- Got six minutes? Use them to read!
- If you haven’t signed up for the New York Times’ Learning Network, do that today! They have tons of useful features, like Lesson of the Day to enrich your curricula and enlarge your students’ worlds!
- I am always proud of my profession, and even more so when I read stories like this and this and this.
- More proof that Print is not dead!
- For the IB teachers in our school, sign up for some free on-demand IB webinars from Ideas Roadshow, which has “created a wide range of ‘on-demand’ webinars for DP coordinators, DP librarians, TOK teachers/coordinators, EE coordinators, and DP subject teachers in Groups 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6”.
- More IB love from Ideas Roadshow! Sign up for their Investigating Knowledge emails that will enrich your IB curricula!
- Interested in the state of public education nationwide? The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University has made their findings interactive and to quote an architect of the project, Andrew Ho of Harvard, “If you imagine state tests are separate pieces of cloth, we have found a way to stitch them together in a patchwork quilt. The result is a national perspective on the geography of educational opportunity. It is an unprecedented view of how our kids are learning in public schools and districts.”
- Google Books is 15 years old! Learn about the history, future, and redesign of something that I use every day and that adds immeasurably to our world of knowledge and research!
- During my first semester of library school, I read several articles about prison librarians, people who are 'a religion within the religion’ of librarianship. It was so moving to read about the ardor they had for the role they were playing. If you are interested, here is the open-access online book from UNESCO called “Books Behind Bars”.
- And stay tuned for information about our high school becoming part of PBS’ POV Community Network!
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Here are 12 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 13 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Some Summer Reading Lists for you!
UC Berkeley Summer Reading List Book Your Summer (Barnes & Noble) NYPL Summer Reading 2019/Teen Book Lists Publishers Weekly Summer Reading 2019 The Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2019 (Southern Living) The Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019 (Parade Magazine) The New York Times Books (interactive) We are Kid Lit Collective 2. The kids should see this. No really, they should! 3. Creative Commons has upped their image game and now has over 300 million images, with advanced searching options coming soon! 4. Statewide Summer Reading Resources out of Albany! 5. Literature & Math teachers, Unite! 6. Here is a spiffy updated MLA formatting poster shared with us from a library in Beijing! 7. It’s time for the 10th Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest! 8. Go see some great live music in Brooklyn this summer! And here is a longer listing for all five boroughs! 9. Request a Woman Scientist, right here. 10. The Best Advice You Ever Received (and are willing to pass on) 11. Last fall, Google launched a new search engine that is helping scientists find the data sets that they need. 12. Want to walk the runway representing the subject you teach? Check out these dresses! 13. Free computer science curriculum from Google? Yes, please! Here are 7 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. America’s Poet, Brooklyn’s Own Walt Whitman, will turn 200 on May 31st, 2019! There are a multitude of happenings celebrating a man who celebrated himself and the city and country he called home. Click here for the 8-page tabloid “America Celebrates Walt Whitman” that lists events in New York City, places all over the country, and beyond. Some events have already happened, and some stretch into the fall, so be sure to check the list soon!
2. There are two new interactive tools that allow anyone to create, print, and share “erasure” poems from both democratic texts or stories from the New York Times. 3. As Spring Fever grips us in its talons, procrastination can easily run amok. Here are two takes on procrastination (TED & NYTimes), which will help us understand it when it happens to us or to our students… 4. Have we forgotten how to read? How to pay attention to pages instead of screens? I have hope that we can balance what both bring to our lives. So does Michael Harris. Another call to action to put down our screens and take up life again… 5. Love Pharrell? Love STEAM? Then check out Pharrell’s new Netflix series called Brainchild! 6. SYNC returns on April 25th and runs through August 1st! Be sure to sign up so you can get 28 free audiobook downloads over 14 weeks and fall in love with the spoken word again… 7. Want to share videos with your students but don’t want the surprise of objectionable content popping up? Try boclips! Here are 14 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 11 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Reading makes an enormous difference in the lives of millions of people. You should try to be one of those people! Watch a young man who vowed to read a book a week for a whole year talk about how this goal changed him. Here he is at 20 weeks in, and again at 6 months in.
2. The simple truth about reading 200 books a year (and how to make it a habit). 3. Books are good for your brain. 4. What does immersing yourself in a book do to your brain? 5. It is never too early to make summer plans and pad your resume in the process! Check out the PD offerings from these organizations and apply today!: Ford’s Theatre The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History American Bar Association National Gallery of Art USS Midway Museum Historic Hudson Valley New-York Historical Society National Constitution Center The National WWII Museum National Portrait Gallery Columbia University Teachers College Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers Summer Teachers Institute at St. John’s College Summer Poetry Teachers Institute 6. The Books, Songs, Films, and other works that just entered the Public Domain two days ago... 7. Barack Obama shares his favorite books, music and movies of 2018. 8. The National Film Board of Canada has just created an online database of indigenous cinema for your viewing pleasure. Any dissemination of indigenous culture, anywhere in the world, is cause for celebration. 9. The Brooklyn Museum will be hosting a big Frida Kahlo show next month. Get your tickets for it now and get prepared by immersing yourself in Google’s online Frida celebration! 10. Speaking of Google, check out their new documentary series, “Search On", featuring “stories of people around the world using Google technology to solve big problems, answer hard questions, and take action.” 11. Find out more about the African Diaspora right here in New York City by going on a Black Gotham Experience Walking Tour, created and run by artist/historian Kamau Ware. Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. December is the month of End of Year Best of the Best Book Lists! Here are the lists for:
Amazon's Top 20 Picks for the Best Books of the Year So Far Chicago Tribune 10 Best Books of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 Library Reads Favorite of Favorites 2018 NYPL Best Books for Teens The New York Times (10 Best of the Year) The New York Times (100 Notable Books of 2018) The New Yorker's Best Books of 2018 NPR’s Book Concierge Publishers Weekly Best Books 2018 School Library Journal Best Books 2018 2. Kate DiCamillo on the magic of reading aloud. 3. NewsGuard is a new organization that employs journalists to combat misinformation, 24 hours a day. Download it as a free Google Chrome extension and see the reliability ratings of the news resources you visit and use in real time! 4. Some of our lucky 9th and 10th graders got to attend the National Book Awards’ Teen Press Conference last month and got to see all five YA finalists read excerpts of their books! Here is the list of which titles won across all categories. 5. The Library of Congress just launched Crowd, where you can volunteer to transcribe Abraham Lincoln’s letters and letters home from Civil War soldiers. 6. NYC Digital Safety is “a new initiative to bring resources covering digital privacy and data security to the City’s frontline public library staff”. Check out their modules and consider sharing them with your students! 7. “TeachRock is a standards-aligned, arts integration curriculum that uses the history of popular music and culture to help teachers engage students.” Get it today, free of charge! 8. Google recently launched Grow with Google, a platform that provides free training, tools, and events to support teachers, students, job seekers, and entrepreneurs. 9. The Gray Lady and Google Images are getting hitched! 10. “NASA just made their entire media library publicly-accessible and copyright free!” Here are 13 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 17 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. The shortlists for the National Book Award were announced this morning! The awards will be given out live on November 14th, and some of our high school students will be attending a special reading featuring all five shortlisted Young People’s Literature authors the day before!
2. The Public Library of Science has been sharing full-text open access scientific and medical articles since 2001... 3. The First Days Project collects and shares stories of immigrants and refugees from when they first came to the United States. Consider adding your story if you moved here from another country! 4. The OED is turning 90, and we are the ones getting a present! We have been granted a full year of access to the Oxford English Dictionary, for free! Click here to get our login details. 5. You’ve heard of mail being delivered late, but not THIS late! “The Prize Papers” is a recently-discovered and publicized “archive of 160,000 undelivered personal letters from all over the world, seized from ships captured during Britain’s naval wars over three centuries, and are to be digitized in a project offering an intimate glimpse into people’s lives.” Read all about the project here. Talk about primary sources! 6. JSTOR helps you teach your students about the fine points of researching with their “Research Basics” curriculum. 7. Sign up today for the Academy of American Poets’ “Teach this Poem”, the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize given by the National Book Foundation. 8. Please note I have updated the following pages on the Library website with more resources: Chemistry, Literature, and Watch, Listen & Learn! 9. Download free e-books and textbooks from Bookboon! 10. Just a few of the websites that the AASL chose as the best of the best this year: All Sides for Schools, Biointeractive, EarSketch, edWeb, The Global Goals, Loom (Chrome extension), NewseumEd, PencilCode, Science Friday, Stanford History Education Group, and Time.Graphics. 11. UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library has just created and shared their new digital archive: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement. 12. The European Planetary Science Congress has just released a catalog of over 2,200 planetary maps produced worldwide from between 1600 and 2018. 13. The Library of Congress has expanded its reach! They now house a collection called the National Screening Room that “showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide.” 14. Open Sources continue to be our new currency! Search for them here, via a new portal created by the SUNY Geneseo Library. 15. This has nothing to do with books, but has everything to do with what books are made of! Did you know that all of NYC’s trees are mapped, and that you can get all kinds of info about each one of those 678,619 trees? 16. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has created Open Bookshelf, “a digital library collection of popular books free to download, formatted for modern devices, and handpicked by a Curation Corps of librarians from across the US.” 17. Humanities & ELA teachers: Last month the Library of Congress launched DBQuest and Case Maker, two new web and mobile apps that join a suite of digital resources introduced back in 2016. These new interactive opportunities for middle and high school students will engage learners in interactive civics, asking them to weigh evidence and build arguments. Here are 12 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Want to take your students on a field trip? Then apply for a Target Field Trip Grant today! Each grant is worth up to $700, and the entry deadline is October 1st.
2. It's time for the Scholastic Writing Awards again! Begun in 1923, it is the nation's longest-running writing and artistic competition for young people. The competition opens on September 12th, so be sure to tell your students to enter. "Through the Scholastic Awards, teens in grades 7–12 from public, private, or home schools can apply in 29 categories of art and writing for their chance to earn scholarships and have their works exhibited and published." 3. Would you like to connect to a non-profit organization that sells surplus items to teachers for very low prices? 4. If you live or work in Brooklyn (now I know at least one of those things applies to you!), sign up today to get a free Brooklyn Public Library Teacher Card. You will become a “Super Patron”, and be able to borrow more items for longer periods than anyone else! 5. Get your $10 ticket and listen to the founder of Politifact and other fighters-for-facts as they discuss “Our Fake Reality: Journalism, Legitimacy, and Post-Fact America”on September 27th. 6. Use this repository of ads from all over the world as a springboard for lessons or researching. 7. Just in time for the November election, Teaching Tolerance and Rock the Vote have teamed up to create “Voting and Voices”, a collection of resources for you and your students about the history and process of voting. 8. Over the summer, Artstor made more than 1 million image, video, document and audio files from public institutions freely available to everyone! 9. A love letter to libraries and reading, brought to you by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell. 10. The New York Historical Society offers free and low-cost afterschool PDs for teachers, related to their ever-changing exhibitions. Some are happening really soon, so check out the list today! 11. Harry Potter has been in the USA for 20 years, and The New York Historical Society is celebrating this with their upcoming exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, which opens on October 5th and runs through January 27th. 12. Free full-color reading propaganda posters for to download and print for your classrooms! |
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