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Digital Images and Creative Commons Licensing project
laptop by emma is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. This week my fourth graders started a new unit that I’m teaching with my school’s enrichment teacher, Darcie...
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Fourth Grade Research and Citation Mini Projects #tlchat #VSLA #commoncore
I’ve been continuing a series of collaborative lessons with my school’s enrichment teacher, Darcie Rankin. ( @darcierankin at http://darcielearns.posterous.com/ ) During our last two weeks of lessons,...
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Wonder by R.J. Palacio #IMWAYR
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme started by Sheila DeChantal at Book Journeys and curated for children’s and YA reading by Jen Vincent and Kellee Moye at Teach Mentor Texts. Wonder by R.J....
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Common Core ideas for Elementary School Librarians #tlchat #vsla #cesuvt...
One of my professional goals for this school year has been to learn more about the Common Core State Standards and how I can begin to integrate them into my elementary school library classes. I see my...
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Goblin Secrets by William Alexander: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?...
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme started by Sheila DeChantal at Book Journeys and curated for children’s and YA reading by Jen Vincent and Kellee Moye at Teach Mentor Texts. I picked up...
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Takeaways from #commoncore short research projects workshop #cesuvt #resvt #vsla
Today I attended a workshop sponsored by the Champlain Valley Educator Development Center and the Vermont Department of Education on short research projects and the Common Core State Standards. Here...
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Scarcity, Engagement and Collaboration #resvt #cesuvt
This year I have been teaching a combined fourth grade Enrichment/Library class with Enrichment Teacher Darcie Rankin (see some posts about this class here and here). Over the past few weeks, our...
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Collaborative Culture: A Visit to the Mission Hill School #yearatmh #tlchat...
Last week I was fortunate enough to visit the Mission Hill School in Boston. Mission Hill is the focus of the current video series A Year at Mission Hill, which documents the learning and growth of the...
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Pluto Issues and Half Moons: The Space Books #ShelfChallenge 2013 #vsla
Thanks to Matthew Winner @MatthewWinner aka The Busy Librarian I have finally finished a project that’s needed doing for…well…a Googolplex of years? Is that what Carl Sagan would say? For my...
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Twitter: the Who, the How, and the Why
This post includes the information I’ll be presenting at the Dynamic Landscapes conference on May 17, 2013. Thanks for reading! 2013 twitter for librarians and teachers from bethredford Some live links...
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3 Reasons to Bookstorize Your Nonfiction
For years I’ve read other school librarians’ posts about rearranging their nonfiction collections so they look more like a bookstore: books arranged by student-friendly subjects rather than strict...
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One more reason to have a classroom blog (for yourself!)
Looking at five days worth of smiles is a great way to wrap up the week This year I have begun to make more of an effort to post regularly on my classroom blog, the RES Library News. I was inspired by...
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A Different Approach (“Don’t Worry!”)
I see my elementary school library classes for 40 minutes once a week, and it never seems like enough time for everything…finding great books, sharing great stories or lessons on finding information,...
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“Mermaids are real” (Critical thinking and the Internet)
I was reminded today why it’s so important to teach critical thinking skills and Internet savvy to our students, even the very young ones. A third grader told me she was having trouble finding...
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Free music from YouTube – Dynamic Landscapes Sharing #vted #vsla #tlchat
The information below is from my slide in the Dynamic Landscapes 2014 Smackdown. It was accurate as of May 20, 2014, but Google changes things a lot so it may look different in a month! YouTube...
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Passion Projects for the Elementary Student – Dynamic Landscapes 2015
On May 21, 2015, Darcie Rankin @darcierankin and I gave this presentation on passion projects for elementary students at the Dynamic Landscapes Conference in Burlington, Vermont. The direct link for...
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A year of change begins #tlchat #tlelem #vsla #vted
The library media center at my school, Richmond Elementary in Richmond Vermont, has received an enormous gift: a pilot year with an entirely flexible schedule. This is the Holy Grail of elementary...
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A Year of Change: The Reasons Why (Benefits of Flexible Library Scheduling)...
The library media center at my school, Richmond Elementary in Richmond Vermont, has received an enormous gift: a pilot year with a flexible schedule. It’s the ideal situation for school library work:...
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A Year of Change: The Inspiration #tlchat #vsla #vted
The library media center at my school, Richmond Elementary in Richmond Vermont, has received an enormous gift: a pilot year with a flexible schedule. It’s the ideal situation for school library work:...
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A Year of Change: This Library is Always Open (Self Checkout) #tlchat #vsla...
The library media center at my school, Richmond Elementary in Richmond Vermont, has received an enormous gift: a pilot year with a flexible schedule. It’s the ideal situation for school library work:...
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