CSU_TLship

"Following the model of Great Reads from Great Places students could use a tool like Padlet or Google's My Maps to create interactive maps featuring their favorite books aligned to states, provinces, cities, or countries. Here's a demo of how to create a multimedia map with Padlet. "

"We all can agree that one of the most rewarding experiences in teaching is helping that one student find their voice and take a commanding role to contribute to the classroom learning experience. Allowing students the opportunity to engage in discourse that involves externalizing, elaborating on their thinking, and receiving feedback will lead to construction of their knowledge and understanding of a topic. However, these discussions require students to have authority and command over their own thinking to reconstruct ideas and concepts based on their previous knowledge and existing schemas."

"Students were able to explore various frames of reference, identify a personal story to share using digital media, and experience empathy throughout the process. Digital storytelling has a permanent place in my classroom."

"book love is the combination of having a choice in what you read, access to a variety of books, and a positive reading attitude. These ideas stem from learning about what children need to have a successful reading life. "

Some useful goal setting to highlight library programs, management, working with teachers and library reports / advocacy.

"How can you create this shared vision of a "culture of reading" with your colleagues? You can almost think of this as "design thinking" where your group is going to work through the processes of understanding the problem, ideating, developing a prototype, and evaluating & refining."

"When taking on the role of a curator for your students, there are a few things you can do to handpick resources that support every student in your class. In my book EdTech Essentials: The Top 10 Technology Strategies for All Learning Environments, one of the 10 strategies examines curation in the classroom and ways to curate resources that support all students."

"I've been using Canva to make all kinds of graphics and presentations almost since the day it was first available to the public. Over the years I've used to make greeting cards, videos, infographics, presentations, posters, timelines, comics, and many other graphics. And, at one point or another in the last five years, I've made videos about how to make all of those graphics. In not particular order, here's my complete list of Canva tutorials for teachers and students. "

"The change over the last 20 years in what and how students read has emphasised the importance not only of assessing students' capacity to read, but also what they have learned about the credibility of what they read. For example, how well are they able to distinguish fact from opinion, or detect biased information or malicious content such as phishing or fake news - skills essential in a world flooded by information from a variety of sources."

"But are listeners really reading? If we challenge what we think we know about reading, audiobooks can be seen as not just a cheat's shortcut for catching up on classics and bestsellers, but a new way to engage more people with stories."

"Here are some of the best options for teaching and learning programming. "

"Wixie is an educational platform that empowers students voice and boost their self-expression capabilities. It provides students with the tools to showcase their learning using various modalities including text, clip art, video and voice recordings. Students can work individually or in teams and in real-time. They can also easily share their work as a URL, an image, an eBook, or as a PDF. "

"Top 45 Most Beautiful Quotations About Libraries, Librarians, Cataloging, Classification, Catalogers, and Library and Information Science. "

"The digital revolution is changing the ways of the world. Not surprisingly it is also reshaping our perception of sustainability. Digital tools can help us offer fresh perspectives on our visions of the future."

"TheToyZone has mapped the most popular books for kids written by a local writer in every country (that is, the highest-rated among the 20 books with the most user ratings.) And we've even pictured the book covers."

Get The Research is a fairly small search engine that is focused on helping people find academic articles. A search on Get The Research will yield a small summary of the searched topic and a list of published academic articles. The articles in the search results will be a mix of open-access articles and paywalled articles. You can filter results to show only open-access articles.

"In some cases using an alternate search engine will give students a different list of results and or may give them the information they're seeking a little faster than Google does. Here's a short list of alternative search engines for students to try: Bing, Wolfram Alpha, DuckDuckGo and GetTheResearch"

"Refining Google search results according to site or domain can be a fantastic way for teachers and students to locate websites that they might not otherwise find but still contain useful information."

"Reading aloud daily to students is one of the best ways to increase reading resilience and motivation, and it also helps build community. Additionally, it allows educators to connect academically, emotionally, and socially with students."

"Merely inviting students to contribute verbally when you read aloud to them isn't enough. Take it to a higher level with analytical talk."