We know that not everyone in our region will have the opportunity to attend the MEMO Conference this year, which can be disappointing. A strategy I have found helpful when I am unable to attend events, is to find out the Twitter hash tag for the event, then do a Twitter search on the hash tag. now, you can read the tweets from attendees and feel a bit more connected to people and events. In this case the hash tag will be #memo12 and you can follow MEMO on Twitter anytime, using their @memo_updates too.
This is my first blog post using the new mobile WordPress app on my iPad.
From National Geographic comes the GeoBee Challenge App! Available for iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad®, Android™, and NOOK Color™ this app allows students to try their hand at answering geography questions from around the globe! Complete with beautiful maps, students will have a multiple choice round, a map challenge round, and a bonus round! Some of the very same questions that are asked during the National Geographic Bee contest are on this app! This app generally costs around $1.99. Find it at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/apps/ or in your app store!
Is your entire school district in tight financial straits? Is everyone weary of cookie dough, wrapping paper and magazine sales? Read about some new tools to assist your school in online fundraising. Four specific tools are mentioned to help your school get set up, and one, Adopt-A-Classroom, even allows fundraising for specific areas of the school, like the media center! The article is in Education Week and is available at http://tinyurl.com/9zazujd. Has your school already tried this? We would love to write up and share your story….comment on this post to flag us on your success or lessons learned.
Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their Android tablet or iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Once connected to their computer over Wi-Fi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control PC and Mac applications, then annotate lesson content from an Android tablet or iPad. Splashtop Whiteboard offers users of existing interactive whiteboards—such as Mimeo, Mobi, Promethean, Polyvision, or SMART Technologies—a way to extend their investment by accessing their tools from anywhere in the class (all four corners of the room!) without using wireless slates. This app costs anywhere from $2.99 to $9.99 and can be used with iPad iOS 4.0 & up and Android 3.1 & up.
Are you planning to do a fundraiser to raise money for your school or media center this fall? If so, remember to take a look at the CMLE-hosted “Finding the Bucks” webinar recording. The webinar highlighted CMLE’s scholarship page, ideas and tips for obtaining scholarships and grants, and information about Mackin’s Funds4Books program. With the Funds4Books program, 100% of the donations received will go straight to your media center for purchasing books!
Watch for future posts about other similar tools with other book companies too, or give them a call and ask whether they have a tool to help you with online fundraising. They are usually more than willing to help you earmark funds, to buy their products, for your library collection.
Visit CMLE’s Continuing Education page and click the “View Recording” link next to Finding the Bucks Webinar to get started.
Happy viewing, and happy fundraising!!
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