2019-2020
Snippets from Sturgeon
November 14, 2019 (Volume 8) - School visit to North Union Elementary; STEM festival at Laurens-Marathon; bulletin boards; PLAEA delivery route changes; anniversary of the Gettysburg address (various AEA resources); Christopher Paolini's birthday; weeding books survey; Game Changer class signup; Christine's love of basketry, including this website (good for upper level math students); The Crown season premiere, with AEA resources; Britannica Google Chrome extension; math scale-up winners awarded by state
November 7, 2019 (Volume 7) - School visit to Pocahontas Area Schools; encourage TLs to do PD by visiting another school library; November is Native American Heritage month (various AEA resources); Veteran's Day - A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck; November is Picture Book Month - The Great White Man-Eating Shark by Margaret Mahey; Game Changer class; Neil Gaiman's birthday; Better Together webinar; Scout statistics; Kevin Honeycutt event (which featured links to Spoonflower and Lulu); Grant Wood AEA's digital resources list; NaNoWriMo
October 24, 2019 (Volume 5) - MNW's pumpkin painting contest; spookiness in the library survey; The Oatmeal's "Be Kind" cartoon; Lana from Pocahontas Area shares how she uses book trailers for the IASL award book nominees (she includes it in her Symbaloo); licensure class; Instructables has great Halloween costumes; illustrator Steven Kellogg's birthday; new Playways in the lending library; updates in SIRS Issues Researchers; The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives; tough topics bookmark shared; Follett Library Manager for classrooms
October 10, 2019 (Volume 3) -Selfie with Joanna from Storm Lake Schools at ILA/NLA conference; free magazine from Mackin; October 14-18 is National School Lunch Week; ILA/NLA: Jamie Casap from Google; Joanna's favorite tech tool, Playposit; ILA/NLA: Innovation on a shoestring, featuring Unsplash, GCF Global); ILA/NLA session slides (including mine, updated); ILA/NLA: Picture Book City; Kate DiCamillo webinar
October 3, 2019 (Volume 2) - Author Robert Lawson's birthday; World Smile Day; Jill from Gilmore City-Bradgate shares how she used the AEA's fossil kit in her library; teaching CultureGrams; Christine's favorite tech tool, PicMonkey; free New York Times digital subscription for Title I schools; Podcast: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover; Global Read Aloud
Christine Sturgeon
Email: csturgeon@plaea.org
Website: plaea.org
Location: Pocahontas
Phone: 712-335-6004
Twitter: @c_sturgeon