Now that it is mid-year for schools and mid-winter for the rest of us, its a great time to communicate with your staff, faculty, students, families, and stakeholders about all your successes and new programs so far this year. Here is a wonderful resource to help you think through and start a newsletter or freshen up an existing one. Tips like: knowing your audience, making the newsletter attractive, keeping it fun, and giving usable tools to your audience will help you present an attractive and professional communication piece that everyone will enjoy reading.
Who doesn’t love free money?? With 15 different grants to choose from, our CMLE Grants page is a wonderful resource to get extra money for an innovative project or idea for your library, school, or classroom. Here are just a few. Make sure to check out the rest on our page!
AASL Innovative Reading Grant: Funding for programs for children which motivates and encourages reading, especially with struggling readers.
Adopt-a-classroom: Donors partner with teachers for funding critical resources and needs for the classroom.
Digital Wish Grants: Submit a technology-based lesson plan for a chance to win over 50 different technology grants.
DonorsChoose.org: Post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. “Citizen philanthropists” can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires them.
Plus several more to check out here. There are grants for all library and school types on our page.
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If your students, staff, and teachers think of your school media center as their third place, that is a very cool thing. But, what does it mean?
Quite simply, home is your first place, work or school is your second place, and your third place is where you go to “hang out” with friends, collaborate with your peers, where you meet for quiet discussion or friendly debate. The tricky bit is….can a school media center be a third place when it is also part of a second place. The answer is yes! The following article tells you how, with examples and additional readings too. Read the full article here.
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If you’re using “123456” or “password” for your password, Gizmodo has some news for you: you need to change your password! Their recent post pulled the 25 most popular passwords of 2015 and it contains some great examples of what NOT to use as your password. Interestingly, there are some changes on the list from last year that point to changes in popular culture. “starwars” and “princess” have joined the ranks but even though they might be clever, they really shouldn’t be used as passwords.
Look at East Central Regional Library’s brand new website! It looks awesome! Check it out for yourself and then help them out by sharing it on your social media sites with your friends.
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Now that it is mid-year for schools and mid-winter for the rest of us, its a great time to communicate with your staff, faculty, students, families, and stakeholders about all your successes and new programs so far this year. Here is a wonderful resource to help you think through and start a newsletter or freshen up an existing one. Tips like: knowing your audience, making the newsletter attractive, keeping it fun, and giving usable tools to your audience will help you present an attractive and professional communication piece that everyone will enjoy reading.
