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Library Services Volume 6 | Issue 6 Library Links
What it mean to be librarian in the digital age? Notes &does Reminders
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Destiny FAQ
Notes & Reminders
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District Surplus Property
Ordering Process Updates
Procedures
Per finance (DESE rules), ebooks/audiobooks that are accessed via a website need to be ordered separately from books. Audiobooks, like playaways (physical format) will also need to be ordered on a separate order. I know this is confusing. If you need clarification, feel free to contact Nancy. (email 7/16 & 9/20)
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Follett Acct #'s
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Follett req Instructions
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Free Lib Books @ Lib Serv
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Future Ready Librarian Framework Future Ready Goals (blank) #Future Ready Resources
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Future Ready Wedge Resources ISTE & Future Ready Crosswalk Librarians List 2018-2019
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Library Services Site
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Library Services Policies
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(Schoolwires login required) Lib Prog Guiding Docs Folder Makerspace Order Form Personalized Learning Program Evaluation Guidelines Record a PD event
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Sub librarian list
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Sub Training Videos
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Travel & Reimbursement (BOE)
A quick reminder, when placing Follett orders: 1. Email Nancy first. 2. Always wait for a response before ordering. 3. When creating an order for library books, remember to check you want CATALOGING and PROCESSING (email 10/11) 4. Place order and then print order as a PDF (under the print menu) immediately and share in Follett orders folder located here. The need to print immediately is of the utmost importance. This is when the order is pending and has not been assigned an invoice number. If an invoice number is created and showing on Titlewave before you print, the order will be canceled (email 11/5). If all of the above does not happen, your order may not have a PO generated, and then may be canceled.(emailed 7/18)
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Talking Points ○ Building Instructional Partnerships ○ Future Ready Library Spaces ○ Use of Space & TIme: Building a Flexible Program Who To Call
Starting in January Library Services will no longer be sending out multiple Breakout EDU kits. The strategy around administering a Breakout EDU game is to use either the one-box facilitation method or the digital platform. Another strategy for hosting a one-box game can be found here as well.
This site, tinyurl.com/frwedges, is a collection of Future Ready Librarian resources that were presented in the Know & Go newsletter by FR category.
#ParkwayReads - Literacy
5 Ways to Spread Book Love Last month, Kelly Hincks on the Knowledge Quest blog shared how choice, access and positivity equals #BookLove. She shares the five ways of spreading more book love this year. 1. Book of the Day - Use mini-marquee signs to bring attention to often overlooked books. 2. Bathroom Books - In the adult-only bathrooms there is a book basket. In this basket, you will find five to six books that range in topic and genre. Each week the books are changed to provide variety. See how at Knowledge Quest. 3. 4.
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Newsletters to Parents - Each month Kelly sends out a Smore flyer to parents. See her example here. Book Talks - Her school uses Responsive Classroom. In this model each morning there is a morning meeting. This is a fifteen-minute time when each classroom starts the day with activities that help to build community. In collaboration with the classroom teachers, she's able to come every other week. While there she shares three to five books with their class during their morning meeting time. Sweet Treats & Cool Reads - Create a ten-minute video each month highlighting new books we have available in the library. Along with each episode is a Google Form to fill out if someone wants to check out a book that was shared. Each episode is compiled in a Smore so it is easy for people to view old episodes.
The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2018 Checkout who Smithsonianmag.com selected as their picks for 2018. These picks deliver feminist history, folklore reimagined, and an adventurous romp through awe-inspiring destinations.
Curates Digital Resources & Tools
FERPA|Sherpa - The Education Privacy Resource Center Educators are the first line of defense in ensuring the privacy of student data. From ensuring sufficient passwords to selecting privacy-protective apps to teaching students about digital citizenship, educators have an essential role to play in securing student information. FERPA-Sherpa named after the core federal law that governs education privacy – is the education privacy resource center. Check out FERPA|Sherpa’s resource search center, our blog, and pages with specific information and guidance for parents, students, educators, LEAs, SEAs, higher ed, ed tech, and policymakers!
Posts from the Parkway Pin
Empowers Students as Creators
Curates Digital Resources & Tools
Do you have students that would benefit from having the text in a Google Doc read to them? Try the Google Docs Add-on called Speakd.
MASL Book Trailer Contest It’s not too early to start thinking about t his year’s Readers Awards Book Trailer Contest! Students may create a book trailer for any of the final nominees for the 2019-20 Mark Twain, Truman, or Gateway Readers Award - announced Soon! maslonline.org/book-trailer-contest
Creativity is the combination of discipline and childlike spirit! - Robert Greene
Demco MakerHub is Your Destination for Makerspace Planning
Empowers Students as Creators
Finding makerspace ideas can be time consuming and overwhelming. Find 100’s of both low and high tech STEM projects at MakerHub. This resource is searchable, allows for marking favorites, and activities are downloadable. More projects are added all the time, so check back often to find new ways to use the most popular maker education products and tools, such as Cubelets, Cubetto, Dash, LittleBits, Ozobots, and Sphero. You can also search by subjects (like coding, design thinking, and more) or grade levels (K-12) too.
Digital Learning Day 2019 is February 28 Each year, states, districts, schools, and classrooms across the United States and around the world hold thousands of events to celebrate Digital Learning Day. If you’re planning to participate in Digital Learning Day 2019, please add your event and visit the graphics page to share out the news so others can join you.at #DLDay Map For activities, resources and lessons go to digitallearningday.org
Discovery Education Spotlight on Strategies (SOS)
Builds Instructional Partnerships
What are SOS strategies you ask? They are creative, research-based instructional strategies for integrating digital media in meaningful, effective, and practical ways offered through Discovery Education. In order to access these great instructional tools you will need to go to clever.com/in/parkwaysd - Click on Discovery Education and then go to teachers.discoveryeducation.com/sos-top-ten/ Through the Professional Learning Center you will see a whole list of categorized SOS strategies from research to content areas and beyond the 4Cs.
Another way to see all the SOS strategies is on the Spotlight page where they are in grid view and skill.
Ignite My Future Ignite My Future in School is a comprehensive set of resources (middle school) seamlessly integrating the principles of computational thinking across the curriculum and at home to give students the 21st century skills they need for future success. The site contains real-world scenarios, transdisciplinary resources, family activities, career vignettes, and K12 Computational Thinking Resources. ignitemyfutureinschool.org
Use of TimeInstructional & Space Partnership
7 Tips for Redesigning Your Learning Space As educators, we’re in the midst of preparing students for a fundamental shift in the nature of work that includes increased reliance on technology, automation, digital platforms and artificial intelligence. However, the look and feel in many of our schools has not changed in more than 100 years. Consider these seven tips for redesigning your learning spaces: ● Involving students in the design process ● Think about student experiences, not furniture - it's about desired student experiences and learning outcomes! ● Avoid group thinking by focusing solely on your space - the groupthink occurs when a team becomes so similar in their outlook that they lose the ability to be creative in their decision-making. ● Make removing the front of the classroom a priority or maybe in library's case it is the circ desk. ● Understand the meaning of space vocabulary. What is flexible versus agile versus agile? ● Declutter the library and use invigorating colors. Colors activate regions of our brain. ● Ditch the traditional librarian spaces. Read the entire post from EdTechmagazine
Smart Space Transformation These Smart Space Transformation Stories are about the libraries who participated in WebJunction's Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces program, which led 15 small and rural public libraries from across the country to reimagine and reconfigure their libraries into smart spaces. ● Transformation Stories: Each library created space and programming aligned with the unique nature and needs of their community. These stories capture the trajectory of each transformation in pictures and words, showing the process before, during and after implementation of the Smart Spaces process. ● Smart Space Videos: These brief (1-2 minutes) videos show the highlights of a selection of Smart Space libraries.
Personalized Use ofProfessional Time & Space Learning
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP IN EDUCATION Digital citizenship is about much more than online safety — or a long list of don’ts. It’s also about the do’s that help create thoughtful, empathetic digital citizens who can wrestle with the important ethical questions at the intersection of technology and humanity. Those do’s include: ● Using technology to make your community better. ● Engaging respectfully online with people who have different beliefs than you. ● Using technology to make your voice heard by public leaders and to shape public policy. ● Determining the validity of online sources of information. This new lens focuses on empowering learners to be in community with others in online spaces and showing them that digital citizenship goes beyond conversations about personal responsibility. It’s about being active citizens who see possibilities instead of problems and opportunities instead of risks as they curate a positive and effective digital footprint. Taken from iste.org/learn/digital-citizenship
Additional Resources on the ISTE.org/learn/digital-citizenship Site ● Download: Digital Citizenship poster Educators worldwide have committed to teaching and modeling responsible digital citizenship. Find out how they plan to do just that, then hang this sketchnote-style poster in your classroom to keep digital citizenship front and center! ● Video: More digcit tips from educators Discover how to take digital citizenship beyond monitoring and into mentoring with tips from educator Michael Hernandez and mother-and-son digital citizenship duo Marialice Curran and Curran Dee. They share observations, inspiration and ideas for how to build digital citizenship and media literacy skills by focusing on do’s instead of don’ts. ● Discover digcit content on the ISTE blog Count on ISTE for learn-it-today, teach-it-tomorrow resources. They’ve got you covered with articles on citizenship in the digital age, embedding digcit in all subject areas and why digcit is the modern form of citizenship for all.
Program Evaluation Guidelines
Would you like to engage and collaborate with teachers from beyond your building or district? Are you curious to hear how the latest ideas in education are actually being used in other classrooms?
Personalized Professional Learning
Are you wanting to try something out, but not sure where to start? Do you want to participate in FREE professional development? If you answered “Yes!� to any or all of the above questions, we encourage you to join hundreds of teachers from around the greater St. Louis metro and beyond at EdCampSTL! It will be held on Saturday, February 9th, hosted at Mehlville High School (3200 Lemay Ferry Rd, St. Louis, MO 63125)! Click here to register now!
Future Ready Librarians: Investing Strategically in Digital Resources Webinar In this webinar, Investing Strategically in Digital Resources, Bill Bass, Fran Glick and Kim Lindskog, discussed how we, as Future Ready Librarians, leverage an understanding of school and community needs to identify and invest strategically in digital resources such as eBooks, eResources, digital tools and apps, and other digital tools for our libraries and Makerspaces.
Topic 1: Advocacy Parkway libraries will strive for clear communication of the role of school librarians. Topic 2: Responsiveness to Community Parkway libraries will be responsive to the community and have a finger on the pulse of each individual building. Topic 3: Instructional & Programming Parkway libraries will support classroom instruction and provide relevant, timely programming to meet the needs and interests of each individual community. Topic 4: Educational Leadership & PD Parkway librarians will strive to be seen as leaders in buildings and will have access to just in time, targeted professional learning for librarians. Topic 5: Library Physical Spaces Parkway libraries are multi-use spaces that are inviting and available for learners of all ages.
Parkway Credit One option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars and events, such as Edcamps, SLAA events, makerspace open houses etc. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar or go to an event, then record your participation at tinyurl.com/webinars-events. 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.
Contact Information Bill Bass Vendor Contacts: Innovation Coordinator: Undelivered Post Dispatch: Instructional Technology & Library Media Email: service@stltoday.com Twitter: billbass Undelivered USA Today & Kim Lindskog New York Times: Library Support Specialist Wesley Trammell Twitter: klindskog wtrammell@ebsco.com Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
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