Category Archives: School Media Specialist

General, School Media Specialist

AASL Recommended App: Organization & Management: Three Ring

three_ringIn June 2016, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their 25 Best Apps for Teaching and Learning. The apps encourage qualities such as innovation and active participation, and are user-friendly.

Three Ring is an app that works by having the user capture student work via a mobile device and upload it to the Three Ring Website. The user can take pictures and record audio and visual material. The content can then be managed, tagged, shared, and organized online. This app is a good tool for making student portfolios. The content can be shared with parents through email. Check out their website for a great explanation of why this tool is important.

Check out reviews of the app in this post from EdSurge. This article from Instructional Tech Talk includes a video as well as examples for using the app in the classroom.

Cost: Free
Level: Elementary, Middle and High School
Platforms: iOS and Android

Communication, School Media Specialist

TIES Digital Learning Day coming soon!

TIES will be having a one day professional development event on Saturday, April 22, 2017 – the 2017 TIES Digital Learning Day.

We are looking for presenters, and of course, attendees! Are you or someone you know interested in presenting at the 2017 TIES Digital Learning Day? If you would like to present and share a project or practice using technology that impacts student learning, we are looking for you!

We will offer a range of hands-on workshops and Student Keynote Speakers. The day will be filled with game-based learning, app-smashing, makerspaces, and chances to see what digital educators are doing to improve the learning experience for their students.

Proposal form here, feel free to share: https://goo.gl/forms/SqEaDZODdn1CG7K52

Event information here: http://events.ties.k12.mn.us/digital-learning-day/

Book your calendars for April 22!

Look for more information on registration is coming soon! Sincerely, Mary — Mary Mehsikomer, CETL Technology Integration Development & Outreach Facilitator TIES 651-999-6510 Mary.mehsikomer@ties.k12.mn.us @MaryTMM

Books, Public, School Media Specialist

Somali folktales added to Ebooks MN!

Are you using Ebooks MN? If not, you should definitely check it out! You can access a wide variety of reading materials for many different age groups and subjects.

Some new additions to the Ebooks MN project are four Somali folktales, available in both English and Somali. “The books help to promote and preserve heritage languages and increase English literacy skills of refugee and immigrant families in Minnesota.” These stories will be especially useful in our Central Minnesota area!

Two of the stories in the collection include:

  • Wiil Waal: ” In this clever folktale, a father reluctantly follows his daughter’s advice and has astonishing results.”
  • The Travels of Igal Shidad: “Igal walks the drought-stricken Somali landscape, searching for a better home for his family and animals, asking for Allah’s guidance along the way. As he confronts obstacles, both real and imagined, he discovers his prayers can be answered without his even realizing.”

Check out Somali Kid’s Books for videos, books, and more bilingual resources!

 

 

General, School Media Specialist

Your friendly librarian – here to save the day!

We all know that library people are awesome – working to serve our communities and to help our patrons! But this story, about a school librarian who went above and beyond to help a patron to clear her name and to escape grounding by her mom, is an inspiration to us all!

Have you had a good patron experience lately? Tell us about it in the comments, or send it to us at CMLE Headquarters – we love to hear about our members and their successes!!

From Huffington Post:

“On Tuesday, a New York-based school librarian named Jennifer Iacopelli put on her detective cap after a crying student approached her for help.

According to a series of increasingly Sherlock-esque tweets, she is apparently a master of both the Dewey Decimal System and sleuthing.

…The student insisted that the inappropriate additions to her paper, which she’d been working on using Google Docs, were not her own. Intrigued by the alleged hacking, Iacopelli went on the hunt to figure out how the paper ended up in this condition.”

(click on the link to read the rest of this exciting saga – it has a great ending, and the librarian is a big hero!!)

Books, Communication, Public, School Media Specialist

iREAD 2018: Deadline for entries is February 28, 2017!

iREAD

CMLE libraries – are you using the iREAD summer resources?? There are all kinds of great links and information here – to help encourage summer reading, to offer summer meals, and more!

The 2017 material is all set up, and now they want you to help contribute information to make the 2018 program fantastic!

The theme for the 2018 iREAD Resource Guide is Reading Takes You Everywhere. We need all of your great ideas to share with librarians around the world who use the iREAD theme. Each idea submitted helps to strengthen the Resource Guide. Use the forms below to submit your theme-related ideas.  Please direct comments and questions to the Resource Guide Coordinator Alexandra Annen at ideas@ireadprogram.org.

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