Fostering Teacher Collaboration and Technology Integration in the Library

Media Center

Mr. Peter Richter

Educational Media Specialist

Westwood Regional Jr/Sr High School

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• Technology is just a tool • Collaboration is a long process • Students are digital natives but

not digital experts • Teachers do not need to know it

all, just one to start • We have lots to share already

Common Core & Digital Tools

• Standards Search - Digital http://www.njcore.org/standards/ccss/6584

Examples across the grades and content areas

• Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

• Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

• Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

• Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and over-reliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

Study Stack https://www.studystack.com/SignUp.jsp Research Organizer http://www.wwrsd.org/Page/11295 Wix http://www.wix.com/ Animoto https://animoto.com/sign_up Bookshare https://www.bookshare.org/ Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/?ref=com Turnitin https://turnitin.com/login_page.asp Standards Search - Digital http://www.njcore.org/standards/ccss/6584

Online Toolbox

Study Stack Generates over a dozen ways for users to study the information they need to learn and personalize the way they study it.

Research Organizer Simplify student research by creating a hyperlinked graphic organizer leading to “one stop shopping” for information sources.

What would you like to do? NJHS

Find a book? Find Information?

Library print books Facts on File databases

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Gale Virtual Reference E- Books? Facts on File E-Books? Find Dewey shelf numbers? See Book acquisitions 2013 -2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 Fiction 2009-2010

Wix Create unpublished working websites from scratch or existing templates. Follow your subject by chapters, display projects and collect sources of information. Create a digital portfolio.

Animoto Create short video clips with your own words , images and music. Create themes to supplement research projects, display on teachers’s web page.

Bookshare Work with your Special Services teachers to provide alternatives to print text. Sign Up

Glogster Students can create interactive online posters to organize and supplement research projects.

Turnitin Establish a school wide account so all students can login, upload their work and self check for plagiarism.

Fostering Collaboration

• Learn a useful , easily applicable technology

• Arrange with supervisors to present at department meetings

• Include tech in resource lists/and options

• Send out periodic tech tips

• Publicize media center through updates

• Teach the students, then the teacher

More collaboration and integration…

Media Center Monthly Updates

• Google Earth • Google Drive -Google Docs • Assorted Databases • Big6 Research • Specialized websites .gov, .org.,edu., • Class ½ print, ½ database research • Web 2.0/ Wikispaces/Edmodo/Moodle • Prezi/PowerPoint • Magazines/journals • Smartmusic • Educational games/simulations I-Civics .com Stock Market Game • Easy-Bib

Tutorials help…

How to and help instructions or videos…

Study Stack http://www.studystack.com/FAQ

Animoto http://help.animoto.com/entries/20461613-The-New-Animoto-

Video-Creation-Process-A-Video-Tutorial-Guide

Wix http://www.wix.com/support/html5/getting-started/how-to-begin/

Turnitin http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/getting-started

Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/?page=videos

Bookshare https://www.bookshare.org/_/gettingStarted/overview