April is School Library Month! Minnie Howard’s School Librarian – La Gina Gross has prepared a feast of digital tools and resources to use in the school library and classroom.
La Gina will demonstrate how to use the school library’s catalog more effectively as a digital resource, provide free resources for e-books skype author visits, live webcasts and assist in helping you find tools to allow students to be curators and participate creatively in digital storytelling.
Overall, this presentation will promote digital literacy in an effort to create unique reading experiences for our digital citizens and transform learning.
I am always amazed at the depth of resources that are available to us to help every student learn, no matter what level they are on in their grade. The only question that haunts me is, as a classroom teacher, with a lot of expectations to conform to, when do I find time to explore these options? The students at our school don’t even have a library period like they used to, so would it take a lot of planning and a consistent schedule of library trips to get them working on any of these sites that we explored?
I haven’t had a chance to try out any of these resources with the students yet, but am planning to create/use what others have created for a QR listening station next year for reading. Like Michelle, time and consistency are often what limits my ability to use these wonderful resources!
It was great to learn of all the free books and resources available to today’s readers.The enormous amount of ebooks online has indeed brought the library to to our homes,instead of us going to the library.Now we have no excuse to avoid reading.