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@your Library Banned books week@ your Library—Discover what you are missing Celebrate the freedom to read and support intellectual freedom! 30 Years of Libera ng Literature...Check it out at h"p://goo.gl/9MzA64
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“Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide informa on and enlightenment.” ~ALA Library Bill of Rights
Teen Read Week @your Library! Teen Read Week: Seek the Unknown is October 13th –19th To celebrate there is a video contest sponsored by St. Louis County Library Details can be found at h"p://goo.gl/lVt6di
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The bookmark style stickers that contain the database information from the library page have been delivered. Students and staff will find the tinyurl link QR code, usernames, and passwords to remotely access the subscriptions.
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Books are being collected, cataloged and boxed up for the library.
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Need resources for an upcoming unit of study, let me know and I will be more than happy to assist!
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources There is a very interes ng website that might be great for learning about editorials with your students or seeing persuasive wri ng in ac on. This site h"p://www.procon.org/, explains the pros and cons of many heated issues. However if you use it, then you should probably assemble the links in a Webquest or Jog-theweb list because you may not want the students to see all the controversial issues such as medical marijuana, gay marriage, etc.
Did you know that the URL shortener Bit.ly now generates QR codes? The Quick Response (QR) code is a barcode that is able to store contact informa on, a link to YouTube, or a link to a website (and more). With a QR reader app, someone can scan the barcode and get informa on from them. It's an alterna ve way to get data into the phone ( informa on form no xtech.com) Using QR codes allows your students an easy way to engage with the content you are sharing. Inside of Bit.ly you can now create those codes and then check to see how many people are accessing that informa on by looking at the analy cs (count your clicks). What a great way to get usage sta s cs for your classroom! Here is how h"p:// goo.gl/OOHUQX Want more Bit.ly ps and tricks h"p://goo.gl/ppueCn.
Open Culture 200+ Free Video, Lessons, Apps, and eBooks for K-12 The Open Culture blog, has a ton of cataloged free and open resources for post-secondary educa on, but now they launched a new collec on (h"p://goo.gl/d90gmg )of more than 200 free video lessons, apps, ebooks, and websites for K-12 students and teachers. The collec on includes some recognizable resources, such as Khan Academy, the Library of Congress, and NASA. It is arranged according to content area which should make it easy to find something that is new and applicable to the library or that classroom teacher that needs a new resource. There were two interes ng apps that I found right a way, the Shakespeare app (h"p://goo.gl/HeGzGN) that contains plays, poems, and sonnets. Another app, the Google Earth for science teachers resource (h"p://goo.gl/gK7GJp) has detailed satellite imagery of landforms and landscapes.
The World’s Cons(tu(ons to Read, Search and Compare Every year approximately five new cons tu ons are wri"en, and 20-30 are amended or revised. A cri cal part of draOing a new cons tu on is referencing and comparing exis ng cons tu onal documents—but un l now, these documents have been hard to access. With this in mind, +Google Ideas supported the Compara ve Cons tu ons Project to build and launch Cons(tute(h"p://goo.gl/wj3iIO)—a new site that digi zes the world's cons tu ons and makes them searchable by anyone. (compliments of Google in Educa on)