SAISD Library Media Services
August 21, 2017
Google for Education
In planning to supporting the needs of our students, we need to self reflect on our personal expertise with the GSuite tools. As more schools embrace Google, we need to be prepared to support students and staff.
Please complete this questionnaire:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCegmqTjjW3PIbH6UcwDfeQ3wUsKqeAbwKoRNohnEdl4hIxQ/viewform
Join the Google Classroom
This week a discussion and brainstorming session will be held in Google Classroom. If you have not joined, please do so ASAP. Go to classroom.google.com and use the code 2xu8jdx to join.
Pulse of the Project - Textbooks
Based on the responses from Friday, this graph shows where our Elementary and Middle Schools were on textbook issuance. About 70% of campuses responded that they were finished or nearing the end of textbook distribution at the end of the first week of school. We will be discussing effective processes for textbook distributions at our September meeting so we can learn from each other. This graph does not reflect total schools as 28 schools were missing from this questionnaire.
Campus Web Sites
Brad Wehring is working on creating accounts for all librarians. Many of you already have accounts as you are the web administrator for your school. There will be a splash page linked from the campus page for each school library. Brad has a Schoology course created that will teach you how to customize your library page. We will discuss your school library page at our next meeting.
Collections in Destiny Discover
With the update to Destiny 15.0 comes a new feature to curate resources for teachers and students. Called Collections, this new tools allows librarians to make collections of resources from the catalog, their computer and the web.
Watch the webinar to see how Collections works: https://www.follettcommunity.com/p/bl/et/blogid=1&blogaid=442
The white pages below give detailed instructions on how to use this new feature: https://resources.follettlearning.com/support/follett-digital-resources/training/lm-collections/fdr-using-collections
SAISD Library Media Services
Email: jshafer1@saisd.net
Website: bit.ly/SAISDLibraries
Location: 406 Barrera Street, San Antonio, TX, United States
Phone: 210-554-2645
Twitter: @SAISDLibraries