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Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog

@your Library Coming Thursday

Thursday is Preview Book Check-out Day during lunch!

http://tinyurl.com/ libserv

Check out what Gale has to offer for nonfic on and your curriculum at h p://goo.gl/K2yFBX.

This week is DARE to READ for the Fun of It @Your Library!

See the 2013 nominated teen spotlight list at h p://goo.gl/sbkp1y or view them or see previous winners at h p://goo.gl/pJcvHp. Red Hot Crime during the coldest months @ Your Library—As the fall pushes forward into winter what be er me to pick up a good mystery. Generally, mysteries tend to be the most circulated genre.

October @Your Library is Bully Preven on Month — Edutopia Resources h p://goo.gl/f30b4a

Newsletter Contribution!

Got an idea, tip, or suggestion that you would like to share for the newsletter? Submit it here: http://goo.gl/c4r9AD

Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources ThingLink h ps://www.thinglink.com/ is a free and user friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interac ve graphic. Create mul ple “hot spots” on specific parts of an image and turn that image into a mul media launcher. Include video, record audio or provide a link to any website with the click of a bu on. Easily embed an interac ve ThingLink graphic into any blog or website. Thinglink—toolkit h p://thinglinktoolkit.wikispaces.com/

Thinkquest—h p://goo.gl/ABLv9Y This website introduces explorers that filled in the map with lands that were previously unknown to Europeans. Students will learn about why they sailed, where they sailed, what they found, and how they treated each other and the people that they met.

SMART Exchange— the online community that is a repository for a variety of high-quality, peer-reviewed digital content you can use for your library lessons. You will need an account but it is free. A sugges on is to Click and Preview before downloading...why take up the space on your hard drive to see if you like it? You and your students can also open these lessons in SMART Notebook Express (a light version of SMART Notebook) This is a web applica on (internet required) that enables educators everywhere to open, interact with and share SMART Notebook files even if you do not have SMART Notebook on your device . If you are interested in geFng started with SMART Notebook Express go to h p://goo.gl/5wrOSw for a guide or go to h p://goo.gl/okWOih to view the video.

Memrise—h p://www.memrise.com/ Memrise is an online learning tool that uses flashcards augmented with mnemonics—partly gathered through crowdsourcing (contribu ons from a large group of people ). The power of Memrise is also available in pocket-sized format for on the go learning.

Learn languages, geography, history, science, and pop culture.

Mashpedia h p://www.mashpedia.com/ - is an interes ng service that matches reference ar cles from Wikipedia to materials from YouTube and news websites. The purpose of drawing materials from mul ple sources is to provide users with a comprehensive view of news stories and reference topics.

Mashpedia also presents Amazon lists of books related to your chosen topic.

It could be a great resource for a current events class.

Taken from www.freetech4teachers.com

Learning Opportunities Yep, it is s'll going on...Connected Educator Month!

What is Connected Educators about? It’s an online professional network supported by the Department of Educa on. The mission is to help educators like yourself thrive in a connected world. Connected Educators combines research, development, and outreach all year long, but invites you to celebrate and par cipate the whole month of October.

To get you going, Connected Educator has created a Starter Kit for you to peruse in order to get the best experience. The kit is a ached to this weeks updates. Visit the official Connected Educator Month site at h p://connectededucatormonth.org.

DENapalooza Oct. 26! Brought you by Discovery Educa on On Saturday, October 26th Discovery Educa on will present a full day event with formal presenta ons in the morning on topics like Digital Storytelling, Project-Based Learning, and Building Your PLN with the DEN. Then, the aPernoon will be spent unconference style. A endees will choose the topics and lead the conversa ons. More ques ons about DENapalooza check out the wiki at h p://goo.gl/qTxlei The event will be held at Ritenour Middle School, 2500 Marshall Ave., St Louis, MO 63114.

Register at h p://goo.gl/sBbmpy

K-12 Online Conference is coming soon!

This online conference is organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integra ng emerging technologies into classroom prac ce.

The goal is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a con nually changing learning landscape The conference is organized into four strands and each strand has an invited keynote speaker. The opening keynote speaker is Shannon Miller! Strands for 2013 are: Week of Oct 21 – 25: Open Learning and Outside Learning Week of Oct 28 – Nov. 1: Leading Learning and Building Learning

Parkway Library Media Webinar Series Library Services is presen ng our own webinar series to librarians and the good news is that they are archived so that anyone can view them. Please feel free to watch the archived webinar from October 10th on —Google Collabora've Tools presented by Bill Bass. Take a peek at —h p://goo.gl/q6mBxy