1. Two gym teachers created professional Pinterest accounts, accessed the links on the Media Center Pinterest board with their classes and pinned original links to the board for their health classes.
~~Gym teachers! I am still smiling.~~
2. 8th grade science teachers brought their classes down for a lesson on citing books, web sites and apps prior to starting a chemistry project. For 2 days I had 50 kids in the Media Center during each block using books, computers and iPads.
~~Chaotic and noisy but fabulous!~~
3. 8th grade Language Arts classes wrote Twitter-Style book reviews. Many thanks to Gwyneth Jones, aka The Daring Librarian, for such a fabulous idea!! *applause for Daring Librarian*
Students wrote original reviews, located their books on Amazon.com, then used Linkyy.com to shorten the URLs. They then accessed an online character counter to make sure their review, including the link and book title, stayed within the 140 word limit. Reviews were submitted via a Google form.
~~The kids were intrigued by the challenge of staying within the word limitation and the teacher was thrilled with the ease of printing the Google form for grading.~~
4. Social studies, Art and Language Arts teachers have come in to book time and co-plan lessons for creating products with technology tools.
~~Apparently word on the street is to come co-plan lessons and good things may happen.~~
5. Conversation with 7th grader (I was told this child was a reluctant reader):
Student: Do you have more books by this author?
Me: No, this is her first novel.
Student: Can you call her and tell her to hurry up and write more?
I am so excited to see what February brings.
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