Media Center Bulletin
News from the UES Media Center for Staff- February
Here's where we are headed...
3rd Grade Biography ThingLinks
Third graders will be taking the next few weeks to research a person of their choice and create a thing link about them. See a sample I have made here
4th Grade Sci/Social Studies Boards
Fourth Grade has learned how to use specific keywords to search for desired content. Now they will put these skills to use in the Discovery Education database to search for images and video segments to create their own interactive online posters or "boards" on a topic from their Science or Social Studies unit. See a board builder tutorial here.
5th Grade Infographics using Piktochart
We are wrapping up our Digital Citizenship lessons this week and next week and will be moving into a unit on understanding, reading and creating our own infographics using the Google App Piktochart.
2nd grade
In honor of President's day the second grade classes will be voting on a President to research in Pebble Go! Biographies. As a class we will write a paragraph about the President chosen and create a class voki. See my voki on our media webpage... it's that Avatar thing in the upper left corner and is viewed best in the Chrome browser.
1st Grade Weather Forecasts!
First graders are working on becoming experts on a type of weather using Pebble Go! Next they will use Culture Grams to search for an area of the world that experiences that type of weather. Then they will draft up and rehearse a "weather forecast" for that area. Mrs. Marcel and I are working on having their final product be a recorded "weather report" from our Meteorologists in front of a green screen using the ipad green screen app "Do Ink" or something similar.
Kindergarten Coders!
Kindergarten missed out on hour of code! In order to prepare them for coding on the computer they have been working with a coding robot, named "Scott." They will also have a chance to become coding robots themselves using stacking cups and finally dive in to code.org.
Global School Playday 2016!
If your class was lucky enough to have Media on Wednesday, Feb 3rd, then they got to participate in Global School Playday 2016! This was an awesome chance to have students engage in "unstructured play" to have fun, help build relationships, practice life skills such as patience, turn taking, perseverance, strategy and problem solving. I took notes on what the student had to say about their experience in our debriefing session and compiled them into this word cloud for free from Word it Out.
Tech Byte
These two tech tips may be familiar to you already but worth mentioning...
Ctrl+F Did you know that when you or your students are searching for a certain word or answer in an online document or website that you can hold down the Control button and the letter f at the same time and it will highlight the word for you?
Google Incognito Browsing Ever been signed in under your credentials in a site, go to post it in Google Classroom and then want to know what the students will see? Try opening the site in a new Incognito tab or window. Just type Ctrl+Shift+N to get an incognito window.
Coming soon: Info on our school-wide Reading Promotion: UES Reads Across America!
UES Media Center
Email: kelly.schartner@fcps.org
Website: http://education.fcps.org/ues/mediacenter
Location: 3554 Urbana Pike, Frederick, MD, United States
Phone: 2402362200
Twitter: @MrsSLibrary1