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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-36087523407224050672015-10-09T15:55:00.000-04:002015-10-09T15:55:06.775-04:00Dav Pilkey Reading Gives You Superpowers Event<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-48344467617624886212015-05-18T11:54:00.003-04:002015-05-18T11:55:52.613-04:00The World's Best Literature Guide<a href="http://litcharts.com/">litcharts.com</a><br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Each wedge of the red ring represents a chapter.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Each row of colored boxes extending from a wedge represents a part of the chapter. The closer to the red ring, the closer to the beginning of the chapter.</li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-80862531741837402272015-03-25T21:18:00.001-04:002015-03-25T21:31:58.584-04:00March Madness Books-KETBall Tournament 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SCS Middle School Students</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span class="il">March</span> <span class="il">Madness</span> is here, <b>but why should</b> basketball fans have all the fun? At your library, you can help us name a SCS Library Middle School Book Champion for 2015. Through a series of votes, we are narrowing our list of the 32</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #743399;"><a href="http://teens.dbrl.org/march-madness/#finalists" style="text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">at SCS to one grand champion.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-78591393630118045952015-03-12T10:01:00.001-04:002015-03-12T10:07:54.334-04:00Zaption for Formative Assessment <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-27116927020812830602015-03-06T14:29:00.000-05:002015-03-06T14:29:44.330-05:00inklewriter - create interactive stories<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">inkle is looking to bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students. From within a web-browser, the </span><a href="http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">inklewriter</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> will let students make and play interactive stories with no programming required.</span><a href="http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/" data-surl="https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/?ui=2&ik=684a8ce9ed&view=fimg&th=14bf08d3516f36e9&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_i6xyx27v0_14bf088f2a926829&attbid=ANGjdJ8FkDiy8uppZZ2feCqQCYvBElWFvRXoolIAKtvbvHdPplCXwXsQp6QxpGZk324cGMCprz2xNluoqXwdHASOJOjyF2sNYH5BfpNQrN9N_bjKKsSs9NgydSw64WI&sz=s0-l75&ats=1425669961199&rm=14bf08d3516f36e9&zw" height="309" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/?ui=2&ik=684a8ce9ed&view=att&th=14bf088f2380caae&attid=0.1&disp=safe&realattid=ii_i6xyx27v0_14bf088f2a926829&zw" width="640" /></a><a href="http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/</a><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-92092529691347400392015-01-11T17:11:00.000-05:002015-01-11T17:12:29.744-05:00What Do Teenager's Think of Social Media and Why They Don't Use Facebook.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material </span></b></div>
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<span class=""><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Really interesting study published in Scientific American</span></b></span></div>
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<span class=""><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>-</i></b>Laptops do in fact <b><span style="color: #9900ff;">allow students to do more</span></b>, like <span style="color: #9900ff;">engage</span> in online activities and demonstrations, <span style="color: #9900ff;">collaborate</span> more easily on papers and projects, <span style="color: #9900ff;">access information</span> from the internet, and <span style="color: #9900ff;">take more notes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class=""><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Obviously it is <b><span style="color: #9900ff;">advantageous to draft more complete note</span></b></i><b><span style="color: #9900ff;">s</span></b> that precisely capture the course content and <span style="color: #9900ff;">allow for a verbatim review</span> of the material at a later date. <b><span style="color: red;">Only it isn’t.</span></b> New research demonstrates that<span style="color: red;"> <b>students who write out their notes on paper actually learn more</b>.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/all-our-yesterdays/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ALL OUR YESTERDAYS</a> by Cristin Terrill, Narrated by Meredith Mitchell (Tantor Audio)<br />
<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/julius-caesar/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">JULIUS CAESAR</a> by William Shakespeare, Performed by Richard Dreyfuss, JoBeth Williams, Stacy Keach, Kelsey Grammer, and a full cast (L.A. Theatre Works)</div>
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<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/code-name-verity/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">CODE NAME VERITY </a>by Elizabeth Wein, Narrated by Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell (Bolinda Audio)<br />
<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/the-hiding-place/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">THE HIDING PLACE</a> by Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Narrated by Bernadette Dunne (christianaudio)</div>
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<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/id-tell-you-i-love-you-but-then-id-have-to-kill-you/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU</a> by Ally Carter, Narrated by Renée Raudman (Brilliance Audio)<br />
<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/anne-of-green-gables/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ANNE OF GREEN GABLES</a> by L.M. Montgomery, Narrated by Colleen Winton (Post Hypnotic Press)</div>
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<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/forgive-me-leonard-peacock/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK</a> by Matthew Quick, Narrated by Noah Galvin (Hachette Audio)<br />
<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/october-mourning-a-song-for-matthew-shepard/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">OCTOBER MOURNING: A Song for Matthew Shepard</a> by Lesléa Newman, Narrated by Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tom Parks, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Christina Traister (Brilliance Audio)</div>
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<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/torn-from-troy/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">TORN FROM TROY</a> by Patrick Bowman, Narrated by Gerard Doyle (Post Hypnotic Press)</div>
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<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/peter-and-the-starcatchers/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS</a> by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Narrated by Jim Dale (Brilliance Audio) </div>
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You'll also need the free Overdrive Media Console app (<a href="http://www.audiobooksync.com/download-help/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">details here</a>; Overdrive Media Console interfaces with iTunes if you want to integrate your downloads into your existing iTunes Library).</div>
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SYNC offers 2 FREE audiobooks <b>each week through Aug 20, 2014.</b> Sign up for email or text alerts that invite you to download the new titles as they become available.</div>
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<a href="https://kaizena.com/dashboard/docs" target="_blank">Kaizena</a> is an audio recording tool syncs with Google Drive to provide teachers
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docs. Teachers and students can also add text comments and resource
links. Teachers report that many students prefer to listen to their
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-35293064150942283852014-03-21T13:38:00.000-04:002014-03-21T14:50:04.625-04:00The MAGIC of AUGMENTED REALITY-- Create Your Own!<span style="font-size: large;">The magic of augmented reality… Create your own!</span><br />
Some of you have seen the awesome example of AR- “augmented reality” we shared in the library (The Fantastic Flying Books… ) you focus your iPad on a page in the book and it comes alive - the “reality” (page in book) is “augmented” with technology. AR blends real life with virtual reality.<br />
There is a wow factor - but what about the “so what?”
<b>Now we - teachers, students can create our own augmented reality experiences!</b> Easy as 1-2-3! I see sooooo many amazing possibilities for learning. It’s hard to imagine it if you have not experienced it. Stop by the library for a tour!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/56105630">See the IMAG·N·O·TRON in action!</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/moonbot">Moonbot Studios</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-73702536686910139932014-03-14T11:34:00.001-04:002014-03-14T11:38:38.645-04:00It's Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read the book for FREE! <a href="http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf">http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/03/03/its-complicated-open-access.html?utm_content=bufferea5f1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">Read why danah is giving the book away and why you should still buy a copy- Click HERE.</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-52301983868204381032014-02-06T09:13:00.000-05:002014-02-06T09:14:10.926-05:00Powerful Questions<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Your students can find answers to these questions at the library. <a href="http://t.co/uFYTOcgWTW">http://t.co/uFYTOcgWTW</a> <a href="http://t.co/CobNh4S7kN">pic.twitter.com/CobNh4S7kN</a></p>— Kari Ahern (@kariahern) <a href="https://twitter.com/kariahern/statuses/431170571074666496">February 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #414141; font-family: RobotoLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;"><a href="http://thenewsliteracyproject.org/learn-channel" target="_blank">HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #414141; font-family: RobotoLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">"The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an innovative national educational program that mobilizes seasoned journalists to work with educators to teach middle school and high school students how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #414141; font-family: RobotoLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Students learn <b>how to distinguish verified information </b>from raw information, spin, opinion and propaganda — whether they are using search engines to find websites with information about specific topics, checking a friend's Facebook page, viewing a video on YouTube, watching television news or reading a newspaper or blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #414141; font-family: RobotoLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">The project gives students the critical-thinking skills to become smarter and more frequent <b>consumers of credible information across all media and platforms</b>. They are taught to seek news and information that will make them well-informed and engaged students, consumers and citizens."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-46423013705781983712014-01-22T09:47:00.004-05:002014-01-22T10:05:01.150-05:00Historypin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-75193636188583010642013-12-20T11:49:00.000-05:002013-12-20T11:49:00.367-05:00Science - New Resources for Teachers K-8We have new NSTA books for teachers:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4086124597378685674.post-31578727863491265602013-12-02T10:50:00.001-05:002013-12-02T10:50:56.731-05:00Freedom FLIX Bringing History to Life<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Check out the Freedom FLIX trial at the SCS Library homepage.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> "</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">FreedomFlix</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> transforms content from the highly successful </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Cornerstones of Freedom</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> series into enhanced eBooks. All the eBooks are supported with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content and primary sources featuring videos, audio, images, and text. </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">FreedomFlix</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> helps students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of important historical topics, and cultivate 21st Century Skills through the inquiry process. And </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">FreedomFlix</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> aligns to the Common Core Standards by featuring multiple text types and a cross-curricular, nonfiction focus."</span><br />
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