Library Services Newsletter
November, 2017 Teacher Librarian Edition
Native American Heritage Month
MY Denver Card and DPL Databases
Did you know there is a partnership between Denver Public Schools, Denver Public Library and Denver Parks & Recreation called the MY Denver Card? The card allows them free access to recreation centers, pools, the Skyline Park Ice rink, and nine of the City's cultural partners. The MY Denver card also serves as a Denver Public Library card until they turn 18. This student data sharing agreement should help facilitate access to DPL's online databases. In fact, we have information in the overviews below on how to create online accounts for students that missed the 'opt in' deadline for DPS schools in the fall (students can still get a MY Denver card all year, they just won't automatically get a DPL card created for online use).
Read more details in the overviews below. Make sure you distribute the correct information to the appropriate audience because the one for library staff and teachers tells you how to create Denver Public Library generic accounts which DPL has graciously allowed us for our staff but not for students or families. It violates their terms of agreements to spread that information beyond teaching staff.
Info for students and parents
Please let us know if you have questions at libraryhelpdesk.dpsk12.org or reply to this flyer!
Makerspace Hub
Library Services is pleased to offer 12 new makerspace kits available for checkout from our central Classroom Library collection! Our new kits are: Bloxels, Gears! Gears! Gears!, Green Screen & Stand, KEVA contraptions, KEVA structures, K’NEX Simple Machines, littleBits Arduino, littleBits STEAM Student Set, Osmo Classroom Kit + Coding, Q-BA-Maze, Playmags, and Rigamajig Junior. There’s something for everyone! Find out how to check out and curriculum connections at our website: bit.ly/DPSMakes
Every month we will highlight one of our kits.
BLOXELS
Bloxels is a hands-on platform for students to build, collaborate, and tell stories through video game creation. Students can build and animate original characters, develop villains, add in power-ups, and more – all done directly with the Bloxels Game Builder Kit and then activated with the FREE Bloxels Builder App. Each kit contains five boxed sets so that more students can build at a time. Each boxed set requires a compatible device and app and there are no devices included with the kit. Most activities are scalable in complexity but kit is recommended for Grades 3+.
Computer Science Learning Opportunities
See their flyer for more information.
Exemplar Lessons for ETLS Scope & Sequence
We are looking for team members who are interested in creating exemplar lessons for the ETLS Scope and Sequence. We are proud of the work that our Librarians and Technology teachers do and the impact this has on student success! Our goal is to share these lessons with our colleagues and to help create a useful resource for new librarians and tech teachers.
The Exemplar Team will meet 4-5 times next semester and will require a 10 hour time commitment (teachers will be paid at the current curriculum pay rate of $37.43 per hour).
We have a Google form for interested candidates https://goo.gl/forms/YW6RfhXFrsrs3ugs2 that should be completed by Nov. 17th. We will ask you to submit one sample lesson plan demonstrating your work teaching information literacy, inquiry, digital citizenship and/or technology in your class this year.
Ideas from your library colleagues at the Expo....
What's the one book you would recommend to kids?
What's the one digital tool you would recommend?
Check out the wordles below for your answers. The more responses were the same, the larger they are represented.
Books to share in honor of Veteran's Day
On November 11, we honored our servicemen and women in the armed forces and thanked them for their service. You can find these titles and more in our Overdrive collection at http://lion.dpsk12.org.
War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?
Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Library Services
Email: libraryhelpdesk@dpsk12.org
Website: http://etls.dpsk12.org/library_services
Location: 1617 S Acoma St, Denver, CO, United States
Phone: 720-423-1842