Gus library
- 1. Library Presentation By Amy Alcott Deur
- 2. San Antonio Public Library • SAPL Library Cards • Free Databases – Learning Express Library – Live Homework Help – Academic Search Complete – Biographies in Context – Opposing Viewpoints – World Search Plus
- 3. Databases Continued • Searchasaurus • Student Research Center • Images • Novelist • Ebooks downloadable – (nook/kindle overdrive)
- 4. Resources Library Should have • Books • DVDs • Audio-visual • Latest Technology – Check out the kindle – Computer Lab
- 5. ProQuest • Provides Sources like databases and teaching tools • Creates lesson plans that are correlated to National and State Teaching Standards. • Bookcarts are available to save permanently e- library resources on curriculum topics.
- 6. Podcasting • Is an efficient way to present info (audio or visual) • Students can sing rap songs about 6th grade science unit of study • Fun and engaging for students • Save as an MP3 format to your kindle or ipad • Need a blog, record on garageband.com, need microphone, upload it to your website
- 7. Webinars • To have discussions back in forth in a classroom or at home • Need a computer and headphones
- 8. Smart Boards • Engages students and meets all learning styles. • Hear and touch and internalize learning • Interactive • Download state standard approved classroom resources like the Food Pyramid or anything that you are studying.
- 9. Doc Camera • No more transparencies or using a projector • Easy to use • Use as a web cam real live objects, can zoom in
- 10. Literature • LoneStar: Suggested reading material for 6th – 8th grade • Texas Bluebonnet List • Easy Books
- 11. After school activities • Robotics • Problem solvers • Chess club • Scrambler • Web Hunt • Contest to read 25 books
- 12. Student Activities • OPAC • What databases to use at 6th grade science level • Research/library skills • Parent Night/Open House • How to do a bibliography – How to take notes from sources – How to prevent plagiarism