Destiny Collections
Collections allows educators to curate and pair diverse digital content with instructional goals to provide personalized learning for students. Easily integrate activities, images, and videos with documents, worksheets, quizzes, and other learning resources.
First Steps
Getting Started:
See the Overview Video for a visual demonstration of Follett Collections.
Creating Collections - A Quick Reference Guide
Collections in Three Easy Steps provides a short video overview for students.
User Communities and Sites:
Twitter: @FollettLearning
Instagram: #follettlearning
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/227147405037179
Technical Specifications:
Collections requires school or district use of the Destiny Discover library management system. Check with your library staff or see if your school can be located using this tool.
Access Collections using your browser or download the Destiny Discover app for Android, Chrome, Windows, Mac, and iOs. Collections can be accessed using the following devices:
Computer
Chromebook
Tablet
Smartphone
Next Steps
Destiny Discover Collection of How To Resources
Created with Destiny Collections, this resource provides carefully curated guides for users to build their understanding and fluency in using this tool.
If your school uses Follett Destiny School Library Management System, you can access Destiny Discover Collections and watch this video on how to access.
Instructional Design
While curation tools simplify the organization of learning materials, educators have options to build engagement, assist access, and optimize use for students.
Personalize the look with Destiny Discover’s collection of professional stock photos or upload your own.
Attach student learning standards to your collection.
Sort your collection to meet learning outcomes or audience.
Collaborate or share with specific people using access and edit rights.
Integrate with learning management systems to promote use and simplify access.
Create interactive PDFs that are either detailed or condensed to share digitally with your students.
Share with colleagues via social media.
General guides to classroom use:
Why Students Should be Content Curators
Getting Started with Content Curation
Lessons and Applications:
Management
Student Management:
Students must use keyword searches using educational vocabulary to ensure good matches and site selections. Examples should be modeled by the educator.
School Internet policies and filters may limit or reduce searches
Discuss digital citizenship and internet safety with students. Create specific classroom rules and consequences.
Review security settings and if necessary, moderate and approve posts.
Student Engagement:
Student agency and ownership of learning is increased when learners individually or collaboratively curate resources
Use Collections to promote critical thinking skills, student writing, and reflection.
Shared Collections can use peer evaluation, discussion, and feedback
Student Privacy and Security:
Collections is part of Follett’s Destiny Library Management system which conforms to student data and privacy standards. Students under the age of 13 can use Collections
Follett Student Privacy Policies
Set Collections Access Levels and Roles - how to ensure permissions are set correctly for classroom, school, or public access.
Differentiation and Adaptation
Diverse Learners:
When planning differentiated lessons, it’s best to curate an on-grade-level collection first and then duplicate and modify that collection for your emerging and gifted learners differentiating content by reading level, complexity, and skill level appropriate tasks.
Destiny Collections also allows you to integrate database, ebook and web resources with a traditional print collection. This opens access to a variety of learners and teaching situations when the physical library is closed.
Hybrid Strategies
Curated collections can provide a 'ready-anytime' resource bank for learners which works equally well in remote and hybrid learning scenarios.