It's hard to believe we safely can say it's the middle of June, but here we are with summer vacation within reach.
A few items of business:
1. Publicize the summer reading program. Post any photographs you take in Library M/Summer Reading/Photos. We would love to be the proud recipient of the grant again next year and a little publicity will help our cause.
2. When your TLC books come, catalog them with the TLC prefix and affix a label to the spine. Add Title I funding to the notes field. Call me so I can come to your school to stamp the books.
3. Databases update: Good-bye to World Book and Tumblebooks for the reasons we discussed. Hello to Scholastic Bookflix (elementary). We kept Grolier Online with New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, Lands and Peoples for all schools; New Book of Popular Science and Nueva Enciclopedia for secondary schools. Good-bye to United States at War (high school). We have our own subscription now to TeachingBooks for all levels. Take advantage of it! I think it has great potential. Facts.com doesn't seem to be available but that's being checked.
4. For our annual lunch meeting to be held on Thursday, June 26 at 12:30, we're not going to Laguna Grill. Please re-mark your calendars. Instead, we're going to La Bella Vita, 2485 North Jerusalem Road, East Meadow. RSVP by June 19.
5. Check out LITE Bytes--it's almost done and ready for prime time. I'll be publicizing it in the next few days--as soon as I have the straggler articles :).
6. It's not too late to sign up for Summer Technology Institute classes. There's a lot of room in the morning session of Do You Google? and I hear that's an excellent course.
7. Some of you know that we're moving to Promethean boards and software. You can take a Summer Technology Institute course to familiarize yourself with this program, or you can learn on your own at http://www.prometheanlearning.com/ and register for one of the online courses offered at no charge.
8. A few gems from this month's CIT Response:
Seussville Storymaker
Literacy Center
Kathy Schrock--Shedding Light on Web 2.0--links to several worthwhile Web 2.0 tools
Teacher Tools: Forms and Letters--share with your teachers
Fusion: Training Resources
Make Your Own Comic Strips
iPaper--Display documents as embedded files in your web pages or wikis. You have to see it to know what I mean.
A few items of business:
1. Publicize the summer reading program. Post any photographs you take in Library M/Summer Reading/Photos. We would love to be the proud recipient of the grant again next year and a little publicity will help our cause.
2. When your TLC books come, catalog them with the TLC prefix and affix a label to the spine. Add Title I funding to the notes field. Call me so I can come to your school to stamp the books.
3. Databases update: Good-bye to World Book and Tumblebooks for the reasons we discussed. Hello to Scholastic Bookflix (elementary). We kept Grolier Online with New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, Lands and Peoples for all schools; New Book of Popular Science and Nueva Enciclopedia for secondary schools. Good-bye to United States at War (high school). We have our own subscription now to TeachingBooks for all levels. Take advantage of it! I think it has great potential. Facts.com doesn't seem to be available but that's being checked.
4. For our annual lunch meeting to be held on Thursday, June 26 at 12:30, we're not going to Laguna Grill. Please re-mark your calendars. Instead, we're going to La Bella Vita, 2485 North Jerusalem Road, East Meadow. RSVP by June 19.
5. Check out LITE Bytes--it's almost done and ready for prime time. I'll be publicizing it in the next few days--as soon as I have the straggler articles :).
6. It's not too late to sign up for Summer Technology Institute classes. There's a lot of room in the morning session of Do You Google? and I hear that's an excellent course.
7. Some of you know that we're moving to Promethean boards and software. You can take a Summer Technology Institute course to familiarize yourself with this program, or you can learn on your own at http://www.prometheanlearning.com/ and register for one of the online courses offered at no charge.
8. A few gems from this month's CIT Response:
Seussville Storymaker
Literacy Center
Kathy Schrock--Shedding Light on Web 2.0--links to several worthwhile Web 2.0 tools
Teacher Tools: Forms and Letters--share with your teachers
Fusion: Training Resources
Make Your Own Comic Strips
iPaper--Display documents as embedded files in your web pages or wikis. You have to see it to know what I mean.
