Today I made a Wordle of the Hierarchy of Research:

Prezi is a great presentation tool that can be used many different ways. It could be used to present Social Studies or Science research, or create an interesting character study for ELA. Best used by upper elementary grades, middle and high schoolers, however, the animation, zoom and other features make it great for presenting material to all grades.  Here is an example of library rules and procedures for an elementary library. 

Library Media Center Rules on Prezi

Classroom Management for Middle School Power Point

Rules, rules, rules... are very important!  Here is a PowerPoint I created for the beginning of the school year.  Geared for middle grades, here are a few basic rules, that I'll go over, and over, and over... 

Library Rules

Pathfinders

Creating Pathfinders helps the student to guide their research. Pathfinders are especially helpful when teaching students how to evaluate information. By modeling access links to credible sources, the student will learn to find their own credible resources. Below is a link to a Pathfinder I created for Thomas Alva Edison directed to middle school students.

http://mlhiriak.podbean.com/mf/web/q5jg6h/PathfinderforThomasAlvaEdison.pdf

Audacity and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Here is fun Audacity project for studing poetry.  It combines poetry, music, and using Audacity!

Podcast Powered By Podbean

Today I created me...Voki

Another day... another example.  Today I created a Voki.  Very simple really.  I used just a basic face and tweeked it, hair, eyes, face shape and lips to make it look a bit more like me.  Unless you have a classroom account your choices are somewhat limited.  The process is quite easy and the instructions are thorough.

GoAnimate The Southwest!

I had a lot of fun creating this GoAnimate video.  It was created to introduce a lesson on the Southwest.  The audio is a little muffled, but you can get the idea.

GoAnimate - The Southwest

How to use Wordle in genre study

What I have created below is a Wordle which focuses on the elements of a mystery. This could be done for any book genre such as fable, fairy tale, fiction, verse folklore, historical fiction, horror, legend mythology, poetry, realistic fiction, science fiction, tall tale.

Three Black Swans Book Trailer

Here is a link to a booktrailer I created for Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney.


Three Black Swans Book Trailer



This book is one of the selections for the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program for Grades 6-8 for the 2012-2013 school year.

Here I created a Custom Google Search Engine for Library Advocacy.

I recently went on an interview where I was asked if I could create a Custom Google Search. Well here is my example of a Custom Google Search. This engine was created to only search several websites which contain information on School Library Advocacy, something that is near and dear to all School Media Specialist's hearts these days.