Panther Media Center News
New Year, New Goals! January 2019
APS Race2Read
Make sure students use the Beanstack app that says "Race2Read_Kimberly." Some students have 2 apps, the other one takes them to the community site for adults to complete.
MyOn from Renaissance
MyOn has students read a few passages to determine appropriate Lexile level and then provides a variety of books for students to read online. Since it is through Renaissance these are AR books and they can take AR tests on them.
Teachers can monitor student reading, assign books, and allow students to have books read to them during school days, all week, or only on weekends. This is another way for students to get reading time in.
What the Tech? Great Tech for Teachers
Donors Choose
It takes a few minutes to create an account then 15 minutes to create a project to get funded.
Aww Whiteboard
Class Pass @ APS
Why Class Pass?
1. No card, if the student & parent knows their username and password, they can check out books
2. No late fees, if a student loses a book the fee is doing a writing assignment
3. Class Pass allows the following checkouts:
Print checkouts:
50 books, 10 CDs, 5 DVDs
Digital checkouts:
10 downloads from hoopla/month Overdrive
10 items every 30 days
Axis 360 - 5 titles/month
Accelerated Reader
Don't forget to tell students to make sure they log in that reading time in Beanstack during that block.
The Journey
Schoolwide Activity "Courage Is....."
Activity sharing through Flipgrid
PreK-2 students will use the flipcode: b264c474
3-5 students will use the flipcode: 79d06c5f
Since we have just started this assignment this week, we will expand this activity through February.
Tech Confusion? I'm here to help!
Media Center Norms
- Students must have a hall pass when coming to check out a book.
- Students can only check out 2 books at a time.
- Bring back books they need to check in.
- Full class check out is scheduled in advance
Birgitta Johnson, Media Specialist
Email: bidjohnson@apsk12.org
Website: https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Domain/620
Location: 3090 McMurray Drive Southwest, Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone: 404-802-7619
Twitter: @gitta_says