teacher-librarians

clever and creative website for book fair at a middle school - with book trailers and lots of web2.0 tools used

by Kathy Adams, Lee County, Florida

in Glogster...fabulous! from Joyce Valenza--she says a prototype!

Fabulous!!! Great idea, too!

This is a nice way to search for PBS videos like Word Girl, Word World and Super Why. Search by age level or category.

Includes lots of booklists and ideas for reading

slidecast embedded

"search engine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. It's design is very attractive and easy to use. The key reason I like it, though, is because when you want to use one of their photos, it automatically shows whatever permissions are required."

via Stephen's Lighthouse - good principles for webpage design, too! Get your "customers'" attention!

/ The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

"a collection of 140-character pearls of wisdom from educators using the social networking service, Twitter. From behaviour management to interaction with colleagues, you will find practical advice and ideas contributed by classroom practitioners!" 2009 by Doug Belshaw

"Collect all kinds of images, videos from over 30 video sites, slideshare presentations, scribd documents, pdfs, links, rss feeds and much more."

"WebClip lets you clip videos, photos, text and links that most interests you. Rather than bookmarking the web page (of course you can do that too), you save parts of pages that you like. Having all the clips in one location, able to play, view, read and share them with your friends via social networking channels, are some of the advantages of webclip. "

cool tools for schools, too!

check out some of these new tools and toys!

I hope this Blog assists teachers in recommending books with characters with whom our students can relate. I also hope this Blog assists in recommending books with multiple realities of the D/deaf human experience. While my primary focus is adolescent and Young Adult chapter books, I will add information about children's literature and adult 'cross-over' texts from time to time. Enjoy, Sharon Pajka-West, Ph.D.

Renaissance Learning: * The top 20 books most widely read in grades 1-12, overall and by gender * The top 20 books most widely read by low- and high-achieving students * The top 10 nonfiction books and books for use across the curriculum Downloadable report (pdf)

How to retool yourself--a roadmap of at least 15 FREE ways for school librarians (and their classroom teacher colleagues) to develop professionally by Joyce Valenza Great ideas for all of us!