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Need an LMS next year? Here are three to consider

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An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. Otus is a free all-in-one mobile learning management system available on iPads and desktops. Did I miss it?

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Here are the digital tools that will replace the paper-intensive tasks you’re accustomed to: Digital Note-taking Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. quick methods like texting are fine.

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Teaching Online During COVID-19

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Access the required site through mobile devices. Provide mobile hotspots distributed by school. Have a frequent virtual meeting via Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, or an option through your LMS. Assign ereading and then have a virtual chat about what was read (either through the eread website/program or through your LMS).

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Celebrating School Library Month with Buncee and PebbleGo

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April is School Library Month and it brings an opportunity to highlight the work done and impact made by librarians and media specialists. First sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association (ALA), it originally got its start after the creation of the National Book Committee, a non-profit organization in 1954.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

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The definition of digital literacy is pretty much what you’d expect: “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” ” –from the American Library Association.

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Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]

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More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. Students from low-income families may not be able to afford new mobile devices, or the devices they can afford won’t be the top performing ones.

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Go Paperless for Earth Day

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This may include: Google Apps for Education and/or Google Classroom–this serves as a basic digital portfolio for students, a collaborative tool with classmates, the teacher’s inbox and her tool for returning graded and analyzed student work. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. And then charge.

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