Britannica Image Quest

Have you ever needed your students to find images for a digital product? It is hard to find out if you have rights to use photos from Google Image, and you want to teach your students to be good digital citizens! And you may be afraid to let your students search "chick" for fear of what results they will find!

Britannica Image Quest may be your answer! The web address is http://quest.eb.com. Your librarian will have your username and password. If you have Mackin Via, the students should be able to access this database - and it should be automatically authenticated! This database has nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 of the best collections in the world. You can search in Spanish as well as English.

Check it out to use with your next project! You can save pictures straight to the camera roll on an iPad.

 

Skype with Dove

Amy Keller, the Dove librarian, and I decided we would try to Skype for the first time with a friendly class - so today we Skyped with each other! My 2nd graders read books to her first graders and the first graders had to decide if the book was fiction or nonfiction. The lesson wasn't as great as it could have been, but the kiddos were so engaged seeing other classes. I know that I need to figure out a better way to set up the camera so you can see all of the kids sitting. I want to try it again with a classroom in the school. I want to see if I can reflect to my laptop from my iPad. If I can, it would be a lot easier to place the iPad in the Just Stand and set it up where the camera captures all the students sitting. I am going to be working with 4th graders on Global Read Aloud, and so I think they will work with me to Skype. I may hit up kinder or 1st grade, too, to talk to them because they are researching school leaders.

A Day with Shannon Miller! Loving that she shares tools and gives us time to set them up. Want to make a Symbaloo, set up my Tweet Deck, want to look at Hoot Suite. #sletheplacetobe #gcisdlib

Book Fair a Success!

We had a shortened book fair this past week with the Labor Day holiday but it was still a success. I sold 157 Minecraft books alone! Wow! We also had a whole case of Spanish books sent to us and lots of great upper level chapter books. My favorites were the great picture books. Pippa the Pumpkin Fairy was very popular. It was so much fun to see all the parents and grandparents at Curriculum Night. I love to see kiddos so excited about getting a book that they get to keep for their very own. Makes this librarian smile!