Collected the Week of September 23rd
Know & Go @your Library
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Social Bookmarking The concept of social bookmarking is not necessarily new, but with the emergence of bookmarking services, such as Pinterest, Diigo, and Educlipper, allow you to curate, collaborate, and share your content on any internet connected device. So, there is no need to really save those bookmarks to your desktop any longer. Pinterest—is a hybrid of both content cura on and social bookmarking. It is a pla"orm that enables users to visually bookmark digital content and share it with others. Through crea ng and sharing boards with others, users get to discuss, access, and collaborate on cura ng resources relevant to their interest. Cau on: You can easily loose hours of your day looking through all the boards:) Diigo—This is another great social bookmarking web tool for teachers. It is probably the quintessence of the concept social bookmarking. using Diigo, you get to bookmark content into lists that can be accessed by others. You can also access bookmarks of others and tag them into different categories. Educlipper—This more focused on content cura on, Educlipper allows you to bookmark sites, share files, and discuss them with others. You can create an Educlipper board and invite others to visit it and share comments on the content curated in it. Educlipper is ideal for classroom usage. (Educator Weekly) Concept mapping—The idea of having students show rela onships between concepts through a diagram has become a meaningful learning experience, especially since there are great graphic making tools, such as Lucid Chart (which comes highly recommend), Mind Meister and bubbl.us. All of these tools have been are highly useable and fairly intui ve. Teachers and students have the ability to organize and communicate ideas through these solid products. (Thanks for the sugges ons Bill)
The World’s Cons tu ons to Read, Search and Compare Every year approximately five new cons tu ons are wri2en throughout the world, and 20-30 are amended or revised. A cri cal part of dra7ing a new cons tu on is referencing and comparing exis ng cons tu onal documents—but un l now, these documents have been hard to access. With this in mind, +Google Ideas supported the Compara ve Cons tu ons Project to build and launch Cons tute (h2p://goo.gl/wj3iIO)—a new site that digi zes the world's cons tu ons and makes them searchable by anyone. (compliments of Google in Educa on)
Learning Opportunities Can you feel it? October is 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. There are more than 130 educa onal organiza ons, companies, and communi es that have signed up to par cipate in CEM 2013! Sessions include topics like flipped classroom, 21st Century Tweetup, MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses) for Educators, Using Pinterest in Educa on, Interna onal Cyberfair and come in a variety of formats, such as, webinars, book clubs, classes, collabora ve projects, contests, and games. You will need to create an account or login to join the events. 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 a2ached to this weeks updates. Visit the official Connected Educator Month site at h2p://connectededucatormonth.org or check out the calendar h2p://goo.gl/gQRDWm and filter according to you needs! The dates are set for the Library 2.013 Worldwide Virtual Conference http:// www.library20.com/2013. The third annual global conversa on about the future of libraries is scheduled for October 18-19, 2013. If you want to be kept informed about the conference news join the Library 2.0 network h2p://goo.gl/Hd4lTv. Webinar: Building a Digital Curriculum with Library Resources to Support Common Core—October 3rd Teachers want the most current, accurate, and relevant curriculum materials—and now texts must also meet Common Core standards. Finding the right materials can be both difficult and me consuming. Join us to find out how one district media specialist is working together with teachers to support learning across mul ple subjects and classrooms while suppor ng Common Core curricula. Register today at h2p://goo.gl/1NLKfN to reserve your spot . Webinar: What Not to Weed: Best Prac ces in Weeding Library Collec ons—Oct 3rd—1:00pm Weeding library collec ons can be a tricky task. What stays? What goes? Following the successful weeding webinar “Weeding: The Basics and Beyond,” Booklist Reference and Collec on Management editor Rebecca Vnuk will discuss various pi"alls to avoid, and how to manage public percep on. Register here h2p://goo.gl/P0EI4o Webinar: Integra ng Content and Technology to Differen ate Instruc on and Personalize Learning by Educa on Week This webinar will highlight the experiences of two expert educators that have successfully led the integra on of free resources into classrooms to personalize instruc on, mo vate students, and achieve success. Par cipants will learn how to easily integrate free resources to differen ate instruc on. Par cipants will also hear from a master teacher that has engaged 7th grade English students in the latest educa onal technologies for wri ng. The resul ng personaliza on of learning and student empowerment has led to improvements in student mo va on and achievement. Register h2p://goo.gl/YLc5nY PEERS Class: Digital Ci zenship for Elementary Librarians Tom Swoboda will facilitate the first class of the Digital Ci zenship course on Monday, Oct. 7, 4:45 at Green Trails. The course has been proposed in PEERS and should be ready for registra on within the next day or two. He will let you know when it is ready. On Oct. 7, you will need to bring your laptops and your ideas! 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 a7ernoon will be spent unconference style. A2endees will choose the topics and lead the conversa ons. More ques ons about DENapalooza check out the wiki at h2p://goo.gl/qTxlei The event will be held at Ritenour Middle School, 2500 Marshall Ave., St Louis, MO 63114. Register at h2p://goo.gl/sBbmpy Par cipa on Credits—A7er you have par cipated in the webinar, in order to get credit, you will need to go to h2p:// nyurl.com/ LibWebinars and record your par cipa on. Remember that district credit is based on the number of hours that you par cipate. Six hours will get you .5 credit and 12 hours will get you 1 credit.
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Don’t forget MSPLC at the CHS library on Oct. 2nd
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Yes, Yahoo kids gone! Yahoo announced in April that they would be disabling the site as of June 3, 2013. Yahoo has decided to narrow their focus and move into different types of products. If you would like to read more about that decision, here is the link to the ar cle h2p://goo.gl/P5gcgR The Panda page that Jim maintains does not contain the site, however if you have it locally on your own Edline page, you may want to remove it, because Yahookids redirects to Yahoo. If you are looking for alterna ves try: •
KidRex is a new kid-safe search engine powered by Google custom search. It uses a combina on of Google's safe search mode and their own database of filtered keywords, phrases, and websites. In the event that a ques onable website does get past the filters, KidRex also has a site removal request form.
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Ref Seek is a search engine designed for academic use. Ref Seek seems to eliminate the adver sing and paid links found on Google, Ask, Yahoo, and other commercial search engines. It’s inten on is to serve only search results that are academic in nature.
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Famhoo is another op on for kid friendly searches. Famhoo draws on the collec ve results of the major search mainstream search engines like Google, AOL, and Yahoo. Famhoo simply provides a stricter family filter than the filters available on mainstream search engines. (tech4teachers.com)
@your Library Advocacy @Your Library— Have you seen the campaign for Libraries Change Lives—Declara on for the Right to Libraries? The Declara on for the Right to Libraries provides a way to showcase your library at upcoming school events. ALA President Barbara Stripling is asking all school libraries around the country to par cipate in declara on signings during the month of October. To view the new declara on signing toolkit to help you organize a signing of your own, or to learn more about the declara on visit www.ala.org/declara on. Fun @Your Library Inspire teens to read Ender’s Game before it hits theaters November 1. It might also be fun to pull those other books off the shelf that have also been made into a movie. How fun would that display be!
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PLNs With some much Google stuff around, someone you might like to follow on Google+ or Twi2er is Tasha Bergson-Michelson. She is a Google librarian and search geek. Passionate about how we teach people to find what they want, and making it easier than ever with search. Check out this ar cle from her on Building Good Search skills: What Students Need to Know at h2p://goo.gl/tMDR99. She can be found on Google+ and Twi2er @researchwell.
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Picts Around Pkwy!
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The new I-Rover SMART board at Claymont complete with honking horn Library card blitz at Central High during lunch Grab-bag of books—great way to learn about genres at Highcro7 Author sugges ons for staff at Bellerive Displays at South High and McKelvey Library lessons at Pierremont Tech Tuesday at Southwest Middle