Category: Library Life
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What I’m Teaching This Week #3
This week begins my STEM rotations with my older grades (3-5). I’ve got all my iPads ready to control my robots and things. Monday was a little shaky, but I added some additional stations so I would have smaller groups. Tuesday and Wednesday have went well. Here are the stations: Classkick assignment on close reading…
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What I’m Teaching This Week #2 Tinkercad Edition
I’m super blessed to have our STEM coordinator, Mrs. Meade, here with me this week. It’s always nice to have some company. When she comes to visit a couple of times a year, she brings a lesson plan with her and models it, then I teach it after she leaves. I had her yesterday and…
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What I’m Teaching This Week [Library]
Good afternoon! I wanted to take some time to share what I’m teaching this week. When I’m writing this it is Monday after school. I think I’m going to have this go out Wednesday. Having had one day of this so far, I think it went pretty well and wanted to share some ideas with…
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Library/Classroom Favorites: Bissell Refresh Manual Sweeper Edition
I don’t care how often the library gets vacuumed, it seems like it is never enough. I also dread days with scissor projects because I know the janitor is grumbling about all the little pieces of paper that the kids manage to get all over the floor. Well, I found a solution to that. I…
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Library/Classroom Favorites: Wireless Doorbell Edition
This has really been the year where I have purchased things that have really changed my world. Possibly the best thing that I have purchased this school year was my wireless doorbell. I have had some eyebrows raised when I have talked to folks about buying a doorbell for my library (the library is the…
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Building a Report for iPad Barcodes, Serial Numbers, & Checkouts in Follett Destiny
I’ve had a good bit of frustration that there is NOT a way to do this without some legwork. With over 600 devices in my building alone that are managed by a management system that requires serial numbers, sometimes it is handy for our techs to have a list of serial numbers that they can…
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Taking a minute
I can’t remember what the last post I wrote was even about. I’m sitting at my desk in my office and I’m getting ready for the day. I get to school early and I like to have my breakfast while I am getting situated. I wanted to “take a minute” to recap the first few…