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22.4.16

AMS Math Blog

Want to read more about math?
        This blog from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) exudes a love of math. Readers can view the archives by month, (back to April 2013), or browse by category: ie. Applied Math, Biomath, K-12 Math, History of Mathematics, and much more. (Entries often point to many interesting mathematical resources online.)

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Scholastic Teacher Magazine website

Educational material for your class.
The Scholastic's  "Teacher" magazine for K-8 educators has a great website that offers many of the features of the print magazine. Readers can browse the site for teaching ideas, inspiring stories, and classroom motivation. There are also links to many other Resources & Tools such as lesson plans, videos, tools, etc. (Check out the archive as well.)

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20.4.16

AASL Toolkits for TLs

AASL Toolkits
These toolkits are downloadable PDFs with links to documents,  strategies, practical tips and tools, posters, key messages, inspirational stories, and much more to help school librarians promote their programs and advocate for their work.

Educate future principals and teachers about the significant role that quality library programs can play in student learning.  

Learn how TLs transform teaching and learning through their library programs. 

Build or update plans for stakeholder support and true advocacy.

Implement AASL's learning standards (Standards for the 21st Century Learner) and program guidelines (Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs). 

Designed to assist the school librarian who has encountered an immediate threat to their position and/or program.  

Help school librarians build parent support for their programs.

Resources to support the school librarian's role in reading.
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14.4.16

Inuit Culture, Living History - NFB/blog

The Unikkausivut collection and educator's guide
"The Unikkausivut collection and educator's guide (PDF) are intended not only to help non-Inuit students visualize themes of change and continuity in the Canadian Arctic, but also to help those who live in the North better understand the diversity in Inuit practices and narratives.

"This educational guide has been designed to introduce instructors to background information about Inuit life, both past and present. (It is available in English and in French. )

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Get your reluctant readers engaged with fiction

"Sidestreets" Resource guide PDF
Are you looking for new ways to get your reluctant readers engaged with fiction? The "Sidestreets" Resource PDF guide offers a number of ways to engage with text. These work especially well with the many shorter hi-low titles that are on the market at the moment.

Take a look at this sample (#19):
"Try this activity to get students working with a form of writing many of them encounter every day — script-writing! Have students choose a scene from the novel and write it as a script for a movie, TV show or documentary. Encourage them to think about how some of their favourite books have been made into movies, like The Fault in Our Stars or the Hunger Games series."

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Pairing Fiction and Nonfiction

For the Love of Reading
NoveList's "SchoolKidLit" blog is encouraging TLs to matchup FIC and Nonfic. Extending reading from one to the other is a great way to broaden students' reading experience. Create your own "pairing poster" using Canva, Word or PPT.

"A big part of what we do as librarians is foster a love of reading. This means, in part, finding the right book for each individual reader. While we know that there are students who want to read nonfiction, all too often these students are pointed to fiction selections for classroom units. By aligning fiction and nonfiction reading choices, you can help students (and teachers) find books that meet subject  requirements and engage both fiction and nonfiction readers."

Also - in NoveList (EBSCO) try this search:
"NF Fiction-Nonfiction AND ND Picture Book Extenders"
for great read-alouds and classroom activities.

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7.4.16

Generate surprisingly insightful poems

Uncover your inner poet!
This is a webarchive of a K12 site with lots of poetry-building ideas. You can use the interactive forms, fill in the blanks and generate surprisingly insightful poems, or share the format and have kids use pen and paper. Either way, there are lots to choose from!

Some forms include:
  • Emotional Animal
  • Love That Poem
  • Spine Poem
  • Life Lessons
  • I am an Animal
(And the list goes on....)
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"Le français, votre atout"

The "footprint" of French language learning in the world
Le français, quoi faire? -> On peut.... a) apprendre le français ou en français, b) l'utiliser dans un contexte professionnel et c) s'enrichir des cultures françaises et francophones.

Here are 3 info-graphic posters from "Le fil du bilingue" that explain the "footprint" of French language learning in the world.

- version française (formats png et pdf)
- version anglaise (formats png et pdf)
- version espagnole (formats png et pdf)

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6.4.16

APTNDigitalNations - YouTube Channel

Short clips on FNMI customs and practices



Learn more about First Nations, Métis and Inuit customs and practices via these short video clips from APTN Digital Nations.

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Resources to Promote Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship

Cybersafety Sites to explore
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31.3.16

Genre-fication links from BCTLA Webinar #2

Useful websites from "Go, Go, Genrefication"
Genrefication 101

NLNZ – Services to Schools

Beyond the Shelves – a genrefying planning document

Mrs. ReaderPants - Genrefication tab

PSLA Session notes on Genrefication

Some YA genre categories to use.

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"What's my Line?"

Best Opening Lines in Young Adult Books


One way to promote new (or worthy) novels is to feature them with their first lines - on a bookmark, poster, index card, whatever. How can anyone resist a curious hook of a sentence? (Bighugelabs will let you make a "trading card" or a "name badge" that can be easily adapted.)

"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

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29.3.16

Picture books and lesson ideas - from NoveList

Unusual Friends - and books about them

"What does it mean to have and to be a best friend? What do you have in common? Why do you like each other so much? What do you do together? Explore these questions when you share these quirky stories that expand the definition of friendship and explore the loyal bond between imaginary friends and even inanimate objects that stick up for each other."

To see the complete article in NoveList, search: UI 443480
 
Looking for more articles like this?  
Search: "Desperate Librarians" and click on the Lists & Articles tab

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Penguin Teacher’s Guide: You Can Do a Graphic Novel (PDF)

Companion guide to Barbara Slate's instructional book  
"This Teacher's Guide is a companion piece to the instructional book, "You Can Do a Graphic Novel". It offers a suggested unit that spans six classroom periods. The unit introduces students to the art of the graphic novel. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of the creative process, offered a number of tips for how to get the creative juices flowing, and then instructed on how to make up a story, how to fashion characters and plot, how to get writing, and finally how to layout the pages of a graphic novel."  

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A "poet-tree" for National Poetry Month

Poetry grows on trees!

Discover how to create a participatory poet-tree display in your library with any space or budget parameters you may have. Read Lindsey Dunn's article for ideas, pictures and her version!
Two ways to find the complete article:
Or search: UI 443561 in NoveList (EBSCO)


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Book Page Flowers - Recycling project for TLs

"A Rose by Any Other Name Would Read as Sweet..."


Feeling crafty? Have you just weeded some MUSTY titles that you are now looking to discard? Mrs. Lodge's Library page offers a clever way to create bookish roses for displays, gifts or just plain fun. Click on the link above for a step-by-step walk through with pictures.

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4.3.16

AL Live: "Going Beyond Google"

The value of libraries and librarians
"It's a question librarians are asked constantly: Why do people need us when they have Google and other public search tools? In this month's episode of AL Live, "Going Beyond Google", we'll talk about our value as experts, what it means and how we can effectively convey it to the public."

The panel:
  • Joanna Burkhardt, Professor and Head Librarian at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Branch Libraries in Providence and Narragansett
  • Nikki Krysak, Head of Instructional Services, Norwich University in Vermont
  • John McCullough, Product Manager, Discovery, OCLC
  • Beth McDonough, Research and Instruction Librarian, Western Carolina University
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1.3.16

Maker Project Showcase - YouTube

Turning your maker project ideas into realities
"Recorded on February 23, 2016, Megan Blakemore, a celebrated children's author and elementary librarian from South Portland, Maine and Derrick Mason from the Idea Factory at Pueblo City-County District Library in Colorado share their experiences turning maker project ideas into realities and answer your burning questions about SLJ's upcoming Maker Workshop. Find out what it's like to complete and successfully implement a truly amazing maker project!"

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BC Agriculture in the Classroom - Resources

Find out about the foods we eat

"BC Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation is a non-profit organization that works with educators to bring BC's agriculture to their students. "

On the site you'll find:
  • Primary Resources
  • Intermediate / Middle Resources
  • Secondary Resources
  • Videos
  • Posters
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TeenLit Connection: Time Travel

Mind Bending: Time Travel Fiction for Teens
NoveList contributor Jen Hatch has created an annotated list of new young adult time travel books. (Click here to see the list on NoveList.)  Fans of YA time travel fiction can look forward to a large number of buzz-worthy books set to be published. As a bonus, she also lists some previously published titles worth exploring.

(For NoveList access from home, or outside the district, you will need to use your school's ID and PW)
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