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It all started when author Mona Kerby visited Grandview Library in 2008 to talk to 2nd graders about her book Owney, The Mail Pouch Pooch. In 2009, Ms. Kerby visited the class via Skype. The children and their teachers cheered when Ms. Kerby "appeared" on the Smart Board. Ms. Kerby talked about Owney and the process she went through to research, write, and publish the book. Several of the children asked Ms. Kerby questions and the whole group enjoyed waving at and thanking Ms. Kerby for "visiting".

The mission of the Skype an Author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians with a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits. Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after reading their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you via Skype. Visit our Skype Overview page to learn more about Skype.

Marsha Diane Arnold- May 2016

Marsha Diane Arnold Skyped with Bridges to Learning PreSchool in Kansas on May 11th.

The children had recently performed a Mother's Day play of their favorite "Marsha" book, Roar of a Snore.

After the Skype visit, the children enjoyed another favorite "Marsha " book, Prancing Dancing Lily. It was especially fun for Marsha as Kingman, Kansas is her home town and the teacher is her cousin's daughter-in-law.

Bruce Hale- March 2015

The 3rd graders at Bethesda Elementary participated in their very first Skype session today with the author Bruce Hale and we could not be happier about choosing him to be our "pilot program" author. Bruce Hale has a great balance of humor and information in his presentation of how he became an author. The students were completely engaged in the full lesson listening,laughing and learning the whole time.

He has a great message for students about perseverance and using your imagination to create stories. We 100%recommend contacting Bruce for a Skype or school visit and hope to be able to do so again ourselves in the future!
Megan Despot
Bethesda Elementary School

Marsha Diane Arnold- January 2015

I look so delighted here. And I was! Skyping with a school in Hyderabad, India. Before questions, the students all greeted me: Good Morning, Miss Marsha.

Abhinesh says: Good Morning Marsha Madam. My name is Abhinesh from PP2F. I am happy that I met an author on the screen. I also wrote 3 stories, I told you when my turn came during the session. I forgot to tell that I am only the illustrator for my books. You gave me the idea of choosing the name for my character in my stories. I told my mom to search on the computer and internet for the character name. I want to listen to your story Heart of a Tiger. I want to talk to you again. Thank you.

Nikitha says: Good Morning Madam.I am Nikitha. I was so happy when you answered my doubts regarding stories and the story you shared with us was real fun.

Garrett Burke- January 2014

Garrett Burke's coin idea became half a billion California State Quarters honoring John Muir in Yosemite Valley. Now, as the creator of the award-winning book "Quarterama," he reveals the surprising histories, innovative people, and natural wonders seen atop all 50 State Quarters.
"We just had parent/teacher conferences and several parents mentioned how much their child talked about what they had learned. Two told me that their children are now collecting coins! Mr. Burke is wonderful with children. My students want to meet with him again!" - MAINE -

"Mr. Burke was gracious enough to address my 30 freshmen students in U.S. History and it was a GREAT experience from start to finish! They were amazed at the relevancy of symbolism in currency and how it impacts their world." - WISCONSIN -

"Thirty minutes went by so quickly, it was a mix of him, pictures, and video. I would highly recommend this lesson, it was fabulous!" - OKLAHOMA -

"Mr. Burke's presentation was out of this world! I loved the "Screen Sharing", which enabled him to show us various video clips and snippets from his book 'Quarterama', all the while narrating over them." - NEW YORK

Teacher Reviews

"My 3rd Grade students were focused throughout this high-interest lesson. They LOVE the book and it made for some very interesting pre-teaching. The discussion continued long after the lesson was complete and I am positive it has continued at home too. I had parents who said they wished they could have sat in on the lesson as well." -
CALIFORNIA -

Martha Rodriguez- July 2013

We had the pleasure of Skyping with Martha Rodriguez, and found her to be a dynamic and special person. She is flexible and accommodating, aligning her schedule to match the needs of our school. We were fortunate to have her meet with our third graders during five class sessions. For each group of students, she devised separate engaging and creative activities. Not only did we laugh when we read her humorous story, but we were again entertained and inspired by her games, which were designed to get our creative juices flowing.

The opportunity to meet with an authentic author is truly inspiring for our young writers, and Martha was a blessing to our school.

Carrie Stepeck, Librarian, Bungay School, Seymour, Connecticut

May 2013

Martha helped the students aspire towards becoming authors themselves. Every single studentwas actively engaged in her Q & A session and her fun writing activities that sparked the students' imaginations.

This was her second year of visiting our school and each time the studentslove to hear from her. They always comment on how much they enjoy her books. We are so fortunate to have found such a wonderful author to help our third graders with their author study project by Skyping with us from Florida to Hawaii. She enriched our students' learning with her wealth of ideas and inspiration.

Thank you Martha!Laurel Taylor, Library Media Specialist/Tech Coordinator JK-6

Bruce Hale-March 2013

Last week we had a Skype visit with Bruce Hale and he was fantastic. I loved the way he engaged the students. It was almost like he was in the room. The studentsfelt like he was there and had a great time interacting with him. He shared a Slideshow with me to show students so they could see what he was talking about and how he became a writer. He was funny, entertaining and very informative. The students loved that he drew pictures as well. My son was in the audience and he even tried to draw Chet Gecko the nextday after watching Bruce.

I highly recommend him to any school. He was so easy to work with, so kind and so on target. He was as good with Kindergarten as he was with the older grades and he saw every grade except 5th because we could not fit it in their schedule. I would certainly have him again. Way to go Bruce!

Clarissa Grindle, Librarian
Great Oaks Elementary
Round Rock Independent School District

Marsha Diane Arnold- February2013

In celebration of Lily's new adventure, I'm offering a special price for Skype visits if booked by the first day of spring, March 20th. For those who take advantage of the Lily Special, I will Skype with yourclass or school for a "song". Just $90 for 45 minutes to 1 hour, which can include a slideshow, reading a story with your students, showing them around my office, answering questions, and more! Email me at marshaoak@mac.com to book today.

Lisa Ard- February 2013

"I can't thankyou enough for taking the time to speak with our fifth graders. We had over one hundred 10 and 11 year-olds in attendance, all of whom had been anticipating your visit for weeks, since we began reading Fright Flight.

I wish you could have heard the discussions we had after the session. The students were inspired with a new excitement for writing as they shared their favorite piece of advice from you.

I overheard a couple of students discussing how they were going to buy little notebooks over the weekend, so that they could startrecording their ideas. When students are able to learn from an expert in a field, it takes their learning to a new level. Thankyou for seeing the value in that and taking the time to help develop young writers."

Michele Colebrook,
5th grade teacher, Timberline Elementary

Dear Marsha,

You are such a delightful person! The children just beamed during our follow-up conversation. They just couldn't believe that they were actually talking to you! I am confident that we made a memory for them that will have an impact for years to come! Thankyou for sharing your experience with us. Perhaps we can do it again nextyear! I will be in touch.

Please continueSkyping! Our students may never experience talking to a published author without this kind of opportunity as we are unable to afford the fees that are incurred when an author has to travel to be here. It is truly invaluable. I appreciate your willingness to participatein this type of experience to expose our students to the wonderful world of reading and writing.

Thankyou againfor such a lovely conversation!
Carla Laney
Manning Early ChildhoodCenter
Manning, South Carolina

Wouldn't they make great ticklers for a Skype Visit! If you've written a children's picture book with a nature theme,Professor Arnone may be interested in creating a talk for your book!

let me know mailto:sachauncey@gmail.com.

Our goal is to set upwho are willing toare initiated via email and/or a networkof authors participatein Skype conversations with studentsin classrooms and libraries. This wiki provides a page for each author who joins the network. Our author template ensures consistency of content and keeps things simple for authors, teachers, and librarians. The author pages provide procedural and contact phonebetween the author and the teacher and/or librarian.

information.
Once you are comfortable with "Skyping" you can try additional web-based technologies to enhance your visits, for example:

Take a lookat Mona Kerby'spage as an example.

Arrangements for Skype visits Authors offer two types of visits:

No Charge - Meet the Author Visits - 10 to 15 minutes

In-Depth Visits - Time and fee determined by each author

Next Steps

The possibilities for collaboration are many. If you have used other tools during your sessions, please start a "Discussion" to share with all of our members.

Pinterest Experiment

Illustrators & Author Illustrators
Click to Visit

Writer on the Side
Interview

Skype An Author
Columbia News Service

Education Week

Author/Illustrator Mike Artell
Shares a Skype Visit Web Conferencing...

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Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom

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It all started when author Mona Kerby visited Grandview Library in 2008 to talk to 2nd graders about her book Owney, The Mail Pouch Pooch. In 2009, Ms. Kerby visited the class via Skype. The children and their teachers cheered when Ms. Kerby "appeared" on the Smart Board.

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Students make a vine that explains what their concept is NOT - non-examples, to clarify

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Used to communicate to parents: a teacher could do this for the day or students could post their own 6 seconds a Day to share with their families.

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Exit slips for a lesson. Students post a summary of their learning.

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Students create a challenging question on Instagram, hashtag it for the concept taught, use a picture that demonstrates the concept (e.g. #conehead #3Dfigures, picture of a traffic cone)

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When people go out on field trips they can post pictures or vines of their trip for the community to see.

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Students can use vine to demonstrate understanding of key developments in a chapter. Alternately, they could introduce the key characters for each chapter

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Run multiple Instagram accounts on your device.

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Run multiple Instagram accounts on your device.

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Lots of strategies if you want a personal AND class account. Here's one.

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Instagram users with multiple accounts can toggle between their accounts from directly within the Instagram app. This feature, which Instagram rolled out earlier this year, has been long overdue, as users have been asking for a solution.

Before this update, users had to log out of one account and log back into another, or were at the behest of third-party apps - many of which actually made it difficult to jump from one account to the next. In the age of instant gratification, this was grossly inefficient. Now, Instagrammers have the ability to add up to five accounts, meaning you, your cat, your baby, and/or several inanimate objects in your life can each have a platform to express themselves, whether posting or reposting photos, GIFs, or videos. Although you may never accumulate as many followers as the official Queen of Instagram, Selena Gomez, you can still relish the moment when one of your photos receives that crucial 11th "like" and your general existence is momentarily validated.

That said, you're well on your way to celebrity status if you utilize the steps outlined below on how to manage multiple Instagram accounts. Remember, slow and steady wins the race, young tortoise. Rome wasn't built in a day, although Taylor Swift's KanTay 2020 photo did garner the equivalent population of Rome in likes in a day.

Instagram has made the process simple enough. Once you launch the app, go to your profile (the icon at the farthest-right along the bottom) and select the gear - or the three dots - in the upper-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll all the way down, select "Add account," and enter the desired username and password for the account you would like to add. If you've created several Instagram accounts, you will now receive push notifications from all accounts that have notifications activated. To see the notifications for each individual account, go to your profile page and select the username from the list.

At this point, you, your curmudgeonly cat, and your ill-fated terrarium each have their own Instagram account. Now you need to know how to toggle between the various accounts. Once you've launched the app, go to your profile page and tap your username at the top of the screen. You'll then have the option to select from a list of accounts associated with your specific app. Select the account you're attempting to manage before moving onto much more challenging questions - i.e. Nashville or 1977?

OK, so the novelty has wore off and that newly added account isn't really panning out as planned. It happens to the best of us. Thankfully, it's relatively easy to erase that old account and move on with other prospects. Once you've loaded your Instagram profile, select the gear icon - or the three dots - in the upper-right of the screen. Now, simply scroll down and select the "Log out of [username]" option. Logging out of an account will delete the account.

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Be the master of your own Insta-verse: How to manage multiple Instagram accounts

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Instagram users with multiple accounts can toggle between their accounts from directly within the Instagram app. This feature, which Instagram rolled out earlier this year, has been long overdue, as users have been asking for a solution.

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The entertainment network where videos and personalities get really big, really fast. Download Vine to watch videos, remixes and trends before they blow up.

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Streaming as you come into the building,

Create a hashtage and have teams compete fro the highest number of followers and likes

Students can post videos from vine for PE assessments and reassessments.

Give some guidelines for students and they can create projects that demonstrate key points and force students to get to the key of the issues.

Some events like Model UN or the Global Issues conference would be great for vines and instagram to share to school community and parents.

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Instagram to tell school story, FB for school promotion and foster idea of community, Twiiter, Instagram image share, class Twitter for connectin w/ other int schools and promote class projects,

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bite-sized (5 minutes) video lectures

students can set their own paces, teacher would support individually in-class

vine -> 6 seconds -> too short? -> force teachers / students to be concise and to-the-point

(Can we put vine videos on pedlet?)

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Created by Will Tragert, AISG

@willtragert

wtragert@aisgz.org

Student created note pages, uploaded to Instagram using a unique hashtag. (ex: #geometryaisg)