Giant Collection of Book Lists for Kids

Great books for kids

http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/books-for-kids

Erica writes about the joys and tribulations of being a stay-at-home mom. She also has put together some great lists of suggested readings for a range of ages.

"I love to help my fellow moms and dads find great books for kids and every Monday I share a list of our favorite reads.  If you are looking for picture books to read aloud, chapter books to enjoy together or books for your emerging reader, I have a book list that will help you."

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The Teacher's Cheat Sheet For Edmodo

A secure social network just for your classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-cheat-sheet-edmodo/

Jeff Dunn posted recently on Edudemic about Edmodo:

"There is a social network designed just for your classroom and it's called Edmodo. You may have heard of it during a conference or perhaps in the hallways. However, like any new technology it can be challenging to find the time to explore and adequately integrate it into your classroom."

His post features a one page "cheat sheet" for getting started on Edmodo.

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GrammarSongs by Melissa Corbett

Lessons set to music

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbi6oVP_8Yzk9qPDfz9etw/videos

Sometimes a song can make an idea stick!

"Corbett, a Grade 5 teacher uses songs to help her students learn and retain complicated grammar rules with ease. To date, she has written about 50 songs designed to help children remember everything from nouns to idioms to subordinating conjunctions. Corbett and her husband launched a website and a YouTube channel to share the lessons with others."

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Academy of Achievement

Interviews with people of influence

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/halls/art

One-on-one video interviews of more than 200 individuals are featured on the website alongside multi-media curriculum modules. The site also hosts a collection of biographies and historic photographs. (In 2011, the Academy of Achievement published a library of more than 500 exclusive audio and video symposium presentations from their annual Summits -- spanning 30 years from 1981 to 2011 -- on iTunes U. The collection is available to the public free of charge, under the Creative Commons License.)

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Make Magazine

Join the "maker" movement

http://makezine.com/video/

"Make is a magazine for those who love to make things - technological and otherwise. While the site doesn't replace the magazine, there are lots of great ideas to explore online and interesting projects to share with students. Browse their extensive collection of how-to and project videos.

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Gooru | A Free Search Engine for Learning

Quickly find topic-relevant resources

http://www.goorulearning.org/#discover

"Gooru is an attempt to bring education content, experts and community together to provide personalized learning experiences for students. This free "search engine for learning" aims to help teachers find topic-relevant, standards-aligned resources and organizes them into teachable and sharable "collections" — all in one place.

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Bugscope: use an electron microscope over the web

Explore the microscopic world of insects

http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/

"The Bugscope project provides free interactive access to a scanning electron microscope (SEM) so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. This educational outreach program from the Beckman Institute's Imaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois supports K-16 classrooms worldwide.

"Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves—the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists—all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection.

Previous sessions are archived so visitors to the site can search the archives for images and chat records matching their interests.

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THE INSTRUMENTALS - video clips about intruments

Collective Cadenza's intrument series

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFiAuQCUuRyozcxMrulUQ55nCsoC3KN0O

A video series that tells stories about instruments, featuring virtuoso soloists.

The guitar, the drums, the accordion and the bass.

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Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre - Educational Materials

SLCC Cultural Centre

A link to the SLCC website - resources for teachers:

http://slcc.ca/learn/classroom-resources/

The Cultural Journey audio tour:

http://slcc.ca/experience/cultural-journey/

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K-12 School Library Printables

Customizable posters, fliers and bookmarks

Check out this ProQuest offer. See below for a series of posters (Middle School, High School) as well as templates for fliers and bookmarks that can be customized with your school name and URL. Open the PDF of your choice, type into the customizable fields and print (or print to the desktop). If you have a colour printer, you can easily dress up your library! A trip to Kinko's with the files saved on a memory stick will let you print in a variety of sizes and paper types.

• Bookmarks

Library Dogs New!

• Poster & Fliers

• Middle School

• Jumpstart Your Homework Poster | Customizable (PDF)
• Jumpstart Your Homework Flier | Customizable (PDF)
• What Do You Need to Know Today Poster | Customizable (PDF)
• What Do You Need to Know Today Flier | Customizable (PDF)
• The Dog Didn't Eat Your Homework Poster | Customizable (PDF)
• The Dog Didn't Eat Your Homework Flier | Customizable (PDF)

• High School

• I'd Rather Be Shopping Poster | Customizable (PDF)
• I'd Rather Be Shopping Flier | Customizable (PDF)
• I'd Rather Be Cruising Poster | Customizable (PDF)
• I'd Rather Be Cruising Flier | Customizable (PDF)
• I'd Rather Be With My Friends Poster | Customizable (PDF)
• I'd Rather Be With My Friends Flier | Customizable (PDF)
  

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Videos About iPads In The Classroom

From tutorials to recommended apps

http://www.edudemic.com/ipads-in-the-classroom-videos/

Jeff Dunn has sifted through Youtube and lined up a batch of helpful videos for teacher iPad users. Each video has a short description so you can decide which ones to watch first!

From tutorials to recommending apps, there are a bunch of videos designed to help teachers, students, and admins alike. What follows below are the actual videos along with a brief description. Hopefully they'll help you successfully integrate iPads into education or perhaps just learn a bit more about what Steve Jobs dubbed the "magical" device. Enjoy!

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Teacher Librarians on the PBL team

The school librarian ia a key player!

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/school-librarians-part-pbl-team-dream-suzie-boss

Suzie Boss blogs about the need to include the Teacher-Librarian in project-based learning teams:

"Visit schools where project-based learning (PBL) is taking hold and you are almost certain to see teachers collaborating. .... A key player to invite into these collaborative conversations is the school librarian or library media specialist. Their understanding of information literacy and digital citizenship can make a difference across the arc of projects. What's more, librarians may know about students' out-of-class interests through their reading choices or online interests. Take advantage of their insights to plan more engaging projects.

More PBL posts here: http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/beat/project-based-learning

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Engineering is Elementary | Developed by the Museum of Science, Boston

Engaging engineering challenges

http://www.eie.org/

"Engineering is Elementary increases students' interest in and confidence about engineering. EiE's 20 units present fun, engaging engineering challenges that allow students to apply science knowledge. We put the "E" in STEM education."

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Tumble Videos

Looking for non-fiction video?

Search your Tumblebook collection to find selected video clips on a range of non-fiction topics. You can get the URL by choosing "Show Toolbar" once the movie loads. Most clips are quite short, but would make a nice intro to a topic in class.

The iPad version of the picture books are also short videos. When you first visit the TB site, choose "Mobile" from the upper right and hit go. Then you'll get all the iPad-ready (movies) books that you could project and "play".

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Awful Library Books - A look at weeding

"Hoarding is not collection development"

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

Daily posts feature questionable titles found in actual (public) libraries. Good for a head shake and a sometimes horrified chuckle.

"Librarians, bibliophiles, and lovers of nostalgia are all welcome here. Your librarians for this site are Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner. We are public librarians in Michigan. We have both been holding court at various reference desks for over ten years and love talking about library collections and library service. We also regularly present and consult on various library topics."

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/why-weed/

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Six-Word Memoirs - SMITH Magazine

It's all about word choice

http://www.smithteens.com/

Look at some examples of this writing form.

"Writing in Six Words is a simple, creative way to get to the essence of anything—from the breaking news of the day to your own life and the way you live it. ...More than 700,000 short stories have been shared on Six-Word Memoirs and its younger cousin, SMITH Teens. In classrooms and boardrooms, churches and synagogues, veterans' groups and across the dinner table, Six-Word Memoirs have become a powerful tool to catalyze conversation, spark imagination or break the ice.

Main site: http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/index.php

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Take the Ed Tech Challenge

A technology integration course for educators

http://www.edtechchallenge.com/

"This a self-paced, scaffolded technology integration course for educators. This course was the collaborative effort of school districts all over the nation- and the content for this course was created by technology integrators, classroom teachers, Google Apps Certified Trainers and Teachers, and ISTE award winners. All of the suggestions we give are grounded in practice- they are techniques we actually use and we know work! We've flipped this course so that you can learn when you have time, and we've created templates, videos, and resources so that you can start using those tools right away."

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Katzie Learning Commons: Building Fun!

Maker Spaces in your library?

http://www.katzielc.blogspot.ca/2013/11/lego.html

Lynne (my wife) shared this activity on her library blog after reading "Building Our House" with the Gr 3s. She had bought a number of base plates, doors, windows and regular blocks of "Briktek " (which works with Lego) from Scholar's Choice and hopes to incorporate regular building sessions when she can.

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Media Literacy 101 | MediaSmarts

Media & Digital Literacy Fundamentals

http://mediasmarts.ca/media-literacy-101

MediaSmarts explore digital literacy and media literacy and the underlying aspects and principles for each of these skill sets.  To help teachers introduce key concepts of media literacy to elementary students, MediaSmarts has partnered with Concerned Children's Advertisers to develop a suite of videos on each of the key concepts. Each video is accompanied by a lesson plan that reiterates the main ideas from the videos and helps students expand and apply what they've learned.

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Numberphile - Videos about Numbers and Stuff

Love numbers?

http://www.numberphile.com/text_index.html

Brady Harren posts videos that explain a range of number concepts and math ideas!

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