tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73308293708923711252024-03-05T01:12:06.231-06:00Continuously Learning in the LibraryAs an elementary Teacher-Librarian in Texas, I am learning each & every day. I strive to achieve our district mission to teach, challenge, and inspire our students to succeed in the global community.Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-86168092612066567202015-10-04T20:10:00.000-05:002015-10-04T20:12:30.997-05:00New Job, New Blog<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After enjoying four years as the teacher-librarian at Curtis Elementary, I have moved into a new position in my district. I will be working with teachers & librarians as the Future Ready Learning Coordinator. This blog will be left up, but I will begin reflecting at <a href="http://shawnaford.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ShawnaFord.blogspot.com. </a> I hope these posts will continue to be helpful and that you will also visit me at my new blog. </span><br />
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-3937332949530696002015-06-17T16:56:00.002-05:002015-06-17T17:40:11.628-05:00Summer Learning Opportunities for our Curtis Students<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="auto" src="https://www.smore.com/430hu-summer-learning?embed=1" style="border: none; min-width: 320px;" width="100%"></iframe>Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-8814530946666671062015-05-18T16:52:00.000-05:002015-05-18T16:53:45.596-05:00Curtis Makers Present at Region 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Throughout this year, some of our Curtis students have met on Wednesdays in the library for maker club activities. These activities have changed throughout the year, based on student feedback. Sometimes we were creating with Legos & LittleBits, sometimes programming our Speros & Ollies. Sometimes we were working on green screen creations, and sometimes we were coding in the computer lab, using Scratch and Code.org. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have had visitors drop by to see us, one of them being Mrs. Erin Griffith from Region 11 Education Service Center (ESC). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She was very impressed with what our students were doing with coding and robotics and asked if we would share our experiences with adult learners.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The group we were presenting to were education leaders from all over Region 11. Mrs. Griffith wanted them to see the way our students were taking charge of their learning and the after school maker club. Curtis Makers were more than willing to share! </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What a wonderful opportunity to tell our story and give our students a voice. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The hardest part was narrowing down our presenters because they ALL wanted to share!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Students selected to travel to Region 11 divided up into teams and chose what they wanted to present. They chose to present about the green screen, Spheros, coding, LittleBits & Makey-Makey. The students decided on the things they needed to bring and how they would present. They were completely responsible for their items and their presentation. It was great to see them take charge of this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When we arrived, our Curtis Makers got busy setting up their stations. The students took great pride in creating a display that would showcase their maker item. Before our presentations began, we enjoyed a catered lunch in the dining area. We were even able to check out their cool Collaboration Station with some moving chairs we are sure we need at Curtis!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our students presented to two different groups. I shared a little about our journey with a short presentation. As I would get to different parts of our journey, one of our students would come up and share. It was so wonderful to hear their confidence as they told the attendees about what they had learned and accomplished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The students answered questions as the adult learners came around and talked with them about what they were presenting. They did a great job of sharing their knowledge of what they had brought to present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have to say, this was one of those days that affirmed that there is so much right about education today and this generation of learners! These students were well-spoken and clearly able to explain all of the great things they have been doing this year during our after school maker club! They told our story well, and I was so very proud of them!</span><br />
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Before we headed outside, we made some last minute adjustments to our rockets. The students listened carefully as Michael and Andrew explained what we were going to do.<br />
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Michael & Andrew, from the TSU Rocket Team, arranged three launch sites, positioned on the hill behind our school. This made for a wonderful viewing area. The students lined up to watch the rockets blast off.<br />
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Most times, the rockets would go off without a hitch, but every so often adjustments would have to be made before the rocket would launch.<br />
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The students were thrilled when their rocket would go off, and then would race to the landing site to collect it. Here are most of the launches, including the rocket launch from the week before. It is so fun to listen to their squeals of excitement!<br />
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Curtis Elementary students loved having this experience and truly appreciate all of the time and effort Michael and Andrew put into this project. We also appreciate Dr. Keith Emmert who connected us with the Tarleton State University Aeronautics program. This has been a great learning experience for all of us!<br />
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<br />Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-26065459811004653592015-03-29T13:18:00.000-05:002015-03-29T13:18:07.047-05:00Rocket Launch- Take 1<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Curtis students have been very fortunate to be able to participate in an education outreach project of Tarleton State University Aeronautics team. 5th and 6th grade students, as well as our after school maker club have all Skyped with the team in preparation for their visit. You can read more about our <a href="http://curtiselementarylibrary.blogspot.com/2015/02/actually-it-is-rocket-science.html" target="_blank">Skype here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After an unexpected weather delay, the day had finally arrived for Michael & Andrew's visit to Curtis. The weather was a little cool and damp, but it wasn't raining, so it looked like the launch was on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We started with a presentation with our 5th & 6th graders, where students were able to learn and ask questions about rockets and the competitions, as well as get a look at the 3D printer they had brought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 3D printer was great for the students and teachers to see since we will be writing a grant for one for our campus. As teachers watched the printing process, their minds began spinning with all types of curriculum tie-ins! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We gathered at a bench and read all about Maurice, a baby bear, who is anxious to experience his first spring. Unfortunately, it is winter and Mama Bear is already for hibernation. Maurice decides to go out and try to find spring. This book gave us a good opportunity to talk about seasons, animal habits, and even evaporation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was so much fun watching these students eagerly search for signs of spring and then call for friends to come take a picture. Here are some of their great shots! Happy Spring!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr. Keith Emmert, our parent volunteer who helps lead our maker club, is a math professor at Tarleton State University, and he helped arrange this partnership. The plan is for the rocket team to Skype with our 5th and 6th graders, as well as our after school maker club. Then the team will visit Curtis in March, bringing their 3D printer and rockets. Fifth and Sixth grade students will be able to watch the team launch one of their rockets, after learning more about rockets and seeing their 3D printer up close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Tuesday, our 5th graders Skyped with the team. Michael<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Daigrepont and Andrew Olbrich, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">explained</span> about the competitions they participate in, shared the process of building their rockets, and answered questions from the group. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The rocket team, now including </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">Suleima Rangel, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">repeated their presentation with our after school maker club. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During this Skype, we had approximately 20 visitors come in from the Weatherford Chamber of Commerce Leadership group. We were happy to have them see the great things that are happening in Weatherford ISD and in education in general!</span></div>
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To say we are excited about the visit from the Tarleton Rocket team is an understatement! Stay tuned for news of our rocket launch! More information about the Tarleton Rocket team can be found at <a href="http://www.tsuaeronautics.org/" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI WPC', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, 'Microsoft Sans Serif', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: none;" target="_blank">www.tsuaeronautics.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: 'Segoe UI WPC', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, 'Microsoft Sans Serif', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> and </span>on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/TSUAeronautics" target="_blank">TSUAeronautics</a>.</div>
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-17749334853271168022015-02-08T12:07:00.001-06:002015-02-08T12:07:10.044-06:00TCEA15- Learning, Growing, Connecting<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last week I attended the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Annual Conference. As educators, we should model life-long learning and attending conferences is one way to do that. The week was full of learning & connecting, so much so that it would require a quite lengthy post to cover everything. Here are my major take-aways for the week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/kristenswanson" target="_blank">Kristen Swanson</a></b>, the founder of the <a href="http://www.kristenswanson.org/p/edcamp.html" target="_blank"><b>Edcamp movement</b></a>, started our first day with a reminder that "<i><b>learning is fundamentally different in a connected world.</b></i>" When educators are connected, they can learn anywhere, from anyone, at anytime! It becomes personalized, which is exactly what we are striving for for our students. A big take-away was "<b><i>when we change the learning for adults, they will change the learning for their students!"</i></b> YES! This, as well as another session, helped me rethink the way I share information with teachers on our campus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first day ended with a nice honor. I was recognized as a finalist for TCEA Library Media Specialist of the Year. There to support me were my biggest cheerleaders: <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyJoLambert" target="_blank">Nancy Jo Lambert</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tinaberumen" target="_blank">Tina Berumen</a>, Erin Griffith, and Racheal Rife! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to present with some pretty AMAZING people! The first presentation was with my principal, <a href="https://twitter.com/rachealrife" target="_blank">Racheal Rife</a>, and friend/mentor, <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsGriffith3" target="_blank">Erin Griffith</a>. Racheal encourages and supports innovation on our campus and inspires me to rethink how I look at our education system. Erin Griffith, worked in our district last year, and was a huge reason we hosted our first Edcamp Parker County! We presented on <a href="https://www.smore.com/xwhy3" target="_blank"><b>Collaborative Learning Spaces </b></a>and how to create these spaces on a budget, with limited space, AND with student involvement. We shared spaces we created with our students, and talked about the WHY. It was wonderful to hear others in the audience share about their spaces. Attendees added pictures and links to the <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pxi6ZhfkWKhwsU1ZL41bbnJjWXvE4I5jOeehxcb6_08/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">presentation's Google Slides</a> </b>which we hope will be a resource for others. A highlight of this session was discovering that <b><a href="https://twitter.com/mrhooker" target="_blank">Carl Hooker</a> </b>had created sketchnotes of the session and shared them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Makerspaces are a great addition to a school, whether it be in a library, classroom, or another part of the building. They are also easy to personalize, and there is no right or wrong in makerspaces. The purpose is to create a space where students are able to collaborate & innovate! We shared some of the items that we have in our makerspaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a full house in this session, with many of them being librarians. This seems like a good indicator that librarians are ready to be key players in creating innovative spaces for their students!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were many sessions and learning opportunities throughout the week, and the last session we attended was an inspiring way to end this conference. A new addition to my PLN, <a href="https://twitter.com/matthew_arend" target="_blank">Matthew Arend</a>, mentioned that <a href="https://twitter.com/gcouros" target="_blank"><b>George Couros </b></a>was presenting on Thursday. My principal and I made it to his first session, <b>Your Digital Footprint</b>, at 8:00 AM. I honestly would have gone to all three of his sessions that day if I could have, he is that good! There are many great resources on <a href="http://georgecouros.ca/blog/" target="_blank"><b>his blog,</b></a> which I will be checking regularly! He reinforced my belief that being a connected educator is important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By watching the hashtag #TCEA15Couros, you could see how everyone was connecting with Couros! In fact, I went back and read tweets from the other two sessions to see what I missed. Like this question:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I take back to my campus great ideas to share and the reminder that the most important thing is still RELATIONSHIPS! Technology is a wonderful addition, but forming relationships with people, whether it be our students, the teachers on our campus, or connecting with members of our PLN in person, that is where we really make a difference. </span></div>
Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-78612908444188902692015-01-19T18:58:00.000-06:002015-01-19T18:59:50.790-06:00Hanging Out With an Illustrator<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How much fun did we have with our Google Hangout with </span><a href="http://debbieohi.com/bored" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Debbie Ridpath Ohi</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">? Tons!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During January, we have been talking about medals books can earn, and have specifically talked about the Caldecott medal with our younger students. Which made this a perfect time to connect with an illustrator! A librarian friend of mine,<a href="http://reederama.blogspot.com/2014/12/wherein-we-skype-with-debbie-ridpath.html" target="_blank"> Jennifer Reed</a>, had recently posted on Facebook about her Skype visit with Debbie, the illustrator of I'M BORED! Debbie mentioned that she was interested in connecting with other schools and to email if you were interested. Always looking for a way to connect our students, I emailed and we set up a virtual visit for mid January, with a practice connection a week or so before. It was during our practice Skype that I mentioned the idea of a Google Hangout (GHO). For some reason, in our district, the image during a Skype is a little blurry. It seems to be better during a GHO. So in the middle of our Skype, we tried a GHO! The really cool thing was she could demonstrate how she illustrates on her computer. I knew our students would love this part!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To prepare, even though I have read I'M BORED! to many of our students, I asked the 2nd grade teachers to read it to their classes. It is such a fun book, written by Michael Ian Black, about a child who is bored. Haven't we all heard a child utter those words? The little girl then meets a potato, who is also bored! She tries to come up with ideas to entertain the potato, which of course keeps her entertained! The illustrations are so fun, and of course the story has students giggling as they listen to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While we waited for all of the students to come into the library, Debbie entertained the students with drawings on the shared screen. It was amazing to see how quickly an illustration could appear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After everyone was settled, Debbie shared with us how she created the illustrations for I'M BORED. She talked about how the author and illustrated rarely talk or even meet during the creating of the book. Then students were treated to an interactive reading of NAKED, also written by Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Ohi. The students were able to read the word NAKED, which had them all howling with laughter!! (See first picture)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Students were able to ask questions like when Debbie began illustrating, and if she has written any books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They were excited to hear that she has written and illustrated a book that will be coming our May, 2015 called WHERE ARE MY BOOKS? We can't wait to add this to our library collection!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our students were treated to another creation, this one with torn paper. They couldn't wait to share this technique with our new art teacher! I would not be surprised if we didn't have a few budding illustrators at Curtis!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am always so appreciative of the kindness of authors and illustrators, such as Debbie, who will so freely give their time to share their passion with our students. It is a wonderful experience for our students, and it brings literature to life for them! Thank you, Debbie Ridpath Ohi, for a great time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-17652299937465960312015-01-11T00:07:00.001-06:002015-03-21T09:28:21.403-05:00Robotics, Coding & Beyond<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The new year brought new members to our after school Robotics & Coding club. We had 30 students in the library for the first meeting of 2015. Thankfully, we also had two parents helping!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was so fun to see the number of students who had received either a Sphero or an Ollie for Christmas! I encouraged them to bring their own Sphero & device, and they did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first thing we did was participate in a Google Hangout with a young man who has graduated with a degree in computer science and currently works as a programmer. Aaron happens to be friends with my oldest daughter and was kind enough to visit with our students about opportunities they might have if they learn computer coding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After we finished visiting with Aaron, Dr. Keith talked to the students about an early form of coding-- Morse code. Some of the students were familiar with Morse code, and were excited to share what they knew. Dr. Keith talked to the students about using Morse code to program the Sphero balls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the things that make accessing our databases so easy is MackinVia. This is what we use to house all of our e-resources. Students can access ebooks, online databases and audio books. With our recent update, students only need the User ID and the Password. There is no need to select a school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here students can easily locate our online databases without additional logins. Several of these databases also have read along capabilities which make them a great tool for Daily 5 time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also looked at World Book online. This is our first year using this database. One aspect the students are really enjoying is the Dramatic Learning part. Here they can find plays and reader's theater grouped by grade level, subject and title. </span></div>
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-9778764526404745042014-12-12T13:34:00.001-06:002015-03-21T09:28:46.808-05:00Coding & Robotics Week 3<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week, during our Coding & Robotics club time, our students were actually able to program the Sphero Robotics balls using the app MacroLab. Thankfully, Dr. Keith explained all of this to the students!</span><br />
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-2700082937098443552014-12-07T23:00:00.000-06:002014-12-07T23:00:32.372-06:002014 Edublog Awards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <a href="http://edublogawards.com/" target="_blank">Edublog Awards</a> are an annual event that celebrate "the best of the best on the web". It began in 2004 as a response to the lack of access to learner and teacher blog sites. It's purpose is to "<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media</em><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32.4000015258789px; margin-bottom: 0px;">."</strong> Curtis Elementary was excited to learn that there are two blogs that have been named finalists. Our assistant principal, Lorie Bratcher's blog, <b>Passion Lives Here</b>, has made the short list in the <a href="http://edublogawards.com/2014-awards/best-new-blog-2014/" target="_blank">Best New Blog category</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our own library blog, <b>Continuously Learning in the Library</b>, is a finalist in the <a href="http://edublogawards.com/2014-awards/best-library-librarian-blog-2014/" target="_blank">Best Library/Librarian Blog category</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am honored to be a finalist, but I know that I am only there because of some pretty incredible people who are also nominated! I would encourage you to look at each category and find new people to add to your PLN (Personal Learning Network.) While you are there, vote for some of the people that make you better. Thankfully, you can vote for more than one in each category, which is great since it is hard to choose between all of the great blogs, chats, and tools!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-54696544408684616292014-12-04T06:14:00.001-06:002015-03-21T09:29:11.064-05:00Robotics and Coding ClubCurtis students met for the second time last week for the Robotics & Coding club. This session there are four weeks and students will be able to work with the Sphero robotics balls & Ollies for 2 weeks and code for two weeks. We are using Code.org for coding, as well as other sites that can be found on our <a href="http://edu.symbaloo.com/home/mix/curtiscoding" target="_blank">Coding Symbaloo</a>.<br />
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The students loved the addition of the Ollies to the robotics club. We did have a little difficulty finding a device that would run the app. It seems are library iPads are too old to run it, and even my phone wouldn't run the app. Fortunately, two students had devices that would run the app, so we were able to see how they worked.<br />
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There was a tweet recently that said something to the effect of "it isn't possible if you don't know it is possible". This is one of the main reasons we are introducing coding to our students. As they move through middle school and high school, they will pick a track to focus on. As the code.org site says in one of their videos, approximately one million jobs may go unfilled due to not having a skilled workforce for computer coders. Maybe a few of our students will choose to learn more. We have one student who created an app after participating in Hour of Code last year.<br />
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It is fun to see students becoming more comfortable with coding and operating the Sphero & Ollie. As we head into Hour of Code week, I'm excited to see what they discover! One thing I've learned is that I don't have to be an expert at something before I open it up to students. If I waited until I was comfortable with coding and robotics, our club would never have started. I am learning right beside my students!</div>
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-7254363226941952322014-11-05T22:14:00.000-06:002014-11-05T22:16:23.515-06:00Maker Clubs Finish Strong! Spooky Creations<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today we wrapped up the first session of our maker clubs and it was incredible to hear our students share what they learned from this experience. As parents began to enter the library for our presentation, there was a flurry of activity. The students were creating until the very last minute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had a full house, and the students were excited to show their creations! The maker club had created a haunted house, a graveyard with rotating tombstones, a spider and a scorpion. One of our Curtis parents, Dr. Keith Emmert worked with this group and the students really enjoyed having him lead their group. The green screen club had used those items, created a script, uploaded images and, using the Do Ink green screen app, created a haunted movie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was very impressive how eloquently the students explained what they did and what they learned. One student shared how even though what they were doing was "hard, really hard!" it made them want to do more and try harder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each student had the opportunity to speak, and I was so proud of their courage! They not only took ownership of their clubs, they took ownership of this presentation. I loved how one student talked about how they weren't always successful, that there were definite failures during the learning process. They talked about working together, not giving up, getting better at what they were doing, and thanked Dr. Keith a lot! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After everyone spoke who wanted to, we showed their green screen creations, which highlighted the maker club's creations! There were a few giggles as they saw their haunted movies on the big screen. There was even requests to watch their "bloopers"! We will upload the creations to our YouTube channel so that students can see them again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first session of the maker clubs was a success in everyone's eyes! Parents were proud, students were proud, and there was a very proud librarian! I can't wait to see what our next group accomplishes! Our next session will be basic programming using the Sphero robotics ball. Students are really excited about it!</span><br />
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<br />Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-72759855435404335282014-11-02T21:54:00.000-06:002014-11-03T09:31:28.126-06:00Picture Book Month<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It has been a while since my last post, but here I am, and I am so excited to celebrate <a href="http://picturebookmonth.com/" target="_blank">Picture Book Month</a> with my students! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our library just got a new book order in, so there are lots of books our students haven't read yet! There are also many favorites, waiting to be shared! To help us choose, there is a Picture Book Month calendar with days based on themes or subjects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many of my friends are celebrating Picture Book Month! You can read about how Jennifer Reed celebrates with her students <a href="http://reederama.blogspot.com/2014/10/if-its-november-it-must-be-picture-book.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! One of the things I look forward to is the opportunity to connect with schools around the country. Curtis students will be connecting for a <a href="http://barrowmediacenter.com/2013/11/19/a-picture-book-smackdown-is-coming/" target="_blank">Picture Book Smackdown</a> on November 18th. We will have a very fast paced hour of sharing our favorite picture books! Last year we connected with both students and authors and had a great time! You can read more about our fun <a href="http://curtiselementarylibrary.blogspot.com/2013/11/celebrating-picture-book-month.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Picture Book Month site has many resources, including a <a href="http://picturebookmonth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Picture-Book-MonthTeachers-Guide.pdf" target="_blank">Teacher's Guide</a> with activities and ideas. Another great resource is Mr. Schu & his blog, <a href="http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2014/11/2015-mock-caldecott.html">Watch.Connect.Read</a>. He will be using 20 wonderful picture books and have his students participate in a Mock Caldecott unit. We have many of the books mentioned in his post, so I will be sure to share those with our students!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Students and adults alike will be asked to share their favorite thing about reading picture books on our <a href="http://padlet.com/sford1/picbookmonth">Picture Book Month Padlet</a>! I can't wait to see what they say! Feel free to add to it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We also added MakeyMakeys and a Sphero robotics ball thanks to many donors, but the items we are using for the first maker club session were received through our Weatherford ISD Education Foundation. The <a href="http://littlebits.cc/" target="_blank">l</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://littlebits.cc/" target="_blank">ittleBits</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, K'Nex, and Legos would all be put to use, as well as many craft items that we have stocked the makerspace with. littleBits are one of our students favorite things to use in the makerspace. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you aren't familiar with LittleBits, they are electronic modules that snap together with magnets. They are very easy to use and the students LOVE them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A couple of parents had mentioned volunteering their time to help in the makerspace, so I visited with one at the beginning of the school year. Fortunately, he has knowledge and experience that lends itself to making. After talking, it was decided that we would have two clubs-- one a maker club (for creating with different objects) and one a media maker club (to use our new green screen) and then we would combine the two to create a haunted movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first meeting was this past Wednesday and the students were very excited! We met together as one big group and talked about what our goals were for the first session of maker clubs. We then separated into the two clubs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also during this time, the media maker club was discovering how the green screen worked. Previously, I had contacted the creators of a green screen app called DoInk. They had shared some great tutorials for using the green screen, one of which we watched together during our meeting. It was created by dc2Norfolk and is shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">About a year ago, two very excited educators in our district asked to meet with the librarians in our district. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MrsGriffith3" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Erin Griffith</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was the assistant principal at the Ninth Grade Center and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/HansenArtClass" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Natalie Hansen</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is the NGC art teacher and their Teacher of the Year</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. They came in talking fast & were very animated. :) Both of them described themselves as edcamp addicts and shared that they would travel to any edcamp that was near! They had the crazy idea to host an </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">edcamp</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in Weatherford. I usually jump right in with crazy ideas, so I was listening. Plus, their excitement & passion were contagious! We talked logistics, dates, and locations. The main thing we needed was district buy in, as this would need to take place on one of our campuses, and we would need technology support. They were hoping for a spring date, but innovative ideas often take a little time to digest, so the date was pushed to the fall of 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many people in education are familiar with edcamps, especially if you are a connected educator on Twitter. But to some, it is an unfamiliar concept. Here is a description from <a href="http://edcamp.org/" target="_blank">The Edcamp Foundation</a>'s website:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Planning began and Erin & Natalie found more people to help organize. There were now people not only from our district, but neighboring districts and one person from a district more than 2 hours away! Luckily, we are all connected, so planning the event went virtual.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To represent our community, Natalie created an awesome logo with a peach (Parker County is known for peaches & the Peach Festival), a motto that it was "going to be Peachy! and a website was made. It was getting closer!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were a few bumps in the road... Erin accepted a position at our local Education Service Center and our district hired a new director of technology, but the planning continued. We found that Erin was able to reach more people in her new position and our new technology director was eager to help the event be a success. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Through Twitter chats, Voxer, and some face to face meetings with a few organizers, we could see Edcamp Parker County Texas (Edcamp PCTX) coming together. Planning took place in small increments, but everyone jumped in to make this happen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We shared information at our district meetings, trying to get teachers excited about coming and our school district promoted the event through emails, the website and even talked about it during our back to school convocation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sponsors were secured for door prizes, local restaurants donated gift certificates for lunch time drawings, and thanks to the efforts of organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/sdeereed" target="_blank">Sara Reed</a>, our Weatherford Chick-fil-A donated 200 breakfast sandwiches for the attendees. It is amazing how many companies, both locally & throughout the country, will support events such as this! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another wonderful part of this experience was witnessing how supportive our school district was of this event. It truly takes a village to pull off an edcamp, and there was a lot of help needed! Our technology department walked the building, tested Wi-Fi and increased hot spots to ensure there was enough internet access for the day. They opened up a special network for ease of access. In addition, they stayed with us the day of the event, just in case there was a problem! </span><br />
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People having fun, because learning can be fun!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Planning for next year's Edcamp is already in the works! The group that came from Azle had such a great day, they want to host next year! Stay tuned for more information!</span><br />
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-34253002789975114552014-09-21T15:46:00.000-05:002014-09-21T15:50:57.772-05:00Dot Day (Ish Week) Lots of Dots & Many Connections!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my favorite weeks of the school year is the week we celebrate International Dot Day! It turns into a whole week of connections and discussing ways to make our mark. It always seems funny to call it "Dot Day Week" so this year I heard it being called "Ish Week" which I LOVED! This celebration is centered around the book, <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Dot </i>by Peter H. Reynolds. There are many good lessons in this book including being brave, encouraging others, and making your mark, whatever your mark may be!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before school even starts, connections are being made. <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonmmiller" target="_blank">Shannon Miller</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewWinner" target="_blank">Matthew Winner</a>, two librarians and Dot Day Ambassadors, created a Google doc to manage all of the connections. Matthew has several great<a href="http://www.busylibrarian.com/2014/09/dot-day-examples-so-far-plus-map.html" target="_blank"> blog posts</a> about Dot Day and lesson ideas! When it was all said and done, there were over 60 pages of schedules and requests for connections! We always try to connect every class that visits the library during this week, and this year we even brought in extra classes! At Curtis, connecting with people outside the walls of our school is a normal part of our year, so students begin in kindergarten learning how to interact with others through Skype and Google Hangouts. It is always fun to watch the expression on the kinders faces the first time they connect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year, we connected with students in Flower Mound, Texas, Illinois, Vermont , Georgia, Connecticut, Washington, Iowa, Missouri, Frisco, Texas, Wisconsin, Massachusettes, Friendswood, Texas, Austin, Texas, Maine & Maryland! We even connected with some states twice, with different schools! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Usually, there would only be a few pictures on the blog, but this year I just couldn't narrow them down, so an Animoto presentation was created to show the great week we had!! Enjoy!</span></div>
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-43159528394007661202014-09-21T14:43:00.002-05:002014-09-21T14:45:01.993-05:00Curtis Students Showcase our School!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am so very proud of our school and students, specifically the students that were brave enough to stand up in front of our school board and share the great things about Curtis! I was given the task to work with students to prepare a "student created, student presented" presentation for our school board about the great things happening at our school! You see, we try to do school "differently" at our school, and it was our turn to share what we do with our school board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I looked to my Digital Bookworms for help! This is our media club from last year, and although we haven't started meeting yet, a couple of students jumped in to help!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reagan & Sierra worked during lunch & came in after school to create the presentation. Kaitlyn joined the group after she showed an interest in our new Sphero robotics ball. It was decided that she would drive the ball into the meeting! We talked about the things that make our school unique, like our "makerspace", after school clubs, and our global connections. The students made a list and then we created a Google presentation to work off of for the project. The link to the presentation was emailed to each of them and the students kept adding their thoughts. This was going to be the way we presented the information to the school board until I remembered a tweet I saw about <a href="http://emaze.com./">Emaze.com.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The students did a wonderful job preparing for the presentation, writing out their thoughts on notecards (which they did not end up needing!) They stood in front of the school board and spoke confidently about our school. It was wonderful to hear them share their perceptions of our school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The presentation went well, and during the section on our makerspace, Kaitlyn drove in Roo, our new Sphero robotics ball that was received through <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" target="_blank">Donors Choose</a> funding. You can see the whole presentation <a href="http://app.emaze.com/718131/curtis-elementary-wisd-board-presentation" target="_blank">Here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone enjoyed Roo and the students' presentation. We were all very proud of our students! It is a great thing when students are given a voice and are able to share the student perspective of their school! </span></div>
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-66630547990420955412014-09-10T22:07:00.001-05:002014-09-10T22:16:02.104-05:00Mrs. P's Writing Contest & Skype Visit<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today was our first connection of the year, and we all had such a great time! Last week, I saw these tweets and jumped at the opportunity to connect some of our students with Mrs. P! Thanks to my friend, <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonmmiller" target="_blank">Shannon Miller</a>, I have had the opportunity to Skype with Mrs. P before, and knew our students would love connecting with her again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I sent an email to our teachers and had immediate responses from multiple grade levels! Our teachers are used to connecting and jump at the chance when it is presented! We settled on first grade & third grade. Both grades wanted to come as a grade level, which was easy thanks to our new library set up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The theme for this year is Time Travel! When I walked by classes before the Skype visit I could hear all of the excitement as classes talked about possible topics! What I think is so fun about this writing contest is that it is a class contest. Only one entry per class is accepted, so a class can collaborate on one story or vote for the story they want to enter. There are so many options, and it makes it easy for a teacher to choose what fits best for her classroom environment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mrs. P was very entertaining and shared with our students how important it is to read. She even gave the students her secret about writing a story: If you can tell a story, you can write a story! Sounds easy, right!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mrs. P told the students that she has over 1,000 pets! She talked about polar bears and wolves! They weren't quite sure if she was "telling a story" or not, but they She then asked our students about their pets, and even about brothers or sisters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She used their answers to create a story right in front of them! Our students enjoyed listening to Mrs. P create a story with characters they gave her!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a wonderful visit and I know our students left excited about writing a time travel story to enter into Mrs. P's writing contest! You can find more information about her contest <a href="http://contest.mrsp.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-53120567893540916162014-09-03T09:38:00.000-05:002014-09-03T09:38:02.005-05:00FINALLY! Curtis Learners in the Library!!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today was the first day students came to the library and it was wonderful! Thanks to inspiration by other librarians, I had created a video QR code tour of the library. With our recent renovation, sections had been moved around for better flow, and I wanted students to get the feel of the new space. In previous years, I had led classes around the library & talked about each section, but this year older students are using iPads and scanning QR codes to become familiar with the sections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sixth graders were first to arrive and they did a great job navigating the new space!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Third graders came next, and they enjoyed the tour and trying out the new stools in the makerspace!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With our 2nd graders, we read <i style="font-weight: bold;">Goldie Socks & the Three Libearians</i> and talked about choosing <i style="font-weight: bold;">just right </i>books! Students were then able to select two books for check-out and try out our new "Read & Meet" areas in the library!</span><br />
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Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-47122415793750944972014-08-31T16:32:00.001-05:002014-08-31T16:47:17.483-05:00Library Make-Over<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our school was freshened up over the summer. This meant that EVERYTHING had to be packed up and moved to the gym at the end of last school year. The library is upstairs and the gym is downstairs. You can imagine that this was quite the ordeal. Eventually, EVERYTHING would have to be moved back upstairs! Books, equipment, technology, and more books! May was a hard month, and August was going to be just as hard! The only difference was that in August, I would be moving everything in to a brighter space with new carpet & fresh paint! Honestly, NOW I am so excited about our new library learning space, I just smile whenever I walk around in it! I can't say that I was as excited when I first saw our library on August 15th. It looked like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have over 20 different shelving units in the library, 9 heavy wooden tables, 60 heavy wooden chairs, and all of this was stacked in the middle of the library! I was overwhelmed to say the least! I couldn't even reach the top chair to begin taking apart our mountain of furniture. So I did what any normal person would: I left and went to buy fabric to cover some old benches! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is no need to give you day by day pictures from this point because it was a slow process. Since I had requested my huge circulation desk be removed, I had to figure out where to put all of the things I stored in there! I also had removed part of my office desk, so I again lost storage. What I was trying to do was create more usable space for our students. By removing the circulation desk, I was able to free up some space which allowed us to set up our green screen permanently. Teachers & students are already dreaming of ways to use this new tool! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My hope for this year is that this new and improved environment is constantly in use by teachers, classes, small groups, and individual visitors to our library & learning center! I want students to come in to collaborate, create & connect with others as often as possible! With this in mind, we will offer green screen and makerspace orientation for classes, so that students are able to come to the library when there is a project to complete or time for exploration, and know exactly how to use these spaces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stay tuned for how our students use their new space! And please share if you are a librarian and have a great space for your students! I searched many blogs, websites, etc to try to find ideas and would love to see what others have done, with limited funds & older furniture. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my most favorite celebrations in the library happens very early in the school year. It is International Dot Day on September 15thish. The "ish" because you can celebrate it at anytime around that day. The celebration centers around the book, THE DOT by Peter Reynolds and shares the idea that we should be brave and make our mark! Thanks to my friends, Matthew Winner (<a href="http://www.busylibrarian.com/2014/08/international-dot-day-2014.html" target="_blank">The Busy Librarian</a>) and Shannon Miller (<a href="http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/2014/07/lets-sign-up-and-celebrate-dot-day.html" target="_blank">The Library Voice</a>) I have had the opportunity to connect my students before and can't wait for this year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our students have celebrated Dot Day for the past couple of years and look forward to the opportunity to create & connect with others. You can read about how we celebrated <a href="http://curtiselementarylibrary.blogspot.com/2013/09/international-dot-day-celebration-day-1.html" target="_blank">Dot Day 2013</a>, which always ends up being a week long celebration. We have colored dots, Skyped, shared our ideas of how we could make our mark, used technology to create & share dots, and much more! It is always a crazy, busy week but one that sets the tone for the whole year. A year that is full of creating, collaborating, and connecting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are great ideas for ways to celebrate on the<a href="http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/get-inspired/making-a-mark" target="_blank"> International Dot Day website</a> and on Pinterest, of course! But truly, no Dot Day is complete with out connections. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect your students with other students around the country and possibly the world. Matthew Winner has a <a href="https://education.skype.com/projects/9467-international-dot-day-2014-be-a-connector" target="_blank">Skype in the Classroom International Dot Day lesson</a> that will help you get connected. There is also a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/dotday14" target="_blank">Dot Day Google Doc</a> to help you make connections with other educators. Many teachers and librarians have already listed their information on the Google doc, so be sure to add yours! You might not know your schedule yet, but you can always add that later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So go ahead! What are you waiting for? Go make your mark and get your students connected this school year!</span>Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330829370892371125.post-62470794983324917252014-08-04T12:37:00.001-05:002014-08-04T12:45:03.046-05:00Modeling Life Long Learning<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You know how we encourage our students to be life long learners? How we worry about our students experiencing summer slide? This made me start thinking about whether we, the adults in the process, are walking the walk, or just talking the talk. How often do we as educators practice what we preach? Do we "take the summer off" from learning and growing as a professional, or do we seek opportunities to learn, beyond our required hours of staff development?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would say that if you are a <b>connected educator</b>, active on Twitter and/or Google+, and participate in chats and webinars, then you are certainly modeling what we want for our students. Every single time I log on to Twitter, I learn something or am inspired to try something. Because of this, I share the power of Twitter as often as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This summer I have had the opportunity to share about the impact Twitter can make on someone's professional life on several different occasions. During our district summer professional development, I taught four different sessions. Each time, I would see a few people who really got it! They could see what Twitter had to offer, and then they would begin to get excited about the potential. As I was walking out at the end of one of the sessions, I thought about this part of a song from my childhood...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It really does just take a spark. I've seen it happen just this summer with our school counselor. <a href="https://twitter.com/TX_SchCounselor" target="_blank">Lindsay Fuller</a> followed a conference hashtag and saw what you can learn without ever leaving your home. She now has a professional Twitter account, follows hashtags specific to school counselors and is working on her online presence through her blog post at<a href="http://curtiscounselor.blogspot.com/2014/07/twitter-and-notatasca14.html" target="_blank"> Curtis Counselor</a>. Lindsay had to experience it to "get it" and is now learning each time she gets on Twitter or reads a blog. <b><span style="color: blue;">Being a connected educator = life long learning.</span></b></span><br />
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We got her all signed up and the beginnings of a PLN formed. As we were going through all of this, the wheels started turning, and you could see that spark. During our conversation, she said, "You know, we always end the year with dissecting in biology and the kids love it. Then we send them home for the summer. Why can't I START the year with dissecting and get them all fired up?" I had an extra copy of Dave Burgess's <i style="font-weight: bold;">Teach Like a Pirate </i>in my bag,<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>and quickly grabbed it and handed it to her. </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being willing to change your thinking = life long learning.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Later that night, I saw this same teacher had posed a question on Twitter and was waiting for someone to offer help. I shared her tweet with people I thought would be able to help her, and boy did they help! Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/Thrasymachus" target="_blank">Charles Cooper</a> and others, she saw the true benefit of Twitter, a support network ready to help out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the summer, my assistant principal, <a href="https://twitter.com/Loriebratcher" target="_blank">Lorie Bratcher</a> talked with me about started a blog. I shared with her two books I had read this summer by Austin Kleon. These books were recommended to me by a teacher-librarian friend, Andy Plemmons. We talked about how a blog can be an ongoing resume, and that we should share our stories with others. Lorie was Teacher of the Year for our campus, district and even our region several years ago... She is passionate about what she does and has a lot that she can share about teaching and continuous improvement. With all that she has to offer, it is still scary to put that first blog post out there for others to read, but she did it! You can read her post <a href="http://www.loriebratcher.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. <b><span style="color: blue;">Being a risk-taker = life long learning.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week, I also had the opportunity to speak to our district administrators about the power of Twitter and developing a personal learning network (PLN). To say I was nervous would be an understatement. It felt like I was preparing closing arguments for a big trial... that I had one hour to convince them to try Twitter as a way to grow professionally. I have Twitter presentations for teacher-librarians and teachers, but I knew this one would have to be different. Thanks to insight and resources from my own PLN, I created a Smore that I thought would convey all I wanted to share with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before I got there, my principal, <a href="https://twitter.com/rachealrife" target="_blank">Racheal Rife</a>, had everyone create an account so they were ready to go. A hashtag had also been created for this group, which showed them a way to share information with each other. I was able to see tweets being posted before I even started the presentation, so that was exciting. As I looked out at the crowd of administrators, I saw a room full of educators, many with years and years of experience, who were still excited and willing to try a new way to learn and grow. <b><span style="color: blue;">Being willing to try something new = life-long learning.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And one more thought, a little unrelated... connected educators retweet things on Twitter about how being a connected educator makes a huge difference for people professionally. What I realize though is we still need to reach the non-tweeters. Every time we post a tweet or share a blog post on Twitter, we are preaching to the choir, so to speak. The people we want to see those tweets might not have discovered the benefit of Twitter yet, so they never see them. Instead, we should share how developing a PLN on Twitter can make you a better teacher, librarian, counselor, principal or superintendent, and make sure we are reaching out to those people where they are, which often times isn't on Twitter yet. We need to meet them in the library, in the hallways or at a conference. And then make sure that we support them on Twitter, so that they feel its power when they reach out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are just some ways we model life long learning for our students. As we begin a new school year of encouraging our students to be life long learners, we must ask ourselves, " Am I walking the walk?" How do you model life long learning? </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Shawna Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080029036234976368noreply@blogger.com0