Learning Opportunities Parkway Library Media Webinar Series 10/10/13—Google Collabora ve Tools Archived Link 11/12/13—Elements of Digital Ci zenship Archived Link 12/10/13—AASL Conference Wrap‐up ‐ Archived Link 1/16/14— Seeing Horizon Through Student Eyes ‐ Archived Link 3/4/14—TBD 4/8/4—TBD
Each webinar will be held using Google Hangouts (google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/) and will be archived on a Parkway Library YouTube Channel which we will set up soon. If you want to par cipate in the webinar and ask ques ons, you are free to do. You can also just watch as it's happening, or you can watch it a er the fact as it will be archived on the YouTube channel and a link put on our website.
Make it Yourself: Students as eBook Creators Thursday, January 30th 4:00PM This webinar will provide ideas and examples of how you and your students can create your own eBooks. Crea ng your own eBooks is a great way to align with Common Core standards for collabora on, cri cal thinking, and crea vity. Topics covered in the webinar include:
How to get students to create their own content and eBooks Different pla orms available to create eBooks Why crea ng eBooks promotes literacy Register here
Developing Library Collec ons for Today’s Young Adults February 4th at 1:00pm Young adults form a constantly changing popula on in today’s libraries, and what was hot can turn ice‐cold fast. Whether your current collec on needs refreshing or you’re working to create a new separate collec on for teens, Simmons College associate professor Amy Pa ee will have some useful ps for you. Join us for this free, hour‐ long webinar based on Pa ee’s book Developing Library Collec ons for Today's Young Adults for Scarecrow Press’s new library science line. Moderated by Rebecca Vnuk, Reference and Collec on Management Editor at Booklist. Can't make the date? Register anyway so a link to the video archive of this webinar can be e‐mailed to you a er the event. h p://goo.gl/ h3ZqTq
Par cipa on Credits A er you have par cipated in the webinar, in order to get credit, you will need to click here or go to nyurl.com/LibWebinars and record your par cipa on. Remember that district credit is based on the number of hours that you par cipate. Six hours will get you .5 credit and 12 hours will get you 1 credit.
Discover Education Help As a follow up to the updates that Bill sent out this week on Discovery Education, I wanted to give you a Help site and some instructions to manually add a student. 1. Login with your own name at www.discoveryeducation.com 2. After logging in, click My Admin at the top right. 3. Under Users: click >Add User 4. Make sure the site is your school (Parkway South Middle) 5. Click Go 6. Set their Role as Student 7. Then just fill out the Profile information as appropriate (First and last name, username, password, and grade). I believe username is normally first initial and then last name, and the password is normally their student number? 8. Click submit 9. Click here for additional help
What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?