Know & Go Volume 2 | Issue 24

Volume 2 | Issue 24

Parkway School District

Know & Go

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@your Library Nancy’s Nook & Other Reminders

Elementary and Middle School Growth Measure - Due Next Week!

Remember for elementary and middle school the window for taking the tests is from March 2nd until April 3rd. Please 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.

Weeded Book Pick-up It is Surplus Property time (equipment sale, book sale). All books are to be IN STURDY BOXES and weighing NO MORE THAN 50 LBS PER BOX. Ask your building where boxes/equipment will be stored, as the warehouse will be picking up in ONE CENTRAL LOCATION only. Find out who the "data entry person for surplus property" is in your building and let them know how many boxes of books you have. They lists are to be complete by Wednesday, April 8th. There was a lot of confusion this year as to the warehouse picking up weeded books. This is your chance to finally have them removed. If there are any problems, let me know, and I will do my best to get issues resolved.

Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog Scoopit:www.scoop.it/t/know-go ISSUU Newsletter Stacks: 2014-2015 2013-2014 Nancy Ikemeyer Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or www.tinyurl.com/libserv

The following will not be picked up:

Books not in boxes Books in boxes that are not sturdy Books in boxes that weigh more than 50 lbs.

SURPLUS BOOK SALE DATE: JUNE 19 & 22, 2015 - at Southwest Middle

Library Services Answers to FAQs

12/24 Month eBook Access Expiration If you purchased eBooks with 12/24 month access be on the look out for an expiration email coming soon. In the email there will be a direct link to order again. An example of the email and the link to Titlewave can be seen here.

Year end PO’s for Follett The final day for Library Services PO's to be entered is Friday, April 17th, 2015. There will be no more orders processed for fiscal year 2014-2015 after this date. SPEND YOUR BUDGET! All Follett orders will be closed and shipped on Friday, May 22nd, 2015.

As always, let Nancy know if you have any questions.

SLSSLA (St Louis School Librarians Association) Event on Collaboration Thanks to a grant provided by MASL, SLSSLA is able to offer an additional event and bring in a speaker to talk about collaboration. Feel free to bring a colleague with you as well. Details and registration can be found at https://www.smore.com/ym02h Questions?? Contact Jennifer - jmillikan@stjosephacademy.org. Monday, March 30th, 5-7PM

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What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Librarians List 14-15 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

Resource Roundup Technology, Research & Learning Resources

Celebrating National Poetry Month in April Poetry Picnic!

From A Year of Reading Blog, ideas that could be used during the month of April. One example is to have the library set up to look like a picnic where there are about 20 placemats that students can choose from--places to try things having to do with poetry. The goal is to give students a hands-on opportunity with different types of poetry books and time to explore poetry with friends.

Found Poetry Put those weeded books to good use during National Poetry Month! The artist on the Deviant Art page has a couple of really beautiful examples of how this activity would look.

Book Spine Poetry The True Adventures of a High School Librarian posted a great idea of combining poetry with book spines. This would make a great photo opp with students! An extension of this activity would be to have students read up their creation on VoiceThread and post those links on the library webpage.

The Poetry Dress (and maybe a suit too) This collaborative art project features work by established and emerging poets as a way to showcase the layers of female or male voices in contemporary poetry. Found on Flickr.

Hands-on Poetry Activities Need help with those reluctant poets...students who don’t know if they want to get involved with poetry. Try these activities with both struggling writers and those who love creating original poems.

Tabletop Poetry From Mrs. Lodge’s Library, Tabletop Poetry,Objective: Given a visual prompt, students will write original poetry.

Set Up: For this center, I cover a table with butcher/bulletin board paper. I post a picture on the table or in an acrylic frame to show a theme and give visual inspiration. Student will write poetry related to the theme, add illustrations, add on to each other’s poems, etc.

Variations: have students write and draw favorite characters, book recommendations, illustrations in a specific artist’s style

Dimensional Word Ball Poetry Lesson... This would be a GREAT way for students to display a poem they have written - these would be beautiful hung on a poet-tree! Taken from inkablinka.com

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

ISTE Standards in Our Setting As we continue to teach we are responsible for providing a learning environment that takes students beyond the walls of our classrooms and into a world of opportunities through effective infusion of relevant content with up-to-date and emerging resources and tools. The integration of technology is what is needed to transform classrooms into places where students are empowered to learn, live, and work in the digital age. In standard three teachers are encouraged to model digital age work and learning. Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.

Standard three performance indicators: A. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations a.

Engage with students in collaborative exploration of emerging technologies and investigate together how these tools can be used in real world situations to solve problems. Involve students in identifying and solving common hardware and software problems that occur in everyday use B. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation a.

Employ a variety of digital environments and media to collaborate with project teams or learners of other countries and cultures to produce original works or solve shared problems C. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats a.

Evaluate and use a variety of digital tools, resources, and media to communicate information and ideas to a global audience, demonstrating cultural understanding.

D. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning a.

Use current and emerging digital tools and resources efficiently and effectively to deepen knowledge of information fluency and its application to teaching and learning and share results with students, parents, and colleagues

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Resources for Modeling DigitalAge Work & Learning Literacy Skills Teaching students about literacy skills will encourage fluency in technology systems.

On the Thoughtful Learning page there are descriptions of information, media, and technology literacy.

Four Steps for Jumpstarting Global-Collaboration Projects On the edweek.org site advice is given on how to begin thinking about going global and connecting classrooms through projects.

6 Tech Tools that Boost Teacher-Parent Communication Communicating ideas to students, parents, and peers digitally can be a productive and constructive way to keep everyone in loop. On graphite. org suggested tools for getting started are given.

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World Understanding how students conduct research will help us develop and model effective use of resources. The report from pewinternet.org is a survey that investigates the way the internet is searched.

About Books Bookology Magazine An e-magazine dedicated to nurturing the essential conversation about the role of children's books in the K-8 classroom.

Quick Picks

Mark Your Calendar - Google Education On Air - Free Online Conference: May 8th & 9th Do you wish for the chance to work more closely with other teachers? Now introducing Education On Air, a free online conference. http://goo.gl/wSYlMU You have the best seat in the house (your own!) All you need is a web browser and an Internet connection to learn with other educators. http://goo.gl/CNf1L4#GoogleEduOnAir

Thinking about how you want to finish spending this year’s Library Services budget? Take a peek at the YALSA lists for reluctant readers, series, top 10, and the teen book finder app.

Best Google features for Busy Teachers Among all the links and downloads out there, it can be hard for teachers to know which ones work best. Google has made it easier by creating Google for Educators, which compiles some of the search engine's most useful features in one place.

Whether you're teaching Spanish or social studies, mathematics or music, there's a free Google feature that will make your lessons more dynamic and your projects more organized. The lively, informative website offers step-by-step visual tours and even videos to help you get set up. Below are some of the most useful features the site has to offer. ~ Taken from Edutopia and written by Kyle Pace.

Google Classroom Certification??

The question has come up as to whether there is a certification for Google Classroom. No, but there is training for it at http: //www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/.

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The Best Opening Lines in YA Books This post from Read, Breathe, Relax puts together a list of books that have great opening lines to grip the readers and have them take notice. Elicit responses from your Twitter followers by posting these on Twitter and asking from which book do they think the opening lines come from.

@your Library

Personalized Learning One option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar and then go to http: //tinyurl.com/LibWebinars 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.

You Need It: Reading Promotional Programming That Really Works!

Tuesday, Mar. 31 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time School Library Month @your Library The 30th Anniversary is coming up in April! It’s never too early to start planning the library program celebration. http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm Poetry Month @your Library April is National Poetry Month and there are many resources to help promote the celebration. http://www.poets.org

Creating a Makerspace at Your School Tuesday, Apr. 14 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE

Recorded Webinars If you would like to see some the previous webinars but were unable to make it, try an archived webinar on EdWeb View Using Google Drive to Streamline the Teaching and Learning Process View Writing a Winning Grant Application View Big G Game-Based Learning View Makerspaces: The Now Revolution in School Libraries

National Library Week @your Library - April 12-18 Celebrate Unlimited possibilities @your Library

For Fun @your Library

Teen Literature Day @your Library Celebrate on April 16th with ideas from the YALSA Wiki page.

Book O’Clock Full credit to Adam and Misti Yerton who own this wonderful clock, and have provided a guide to how it was made - http://imgur. com/a/KUyfg

Library Snapshot Day @your Library See the primer available for planning a Library Snapshot Day for ideas to create a Snapshot Day for your school library. This would be a great way to promote your space during School Library Month.

Need More Ideas?

School Library Monthly Almanac of Events for April.

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Media Literacy Resources

Professional Relevance Digital Resources, eBooks, Learning Commons, Scheduling, Leadership, Programing, Makerspaces

"Why media literacy?”

This week I participated in a workshop, Teaching in the 21st Century: Media Literacy Across the Curriculum, that reminded me of the importance of integrating media literacy across the curriculum.

In this workshop, Julie Smith explained the concept and history of media literacy and why it should not be trapped in the library. Media literacy is embedded in the Missouri Learning Standards, so the time has never been better for teachers to expose students to this empowering skill that teaches them to consume, analyze, critique and evaluate media in a whole new way.

Knowing what media literacy is and is not can help frame the conversations with teachers and students.Media literacy can be described as a repertoire of competencies that enable students to analyze, evaluation and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms. One resource, Media Smarts page, describes what media education is, why we should teach it, tips for integrating it into the curriculum, and the principles relating to media literacy. Media literacy is not media bashing or educational technology but rather a theory. We can’t change the message, we can’t change the sender, but we can educate the receiver. The chart below shows the elements of media communication.

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Take a picture and crop it 2 different ways to have 2 different message appear Word choice (commemorative words - use a famous picture in history and ask them to write captions ...write a pro and con caption for it Identify the target audience - from historical papers Look for ads that have the same product but a different audience - example military ads for parents vs enlistees How does the form change the content? book format change vs movie format Take a book quote and turn into a product ad Analyze forensic shows and figure out what science is incorrect Change movie posters to give the true meaning of the movie - genre changing Change the mood of movie trailer with music - genre changing Use Kahoot - to identify real or fake ads Critical listening - go to a news sources, pick out something that seems to be biased, and have a debate

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

ISTE Visual Literacy Understanding pictures and the standards Digital Is… What youth gain from media literacy education Center for Media Literacy kits and resources available Media Literacy Clearinghouse - Critical thinking about media message The Paley Center for Media - leading the conversation about media Life on Line - the newest interactive Web site for teens from Girl Scouts and Windows. Created with help from teens like you and industry experts, you’ll get the know-how to navigate safely through your online life and even help your parents understand it too. We know how important it is to you!

Go ahead, explore the site create a profile and make an impact. Try it Now New Mexico Literacy Project - resources and stories about media Project Look Sharp - Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.

Snap Shots

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Library Lessons

Dressing like your favorite character at Henry - Fancy Nancy Using the St Louis County Library Databases at WHS Teaching in the cave at Wren Self check-out is going well at Claymont

More on APP Smashing using SAMR smash Found on educatorstechnology. com Here is a new wonderful interactive SAMR visual for teachers. For those of you not yet familiar with what SAMR model is all about , here is a refresher for you: SAMR model is a framework through which you can assess and evaluate the technology use in the classroom. This framework is made up of 4 level

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New custom magazine rack made by Parkway carpenters and inspired by St. Louis City Central Library - Wren Library lesson on hard copy vs digital encyclopedias at Ross

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