Buckets and Fires by Caitlin Moore
"Meaningful work both enlarges students' knowledge stores and sparks their desire to wield that knowledge."
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17.9.10
Algebra Youtube Videos
"A California high-school math teacher is hoping to reach additional students by posting more than 500 of his videotaped classroom lessons on YouTube. Robb also gives his students the opportunity to preview his lessons on YouTube through computers or iPod Touch devices in the classroom."
Forward this link to Algebra and Calculus teachers in your school.
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BCTLA conference info
2010 BCTLA Conference
October 21-22, 2010
The Central Okanagan Teacher Librarians' Association (COTLA) is proud to be sponsoring the 2010 British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association (BCTLA) conference, October 21-22. The conference will be hosted at Kelowna Secondary School (1079 Raymer Avenue, Kelowna). In addition to a comprehensive conference itinerary and social events, there will be three keynote addresses:
* Dr. Jamie McKenzie will outline the exciting new roles of the 21st centure teacher-librarian and talk about the stance, attitude and strategies required to turn challenge into opportunity
* Well known television personality, Dr. Art Hister, will talk about taking care of your health so that you can live with more energy, more happiness, and less stress, and
* The "Disruptive Innovators" (Donna DesRoches and Carlene Walter) will discuss how social media has redefined the role or the teacher-librarian.
With 31 distinct sessions covering everything from 21st century libraries and technologies, to the art of writing and the culture of reading, the conference promises to be of interest to a wide range of teaching professionals. For more information on the conference, its sessions, and registration procedures, visit the conference site at www.cotla.sd23.bc.ca .
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16.9.10
Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope
CBC Archival Footage and Audio files of Terry Fox and his accomplishments.
12 television clips 8 radio clips
"The night before his right leg was amputated, Terry Fox read about an amputee who ran the New York City Marathon. The article inspired Terry's Marathon of Hope, an incredible cross-Canada run on an artificial leg to raise money for cancer research. Terry was forced to end his run when his cancer returned. He died on June 28, 1981, but his legacy lives on in the annual Terry Fox Run."
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Ancient civilizations Links
Ancient Civilization Resources for your teachers and students to explore.
Eyewitness to History
First person accounts of roles and historical persons from antiquity to the present.
Text, (and for recent historical periods: Pictures, Voices, Film.)
Hyperhistory
Over 2000 files covering 3000 years of world history
Events and People are placed on a clickable timeline.
The Educational Communications Board
(ECB) is committed to ensuring that public radio and television programs and services are made available throughout Wisconsin. Many good links.
Explore Ancient Rome via GoogleEarth
Free Digital Maps of the Ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt
"A collection of free digital maps for educational use."
Collections of Links for China, Egypt, India. (Many ads on site)
Exploring Ancient World Cultures (advanced)
funded by grants from the University of Evansville.
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21st Century Literacies (NoodleTools)
NoodleTools has a great collection of teacher resources to help students represent their learning in a variety of ways. (See list below. Links at the Noodletools site. )
Basic Language Literacy
Online Reading Strategies (A Think Aloud)
Online Reading Strategies (PowerPoint)
Phonetic and Pictorial Alphabets
New Meanings
Paragraph Art
Argument and Persuasion
Constructing an Argument
Resources for Young Writers
Literary Club
Bone From a Dry Sea (from a factual quiz to thinking activity)
Socratic Seminar Rubric (.pdf)
Visual Literacy
Reading Photographs: Handout
Visual Literacy Project: Plan | Brainstorming
Spatial Literacy
Three Information Literacy Questions to Ask About a Map: Handout
Historical Literacy
Primary Sources
Reading the Context: Martin Luther King
Turn of the Century Child (An American Memory Fellows Project)
Cultural Literacy
Ethnography Project
Information Literacy
Building Blocks of Research
Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need
Choosing Invisible Web Databases
Teaching the Commons (Powerpoint)
The Ethical Researcher
Who knows what...and how do I know it?: Handout
Deconstructing a Web Site: Advocacy or Education?
Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
Reading Media Photographs
You are Shocked
Libraries and the First Amendment
Scientific Literacy
Genetics #1, #2
Global Warming: Science and Society
Mathematical Literacy
Job Search: Mathematician
Finding and Using Data
Students' Financial Literacy Eroding (San Francisco Chronicle)
Typical "Canadian" foods: in French
Radio and TV clips for your immersion or FSL classes.
Mets typiques du Canada (Période : 1967 - 2004)
"D'inspiration française, britannique, américaine ou amérindienne, la cuisine typique du Canada s'adapte aux saisons. Chaque région compte ses recettes uniques, concoctées avec des produits locaux. De la tourtière au pain banique, du sucre d'érable à la poutine, le folklore culinaire local charme bien des gourmands."
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15.9.10
Creating an online listening corner
The OSU "Curriculum Materials" website is full of resources for teachers interested in creating an online listening corner. The first part of the page describes how to create a class webpage, and down below are many links to online audio resources.
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14.9.10
2010 Veterans' Week Learning Resources
2010 Veterans' Week Learning Resources
Ages 5-11 and 12-18
The Canada Remembers Program of Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) encourages youth to take an active part in remembrance learning, activities and events within their schools and communities. All VAC learning resources are free of charge, and available in both official languages.
13.9.10
A DVD to build fluency for elementary students
Fluency Rubric (DVD)
by Debbie Diller
"It may be a little tricky explaining what fluency is to a group of third-graders; but they can recognize it when they hear it. Working with teacher Lisa Gregory's students in their Houston, Texas, classroom, Debbie introduces the concept of fluency and gives them a rubric so they can self-assess and score their fluency on a four-step scale. To help students become conscious of what fluent and not-so fluent readers sound like, Debbie reads passages, modeling the four levels of fluency contained in the rubric."
See an exerpt from the DVD here:
Viewing Guide (PDF)
Digital Storytelling Book - Preview the entire book online
Make Me a Story
Teaching Writing Through Digital Storytelling
by Lisa Miller
"When teachers and students first learn about digital stories, they often focus on the bells and whistles: images, music, sound effects, and so on. To Lisa Miller, a good digital story -- like any good story--is all about the writing. In Make Me a Story, Lisa shows how to use digital stories to lead students through all phases of the writing process, from planning to revising and editing."
Preview the Book online
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Review of Hunger Games Trilogy
A thoughtful review of "Mockingjay" and the rest of the Hunger Games series from the New York Times Sunday Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/books/review/Roiphe-t.html
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Pronouncing Dictionary of Author's Names
Ever come across an author's name you can't pronouce? Or have to give a booktalk and you're not sure how to say the author's last name? Gayle Hodur has assembled a list with phonetic spellings to solve your problem!
Here's an example:
Kjelgaard, Jim (author of Big Red)
Pronounced KYEL-gard (first syllable is like "yell" preceeded by a hard k; second is like the first part of "garden")
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9.9.10
Article of the week activity: DVD clip
Article of the Week (DVD) by Kelly Gallagher
Preview clip:
"Each week, students read a short article that informs them about the world. Students highlight passages and words they don't understand, consider the author's purpose and intended audience, and work through any confusion. The class then discusses how the structure and craft of the article informs reader comprehension and how they can implement these elements into their own writing."
See Kelly's website for sample articles he has used:
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Use Letterwriter to help create article handouts:
Using the Newspaper in Class
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New online journal
The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is a new online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal (http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya) launching November 2010.
"The purpose of Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is to enhance the development of theory, research, and practices to support young adult library services. ...The journal also includes literary and cultural analysis of classic and contemporary writing for young adults."
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7.9.10
Amazing Stories From Canada's Past - contest
Last year, Kayak magazine asked students from across Canada to send in stories and illustrations that explored aspects of Canada's past. Out of the 350 entries, Kayak has compiled an "e-mag", of the top 25 entries.
See the virtual publication at the link below.
This year, Kayak is running the contest again. Deadline is Oct 8th, 2010.
First prize is $1000 in RESP and a trip to Ottawa.
For more info:
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Climate Kids - NASA site
"Targeting students in grades 4–6, this kid-friendly site from NASA demystifies global climate change. The Green Careers section profiles real people working to slow climate change."
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Fun way to introduce the library: Scaredy Squirrel
This is a fun project that could be done using iMovie and some pictures taken in the library.
See Mary's explanantion and Youtube link below:
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"This year I wanted to try a fresh approach to the rules and procedures portion of library orientation.
Some students and I made a 5 minute multimedia presentation using Photo Story 3, a free download from Microsoft.
Scaredy Squirrel is too scared to come into the library. Maybe we can convince him that there are procedures that will keep the library safe and inviting!"
View it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGBS3ogOwZw
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Mary D'Eliso
Librarian / Teacher- University Elementary School
Bloomington, Indiana- mdeliso@mccsc.edu
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Facebook/Farcebook Character assignment
One way to make a character profile assignment more fun is to "piggyback" on the interest in Social Networking sites. Some teachers have used Facebook or MySpace to develop real, live pages, but this may seem a little daunting.
Read-Write-Think has a great little template that will allow students to create a virtual Facebook page for a book character. There is no way to save the final project apart from printing, or "print as pdf", but with a little pre-thinking and planning, the final product can be done at a single sitting.
Check it out at:
Simply click on the "Get Started" button.
A designer's take on school libraries
"In 2001, the Association of Librarians signed on to a new project to help define the needs and solutions for the libraries of the future. They thought that the word "library" was too old-fashioned and wanted something more snappy to compete with the “media lab” down the hall. They said that librarians of the future weren't going to “shush” their students, which inspired the designer of their new logo--Pentagram's Michael Bierut--to place an exclamation mark inside the word: The L!brary Initative was born."
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