April 2024
Empower
The BCS Digital Learning Department is thrilled to share our monthly calendar! Feel free to use these resources in your classroom as a way to celebrate the various days featured on this calendar.
Please log in to Clever before accessing any of the linked calendar resources below, and always be sure to preview resources before utilizing them in your educational setting. PebbleGo resource do require specific login before access as well!
April is the American Association of School Librarians' School Library Month! Brunswick County Schools would like to celebrate and honor our media coordinators who make our school libraries safe, engaging spaces for our entire education community. Check out some of the resources below that can be used to chat about the power of the library.
Take a look at a mobile library visiting rural communities in 1923!
Hear thoughts from the head librarian of the largest library in the world, Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden!
Preview many of the awesome titles on Sora dedicated to celebrating libraries, like NC Elementary Battle of the Books 2024-2025 title The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass.
Each month, the BCS Digital Learning Team will highlight a Tech-Tip that we find to be especially valuable and practical.
This month, the team has selected: Seeing Student Work Details in Google Drive.
Click the button below to learn how you explore student work.
Reflect
Staying Connected This Spring
By Bethany Roberts, SES SLMC
Here at Southport Elementary Media Center we have had so many fun things happening within our media classes these past couple of months! Our first grade students and kindergarten classes used Ozobots to learn simple coding while learning about connections we have with those who matter most to use through reading "The Invisible String" by Patrice Karst.
Our second and third grade classes practiced research skills by researching a US President. They used the facts that were found from resources to create a presidential bookmark or flap book. Through this project, they learned the importance of using reliable sources and how to credit sources with citations.
Our students have even gotten to participate in self-selected library learning stations where they can have a choice of playing with learning blocks, board games, puzzles, chess/checkers, or drawing/coloring. Students look forward to getting this time to interact with their peers while also taking turns browsing the library collection for a new book each week!
Finally, our Battle of the Books team competed at the county competition on March 19th. Our team worked super hard to read the stories and practice answering the questions about each book. We were honored to get to battle alongside all of the fabulous elementary teams during the competition! We are looking forward to next year's battle!
Innovate
Looking to embrace new ideas and products in your learning environment? Below are some professional learning opportunities as well as links to some of the many resources BCS Digital Learning & School Library Services provide!
Did you know that NC is the first state to provide ISTE memberships to educators? Be sure to claim your FREE membership to ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) - Look for the icon shown above in NCEdCloud! Check out this video for more details.
