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Updates @your Library 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 0me. Click on the date you would like, enter your last name and 0me in which you want to be in the library. Be sure to select the FR Library Sign Up calendar in the drop down op0ons 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 0me conflict.
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There are a couple of copies of Divergent in the library...encourage students to check them out before it comes to the theater on March 21st! The horizon program is working for easy check out of books...if you would like to learn how to conduct check out, let me know. Don’t forget that we now have eBooks for students to read either online or though the Enlight app. We now have the Gateway award books from this year and the nominees for next year. Ready for checkout!
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Another great resource - Google Books How does it work? Finding books with Google Books is as easy as finding websites with Google Web Search; just enter the keyword or phrase you're looking for into the Google Books box. Click on a book 0tle and you'll see basic info about the book just like you'd see in a card catalog. You might also see a few snippets — sentences of your search term in context. If a publisher or author has given us permission, you'll see a full page and be able to browse within the book to see more pages. If the book is out of copyright, you'll see a full page and you can page forward or back to see the full book. Clicking on Search within this book allows you to perform more searches within the book you've selected. You can click on the Buy eBook bu,on to buy a book from the Google Play store. In many cases, you can also click Find this book in a library to find a local library where you can borrow it. If the book is available as a Google eBook, you'll also see a buy bu,on for purchasing the digital edi0on. h,p://books.google.com/googlebooks/about/
Do you like Wordle or Tagxedo? Then check this out! The people from Tech & Learning - Ideas and tools for ed tech leaders—put together a list of world cloud generators that have their own unique features to use with students in the library. h,p://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-tools-student-centered-crea0veexpression/
Media Literacy—an ability to understand how mass media works, how they produce meanings, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely. (h,p://www.cmp.ucr.edu/) Since our students are bombarded with digital imagery what be,er way to get them involved than using these sugges0ons from TeachThought—5 Smart Ways to Use Digital Images in the Classroom. This ar0cle and the suggested ac0vi0es encourage students to think abstractly and complex ideas, transform curriculum, and promote crea0vity. Sugges0ons include: visual biographies, photo essays, visual storytelling, photojournalism, and vocabulary building.
Top 10 ways to use technology to promote reading Doug Johnson was upda0ng his workshop on how technology can be used to promote Voluntary Free Reading - the only undebatably fool-proof means of both improving reading proficiency and developing a life-long love of reading in every student. He started this project in 2011 and now has a list of great ideas from people like Sarah Ludwig, Joyce Valenza,, Anita Beaman. His top 10 ways to use technology to promote reading include: author/fan websites, networking sites, cura0on tools, produc0vity tools, library promo0on webpages, digital displays, virtual author visits, eBooks & apps, and reading assessment tools. h,p://dougjohnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2014/2/10/top-10-ways-to-usetechnology-to-promote-reading.html
Additional resources for DOC & Drive help.
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Docs & Drive Help Click Here
Drive Support Documentation Click Here
Students are going to con0nue to use Google as their primary search engine and if you would like for them to learn to search be,er, go to the Search Tips & Tricks—Inside Search for Google. When we explain to students how to search they don’t really listen to us...but if Google says it, then they believe, hehehehe. The website has a mo,o of keep it simple and enter basic names or word. Try it with your students today! h,p://www.google.com/insidesearch/0pstricks/basics.html
Student Opportuni(es In honor of School Library Month, AASL is encouraging students to submit videos that connect to this year’s theme: Lives Change @your Library.. Check out the contest eligibility and rules at h,p://www.ala.org/aasl/ slm/2014/video