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NotebookLM for research

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8 week unit with 4th & 5th graders to have each student create their own podcast book review. We used Soundtrap, their student laptops, and headphones. Nothing fancy. Here are my unit notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QXXyj8tc6cdfltGu0Vw1Z7yhiM5pYgQPFb86rO3hh4Q/edit?usp=sharing

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I asked for time at each academic dept meetings to showcase three ways I could support them with research instruction.

1. Created a generic guide they could give their students that links resources for that subject

2. Create a guide personalized to whatever project they are doing that included video instruction they could add to their course

3. Bring their class in for research instruction on a particular topic.

The requests for instruction have skyrocketed since I did this!

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We have recently acquired a Cricut and after some lengthy getting to know it, I'm making really cool stuff for my bulletin boards.

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A great tool I have used with students is ThingLink. It basically acts as a living poster where you can add text, video, links, audio etc, that you access from an icon of your choosing. It has many applications across all curriculum.

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"Would you rather?" question of the day

Booktok "is it worth the hype?" poster with stickies for folks to vote

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Scavenger hunt tool

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I have had great time ending units in our lower school by dressing up and answering questions they may have. It ends up being really fun and kind of a celebration for the students. I have been a mad scientist, astronaut, Johnny Appleseed, a Paleontologist, etc. I will be a Zoologist in a week or two, just need to find the costume.

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We have been attempting to draw in our high school students for 30 min of silent sustained reading during lunch, offering them a free lunch in return. We've called it "Reading with a Chance of Meatballs," "Reading a la Carte," or "Eat This, Read That" on different occasions.

Responses were limited until we switched publicity and sign-up links to postcards made with CANVA. Our registration tripled with the change in advertising medium.

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Budget increase!

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I launched my podcasting unit with 8th graders with this assignment. They really had fun with it! The idea is to build familiarity with using Soundtrap and some of its core features before we move on to more involved storytelling. Below is the link to one of my favorite student work examples:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gm9jNSwjSAGO7qOWuzHEd2cdUkl6e3Tk/view?usp=sharing

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I finally was able to implement an idea I've been marinating for years. Inspired by the song parodies on YouTube of librarians and students singing about their love of reading and the library, I was able to do it in a VERY low key way at a recent assembly (faculty are required to take turns putting on assemblies), but people really loved it! There are so many on YouTube, but I chose to use the link above, as it was the easiest to implement. We simply played the song, and we added pictures of our students and staff reading to the slides, and then had the students dance with books while it played. Fun!

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We moved back to hand drawing and writing an infographic poster for 9th grade health class. We used to use canva, which is still a good tool for the students to learn, but in a 6-week, ungraded class we found the students were more focused on a more crafty, hands-on project.

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A perfect jamboard replacement. Many folks can write and share, draw, add photos, links, pretty much anything you can think of. Your own work is protected, but the owner can move things around.

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We recently had Jim Cogan, storyteller, come tell stories at Harker to grades K-2 and 3-5. This was his 23rd year, and he is so willing to tell stories on any theme we want. Our students and teachers love him and they were mesmerized. He's a huge library proponent too!

I also talk with Jim beforehand and see what stories he's going to tell, then I'll grab and display the folktale (if we have it), and the kids are so excited to see the similarities and differences.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-cogan-62623111_touring-nationally-at-schools-across-the-activity-7109297756027981824-xKbi/

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Author Scott Thybony knows the spectacular and rugged plaetaus and canyons of the Colorado Plateau as well as anyone. And he knows the historical good, bad, and the ugly of what can happen in a such a remote landscape. Join him as he tracks down the history of three famous disappearances which all occurred at almost the same time in the 1930s. Interweaving his modern day search with the amazing narrative of events that occurred 80 years ago, Thybony's three tales will bring to life the wonder, mystery, danger, and spectacle of this wild, colorful, and still mysterious geography that is the heart of the West. Better yet, go to Amazon's Audible to hear Thybony's tales through the many voices of storyteller Jim Cogan whose lively Audible narration highlights Thybony's search for the truth behind these mysteries.

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Jim Cogan on LinkedIn: Touring nationally at schools across the country bringing the art of...

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Touring nationally at schools across the country bringing the art of storytelling to students of all ages. cogantales@yahoo.com

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I’m back in grad school, and one of my professors is a huge advocate for YA postural seating — seating options that allow a wider variety of postural choices. It’s making me rethink all of the basic chairs in my library — and also giving me permission to allow students to sit in nontraditional ways, rearrange furniture to suit the comfort and preferences, etc.

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Inspired by a workshop at 2024 CSLA (Mia Gitlen and I attended together), the Library is hosting a mock election. Candidates are picture book characters. Students are learning about election process generally, election vocabulary, campaigning for a character, evaluating characteristics of leadership and "good" citizens, and research with primary and secondary resources.

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AI Discovery tools for science DRAFT

https://noodle.to/discoverscience

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For students—the library has started teaching Stanford’s Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to all our 9th & 10th graders. This introduces lateral reading as a fact checking technique to help them better evaluate the credibility of information they find online. This is part of a wider school initiative to make Ethnic Studies and Civics classes mandatory for all our sophomores starting next year.

For teachers—we are continuing a “What Are You Reading?” program. Teachers tell us what they’re currently reading via a Google form, and we put up a sign with an image of their current book cover outside their classrooms.

—Bekah Puddington, Sacred Heart Schools (prep school), Atherton

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Zines are great and I will love them forever. Many people are saying this. I've found an immense amount of success in cultivating a "mini zine" bin right at the checkout/circulation desk in my library. Whenever a student checks out a book, they can grab a mini zine from the bin to keep forever.

Most of the zines that I print out and fold/staple are small enough to fit in a pocket, and the vast majority are age-appropriate, very short tabletop roleplaying games. It's a great way to get readers engaged with the library as a space, increase their sense of ownership in the library, and to expand their tastes with bite-sized games and zines.

My personal favorite? A mini-zine TTRPG called "Tome," which you fold into a bookmark and then use to play a game WITH the book you're currently reading!

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We began subscribing to GroundNews this fall. It is a news aggregator which evaluates stories for political bias and content accuracy. It's not the be-all and end-all for evaluating sources, but students and faculty have been impressed with what it does offer. School subscription for a community of 500 was ~$1500 a year.

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We built blanket forts under the tables for one day for silent reading in a safe space. So much fun.

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This is our first year of having student volunteers! It’s starting off slowly, but we have students training to help process books, students working on creating our first ever library Instagram account, and other students setting up book display (pairing fall cozy reads with yummy food recipes). We are really excited about this new program!

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After ad hoc style class collaborations were not really sustainable, established a Buddies Program by using dedicated Library time for at least one Buddies class. Has been an amazing community builder (notably in a time of challenge for our school). Now in our 6th year. Other specialist teachers involved now too!

Margot Berrill, Peninsula School

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Resource created by a high school librarian that provides a glossary, context, tools, etc. for AI with a strong focus on ethical concerns (academic integrity, labor issues, impact on environment/sustainability, etc.).

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Everything you wanted to know about AI but were afraid to ask

The goal of this guide is to provide general information about AI, including what it is and is not capable of and some of the ways the technology is currently being used. This guide will be updated regularly, especially the "In Context" section, as new information is revealed.

To get started, take a look at some of the following resources.

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We put together a quick banned books display for the elementary kids, with reasons why each book was banned or challenged. It created a lot of discussion, and the 4th graders were outraged - to my utter delight!

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First Wednesday in February.

We celebrated with cross divisional celebration of reading aloud all day. Students read to younger students, administrators read to students and each other, students read aloud in "open mic" style at lunch, we had author visits in 6 classes. it was a reading party day.

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LitWorld founded World Read Aloud Day® in 2010 to celebrate the power of reading aloud to create community and amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right. Since then, World Read Aloud Day has evolved into a global movement of millions of readers, writers, and listeners from communities all across the world coming together to honorthe joy and power of reading and sharing stories, and continue expanding the definition and scope of global literacy.

Every year, World Read Aloud Day has been one of the top trending hashtags on Twitter, celebrated by millions of people in over 170 countries. From celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Chelsea Clinton, and Jimmy Fallon to students of all ages from around the globe, World Read Aloud Day brings us together to celebrate the unique impact of sharing stories.

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LitWorld founded World Read Aloud Day ® in 2010 to celebrate the power of reading aloud to create community and amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right.

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One of my biggest struggles with the library this year is that I no longer have an assistant, and basic circulation tasks have fallen waaaaay behind as a result. A solution I've found a lot of success with has been what I call Information Science Elective. At EBI, middle schoolers have an 80 minute (formerly 40 minute) elective block every Friday afternoon. Traditionally, the EBI librarian has run Book Club as an elective... but we have twice as much time!

So the second half of Book Club is now Information Science Elective, in which I am teaching these middle schoolers the ins and outs of how a library actually functions. A lot of that is circulation tasks, sure, but we go pretty deep: how to process new books, how to select new books, how to weed collections, how to organize and restructure libraries, how to update catalogs, etc. The students love it, and I get a whole little army of kiddos that are trained to do my bidding!

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Class wide book club for 5th grade students.

5th grade students were in groups of 5, selected their books (each group read different book), set page goals for each week and read together in February, culminated with a "cafe" with snacks, and acted out a book trailer for their book. Students got a "menu" each week with questions for reflection, each week we added a new page of the menu.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall came to talk to 4th-8th graders about book banning in re: her picture book "Love in the Library". She did an assembly for K-3 about writing a story and wrote a group story with them. She was so easy to work with leading up to the day, and she was fantastic!

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A workshop through Atlas Obscura events. Highly recommended!

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Occasionally we will let students know that the computers are not available for a screen-free Friday. (Elementary does not have homework on Fridays)

We will put out board games, puzzles, origami and other crafts for them to play with.

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I'm half wondering if we could get the teacher (who is great) to do a private class for us?

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In this five-part lecture series, Abi Inman will walk you through researching, writing, and hosting your own murder mystery party.

Course Description

Nothing brings people together quite like donning period costume and trying to solve an elaborate, fictional murder by framing friends and family. Murder mystery games have been around since the early 20th century, and are infinitely adaptable; they can be made for players of all ages and take on a multitude of forms. While some are available for purchase online, they tend to be poorly written and often rely on one of a few classic, overused plots. Luckily, murder mysteries are just as fun to write as they are to play.

Over the course of five sessions, we'll look at the history and structure of murder mysteries before creating our own. We'll discuss what types of events and settings make good inspiration for a successful party, and which format works best for you. You'll learn about the different pieces you need to create for each phase of the party, how to write characters that anyone can play, and what clues to put in place to ensure your murder is solvable without being obvious. By the time the course is finished, you'll have a complete murder mystery party written and will be equipped with the tools you need to host it in person or online.

Syllabus at a Glance

This course includes five total sessions, each lasting for one hour on Thursdays beginning September 26.

Session 1 (Thursday, 09/26, 8-9:00 PM ET): Inspiration, research, and structure

Session 2 (Thursday, 10/3, 8-9:00 PM ET): Setting, cliques, and characters

Session 3 (Thursday, 10/10, 8-9:00 PM ET): Conflict and clues

Session 4 (Thursday, 10/17, 8-9:00 PM ET): Physical evidence and speeches

Session 5 (Thursday, 10/24, 8-9:00 PM ET): Hosting a killer party

This course is available at three ticket prices. This tiered pricing model is designed to increase access for a wider range of students as well as to support our instructors. In addition to tiered tickets, we offer a limited number of no-pay spots for students who would not otherwise be able to take this course. No-pay spots are selected via a randomized drawing two weeks before each section begins. For more information and to apply for a no-pay spot, please click here. To learn more about our pricing model and randomized selection process for no-pay spots, please visit our FAQ page.

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Please take a moment to review our community guidelines for students, which aim to share our classroom ethos and help set the stage for the best possible learning experience.

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Once registered, you'll receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite that will provide access to each class meeting. Please save the confirmation email as you'll use it to access all sessions of your course via Zoom .

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How to Make a Murder: Writing Your Own Murder Mystery Party With Abi Inman

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When you do a search on google, and get a list of websites, if you click on the three vertical dots on the right of the name of the website you can work through to a set of lateral research about the website. "about this website".

I only found this recently and now use it all the time.

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https://thresholdachievement.com/

We have used it with our seniors to assess information literacy knowledge and skills before they head to college

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After three years of development, two years of field testing, and countless hours of creative innovation and hard work, Carrick Enterprises is proud to announce the availability of the Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy!

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Our document that includes what English, Social studies and the library do with research over the four years of their time here.