Remote practice shared by: Mairead Navin (Dundalk HS), Alyssa Smith (Catonsville Middle), Karen Turek (New Town HS),Tatanisha "Tiki" Love (Loch Raven Technical Academy), Angenine Goode, (Catonsville High School) ,and Christie Rigliano (Franklin HS).
Utilize a variety of technologies to engage in virtual reader's advisory and continue to cultivate a culture of literacy during remote learning.
Translation of Practice alignment:
Domain 2.7: The Library Environment
Promotes independent reading for all students as part of the school’s program and e-resources to support it.
In this PowerPoint you can learn best practices for both joining Google Meet with other teachers and creating your own Google Meet with both students and/or teachers to promote reading and books.
Models/Examples:
LibraryTrac (Voting System for a Competition)
Reading Hour with authors, librarians, students, etc.
Schoology polls to highlight books in the collection
Book Survey example from SWA
Highlight reading opportunities and resources
Tools/Resources:
Set up Schoology discussion for book recommendations
"What are you reading Wednesday?" posts and comments.
Sora App - two free audiobook downloads during each week of the summer [Sample Tweet] [Sample Facebook post]
Impact on the library program and students and/or teachers:
Using Collections promotes books that students might not have found otherwise and helps to connect readers with books.
Student feedback through Schoology messages or Google Meets provides insight into what the students enjoy, what types of resources they are looking for, and how to further engage them.
Tiki Love reflects on this remote practice.
The Book Bracket Competition through LibraryTrac is a great way to do a competition with students. This year, we did the competition in April. It's a great way to advertise ebooks in our collection and encourage students to check out ebooks through BCPL. Next year, I might do this twice a year.
The book matching service is a great way to learn the interests of students, as well as their preferred reading style (audio, print, etc.).
Conducting polls through Schoology helped to engage students and can help focus areas of reading interest on Schoology and other forms of social media.
Consider using "Live" options (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) to encourage your school community to join and listen to discussions and learn about book suggestions related to current events.
Creating a virtual library using Bitmoji classroom ideas is another great way to promote resources related to reading.