PosterMyWall for great templates
Looking for a quick way to whip up a poster for your library? Try "posterMyWall". Lots of templates to choose from, great designs and fun fonts.
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10.9.17
13.6.17
Google Creates a Digital Archive of World Fashion
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/google-creates-a-digital-archive-of-world-fashion.html
Want to learn more about why you have certain items in your closet, or do you feel a desire to know more about the history of ripped jeans? Then this project is for you.
"Google Arts & Cultureannounces the"We wear culture" project. Promising to tell "the stories behind what we wear," the project "travelled to over 40 countries, collaborating with more than 180 cultural institutions and their world-renowned historians and curators to bring their textile and fashion collections to life." Covering 3,000 years of history, "We wear culture" uses video, historical images, short quotes and blurbs, and fashion photography to create a series of online gallery exhibits."
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12.6.17
5 Tips for New School Librarians (and those who aren't so new)
Classroom 2.0 Live archived Webinar
Lots of resources here for new and continuing TLs. Listen to this archived webinar via Blackboard/Collaborate or watch the Youtube version. (Originally offered on
Saturday June 10, 2017.)
"Whether you are a new school librarian getting a jump start on your new adventure or have been a school librarian for a few years (or more) and need a boost to restore that "new librarian smell" this is the webinar for you! Join Nikki D Robertson as she shares 5 Tips for New School Librarians (and those who aren't so new) based on her personal insight developed through 25 years as an educator and school librarian. Additionally, Nikki will share her very personal story of struggling with burnout and how she reignited her passion and found her purpose in the school library."
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8.6.17
Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6
Mentor Texts
, 2nd Ed
P
review the book on the Stenhouse site.
"In the second edition of this important book Lynne and Rose show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation.It includes brand-new "Your Turn Lessons," built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words."
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30.5.17
Set your Reading Goals with Goodreads Challenge Tracker
Like the Olympics, for Readers!
I
use LibraryThing as a way of tracking my reading - here's an article from Jessica Woodbury who takes it to another level with the GoodReads Challenge Tracker - let the games begin!
"But there is one thing on Goodreads that is a real and true obsession: my Goodreads Reading Challenge Tracker. [...]Over 2,000,000 users set up a reading challenge for 2017. Each year, you can set yourself a goal for the number of books you want to read that year. And because Goodreads never wants you to forget about that goal for a single second, it puts it on your home screen right below the books you're currently reading."
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11.4.17
Exploring the Core Competencies Through the Use of Picture Books
Teacher-Librarians using Core
Competencies
This document is a work in progress. It was created by a group of teacher-librarians from Surrey Schools, District #36 as part of professional development on the Curriculum Implementation Day on November 4, 2016. If you would like to add content, please email Lynne Powell, TL Helping Teacher, powell_l@surreyschools.ca and indicate core competency, title, author, summary and activity. You may also be interested in reviewing the core competencies slide share
she
created http://bit.ly/SD36TLCore=
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7.3.17
Words to study by
Come see the Writing on the Wall
Angela Monk's blogpost about the "Word Art" on the walls of her Library Learning Commons: (visit the link for the complete post and to see more pictures.)
"Three years ago when we were making the transition from Library to Learning Commons, I wanted to "redecorate" to reflect the change and describe what a Learning Commons was. What goes on in a Learning Commons? So, my Student Advisory Committee and I met and brainstormed verbs that described the activities that take place in our Library Learning Commons. Words like: READ, APPLY, EVALUATE, DISCOVER, IMAGINE, CREATE, COLLABORATE, SHARE etc."
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24.2.17
TumbleBook of the Day
A new title every day
http://daily.tumblebooks.com/
You can put the link (see above) on your library page, and if you have a place to insert html, here's the snippet of code that you can pasted in - see below. (If you use Destiny/Follett as your circ system, go to the homepage edit window and insert the bit of html below.) It pulls in a graphic from the TB site, and then makes that graphic clickable so the student is redirected to the BoTD. The BoTB is a short video of the book being read and and flipped through. Great for weak readers, ELL and really young kids! (Note: I can't post the html or Blogger tries to read it as code, so I've simply inserted a screen shot - you'll have to type it out by hand - sorry!)
You can put the link (see above) on your library page, and if you have a place to insert html, here's the snippet of code that you can pasted in - see below. (If you use Destiny/Follett as your circ system, go to the homepage edit window and insert the bit of html below.) It pulls in a graphic from the TB site, and then makes that graphic clickable so the student is redirected to the BoTD. The BoTB is a short video of the book being read and and flipped through. Great for weak readers, ELL and really young kids! (Note: I can't post the html or Blogger tries to read it as code, so I've simply inserted a screen shot - you'll have to type it out by hand - sorry!)
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22.2.17
How to make your collection last
"
Book" arranging made simple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo2bfGzz5ZE&feature=youtu.be
Here's a little metaphor to help you explain to others why you weed your collection: (or watch the video and think "book" every time she says "flower"!)
"If my arrangement is starting to look a little old and tired, I pull out the faded flowers, re-arrange the hardier blooms in the extra space, and then add one or two selected fresh flowers for a whole new look."
...meaning...
"If my collection is starting to look a little old and tired, I pull out the outdated resources, re-arrange the titles that still have appeal and relevance in the new space available, and add a dozen or two selected brand new titles for a whole new look."
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7.2.17
Libraries Are For Everyone (posters)
Pretty
sharp-looking images to celebrate libraries
A
creative team of librarians from the Saline County Library in Benton, Arkansas along with Rebecca McCorkindale developed these powerful posters for
National Library Legislative Day. (In lots of languages too - scroll down on the linked page to see them all.)
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2.2.17
Guided Reading: How to Make Kids Hate (or Love) to Read
F
our decisions that can kill
a love of books
"School has a way of messing up even the inherently joyful act of reading a good book. If I had to distill our job as elementary teachers to a few fundamentals, at the heart would be, "Make sure our students love to read." Here are four decisions that can determine whether Guided Reading nourishes a love of books or kills it."
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14.1.17
Read More: Here's a Simple System
Read 30+ Books Per Year
Okay, so it sounds quite simplistic - foolish almost, but James Clear's message couldn't be more straightforward: do you want to read more? Then make it happen by.....wait for it....reading more!
He offers a compelling anecdote, and presents his own strategy for reading over 30 books in a year - and he is on track to do it.
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7.1.17
Exciting YA Books to Read in 2017
So Many Books, So Little Time!
The world of YA is so striking that I regularly peruse publisher lists, bookstore shelves and public library YA sections to see what's new. Check out Iva-Marie's suggestions to whet your appetite.
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25.10.16
Halloween book displays and respectful representation.
Trick or Treat!
As October 31st draws near, the conversation often turns to the question of appropriate costumes, which includes issues of cultural appropriation and misrepresentation. This is especially true of “Aboriginal costumes.”
As you select books for your Halloween display, you might want to consider if those books have respectful images of Indigenous people.
Typically, these costumes take elements from various Nations (i.e. Native designs or symbols, head dresses, medicine bags, etc.) and weave them together in a mishmash meant to be “Indian.” However, regalia has specific and often spiritual significance. Wearing it in a haphazard or inappropriate way trivializes its meaning. In addition, because Indigenous culture has a history of being eroded and repressed in mainstream society, treating identity as a “costume” is simply another form of that erosion. Just as wearing a grab-bag of liturgical vestments from a variety of religions would be seen as bad taste, so too is wearing an “Aboriginal” costume.
-- Food for thought as we get ready for the Trick-or-treaters.
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20.10.16
National School Library Day Colloquium
See the info below for information on this event.
(Click on the image for an enlargement)
13.10.16
Core Compentencies in Children's Lit
Books to Support Core Competency Work
http://www5.sd71.bc.ca/
Thanks to Joan Pearce and Carol Walters from SD71 / Comox Valley for generating this of titles that line up nicely with the core competencies.
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28.9.16
Choice Chapter Book Read-Alouds for a New School Year
Read to them - they'll love these titles
School Library Journal offers some compelling read-aloud novels to begin the school year. You'll find short annotations and grade level recommendations for each of these titles.
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The Reading Rules We Would Never Follow as Adult Readers
L
et us choose the books we want to read
Great blog post on choice in reading:
"The number one thing all the students I have polled through the years want the most when it comes to reading. No matter how I phrase the question, this answer in all of its versions is always at the top. Sometimes pleading, sometimes demanding, sometimes just stated as a matter of fact; please let us choose the books we want to read...."
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26.9.16
The 7 Elements of Art - ebook
Get
creative in your classroom
KQED Art School's e-book offers opportunities to get creative in your classroom and help students build digital art and media portfolios
. This site is good for art teachers or senior art students wanting some pointers.
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YA titles for fans of "Peculiar Children"
Printable PDF poster
Promote associated titles with this poster. You could even make your own!
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