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AASL @ ALA Annual Conference. UsingtheStandardstoFurtherYourInstructionalLeadership. Se connecter à Facebook. AASL National Standards: A few essentials to get started! As a member of the AASL National Standards Implementation Taskforce, I was honored to take part in the rollout in Phoenix.

AASL National Standards: A few essentials to get started!

Whether you were in Phoenix or were #NOTATAASL, you will need to get your arms around the Standards and share them with your colleagues or stakeholders, I’d like to highlight a few of my personal favorite National Standards getting-started resources. All are available on the AASL Standards Portal. 1. AASL Standards Structure is a three-minute introduction to the history and structure of the standards document designed to offer immediate context and great to share with all the personas in your world. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. The competencies relating to Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Curate, Engage and Explore in terms of the Framework for Learners. There’s much more on the Portal and much more to come. The National Standards Mobile App (AASLSTNDS), is available for $12.99 at the App Store and on Google Play.

AASL National School Library Standards - Where to Start? Sometimes when a new set of standards is introduced, it is difficult to know where to start, how to apply them, and how a set of standards fits with existing curriculum and everyday practice.

AASL National School Library Standards - Where to Start?

Luckily, there are some helpful tools included in AASL’s new National School Library Standards to help us unpack the standards and start using them in the most useful way. First, remember that standards, whether AASL standards, ISTE standards, or Idaho Core Standards, are not the same as curriculum. It might help to think of standards as the destination and curriculum as the road to get there.

Second, it is not recommended that we implement all these standards all at once. Checklist QuestionstoAskFundersDuringInitialCall. SharedFoundations Include. What to Ask Potential Funders - #GrantChat. Six questions to ask before applying for a grant. 252945. K-12 School Libraries. Transparency is the new fierce. AASL Session: Help Me Figure This Out! - Antioch University Seattle School Library Certification Program.

Debbie Abilock, MLS, a former school administrator and school librarian, co-founded and directs the educational vision of NoodleTools, a research-to-writing platform, designed for privacy, that is used by thousands of schools and universities.

AASL Session: Help Me Figure This Out! - Antioch University Seattle School Library Certification Program

NoodleTools focus on educational goals has earned the trust of subscribers and educators. Unlike almost all of the software and services created for educators, neither NoodleTools’ public or subscription sites conceal web bugs, beacons, pixels or tags that track students or faculty. The site contains no advertising and all work created remains the intellectual property of the students and teachers who have created it. Email: dabilock@gmail.com Helen Adams is an online instructor for Antioch University-Seattle in Seattle, Washington. What Do We Know and Believe about the Roles of Methods Courses and Field Experiences in English Education? English education programs provide a set of related professional orientation experiences including coursework, fieldwork (broadly defined), and other aspects of teacher preparation that enable extended, interrelated conversations across the multiple settings and constituencies involved in teaching and learning.

What Do We Know and Believe about the Roles of Methods Courses and Field Experiences in English Education?

English education programs foster a sense of authority, a spirit of inquiry, and a belief in the possibility of change among prospective and inservice teachers as well as English educators. Belief statements focus on ways to conceive, express, justify, and enact a strong educational program. In conceptualizing the following belief statements, we recognize that English education programs share common goals as well as exhibit uniqueness defined by the specific contexts in which programs are located. We have identified a set of beliefs that are widely shared among the Conference on English Education members who assembled in Atlanta for the 2005 CEE Summit. 1.

Further readings: 2. 3. Beginner's Guide to Weebly. Elevate Social Media Storytelling with RebelMouse: A Digital Tools Tutorial. RebelMouse is a social web publishing tool that lets you organize your online presence into a social site.

Elevate Social Media Storytelling with RebelMouse: A Digital Tools Tutorial

You can use it to curate and aggregate breaking news stories, topics, live events and user-generated content. Plus you can embed RebelMouse onto your personal sites or blogs. How to Use RebelMouse as a Social Media Hub. Note from Kate: There’s a lot of talk about brand journalism right now and RebelMouse makes it easy to collect all the social content you or your brand share into one, Pinterest-esque, webpage.

How to Use RebelMouse as a Social Media Hub

We think this could be a cost-effective option for brands to experiment with brand journalism, especially because you can embed your RebelMouse page within your current website … However, keep in mind that RebelMouse sites, although customized, are still not owned content (as is the case with your business website) so they are subject to change or could incur costs down the road. On this week’s edition of Toolkit Tuesday, we’re talking about a unique tool that we just started using within our agency (although Kate has been using it for almost a year) : RebelMouse.com. If you aren’t familiar with RebelMouse, it is a social media aggregator, which means that it takes all of your social media feeds from various networks and compiles them into one neat, pretty “front page.” 1. 2. 3. 4. How to Add Social Media Site Feeds to Your RebelMouse Page. You can import up to 25 social media feeds into your RebelMouse page.

How to Add Social Media Site Feeds to Your RebelMouse Page

Here are some tips and instructions for the most prominent social media sites that you’re allowed to bring into RebelMouse. Twitter You can bring in tweets by. Rebel Webinar: Highlight Your Community. How to Add Social Media Site Feeds to Your RebelMouse Page. Learn 2 Tweet. RebelMouse: Smart Curation for the Classroom. [This is a guest post by Abir Qasem and Tanya Gupta.

RebelMouse: Smart Curation for the Classroom

Abir teaches intro to programming, AI, cloud, and device programming courses for the Computer Science Department at Bridgewater College. You can find him online at and follow him on Twitter @abirqasem. Tanya is a technology writer, international development professional and a former academic. You can find her online at and follow her on Twitter @tanyagupta--@jbj] Undoubtedly Twitter is a powerful communication tool. The use of social media, particularly Twitter, is a common ProfHacker topic. ProfHacker has described how Twitter can be an effective one-way pedagogical communication tool for sharing news or broadcasting links over the weekend (full article). ProfHacker has discussed Twitter curation tools before. This is where RebelMouse comes in. Upload Documents, PDF, Powerpoint Slides, and More. You have the option to upload and link to pretty much any kind of document, allowing a visitor to download it to their computer.

Upload Documents, PDF, Powerpoint Slides, and More

Or you can embed a document so it is directly visible on a page. To learn about both options, watch the short How'd They Do That video below and/or read the guide that follows it. #fdresaMS Keynote - Lucy Santos Green. Social Media Content Curation and Channels with rebelMouse. * BPC  School  Library - Home. Video Tutorials to Help You Create A Classroom Website Using Weebly. September 27, 2014 One of my favourite free web tools I always recommend for creating classroom websites ( besides Google sites) is Weebly for Education.

Video Tutorials to Help You Create A Classroom Website Using Weebly

Beginner's Guide to Weebly. Weebly Tips & Tricks. Weebly Site Builder Tutorial and Walkthrough Part 1. You can create a fantastic website using the Weebly website builder. In the following tutorial, we will show you how to get started with your website by choosing a theme, customizing your layout, setting up text and uploading images. To get started creating your website: In the Design tab, choose a theme that closely represents the type of layout and color scheme you wish to have on your website. After selecting a theme, modify the default image: On the default image, click Edit Image. From the toolbar, click Add Image to use a different image from the library of free images or to upload your own. Weebly 2015 - Introduction tutorial to weebly.com: Create a Free Website. #fdresaMS Keynote - Lucy Santos Green. Amplify Your Content Creation Stategy with RebelMouse. How to Create a Rockstar Twitter Profile in 5 Minutes. The Minimalist’s Guide to Creating a Class or Course Web Site.

Educators are increasingly turning to technology to improve their teaching, communication and organization skills. Having a web page to use to deliver and organize content and make it easy for students to work, communicate, and stay connected outside of class hours is essential in this modern age. One free application for creating web sites for courses that is hugely popular with teachers is Weebly.com. It doesn’t get much easier than Weebly – its free, fast, and very user friendly, but also powerful enough to meet sophisticated needs. Before We Get Started… Informative flights: Comparative analysis of social networking tools and technologies for International School Librarians in Asia.

Introduction This report documents a Comparative analysis of social networking tools and technologies for International School librarians in Asia. The case study research methodology - defined as “examining contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context … and it relies on multiple sources of evidence” (Yin, 2003, p.13, cited in Shanks and Bekmamedova, 2013, p. 174) was employed in a critical paradigm (Shanks & Bekmamedova, 2013) in order to critique the status quo. The first part of this study investigated the academic school and teacher librarian environment in Asia. This was followed by cataloguing the various networks available to school librarians and the social networking tools and technologies employed.

Internet @ schools east vlc. Content Curation Hub - Content Curation HubContent Curation Hub. VLCs & THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. Information Center Use the information center to invite the school community into a giant collaborative space where many contribute and all profit from the information, help, projects, exhibitions that creates a wonderful teaching and learning community. Check out the Help Center tab above for suggestions on how to get started in your school with this template. Virtual Tour of the Library Sections NORMAN HIGH SCHOOLCalendars/Appointments Calendar.