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YA Books and More: The Importance of Libraries and What We Do “The author went to Youtube looking for the top five videos about and for libraries and this is what they found. The three criteria were: 1. Had to be about school libraries 2. Definitely no cheesiness! It has to have importance attached to it 3. Well done format. ” And there were 4.
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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions Good questions are great learning tools. The 8 strategies discussed here offer useful ideas for classroom teachers.
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The Library Designed Like a Bookstore | Book Recommendations and Reviews | BOOK RIOT “The city of Almere, The Netherlands commissioned Concrete Architectural Associates to design their new public library. The result was a space that looks and feels like a high-end store but provides all the services of a modern library. The 16,000+ shelf-feet of books are arranged by lifestyle categories that would be at home in a bookstore (travel, health, etc), and all books are displayed cover out. This combination, Concrete says, fosters browsing and discovery, rather than the more conventional library system of finding a particular book’s cataloging number and then searching for it specifically in stack-like shelving. Seating is also built into the shelving areas, much like I remember from my favorite Borders, along with study and work areas. A cafe sits next to the computer workstations, and the children’s area has big, movable foam pieces for seating and play”
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Worlds of Learning | Serendipitous Making Laura Fleming has written a great post about her experience with makerspaces in school libraries. She embraced the idea of accidental discovery with curious students being given some interesting gadgets and let students come up with their own applications.
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Genre Survey spring 2015 | Piktochart Infographic Editor Genre Survey spring 2015 | Piktochart Infographic Editor The results from over 600 respondents to a survey about genrefication.
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Digital Literacy Explained by Common Craft (VIDEO) “Literacy comes in many forms. As the adoption of computers, mobile devices and the Internet has grown, digital literacy has become more important than ever. This video will help your audience understand the potential of digital literacy in our societies.”
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Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft (VIDEO) “This video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work. “
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May 2015: Literacies for the digital age: Civic and global literacy – DEN Blog Network “In this post Kathy Schrock provides the reader with some ideas on how to infuse civic and global skills into the curriculum.”
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WW1 – The Definitive Collection – Video Archives – British Pathé WW1 – The Definitive Collection. To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, British Pathé has launched this definitive collection of films from that conflict. British Pathé holds one of the finest and most comprehensive WW1 archives in the world. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, you can explore the entire archive using the search bar at the top of the page.
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World War One’s forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army – BBC News Anzac Day, 25 April, is probably Australia’s most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during World War One, and commemorates all the conflicts that followed. This year marks the centenary of that first bloody battle on the shores of Gallipoli and will be remembered across the country and in Turkey with special ceremonies and exhibitions. In the third feature in our series on Gallipoli, Saffron Howden for BBC News tells some of the stories of Indigenous Australian soldiers. line For nearly a century, a tin trunk in a bedroom in remote country New South Wales (NSW) held the official documents and medal testifying to Richard Norman Kirby’s exceptional wartime feats. The Australian soldier was celebrated quietly by his family – his portrait had pride of place in the lounge room of the family home – but the rest of the country knew.
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Causes and Consequences of World War I “Causes and Consequences of World War I”
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BBC – History – World Wars: Animated Map: The Fall of France (Dunkirk)
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Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding | Edutopia A interesting post about the place and value of formative assessment. It includes a long, printable list of assessment strategies will help identify new ways to check for understanding and verify what students have learned.
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Writing Strategies for Students With ADHD | Edutopia “Addressing the challenges unique to students with ADHD will help these students find ways to handle their condition effectively and even use it to their advantage. Their unique perspective can be channeled into creative writing, finding new solutions to problems, and most of all, finding, reaching, and even exceeding their goals and fulfilling their full potential.”
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How Public Libraries Balance Thorny Issues Raised by 3D Printers | MindShift “In an age where digital and technical literacy is stressed alongside traditional reading and writing, libraries are planning for the unexpected.”
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The Best Pinterest Ideas for Teachers We’ve HeardYou can find inspirational ideas on the Pinterest site. Listed in this post are a few good Pinterest ideas for teachers: best apps, websites, virtual fieldtrips and classroom ideas.
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6 Ways Google’s Updated Classroom Will Help Teachers | EdTech Magazine
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Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations – YouTube “Published on 28 Apr 2015. In this YouTube video John Green discusses the Paper Towns movie adaptation, the idea of faithful adaptations, and the lost art of the movie novelization”
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5 Tips for Classroom Management with Mobile Devices | Indiana Jen Classroom management is always challenging skill that good educators are constantly working to improve on with every class. Managing a classroom that is using technology requires the same approach and skill set as the non-technology based one. The traditional methods of classroom management easily translate to the technology rich ones with only slight modifications.
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10 Great Ways of using Microsoft OneNote in Education Podcast with interesting ideas.
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Writing the war: personal stories from WWI | State Library Victoria
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