Welcome to our website. Our Library Media Center's website serves as an access point to information for teachers, students, and parents at Highland Home.
Welcome to the Highland Home School Library Media Center Webpage
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Scholastic Book Fair Summer/Fall Book Fair-Aug. 24-28, 2009
Winter/Spring Book Fair - Jan. 25-29, 2010
For Our Teachers:
MIMIO Interactive White Boards: Make any Board an Interactive White Board
Mimio Setup Instructions
Virtual Fieldtrip - VC Content Providers Database
(Direct Access for our Teachers)
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) 2007
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Professional Development Opportunities
This section offers Professional Development opportunities just by reading and submitting a short paper, using appropriate APA documentation summarizing the article read. Each summary will be included in the Media Center Collection for others to read.
Articles:
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Florida adopts open-content reading platform
Education the key to better security
Survey results suggest that schools need to focus less on technology, and more on teaching, to keep their networks and their buildings secure
Collaboration and Storage (School Web Lockers)
21st-century school represents 'the will to change'
How one district turned an ordinary building into an extraordinary opportunity for students
eMINTS National Center
21st Century Learning
Building a 21st Century Learning Community
K-12 Education/Technology Education Leadership Practice
On-Site Professional Development Opportunities from
Technology in Motion
The following professional development sessions are sessions that can be scheduled after school (on Mondays)provided we have enough teachers sign up. (At least 15). Those in attendance, if interested, can help spread the news of technology throughout the school by modeling lessons for others who may later be interested in implementing these same ideas in the classroom. These professional development sessions are offered by Technology In Motion and need to be set up approximately one month prior to the workshop taking place. Take a look at the titles and send an e-mail to leann.perdue@crenshaw-schools.org if you are interested.
- Using blogs in education
- Wikis in the Classroom
- Digital Storytelling
- Movie Making
- 21st Century Classroom
- Project-Based Learning
- Technology Tools for Teachers
Collaborative Unit Resources
7th and 8th Grade Reading
Number the Stars: A Novel Study by Jim Cornish (Cornish, 2003)
A Taste of Blackberries - Compare and Contrast (Caudle, 2008)
Island of the Blue Dolphin - Literature Links (e-mints, 2004)
The Giver - Lesson Planning (Rindfleisch, Murphy, and Sturtevant, 2003)
Library Media Links - Students, Parents, and Teachers
Accelerated Reader
Scholastic Book Fair Information
Professional Resources
Teaching Pre K - 8: Professional Development and Classroom Activities for Teachers
Education Week
The Journal of Effective Teaching
Edutopia: What Works in Public Education
Teacher Magazine
PBS Teacherline
TeachAde
Inspiring Teachers: Empowering Educators Around the World
Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification
E-school News
Research Tools for Students and Teachers
Alabama Virtual Library
APA (Purdue University, 2008)
MLA (Purdue University, 2008)
Citation Software
Avoiding Plagiarism
Plagiarism Free Self Checkers for Students
Article Checker
Other Information and Links
Library Media Journals and Articles
Scholastic (2008). School Libraries Work! Danbury, Conn: Scholastic Library Publishing.
American Library Association - School Library Media Research
American Library Association - American Association of School Libraries
National Center for Educational Statistics
Collaborative Lesson Planning
Rubistar - Rubric Builder for Assessments
Learning Theories for Lesson Plan Development
Developmental Theories for Lesson Planning
-Learning and Teaching
Motivational Theories for Lesson Planning
Quick Links
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Quick Links are listed below. For more important links please click on Links at the top of the page.
Note to teachers - ACOS for ALL SUBJECTS can be found by clicking ALEX link below.
**A quick note about the Thinkfinity Link...Thinkfinity.org has replaced Marco Polo.**
References:
4Teachers.Org, (2008). Rubistar: Create rubrics for your project based learning. Retrieved May 17, 2008, from Rubistar Web site: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Kearsley, G. (2008). Explorations in learning and instruction: The theory into practice database. Retrieved May 17, 2008, from Theory Into Practice (TIP) Web site: http://tip.psychology.org/
Renaissance Learning. (2008). Accelerated Reader Enterprise. Case Study. Retrieved May 17, 2008 from http://www.renlearn.com/.
Renaissance Learning. (2006). Iowa elementary school pairs best practices with student motivation and sees significant gains on Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Wisconsin Rapids, WI: Author. Available online from http://research.renlearn.com/research/pdfs/245.pdf
Renaissance Learning. (2008). Star Reading. Assessing reading levels has never been easier. Retrieved May 17, 2008 from http://www.renlearn.com/sr/
Renaissance Learning (2008). Accelerated Reader Enterprise. Get Started. Retrieved May 17, 2008 from http://www.renlearn.com/.
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