FR Know & Go Volume 1 | Issue 9

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Know & Go @Your Library

Contact Information

V O L U M E

Bill Bass

@your Library

Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3

November 1st PD & Records Day Invitation

Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog http://tinyurl.com/ libserv

Research indicates that if fact-based lessons aren’t connected to previous materials, they fill a student's cogni2ve dump truck that 2ps and emp2es every 20 minutes. ~ Jane Healey

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Who? You & Me What? Meet to discuss resources from the library that can help meet the needs of your students or curriculum area When? Friday, November 1st 12:00PM until ???

Where? Your Classroom Make an Appointment—http://goo.gl/jGMUpv

The Updates @your Library newsletter can now be found in a “Stack” on the ISSUU website.

What is ISSUU you ask? It is a free digital publishing site that preserves the experience of reading a print publica2on in a newsle3er format. The publica2on is also searchable, making what you are looking for easier to find. You will be able to find this week's update at h3p://2nyurl.com/FR-your-library. (If you have difficulty opening the link, try a different web browser.)

Student Opportunity Show-Me a Movie is a digital storytelling contest for students grades 2-12 in Missouri and its Border States. These students are invited to demonstrate their crea2vity and digital moviemaking skills in one of five categories.

Cash prizes go to the school of the winning movies in each category. See last year's winners and winners from past years.

All winning movies are show-cased at a recep2on on February 11, 2014, during the Midwest Educa2on Technology Conference (METC). The students from the winnings movie are invited to a3end along with their teachers and families.

Informa on, Contest Timeline & Submission Guidelines can be found at h3p://goo.gl/u579z4

Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Just for Fun—A Day Made of Glass (h3p://goo.gl/JA6FTL) It's a vision of what the future might look like, according to Owens-Corning. The video is about five minutes long, but it’s fun to see what the next big ideas might be, enjoy! Oh and there is an updated version of the vision h3p://goo.gl/DOBacv.

6 Free Online Resources for Primary Source Documents Got primary sources? Edutopia posted a list of six free sites for what the CCSS folks call "informa2onal text." You might peruse this if you're having students work from primary documents. h3p://goo.gl/ZQJd8y (Next Vista Learning) Google Docs for Learning Susan Oxnevad created an interac2ve chart on Glogster h3p://goo.gl/YzlS2Rthat allows you view samples and learn more about using Google Docs to publish student work, integrate wri2ng and reference tools, use templates, and much more. She also has a blog h3p://goo.gl/hk3d2p that contains addi2onal resources.

From the people at the Teaching Channel The Teaching Channel features a weekly selec2on of videos that support CCSS, strategies, and advice for the classroom. They can be found on Twi3er (@TeachingChannel), Pinterest, Facebook and YouTube. It is free to register for an account.

3 Videos with Close Reading Strategies Organize Your Thinking to Cri!cally Analyze Text 15 minutes |Grade 5 | Social Studies | Reading | CCSS Help students not only determine important concepts in a text, but also how to empower l earners by trying these two strategies: Keep It or Junk It and Jump in and Read. h3p://goo.gl/j9LBhJ Selec!ve Highligh!ng: Reading with Purpose 2 Minutes | All Grades | ELA | Evidence One way to start good habits of close reading is to be sure that students have a clear purpose for their reading. Student need an anchor, which can come from guided ques2ons. This video offers assistance with wri2ng guided ques2ons. h3p://goo.gl/wUOQyg Literary Analysis through Interac!ve Sta!ons 5 Minutes | Grades 9-12 ELA | Engagement | CCSS Three different exercises: Wall of Silence, Power Tableau, and Circle Discussion may help students read closely to construct summaries. h p://goo.gl/ZYBGFg

Thoughts @Your Library Around the District there has been many author visits and I have had the opportunity to learn from each one. It’s beyond the great student interac2on and the message that they bring. It’s an opportunity to grow, learn, and take one thing away that can be used to benefit all of us. Examples include: •

The importance of music in the sequence of presenta2on—this brings a rhythm to what you have to say and if it happens to be a singa-long then it creates a par2cipatory experience for the audience.

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When wri2ng—do read it aloud—preferably to another person.

This allows you to hear whether the story or presenta2on has a good ending or message.

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Author: Jaqueline Woodson

Want to engage an audience? Let the audience create the en2re story based on a set of ques2ons. If the ques2ons are well thought out and en2ce students to use their senses, they will create the journey that contains a reason for the story, a problem, and a resolu2on.

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Playing is essen2al to curiosity (especially for the wri2ng process).

The trick is to let the wri2ng happen. The rules for the story to make sense can come later. Think about this, “if you survive kindergarten you have enough material to write about for the rest of your life.” Jaqueline Woodson

Newsletter Contribution!

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

Preview Book Day—October 17th

Tu t o r i a l s Turni2n has extensive resources to help get started quickly and develop deeper skills through con2nued use.

This series of tutorials feature videos and/or wri3en documenta2on on features. It is recommended to view or read each tutorial, and try it in your account. It’s also highly recommended to create a test class with a test student roster to explore Turni2n. (Let me know if you need the Parkway enrollment key and password!)

Tutorial Topics

Resources

Set Up

This collec2on of resources includes content and ideas that can be used in your courses and with your students.

Crea2ng a User Account Joining an Ins2tu2onal Account Naviga2ng the Instructor Homepage Crea2ng Classes Enrolling Students SubmiVng Papers Accessing the Assignment Inbox Managing Students Crea2ng Assignments

Originality Check About OriginalityCheck Viewing Originality Reports

Grade Mark GradeMark Overview GradeMark Interac2ve Tutorial Using Marks and Comments Adding QuickMark Drag-and-drop Comments Using Rubrics for Grading and Evalua2ng Learning Addi2onal Func2ons

Peer Mark PeerMark Overview Crea2ng a PeerMark Assignment Wri2ng a Review of a Student Paper Reading Peer Reviews

Course Management Instructor Dashboard and Class Ac2vity Stream Tracking Grades in the Grade Book Get Organized with the Class Calendar Engage Students with Discussion Boards Managing Instructor Libraries Managing Mul2ple Class Sec2ons Spot Check Essays with Quick Submit SeVng Preferences for Users and Classes Using Sta2s2cs to Track Performance

Manuals & Guides Instructor Quickstart Guide Instructor User Manual

Webinars Product Walkthrough Academy Live Course 30-minute Webcasts

Teaching Tools Common Core Rubric Pack (.zip) Class Ac2vi2es with OriginalityCheck Class Ac2vi2es with GradeMark Class Ac2vi2es with PeerMark Class Ac2vi2es with Course Management Tools

Welcome Announcement to Students Welcome Announcement to Parents

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Learning Opportunities Discovery Educa on's Common Core Academies are free events arranged around the themes of Common Core Math, Common Core Language Arts, and leadership of Common Core implementa2on. The highlights of each academy are…

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prac2cal strategies to implement CCSS research-based instruc2onal prac2ces best prac2ces in using digital content resources and digital tools for immediate classroom integra2on Discovery Educa2on will be in town to present these academies on November 13th for ELA Literacy & Common Core in the Digital World (Register h3p://goo.gl/T6KDwn) and November 14th for Teaching & Assessing Common Core Math in the Digital World (Register h3p://goo.gl/74eY3J) NOTE: Currently there is a wait list.

Loca2on: Brentwood School District Admin Conference Center from 8:30 to 3:30

Last week of Connected Educator Month!

What is Connected Educators about? It’s an online professional network supported by the Department of Educa2on. 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 par2cipate 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 a3ached to this weeks updates. Visit the official Connected Educator Month site at h3p://connectededucatormonth.org.

K-12 Online Conference h3p://goo.gl/3QHVoL This online conference is organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integra2ng emerging technologies into classroom prac2ce. The goal is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a con2nually changing learning landscape The conference is organized into four strands and each strand has an invited keynote speaker. This week’s strands are: Week of Oct 28 – Nov. 1: Leading Learning and Building Learning

Parkway Library Media Webinar Series Library Services is presen2ng 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 —h3p://goo.gl/q6mBxy

Coming Soon...Gateway Media Literacy Week It’s that 2me of year when the Gateway Media Literacy Partners (GMLP) of St. Louis conducts their Annual Media Literacy Week, which begins on November 10th-17th. It is designed to engage the community in a great media literacy conversa2on. Check out the calendar of events at h3p://goo.gl/sKEHnf