In order to achieve Future Ready goals, educators must constantly leverage new technologies to provide personalized learning experiences for their students. This session will cover affordable, customizable digital and makerspace solutions offered through MackinVIA and MackinMaker. MackinVIA is a FREE, award-winning digital content management solution for eBooks, online databases, audio books, and more. MackinMaker provides free services to help you start or expand a makerspace program that is unique to your school community.
Learn and understand the basic tool(s) needed to review and improve your student data privacy and security practices. We all require expectations and legal requirements for the growing and increased complex questions regarding student data privacy and practices. The participants of this workshop will understand a comprehensive framework for safeguarding student digital data with legal requirements.
Bring your device and explore how Britannica resources can help you be “Future Ready”. In this hands-on workshop, we will focus on the tools you need to personalize student learning by building instructional partnerships, empowering students as creators, and curating digital resources. Attendees will receive a tote bag and a chance to win a free one year subscription to Britannica’s new classroom resource.
Do you subscribe to TexQuest? If so, then you already know you have access to great eBook collections supporting K-12 curriculum. But did you know about the other eBooks available to you? Academic, Business and Education collections are also part of the package! These are great when looking for professional development and other resources.
We'll review the eBook collections and discuss different search strategies and features as well as the differences between viewing online and downloading for offline viewing.
Join us and explore EBSCO's extensive eBook collection!
Idioms are part of everyday living. Come meet Letty Lou and see how she takes everything literally. In other words she does things exactly as she hears them. This can sometimes present a problem. This hilarious program will make students aware of how we use the English language. They might just think twice about what they say! LOL!
Texas Bluebonnet Award 2017-2019 Presentation of current resources available and discussion of future representation of Region 1 librarians on state committees.
Developing a student EdTech Team enhances teaching and learning while building digital leaders. Students who participate in these technology teams receive the ultimate real-world learning experience while earning credit for an academic course. Interested is starting one? Join us!
Brain Hive offers a robust reading platform that allows educators to integrate print and read digital content seamlessly. Educators, and students have access to 500 high quality fiction and nonfiction titles as part of the Region One Library Cooperative. All eBooks are simultaneous, multi-user access making classroom novel studies a breeze for all students to read the same book at the same time on any device with ability to read offline using Brain Hive’s free iOS and Chromebook apps. This presentation will highlight the new student viewer, teacher and administrator portal.
Mission CISD Reads! A first of its kind in the Rio Grande Valley. The district has launched a new digital literacy initiative that brings together three learning communities that it serves. All residents in the cities of Alton, Mission, and Palmhurst have access to a unique online library of thousands of books through myON. A special community account was created for each of the cities allowing residents access to myON, anywhere, anytime, 24/7. The Mission “metro-plex” residents no longer need to trek to the public library; digital ebooks are readily available.
History Reference Center contains thousands of reliable resources to help students complete their research. Join EBSCO as we tour this resource in an easy-to-use interface. Choose from 22 different key time periods in both US and World History. Rediscover decisive moments in the Texas Revolution or World War II. Read articles from titles such as Archaeology, Civil War Times, Wild West, Cobblestone and Foreign Affairs. Learn how History Reference Center supports curriculum integration. Come discover the past while creating a successful future for your students!
Session is about what’s new at Follett. Destiny 15.0 has a new Collections feature, Titlewave has been updated. There are more Lightbox and Makerspace items and a new local consultant.
Educators will explore 9 apps and websites that will allow them to communicate effectively with parents and actively engage their elementary students in the classroom using technology. These apps and websites include Mentimeter, Sway, ClassDojo, Remind, GoNoodle, ABCya, Quiver, code.org, and AirPano.
This session will discuss the importance of Early Childhood Literacy and provide research to support the needs for reading. This information is in line with the presentation at the 2016 TLA Annual Conference given by the the Programs Director of HEB discussing why we need to give community support. Ideas for community involvement programs will be discussed as well.
Author panel made up of Middle Grade and Young Adult writers of Realistic Fiction. Hear from some of the best selling authors in the genre! Listen as they talk about their books, learn where they get their ideas and discuss how important their role as writers is to our youth.
If you skipped EBSCO's eBook sessions at the recent TexQuest mini-conference, here’s another chance to see what you missed! Join us and learn about this amazing virtual library right at your fingertips. There are 6 collections available for unlimited, simultaneous viewing – from K-8 and High School eBooks to an Education collection that supports professional development and curriculum building. All together, these collections total almost 225,000 eBooks. Now that’s something to cheer about!
Research has shown the important role school librarians play in the educational community. A review of past research as well as some new research should assist us as we defend our positions.
Technology has everything to do with presentations. Interactive participation from an audience is always the key to ensuring our lessons take off. Make technology a part of your everyday lessons. This presentation will take the participant through a technology journey of free presentation platforms which include Mentimeter, gzaas!, Smore, Padlet, and more!
Whether you’re a BrainPOP newbie or veteran in need of a refresher, we’ve got you covered. Join us for this overview session as we explore BrainPOP’s newest features including Newsela and Creative Coding. We will also explore new creation tools like Make-a-Map and Make-a-Movie. We’ll discuss best practices for engaging students and encouraging active involvement so that you can make the most out of your BrainPOP subscription.
Award Winning Children's Book Author discusses how author visits can build on instructional partnerships. Participants will learn: 1. Engaging phonological awareness activities 2. Interesting ways to facilitate students’ understanding of new vocabulary 3. How to support students to A. Make inferences based on the examination of the cover, title, illustrations and plot. B. Identify elements of a story including setting, character, and key events. C. Draw conclusions about themes, making connections to their own experiences while acting out important events in the stories. D. Analyze a story.
So, your students have the basics of coding down. Now it's time to move into intermediate coding. Using Dash and Dot, participants will expand their coding skills to incorporate conditional statements. This is a hands on session, so be prepared to make that coding connection.
La Joya ISD will be celebrating 10 year anniversary of our Parent Book Club, "La Llave del Exito." We have empowered our parents to be beacons in their communities who promote reading in the home. Sharing book talks, presenting at conferences and promoting reading in all forms.
Come by and meet a line up of amazing Middle Grade authors and listen as they talk about their current and future projects for youthful readers and describe programs they offer to the library community.
The objective of this presentation is to equip participants with the right mental, and technology tools to become game changers in their technology roles. How can we become catalysts for change in transforming and sustaining a positive technology mindset in our schools? This presentation will take participant through a plan for creating such a culture, which includes a series of goals for technology implementation and learning. Several learning platforms will be introduced, and presented which will allow participant to feel comfortable, and positive about technology.
Dr. David Bowles discusses the latest trends in the representation of marginalized youth in children's and juvenile literature, providing strategies and resources for acquiring and deploying these virtual mirrors so that, in the words of Junot Diaz, students "might see themselves reflected back" and become creators of mirrors themselves through student-driven ethnography and other locally-based, culturally rich creative endeavors.
Attendees will learn a fun and easy way to introduce robotics to elementary sudents. They will see how a friendly robot called bee-bot can help students learn about algorithms, programming, and problem solving.
Julian Franklin's utilization of puppets, magic, storytelling and audience participation helps students get started on creating their own writing style. Students leave his program eager to find a good book that will provide them with a favorite technique to apply to their own writing. Tools & techniques discussed are interesting story beginnings, elaboration through the use of dialogue, sensory images of setting and character, and the use of similes and metaphors. Julian also explores plot and the variety of endings available for students to apply in their personal writing.
Information literacy has become even more important in the confusing world we live in today. Creating students that can navigate our current data rich environment has become vital. Even children have to be taught that they are not just consumers of information but also creators. Come join a panel of librarians and instructors to learn what UTRGV is doing to increase information literacy among students.
We all know how much students love SCARY STORIES! Get ready to be SPOOKED! In this panel we have it all from Vampires to Zombies and everything in between. Let these authors take you into their worlds of creepy creatures and haunted places to help entice your patrons to READ!!
Empower your students and free up you library and IT Staff by creating a campus -based student Geek Squad that can troubleshoot, diagnose and accurately correct many campus technology needs.
