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Author James Kennedy The Order of the Odd-‐Fish, will be visiting with our Book Club and our Creative Writing class face-‐to-‐face on April 11th. (A big thanks to our PTA for the mini-‐grant!) We also look forward to a virtual visit from really popular YA author Libba Bray, who has promised to join us through Skype when we discuss her latest book, Beauty Queens.
Kindles to go! Thanks to last year’s PTA Mini-‐Grant, we have three Kindles, packed with most of the titles on our reading and lit circle lists, as well as lots of classics and popular titles. Your students are welcome to borrow them. We also have a little money left on our PTA-‐ funded Amazon gift card so we can add titles you suggest. (See the current list of titles on the last page of this report.)
Build your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) and attend our workshop!
Over the couple of years, I’ve learned about some great new ways to learn and grow thanks largely to social networking. I recently built a LibGuide for our District Professional Development Committee. You can Qind it easily as a tab on our Guide for Teachers. The new PLN Guide includes: lists of educational hashtags for quickly accessing relevant Twitter discussions and regularly scheduled chats, a list of online communities of practice for educators. But if you want a more personal PLN building experience . . . Ken Rodoff and I will present an after-‐school workshop on PLNs. What: Building a Professional Learning Network - A how-to hands-on experience When: Monday, February 27, 3:00PM - 4:00PM Where: High School Library Details: Build a powerful network of colleagues without leaving your laptop. Learn how to leverage Twitter (Yes, Twitter!), Skype, curation tools, webinars, & online professional networks to inform and inspire your practice. Bring your laptop to this heavily hands-on opportunity.
Need help guiding your students with a papers or projects? Remember that our Research Guide (http://sdst.libguides.com/researchtools) offers support for documentation, thesis development, communication strategies, and much more. If your students are in a Google rut, please remind him or her that our subscription Database Guide (http://sdst.libguides.com/ databases) is the online portal to a rich collection of curricular/academic resources and media. These resources represent the type of content students will be expected to reference at the university level. Also check out our recently revised Current Events Guide(http://sdst.libguides.com/currentevents) with its links to major news feeds and news sources from around the world. If you need help developing any instruction or supporting student inquiry and communication, we can plan together. I am so happy to help you develop lessons and to work with you to create new guides. Some guides of interest for teachers include: Rubrics, Teacher Tools, Teaching Portals, and e-‐Curricula and Texts.
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