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Parkway School District
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Nancy’s Nook & Other Reminders Growth Measures Coming Soon - Mark Your Calendar This year the growth measure assessment window will begin September 8th and close on September 26th for both elementary and middle school. The assessment will take place in 4th and 6th grade. Check your email this week for instructions.
Follett Shelf Login Information When using Follett Shelf login with your Novell username and password when you are in Destiny or Quest. The link that is on your Edline page probably needs to be taken off, because it opens a login box that does not except the Novell username and password.
The library is the temple of learning and learning has liberated morepeople than all the wars in history ~Carl T. Rowen
Contact Information Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog Scoopit:www.scoop.it/t/know-go
Nancy Ikemeyer Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer
More Follett Shelf News If you students for some reason can not check out an eBook, the setting may need to be changed under your Admin login.
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Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code or www.tinyurl.com/libserv
More Updates Follett Orders Before placing an online order with Follet be sure to call or email Nancy first to verify the available funds in your library services account.
METC - Presentation Proposals DUE Monday, September 15th more information at: http://goo.gl/L8UMaf
Highlighted & Circled Technology, Research & Learning Resources
Scoop.it! Scoop.it has been around for awhile, but recently I have found that helps me to help you by curating content and providing a personal learning network to gain knowledge on the latest information on school libraries, Google, and technology integration. One of my favorite features is that as you curate information you are instantly publishing and posting to your social media sites, such as Twitter at the same time. What a great way to increase your social presence. It looks like a well manicured online magazine that is easy to use and provides relevant content based on the key word tags you have provided. To view and follow my scoop.it page go to http://www.scoop.it/t/know-go. What to learn more about scoop.it? http://www. scoop.it/t/what-is-scoop-it. Not only does it have an mobile app available but it also has a bookmarklet available (Scoop any web page by installing the bookmarklet on your toolbar and then dropping & dragging your content).
Animoto for Education Another site that has been around for awhile, Animoto the video creation site. All you need is a few pictures or video clips and a few minutes to create a video that you can Tweet, Pin, or email. It’s a simple and easy way to show what is happening around your building and no video editing experience required. If you decide to create an account be sure it is Animoto for Education. If you would like to see a sample check the link to the 3rd-5th Grade project at Green Trails! All the photos were taken by the students during their specials time. Library, Art, Gym, Music and Orchestra team taught together so the kids could create this awesome video. The student were in teams of 4, given a camera, and tossed a Koosh Ball at the SmartBoard to select a scavenger hunt question. They then had to work together to answer the question and document their answer with photography. (An example question: Where would you find reference materials in the library? or Demonstrate how you would wait to sharpen your pencil in art.) This activity was designed to help build teamwork while reviewing the norms & expectation in art, gym, music, orchestra, and library. http://animoto.com/play/q39SD5RrvgxX21kH2nOSSg. Thanks for sharing Katie.
The E-mail ABC’s Thanks to Kira, this site is a wonderful tool for teaching e-mail etiquette. All 26 letters of the alphabet are represented with tips on sending and composing e-mail. These tips make for great discussion points especially when talking about the difference between personal and school accounts and when to use each. http://goo.gl/Xskx What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?
Google Managing Multiple Google Accounts In a previous newsletter, a document was shared on how to login to multiple Google accounts when using Chrome. By setting this up you are able to easily switch between accounts loaded in separate browser windows. Now you can watch the video at. http: //goo.gl/mlEFQJ. If you are going to watch this in the district be sure you are logged into the network.
Google Classroom Now Available Google recently released a new tool for districts using Google Apps for Education called Google Classroom. Google Classroom is basically a document management tool that allows you to create classes for your students to join and gives you the opportunity to assign documents to students all at once without having to use elaborate scripts and add-ons. A folder structure will be created in both you and your student's Drive accounts for quick access to documents. Additionally, students will be able to submit documents to you to be graded and returned to them all digitally and through Drive. Finally, Google Classroom will allow you to email all of your students with their Parkway Google accounts directly from Classroom eliminating the need to make elaborate lists. This tool is available to you immediately and can be accessed at http://classroom. google.com where you will sign in with your Parkway Google account. Be sure to signify that your role is that of a teacher to get you started in the right way. Once you are in you will go into queue to be given the permissions of a teacher (that should take about 24 hours). You'll be able to get in, you just won't be able to create a class until permissions are granted. You should receive an email confirmation that you've been added to the Classroom Teachers group. When students go in, they will be prompted to login to their Parkway Google account and then they will have to choose student. This is where the teacher verification comes in and why it takes a day to verify you. There will be more specific how-to information coming soon. Here are a few resources that are available for you to get started. ● Intro to Google Classrom presentation - (Thanks to Kira Landolt) - http://goo. gl/Uo7TfC ● Google Classroom YouTube playlist - This resource is not specific to Parkway but it will get you started. Start with the second video as the first one doesn't pertain to us. http://goo.gl/XWFCzn ● Three Things You Can Do with Google Classroom - http://goo.gl/lBj6uD ● Getting Started with Google Classroom -http://goo.gl/meFWoa You are free to share this information with your buildings. As this is a new product, changes will be coming and more features will be added as time goes on.
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Destiny Making Items “Mine”
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Many of you would like to make your award winners and hot reads “mine” so that they are not eligible for ILL. In order to do that go to: circulation tab > copy status > find the copy you want to change > click on the item > edit copy > circulation type > select “mine” > save copy.
St Louis County Library Card Campaign! The St. Louis County Library is currently running a library card campaign. This year SLCL has implemented an online registration module to streamline the process. They encourage schools to direct students and staff that do not already have a SLC Library card to http: //webpac.slcl. org/screens/schoolregistration. html to submit the online library card application. The staff will create library cards for those students and staff and deliver the library cards to your school to be distributed.
Hide a Circulation Type Sometimes you may want to “hide” a circulation type (such as “mine”) in Destiny (not your eBook Shelf). This means that only under the (local) Admin login can you see the hidden circulation type. However, the items contained in that circulation type can still be checked out to a patron if they ask the librarian for it specifically. To make the change go to: backoffice tab > select library policies option > click on the circulation types subtab > scroll down to the circulation type that you want to change to hide and click on the edit button (paper pencil icon) >
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> then put a checkmark in the box that says “hidden” > note: this can not be changed during school hours > save.
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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.
It’s Not Too Late - Google Drive Certification Last year, Bill offered librarians the opportunity to acquire Google Drive Certification or Google Educator Certification. This opportunity is still available. Google Drive now has level 1 and level 2 training and you'll want to complete both of them. The good news is level 1 is really short and is more of just an overview. Level 2 is more comprehensive and will provide most of the answers that you will need for to pass the test. This is where you should spend most of your time. In this level, there are many videos that help to illustrate the topics and concepts covered. In Lesson 8 you'll find a link that will be important for the certification test as well. Here are the pertinent links: ● Drive Level 1 (basic overview) http://www.google. com/edu/training/tools/drive/level1.html ● Drive Level 2 - http://www.google.com/edu/training/tools/drive/level2.html ● Google Testing Center - https://google.starttest.com/ If you are interested in taking the Drive test or all of the tests they are $15 each. If you choose to to take the test(s), you have two choices. Library Services will either pay for all five tests once you've passed them and have turned in your certificates, or Library Services can give you 2 district credits (if you complete all five tests). You may also get reimbursed if you opt to take only the Google Drive test.
Google Apps Development Opps Missouri Summit featuring Google for Education Saturday, October 4th - Maplewood-Richmond Heights SD 60 Breakout sessions Registration is $80 More info: www.gafemo.com
Google Educator Group Eastern Missouri Online community hosted in Google+ Interested go to : http://tinyurl.com/gegmo
Connected Educators Month (CEM) - October 2014 Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Education, this virtual conference provides hundreds of professional development opportunities with diverse and engaging activities to educators of all levels. For more information visit http://connectededucators.org/announcing-cem-2014/
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Student Opportunities Show Me a Movie Contest - Edplus & METC Show-Me a Movie is a digital storytelling contest for students grades 2-12 in Missouri and its Border States (Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska). These students are invited to demonstrate their creativity and digital moviemaking skills in one of five categories. New this year, categories are designated for specific age groups. Also new for 2014, the area of focus for all submitted movies is STEAM related. All winning movies are showcased at a reception in February during the Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC). The students from the winnings movie are invited to attend along with their teachers and families. More information at http: //goo.gl/4iJmFl
Around the District As your year is ramping up and exciting events are being planned do be sure to invite us. Also, if you have a tip (Destiny, Google, Web 2.0) or something that you would like to contribute to the newsletter let me or Bill know.
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About Books 36 Books Becoming Movies The Monuments Men Winter’s Tale Therese Raquin All You Need is Kill The Hundred-Foot Journey the Giver Dark Places This is Where I Leave You The Maze Runner Here Be Monsters! Gone Girl Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day The Best of Me Mockingjay The Hobbit Unbroken A Long Way Down Far From the Madding Crowd Alan Turing:The Enigma If I Stay Devil’s Knot Wild One Fat Summer And many more...check out http://goo.gl/1ihy5C