I have updated the mini Genre Display with Adventure as the theme for this week. There are a couple of 'Choose Your Own' titles included in this collection as well.
When you get a free moment - or two- check out the Weblink below. It gives a list of the 'Top 10 Blogs for Educators to follow' - and promotes them as "rock-solid and trusted education blogs that continue to be sources of inspiration for us all as educators from all walks of life."
https://www.wabisabilearning.com/blog/10-best-edtech-blogs
Hopefully there will something there to catch your interest.
Have a fantastic week - and carry on being AWESOME!
Another quick post as I have just found this blog and website which deals with digital media, thanks to a suggestion from another Library.
The blog has a lot of posts and ideas on teaching SEL, which I believe is part of the WellBeing program here, so it may have a few extra ideas for you. The educators side of the site has loads of information along with lesson plans and ideas for teaching and sharing tech type stuff.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators
Hope it is of some use for you all.
Welcome back to everyone for 2015. I hope you all had a nice relaxing break with lots of time spent with family and friends and are all refreshed and ready to go. And a big welcome to all our new staff as well - looking forward to getting to know you all.
Well, here we go - the start of 2015 and a whole new year of opportunities for books, and reading. How awesome is that?
For the new staff - and a reminder for some of our previous staff - below is a list of some of what we can help you with. I put this list up each year, so if you go back through the posts, it is all there. Anything else? If there is something that you think we can help with, just come and have a chat. We have learned to be fairly good at pulling rabbits out of hats and we also like a challenge.
- Looking for a particular book or resource? Come and talk to us. We can organise an Inter-library-Loan or help you find where to purchase it.
- Resources: Books, DVDs, Magazines and Newspapers, iPad sets, Digital Cameras, Video Recorders, Computer Mice sets, Data Projectors, Teacher Reference, Board games, Chess sets, Kits........
- IWB area and a bank of computers, as well as laptops that are available to be booked for classes. The Library laptop trolley is only to be used in the Library area, however.
- Help with research, proofreading of assignments, suggestions for books to read - we are your people.
- A place to display your amazing class work.
- Collation of websites for subjects/classes
- Booking sheets for: Library areas, F Block Laptops, Headphones, Ipads.
Students have a 2 week borrowing period while staff have a month. For most of the resources, we can adjust the loaning period for whatever is needed - at least till the end of term. However, this doesn't include the AV materials - that is a 1 week loan period only.
The big deal for us this year is the new way of using the DVDs. No more borrowing a disk and playing it in your laptop..we have gone more upmarket and digital this year. Thanks to Kate and her brilliant ideas, most of the DVDs are now on the server, and by following a few simple steps you can play it through your laptop without ever having to borrow a DVD again. The school also now subscribes to TV4Ed so if there is a TV program that has been screened that you think would be handy with your class, please see me and I'll do my best to find it and and download it for you. (All legal and allowed!)
Wishing you all a fantastic school year with lots of READING involved. Now carry on being awesome.
Just out of interest, I went through some of the statistics that are kept on the Blog to get an idea of usage.
I wasn't really suprised to find out that it doesn't get a lot of interest here, but what did intrigue me was when I realised that it does get well read by a number of overseas countries.
Apparently, for this week anyway, it has been used fairly well by China, France and Romania, with a smaller amount of usage by United States, Hong Kong and America.
At least it is being used, I guess.
I have updated the mini Genre Display with Adventure as the theme for this week. There are a couple of 'Choose Your Own' titles included in this collection as well.
