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Great blog post with an interesting debate. Should teachers download videos to show in their classrooms when YouTube is blocked at their schools even though they are violating copyright?

Launched by Common Sense Media, the nonprofit known by parents, teachers and librarians for its high quality, nonpartisan reviews and its popular Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum, Graphite is the go-to platform for helping teachers make sense of an exponentially evolving number of digital learning tools. The site is not only free, it's also ad-free. The goal is to objectively and transparently review and rate educational technologies and to guide busy teachers to the best websites, games, apps and digital curricula that will augment their teaching and to relieve the time-consuming burden of searching, sorting and sifting.

LMSs use this to create bingo cards for book fair. They use book titles from the Scholastic brochure given to students. Each homeroom teacher (in elem. I would give to each teacher) gets a bingo card. I read 2 or 3 titles each day of book fair over the morning announcements. Teacher/class with winning card get a book for the classroom and a doughnut for breakfast.

Instructure Canvas is a free learning management system that teachers can use to record grades, post assignments, and interact with their students. Students can use Instructure Canvas to communicate with each other and collaborate on assignments. Instructure Canvas integrates Facebooks, Google Docs, and email systems outside of Instructure. Another neat feature of Instructure Canvas is that students can subscribe to RSS, email, and cell phone alerts to stay abreast of any new content their teachers post.

Free resources every Monday for every grade level of teacher. Great for teacher collaboration.

Classtools.net is a site that offers teachers creative and organizational tools. Teachers can access the website to create quizzes, diagrams and educational games, which can then be hosted on their own site or blog. The Classtools.net site offers a list of templates to choose from, such as Arcade Game Generator, Random Name Picker, Fishbone, Lights Out, Hamburger and Jigsaw Diagram.

The teacher selects a story start or inserts his or her own first chapter, and the students use their skills, knowledge and creativity to forward the piece. One chapter at a time, the students write, read, and then vote on the submissions they like the most. The winning submission is added to the piece and the process continues. The teacher determines the total number of chapters to be completed, and when the competition is over a new book is ready to be published.

Today's reality is that readers and information seekers are having increasingly less need to visit a physical library to meet their basic information needs. Digital information sources, readily accessed from classroom, home or mobile computing devices, are the choice of many learners and teachers. The "Net Generation" student increasingly prefers the visual and the virtual rather than the printed text. Why, many educators are asking, does a school need a physical library when seemingly all resources can be obtained using an inexpensive netbook and a wireless network connection? How can these large physical spaces in our schools be re-purposed for greater educational impact? Doug Johnosn

This is a great copyright/fair use chart for teachers

Great info here about primary sources.

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS.

teacher resources for classroom video

Search LOC's lesson and resource database by CCSS.

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Explains who owns the work we create on the job.

TL Virtual Cafe is an online community for teacher-librarians to connect and learn from each other. TL Virtual Cafe hosts numerous webinars and online discussions including a monthly show called TL News Night. TL News Night features conversations with experts from state library associations, an overview of "this month in libraries," and a tip, tool, or title of the month.