Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Happenings in the Library!

Wow!  It's been a while, but it sure has been busy.  Students have been using the library to expand their independent reading.  The language arts classes have been bringing students in to check out books of their choice.  It's been great helping them find books and seeing them come back to pick out new ones after they finish.  I love all the great readers we have here at Park View.

The library has also spent time sharing Google Expeditions Virtual Reality with some of the classes.  This is a great way to take students on trips to places they could otherwise never go on.  We had a social studies class travel to Churchill, Manitoba.  Family and Consumer did college visits as part of college and career readiness by showing a large university and a smaller private college.  A Spanish class explored a Day of the Dead festival.  It's exciting to have the opportunity to give our students experiences that they may not be able to have in a format that is engaging.

Projects have been going on here as well. Students in Ms. Paikowski's social studies class created comics using Pixton.  They were focusing on the United States and have to incorporate the five themes of geography into their comic.

Another web tool that has been used is Thinglink.  Student created projects focusing on cities of the world using Thinglink.  They included audio, video, images and text. Spanish classes showcased their language skills by completing sentences in Thinglink.

Students have been creating videos for both STEM and art, using the green screen and spaces within the library to do their creating.


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