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Updates @your Library
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A library is like the best person you know— politely quiet but endlessly informa$ve, amazingly knowledgeable but charmingly discreet, open to everyone yet subject to your every whim, and sadly, flammable if one isn't careful. Be careful with yours.
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The Parkway Summer Reading List is available at www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/secreading.html and on the St. Louis County Library webpage. Students should also apply for a St. Louis County Library card because they will have access to hundreds of eBooks, databases, and magazine subscrip$ons all online. h%p://www.slcl.org/using_the_library/library_cards NEW from ST Louis County Library—Hoopla is a brand new eMedia service available free to St. Louis County Library cardholders. If you have a St. Louis County Library card you can use Hoopla. h%p:// www.slcl.org/emedia It’s a lot of fun to see each week what books are disappearing off the shelf. Hopefully they all come back! Please remind students to return books so that others will be able to use them as well.
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Five Websites That Mo$vate Readers this Summer Reviews were wri%en and then published by eSchool News. The five recognized high quality apps for mo$va$ng readers are: Bookshare, Figment, Goodreads, LitPick and Teen Ink. The ar$cle provides the grade range, what it is, pros/cons, and bo%om line h%p://www.eschoolnews.com/current-issue/, page 31. This informa$on was provided by Graphite, which is a free service from Common Sense Media. The service makes it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for classroom or library use. h%ps://www.graphite.org/
Graphic Organizers This is not a new site but it is definitely worth men$oning again. The page has updated interac$ve graphic organizers and literacy strategies tools to use with all grade levels and subject areas. h%p://www.vrml.k12.la.us/cc/gr_organ/graphic_proj.htm Sketch Toy This tool allows students to draw sketches and share with friends. The free online drawing app remember each line you paint so that you can share the step-by-step replays. No sign up is required. The app is available in Google Chrome. h%p://sketchtoy.com/ 5 Online Tools to Align Lesson to Common Core Standards Those tools include: • Teaching Objects—This lesson planner allows you to pull from Google Drive and YouTube to align lessons. h%p://teachingobjects.net/ • Alchemy SmartBinder—A binder approach to crea$ng, organizing and sharing lessons. Items created can be shared with students. h%p:// www.alchemylearning.com/tag/common-core/ • Common Curriculum—A template based lesson creator that searches for a the standards that might match the lesson you created based on the informa$on put into the form. h%p:// www.commoncurriculum.com/ • OpenEd—This is the place where the flipped classroom meets CCSS. This open source collec$on contains videos, games, assessments and courses. The resource has a n iPad and Android app as well h%p:// www.opened.io/ • Mastery Connect—This is a curriculum mapping tool assists you with connec$ng your current lessons and CCSS. Seethe video at h%p://blog.masteryconnect.com/?p=1389 or go to the site to get started h%ps:// www.masteryconnect.com/learn-more/ Full ar$cle at: h%p://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/5-online-tools-that-help-you-align.html#.U200B4FdU1I
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38 Ideas for Google Drive in the Classroom This is a nice placemat of ideas if you haven’t had the chance to think much about Google Drive in the classroom. h%ps://twi%er.com/sjunkins/ status/459443101866950657/photo/
Crop, Rotate and Add Borders in Google Docs Google Slides has had the op$on to crop, rotate, and add borders from awhile, but now Google Drive has added the same tools to Google Docs. So, now the basic edi$ng of images in your Google Drive exists and you no longer need to involve some other 3rd-party applica$on or website. The video from edi$ng images in Google Slides and Drawings explains the same features now found in Docs. h%ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RT2SRlLwDE Along with the ability to crop images into slightly smaller versions of themselves, you can also crop them into specific shapes, like stars, arrows and circles. Pairing this with the ability to add a custom border to your images definitely gives you a lot more flexibility in Google Docs. h %p://www.googlegooru.com/crop-rotate-and-add-borders-to-images-in-google-docs/
Student Opportunities There are some great camps being offered by Parkway this summer. Students have the opportunity to par$cipate in Google Camp (Grades 312), Camp Inven$on (Grades 1-6), and Cracking the Code (Grades 3-8). The camps are on page 46 in the Parkway Summer Programs 2014 booklet. At $nyurl.com/pkwygooglecamp or to see the flyer look at h%p://goo.gl/rdjQDO.