The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their picks for Best Apps for Teaching & Learning 2019. “Apps recognized foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. “
“With Figment AR you can “turn your world into an augmented funhouse” as the developers share on in the description on the App Store. This fun app lets you create scenes filled with imaginative objects out of the world around you. Add interactive animals, objects and emojis to make your scene come to life. Students can create “portals” to step into another dimension while adding environmental effects like rain, fireworks, snow and more.”
Platform: iOS & Android Cost: FREE! Grades: All
This post from the Immersive Technology in Education blog has some screenshots and ideas for using the app in your classroom. And this article from Mr. P’s ICT blog describes how to use the app as a storytelling prompt to help students with their writing techniques!
Library friends! Fall will be here soon and CMLE wants to celebrate with you!
Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 26th from 4-7pm! We will be in the Bremer Community Room at the St. Cloud Public Library and will have so many things to share with you! This includes:
Information on how to use one of our VR kits for your school
Details about our scholarship and mini grant programs
Advocacy information you can share far and wide
Raffle for books, CMLE merch, and other fun prizes
CMLE members, we love spending time with you! We are already planning several activities and events for the year ahead and want to share our plans with you. (Including our Fall Welcome Back event on Sept. 26th!) Mark your calendars! We hope you can join us!
September:
Meet us at Chris Albani: Public reading and talk: Stories of Struggle, Stories of Hope: Art, Politics and Human Rights Tuesday, September 17 at 7:00 p.m. Gorecki Family Theater, Benedicta Arts Center, CSB (free, ticketed event).
CMLE Fall Member Welcome Back Event! Thursday, September 26th from 4-7pm at the Bremer Community Meeting Room at the St. Cloud Public Library. Enjoy raffle prizes, light refreshments, and learn how to bring CMLE VR kits to your school!
Exciting news from one of our public library members! There are no more overdue fines for children or young adult materials AND the Read Down Your Fines program is now available for all ages!
“Yes, you read that correctly! Effective immediately, Great River Regional Library will not collect overdue fines on materials for children and young adults.
Overdue children’s and young adult materials (including books, DVDs, CDs and more) will no longer accrue daily late fees.
We still want you to bring items back, so overdue notices will still be sent after 10 days as a reminder. Items can be renewed twice … as long as nobody else is waiting.
Read Down Your Fines for both children and adults is available any time at your local library!”
It’s that time again, CMLE members and library community! We take a short break from sending our weekly newsletter over the summer since we know so many of you are in schools (plus, we really appreciate being able to use the time to focus on other projects!!)
Of course, we’ll still be available by emailing admin@cmle.org. We’ll continue to put up articles of interest on our blog, and will be active on social media.
And we’ll continue to release new podcast episodes!! Our last episode of Season Five of Linking Our Libraries will be on June 27th, with a special Bonus Episode on July 4th.
Send us an email, drop by our office, join us for a podcast episode! Come camping with us! We hope you all have a rejuvenating summer filled with lots of good books!
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