Tag: school
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School Librarians United Podcast Episode–Littles in the Library
I recently got to chat with Amy, the host of School Librarians United. Please take a listen as I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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What I’m Teaching This Week #4
It’s Thursday, but here’s a recap of what we have done this week. Fifth graders have been using Tinkercad to design snowflakes. I have been slowly printing them on our 3D Printer (Makerbot Replicator+). I am laying out about 6 snowflakes at a time and drawing a “map” of where each student’s design is, then…
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Green Screen by Do Ink Tutorial
I recently shared a green screen video of one of my students on my teacher Twitter. It has gotten an amazing response, so I want to talk about how we did it. I have an amazing library… I still can’t believe how lucky I am most days. I have a portable green screen that is…
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Flipgrid for Stop Animation Videos
I’ve struggled with how to use Flipgrid with my students as fifth graders can be notorious for finding ways to get themselves in trouble. The best use of Flipgrid so far has been for students to share their stop animation videos. A lot of these videos have gotten many, many views by other students (don’t…
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Library App Review: Novel Effect
Novel Effect has been one of my favorite apps recently–and the favorite of others as it was added to AASL’s (American Association of School Librarians) Best Apps List. I am using the app this week during kindergarten and first grade storytime, so I wanted to share it with you before we get started. My students…
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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…