ESPECIALLY FOR FERN RIDGE
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Contact Information Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog
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Check out the eBooks on the Fern Ridge library page. Students and staff can browse the selection and read with either a guest or personal username password. If you are interested let me know and I will get you started. On the Fern Ridge Library webpage you will find a link to reserve the library space. Once on the calendar, you will be able to reserve a #me. Click on the date you would like, enter your last name and #me in which you want to be in the library. Be sure to select the FR Library Sign Up calendar in the drop down op#ons and click the Create Event bu&on when you are finished. The event can be edited or deleted should you need to cancel or have a #me conflict. I am currently going though all the books at Fern to iden#fy the Gateway Award books da#ng back to 2003! If funds become available I will be comple#ng those collec#ons and working on the acquiring more of the summer reading list books. REMINDER: f a student would like a book, please be sure they write down their first and last name and the book #tle, so that I can manually add it to the check-out system.
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” Looking through the library door last week and Fern. Teacher were being video taped by students. Love to see the library being used as a community space!
~ Mark Twain
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources What Should I Read Next? Thoughtplay Ltd. has created a website to give sugges#ons for books you might like to read. Simply put in the #tle of a book you recently read and find other #tles that you might like to read. To search their database go towww.whatshouldireadnext.com. 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online Open Culture, the cultural and educa#onal media website posted last week that the New York Public Library now has 20,000 Hi-res maps online and they made them free to download and use. No copy right restricts, all are ready to use under the create commons license. Read the ar#cle through Open Culture and visit the NYPL to get started. Comics in Educa on is a website run by Dr. Glen Downey for the purpose of sharing ac#vi#es and ideas for using comics and graphic novels in literacy educa#on. Head to the classroom sec#on of the site to find five literacy skills development ac#vi#es that can be completed online or offline. Those ac#vi#es include wordless narra#ves, graphic poetry, cave art, visual note-taking, and symbolic language in words and images. In the classroom sec#on you will also find curriculum connec#ons and explana#ons of the ra#onale for using comics with all students. h&p:// www.comicsineduca#on.com/
5 Top Educa onal Apps for Middle School Teachers The blog, Lesson From the Middle (Krystal Mills), has some sugges#ons for integra#ng technology in the classroom. These sugges#ons are great for the CTA ini#a#ve and most are free! Apps discussed are Science Glossary (comprehensive glossary of scien#fic terms), GoSkyWatch Planetarium ($3.99—200 hi-res images of planets and deep sky objects), Mental Maths by Maths Doctor (offers mul#ple methods through which students can expand their mathema#cal knowledge), History: Maps of the World (historical & geographical knowledge), Grammar Girl: English Grammar Podcasts on your iPhone (gramma#cal accuracy and impart helpful wri#ng #ps). Image Search + Text From Prac#cal Ed Tech Tip (Free Technology for Teachers), the YouTube video describes how to upload an image and use text to refine your image search. This allows you to search for other images that are similar to it.
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4 Advanced Search Operators to Help Find Elusive Google Drive Files A lot of the value of Google Drive comes from how quickly we can iden#fy and access exactly what we're looking for. While crea#ng a folder structure can serve as a great founda#on to Drive, we've found that many people fail to maintain these folders, making search a much more efficient op#on. Some of those operators are: •
#tle: – search by the file’s #tle (group phrases in quota#on marks)
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owner: – search according to who owns the item (works best with owner:email address)
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type: – search by the file type (this covers: document, spreadsheet, presenta#on, drawing, image, video, image_or_video, pdf, and textdoc)
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is:starred – search items that you’ve marked with a star
Watch the YouTube video to get started today!
5 Tips to Turn Yourself into a Google Drive Gooru As we jump into Google Apps you are hopefully excited about Google Drive. Many of us are already very happy with it from the perspec#ve of accessing important informa#on and collabora#ng with others, but there are probably many ques#ons that you s#ll need answered. The videos on this page will help you with transi#oning from MicrosoM Office (which was a newsle&er feature a couple of weeks ago), Accessing Google Drive Offline, Customize Google Drive with Drive Apps, Adding your Shared Files to MY Drive in Google Drive (this one is really good), and Keep Track of all the Changes in Google Drive with the New Ac#vity Stream (www.googlegooru.com).
Student Opportunities Epic Yearbook Photo Contest Get your photography class to enter! Digital Wish is running a yearbook photo contest and entries are due May 5, 2014, on Cinco de Mayo. They will give away three Olympus digital yearbook cameras, as well as an iPad. Just simply enter the contest by uploading your photo to our photo contest website h&p:// www.digitalwish.org/contest.