NCSLMA 2017
Resources collected by GCS SLMCs
NCSLMA Resources
Over 30 SLMCs (School Library Media Coordinators) from across GCS attending the NCSLMA conference are sharing the information & resources they are learning for this newsletter. The theme of this year's conference is "Show Us Your SuperPowers!" To access the information from all of the sessions click HERE www.tinyurl.com/ncslma17
NCSLMA Session Resources
Click here to access all of the shared resources from the NCSLMA conference.
Click HERE to access the GCS LMS Video Discussion Board
We asked everyone that attended to add to the video discussion board one takeaway from the conference, whether it be collaboration, networking, or a session.
GCS SLMCs had packed rooms for their presentations.
Hour of Code
Silvana Mazo- Parkview
Session Title: Hour of Code
Resources:
Great session to gather ideas and resources to teach coding to students.
Primary Sources
Padlet from the Primary Sources workshop with links to practically everything related to Primary Sources. https://padlet.com/statelibrarync/4cg0mir9734y
Information Literacy and Fake News
Jackie Pender-Jones
Resources:
Resources:
- Where do you get your news? answergarden.ch/555233
- Tools that create fake news....altered images/altered audio. www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15957844/ai-fake-video-audio-speech-obama
- To determine if an image has been reversed do the following:
- Go to images.google.com and click search by image
- Determine your own biases through "Project Implicit" https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
- Description: What is Fake News? "Anything that does not confirm your own biases."
Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?Finding Characters of Color in Speculative Fiction
Jess Thomas
Resource Links: goo.gl/6TgyjV and a resource list of resources that has great suggestions for YA books
- Gave a description of the history of under-representation of black and brown people in YA lit – as well as other lit. Detailed analysis of SLJ and Voyas reviews and under-reporting of diverse characters. Gave a list of great resources that have major characters who are not white and also are represented in a positive way.
NCCBA
Are you interested in getting involved in the North Carolina Children's Book Award? Your students could be a part of the selection process. Click below to find out more.
North Carolina Children's Book Award Process
Click here for all of the tools you need to get your students involved in the North Carolina Children's Book Award.
AASL BEST WEBSITES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING 2017
Mary Nifong
- Resource Links: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B46V3KMbpz8JT19UYVV0b211UWM
- Great review of best websites in the areas of Media Sharing, Digital Storytelling, Manage and Organize, Social Media, Communication and Curriculum Collaboration. I can't wait to share Class Hook with my teachers. See below for more information.
AASL's Best Websites
AASL's Best Websites are a great way to keep up to date on the latest tools to use in the classrooms.
- ScreenCast OMatic- create online instructional videos
- My Simple Show - Presentation Tool
- Pixaby- Free High Quality Images for presentations
- ClassHook- a collection of videos available for you to use in education. Small clips to use to activate a lesson.
- Spreaker- Allows students to create podcasts
- Write the World- For HS or MS- it is a community to find writng prompts , or get peer review.
- Buncee- a presentation tool for engaging multimedia tools
- Vizia- allows you to embed questions within any youtube or TedTalks video
- Formative- allows teachers in 1:1 to see live
- FlipGrid- digital video discussion board
- Wizer.me- digital worksheets that you can change to accommodate your specific learners.
- OER Commons: Open Educational Resources- Free resources to include
- USHolocaust memorial Museum: Digital museum
- ArtsEdge- ways to integrate arts into other subjects. (Lessons, content, resources)
- Commonlit- Reading passages- tracks what your students are doing while they are reading
- Media Smarts: Resources on ways to teach research skills, fake news, information literacy.
- Listenwise- short pod casts created by MPR in the areas of current events, ELA, Science Social Studies.
- poets.org- look for mostly american poets, by name, genre, movement. shows poet a day, will read allowed to them, etc.
- duoLingo-Helps students learn different languages.
Check out the Tech 15 youtube channel to access quick tech tutorial video's.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TechFifteen/featured
https://youtu.be/uVWdalpstPc