Always check with your District Data Protection Officer before using new resources with students.
Vooks is a great resource to use in the home with your children. Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading. You can sign up for Vooks and use the take-home resources to help keep your children reading 20 minutes a day during these extraordinary times.
Sign Up Link:
www.vooks.com/parent-resources
Take-Home Lesson Plans
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Additional Resources we have gotten through vendors, other SLS:
Capstone is also offering free access to a collection of resources available here:
Good information for kids about Corona Virus - graphic/comic style:
https://www.comicsforgood.com/
Information Sources on Corona Virus (SLSA)
https://slsa-nys.org/resources/coronavirus-information-resources-2020/
From CDLC re. Copyright
Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research:
Library Copyright Experts from across the country have joined together to provide resources for higher education, including college, research, community college, and special libraries.
They will also host virtual office hours beginning Friday March 13th at 8 AM ET to answer copyright questions that are arising as schools are making the rapid shift to online courses.
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/v6dvmcb
for more information on copyright and fair use and how this applies to rapidly moving courses and offering assistance online
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/wf9gzu6
for information on how and when to access expert advice through the Virtual Copyright Office. Office hours will begin Friday March 13th at 8 AM ET and are scheduled to run evenings and weekends.
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