K-6 Tech Talk » library http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates Tips, Tricks, and Talk about Tech for Kindergarten to Sixth Grade Teachers Tue, 24 May 2011 15:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Media Monday http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/14/media-monday-2/ http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/14/media-monday-2/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:34:46 +0000 eyates http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/14/media-monday-2/ Today’s post is a bit of a blend between Media Monday and Website Wednesday.  Imagine old-school media like BOOKS brought to life through technology.  The International Children’s Digital Library  allows you and your students to browse and read any of the 10,000 books in about 100 languages online.  The site even has a number of [...]]]> icdl_logo.gifToday’s post is a bit of a blend between Media Monday and Website Wednesday.  Imagine old-school media like BOOKS brought to life through technology.  The International Children’s Digital Library  allows you and your students to browse and read any of the 10,000 books in about 100 languages online.  The site even has a number of suggested activities, so your students may use the site independently or as a group.

For example, if you’d like to introduce your class to a universal tale about responsibility, perhaps you could all view Fafi’s Sheep on the SMART Board together.  Learning that children in other countries and cultures face some of the same problems we do is an important lesson, and seeing Ethiopia’s Amharic  writing alongside the English words is interesting as well.

You and your students may create your own accounts in order to save books you like, and you can create your own digital story with the ICDL-created iPhone App called “StoryKit.”  Visit the Apple AppStore and search for StoryKit.

]]> http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/14/media-monday-2/feed/ 0 Website Wednesday http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/09/website-wednesday-10/ http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/09/website-wednesday-10/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:19:10 +0000 eyates http://blogs.chatham-nj.org/eyates/2009/12/09/website-wednesday-10/ With the rain we’re having today, I guess the best site of the day is Chatham’s weather at NOAA (as a pilot and weather watcher, I love NOAA’s site), but really we’re here to look at the website of one of our colleagues: Ginny Connolly at CMS.

Our district subscribes to a number of high-quality research [...]]]> owl_books.jpgWith the rain we’re having today, I guess the best site of the day is Chatham’s weather at NOAA (as a pilot and weather watcher, I love NOAA’s site), but really we’re here to look at the website of one of our colleagues: Ginny Connolly at CMS.

Our district subscribes to a number of high-quality research databases, and some of them are listed at the CMS Library Media Center website on the Library Hints page.  Because we pay for the use of these websites, access to the page is password protected.  You’ll simply need your network credentials to log in when prompted (that’s the username and password you type every time you want to use a computer in the district).

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