowledge (which are based on Creative Commons). Librarians are using similar techniques taught to students on how to evaluate websites in order to vet and curate #GoOpen resources. To help provide expertise in vetting quality and appropriate resources, rubrics have been developed through the Office of Education Technology and the #GoOpen website. There are several trusted OER resources for lessons, assessment, videos, audio and more that support specific curriculum topics: OER Commons - a free, accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) Gooru - A free personalized learning solution that helps teachers to find, remix, and share collections of web resources on any K-12 topic CK-12 - This Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts Open ED - Teach, Assess, and Analyze with the leading K-12 Resource Library Summarized from: Teacher|Librarian Oct 2016 The Trending Librarian
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Simple Audio Recorder
#FutureReady - Curates Resources & Tools Reverse Image Lookup Have you ever wondered where an image that someone used in a presentation or on a web page came from? Then, Tineye , a free tool that conducts reverse image searches is for you. In a reverse image search you’re searching for the places where an image has been posted online. Conducting a reverse can be a good way for students to discover information about an object or location featured in a picture. When the image is located through Tineye students can click through to the source to see how the image was used and what was written about the image. Performing a reverse image search can provide students with a good lesson on digital footprints. Have them conduct a reverse image search for images they have posted online and then count the number of places where that image has appeared. See how in this video. From Practical Ed Tech
5 Things Students Can Do with Google Drawings Google Drawings is one of the tools in the Google Drive suite that often gets overlooked by students and teachers. It can be a handy tool if you know how to use it. Check out the five things featured and demonstrated in the in the video from Practical Ed Tech. 1. Image cropping 2. Image filtering 3. Image labeling & commenting 4. Creating custom word art 5. Creating & customizing charts and graphs.
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The Simple Audio Recorder extension lets you create a WAVE audio file with a single click using either the internal microphone on your device or an external microphone you've plugged in to your device. Simple click on the extension and it begins recording. Click the extension again to stop the recording and it will open a "save" window.
Play Back Your Google Docs Draftback renders a play back recording of the revision history in any Google Doc you can edit. It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. Once the Draftback extension has been added to your Google Docs, the Draftback tab will appear. Once the tab is clicked rendering will begin.
#FutureReady - Personalized Professional Learning
For Fun @your Library If you didn’t get a chance to see Art and patriotism collided in an Ohio hockey arena check out this rendition of the national anthem at youtu.be/MqU1lgBWMZ
Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog
Nancy Ikemeyer Administrative Assistant Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer
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