SSHS Library Newsletter
Spring/Summer Edition, 2018
College Library Unit
They also learned how to use some helpful tools for their assignments, including: Canva, Smore, Padlet, Symbaloo, Prezi, Emaze, Screencastify, and others.
The Canva flyer to the right was made by Amber Urban, to advertise the cool features she learned about the Moorpark College Library.
Seniors culminated this week-long unit by creating a Weebly website that will act as a "Personal Learning Space" (PLS) of resources that will help them research and complete homework assignments in college. Our Troubadours will be ready to WOW their professors.
To view one of these websites, click on the link below to view the PLS created by Riana Orf.
https://my-collegelibrary.weebly.com/ You can also click on the pic of the flyer (below) that Rebeka Romano used to create her Canva poster.
Recommended Links
https://padlet.com/cjforbes/h0vd9pe0858k
or click on any of the icons below to access these recommendations.
Padlet - Resource Gathering, Sharing & Collaborating
Padlet is a great way to gather your resources and/or share them with your students. You can add: notes, links, videos, documents, graphics, and more. https://padlet.com
Canva - Graphic Design Creator
I may have shared this before, but it is worth sharing again. I am obsessed with this site. This is the tool that students used for the flyers I embedded at the beginning of this newsletter. https://www.canva.com
Adobe Spark Post - Graphics Editor
I shared the regular Adobe Spark site in the past, but Spark Post was highly recommended at some of the sessions during our recebt CUE Rockstar Day. FYI, Adobe also offers their Spark Page and Spark Video. https://spark.adobe.com/about/post
Symbaloo - Gather, Organize, and Share Bookmarks
I'm sure I must have shared this one before, but I honestly don't know how I'd survive with Symbaloo. Symbaloo allows me to organize all of my resources thematically and even share them. This is one of my favorite tools. I like the visual nature of this bookmarking site. LOVE IT! https://www.symbaloo.com
Trello - Productivity Tool
Visual management site for organizing your classroom or your life. A student shared this with me lately as an alternative to Symbaloo. This site looks like it would be great for linear, left-brained students/teachers. https://trello.com/
Emaze - Presentation Tool
You know I love Prezi; here is the next generation tool for student and teacher presentations. I just had a student use this for a library assignment, and I was impressed. If you're looking for a way to spice up your presentations, check out Emaze. https://www.emaze.com/
Google Tour Builder (beta)
Teacher Sharing Resource
Screencasting Tool - Flip Your Classroom
DON'T FORGET!
3 Hot books at the SSHS Library
One of Us Is Lying
21 SRC Pts.
Ready Player One
30 SRC Pts.
The Dead Inside: A True Story
Author: Cyndy Etler
15 SRC Pts.
Library Snapshot
The ACE classes with the most checkouts are:
- White
- Forbes, C
- Hazlewood
- Forbes, T
- Golden
- Cherbak-Boyd
- Davis
- McAllister
- Mendoza-Martinet
Newsletter Quiz - Famous TV Moms
Everyone who answers all of the questions correctly by the end of lunch today (5/14) will be entered into a drawing. I will select one winner at 1:00, and they will win our trivia prize.
- June Cleaver
- Marion Cunningham
- Lucy Ricardo
- Clair Huxtable
- Jill Taylor
- Marie Barone
- Peggy Bundy
- Edith Bunker
- Caroline Ingalls
- Claire Dunphy
- Elyse Keaton
- Miss Elie Ewing
- Maggie Seaver
- Laura Petrie
- Harriette Winslow
THE SSHS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
Email: carol.forbes@simivalleyusd.org
Website: http://www.sshslibrary.org
Location: 3570 Cochran Street, Simi Valley, CA, USA
Phone: (805)520-6800 3733
Twitter: @cjforbes1