Risking Failure – 3 Go Blogging – Three Teacher Librarians sharing their ideas 3 Quick Ways to Capture Student Learning How do you capture student learning? This question can go in lots of directions. We know that students can snap a picture of their work. And we know that kids can capture their learning by recording their voice or typing a response. To capture student learning, you can give kids a way to create a product that shows what they know. In this blog post, I want to share with you three quick ways to capture student learning using the Adobe Spark tools. Spark for Education If you haven’t heard of Adobe Spark before, it’s an open-ended creation tool kids can access on an iPad, iPhone, Chromebook, or a laptop with a web browser. Let’s dive into these three ways kids can show what they know. Don’t forget to download these FREE planning pages to use with Adobe Spark. Capture Student Learning One quick way to capture student learning is to have kids choose one moment from a lesson to share. You might decide to have students post their graphics in a space like Google Classroom, Padlet, or Seesaw.
Mighty Little Librarian | Librarian Tiff's Blog The Book Fairy-Goddess An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: What makes a library great? by Dawn Finch As a library campaigner I have often used this blog to talk about libraries and how important they are to our communities and to society as a whole. Be patient, because this is another one. I’ve shared many stories with you, and the writing community has been endlessly supportive. You’ve marched alongside librarians, written about libraries and you’ve worked hard to slow the demise of our library service. When we talk about libraries we often drift into talking about the libraries we remember as a child. We talk in rosy and nostalgic terms about how important those libraries were, and how they shaped us. This is why I ask you now to think back and remember all of those library workers who made your library so special. So I ask you all a favour – please talk about the library workers who made your library so important because if we don’t all talk about what they did then it is easy to dismiss just how vital they are. #savelibraryworkers #librariansmatter #libraryworkersmatter
Best free Google Slides themes and Powerpoint templates Sketchnotes Lesson There’s an increasing trend in education regarding visual techniques to help students learn concepts, and it’s called sketchnotes. This free presentation template focuses on this design, so you can turn a lesson into an easy teaching experience. Orange Memphis Surround yourself with colors thanks to this new template. Its design is focused on the popular Memphis style, so you will be able to get a marvelous result with ease. Puress Online There are times when you need a beautiful presentation, something that can leave everybody amazed. Back to School Social Media Back to School time has arrived at Slidesgo! Online Notebook Use an online notebook to prepare your classes, it doesn’t matter if you are a teacher of a student! Chalkboard Background There’s an object that comes to mind when you think of a classroom. E-Learning New and interesting technologies are being used for teaching. Minimal Charm Are you looking for a monochromatic theme that is interesting at the same time?
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator Three Ring Library 2018 ABIA Book Awards Longlist | ANZ LitLovers LitBlog The 2018 ABIA Book Awards Longlist has been announced. The shortlist will be announced on Thursday April 19, with the winners announced on Thursday 3 May. For over a week now, we have been plagued by intermittent internet, thanks to Australia’s stupid on-the-cheap version of a national broadband network brought to us by the current clowns in government. Now, to try to upload this. Literary Fiction Book of the Year Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year Atlantic Black, A. The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year General Fiction Book of the Year Biography Book of the Year International Book of the Year To see the longlists for the Children’s Book of the Year, the Illustrated Book of the Year and the General Non-Fiction Book of the year visit the ABIA website. Like this: Like Loading...
The Best Typing and Keyboarding Websites for Classrooms After dozens of hours testing typing programs, we recommend TypingClub and Typing.com for students and teachers. Learning to type with accuracy and speed has clear practical benefits, but there's more to it than that. Typing lessons help students with spelling and word decoding, and can free up cognitive space for students to focus on what they want to say. While keyboarding may not be the most exciting class for students, online programs have evolved over the years, making a skill that can feel rote more entertaining and meaningful. To help you choose the best one for your classroom, we explored in-depth some of the best typing tools on the market and selected the best of the best below. Our selections These are the tools that performed best overall in our tests and that we feel balance everything you'd want in a typing tool. Best overall: TypingClub A fantastic choice to help students master keyboarding skills, this typing program has it all. Go to TypingClub's website. Go to search.
Free Technology for Teachers 4 Tips for Spotting a Fake News Story | Harvard Summer School But mixed in with all the fair, factual, and well-researched reporting was something more sinister: Fake news, stories that seemed accurate, but were actually downright false. While fake news has been circulating as long as its legitimate counterpart, it's been getting a lot of play recently, thanks to the way we consume information. According to Pew Research Center, people under age 50 get half of their news online. And for those under 30, online news is twice as popular as TV news. Speaking of the Internet, did you hear the one about Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump or the Clinton campaign running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza parlor in Washington, DC, (#pizzagate)? Both fakes. Why Fake News Goes Viral Thousands of people circulated these false stories. Another contributing factor, according to Pew Research, is confirmation bias. But the result of all this misinformation isn’t simply ignorance. Let’s get critical: 4 tips for evaluating news
Ms. O Reads Books
This is a blog about an elementary school library media specialist who writes about creativity, seasonal activities and reading. This blog is perfect for me, as I am striving to become an elementary school library media specialist. by maddie1492 Mar 23