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Genrefication Tour 2018
Genrefication Tour 2018
Word Problem:
Word Problem:
What do you get when you combine 15 teacher librarians, 3 student-centered libraries, and time to share, reflect, and plan?
What do you get when you combine 15 teacher librarians, 3 student-centered libraries, and time to share, reflect, and plan?
An amazing day of learning about different options for creating more reader-friendly and student-centered spaces. Tour attendees were inspired by their peers and you can review their next steps to genrify their collections below.
Guest Blogger - Jon Georgitis | Centennial MS
Guest Blogger - Jon Georgitis | Centennial MS
"Who is this space for? Yes, it's for the teachers, but more importantly, the students. How can student voice be incorporated in this design process?" Read more.
- Loran Lattes | Whitter Elem | Mobile Maker Kit Reflections
- Sara Weatherly | BCSIS/High Peaks | Mobile Maker Kit Reflections
IT Open House | 2.27.18
IT Open House | 2.27.18
What: IT Open House--Join the BVSD IT department for an afternoon of learning about IT Services! Meet the people behind the emails, calls and programming that impact your school and classrooms. We are excited to show you new tools, maker kits, and more!
When: February 27th from 4:00-5:30pm
Who: All BVSD staff!
Why: An opportunity to come and interact with IT, learn about all we have to offer, and get inspired!
Also, AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES (including a trip to InnEdCO Annual Conference in June 2018)
Please RSVP here for this event!
BVSD OverDrive Teacher's Lounge
BVSD OverDrive Teacher's Lounge
Professional Learning Collection
Professional Learning Collection
Promotion Idea:
A Teachers' Lounge bulletin board display in Morton High School (Hammond, IN) takes a traditional approach to promote a virtual resource.
OverDrive's Teachers' Lounge features professional development resources in eBook and audiobook formats. Both the Teacher's Lounge collection as well as the student collection of titles is accessible by every BVSD educator, regardless if your school participates in the OverDrive Consortium or not. The professional learning collection is a timely, relevant, and growing so, please make staff are aware of this resource and show them how to access ebooks and audiobooks , anytime, anywhere.
OverDrive professional learning titles are also searchable from Insignia! Titles in the student collection can be located and checked out directly from BVSD OverDrive, click here to search for and see all student titles.
Watch How to Access BVSD Teacher's Lounge video and please pass along to staff.
If you would a professional learning title added to the Teacher's Lounge please contact Professional Services and we will work with them to locate add the title to the collection
Click here to learn how to access OverDrive Teachers Lounge!
Teacher's Lounge Title of the Month:
Teacher's Lounge Title of the Month:
The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
by Anya Kamenetz
by Anya Kamenetz
New Audiobook in OverDrive Teachers Lounge!
Excerpt from Kirkus Review | October, 2017
Advice for parents on how to deal with the intrusion of digital media into family life. What does it mean that children today spend more of their waking hours on electronic media than on any other activity, including school? NPR lead digital education correspondent Kamenetz (The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing--But You Don't Have to Be, 2015, etc.) has done her homework, examining the research on this issue and weighing the evidence pro and con.
A major point is that sleep and screen time don't mix, which leads to the rule to allow no devices up to an hour before bedtime. Parents will also find advice about engaging with their children on digital media by talking to them about what they are seeing, who they are connecting with on social networks, or even learning to play a video game with them. Ultimately, Kamenetz adapts Michael Pollan's advice about food to screen time: "Enjoy screens; not too much; mostly together".
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