November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Sign up for free to write at nanowrimo.org. The website helps you set daily writing goals and awards you digital badges as you make progress on your novel. The ILC also celebrated writing during a Do Something Cool program on Friday, November 4, led by the Writing Club. Writing Club student leaders Faith Clay and Grace Null introduced students to Wattpad, a website for writers and readers alike.
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Who better to trust for a good book recommendation than school librarians? Here are a few must-read titles suggested to Barb and me by our counterparts at our high school librarians quarterly meeting last week. (As an aside, Barb hosted and showed off the ACHS Makerspace. She did a great job!)
Teen Read Week culminated on Friday, October 14, with the conclusion of the ILC's fall reading challenge, Eagles Read: Pageapalooza, as well as a Drop Everything and Read and a spray paint t-shirt Do Something Cool. Pageapalooza was a six-week team or individual reading challenge that began in early September. The nearly 100 students and staff members who registered read as many pages as possible for fun for a chance to win a Kindle Fire. Team Sofishticated, consisting of freshmen Ashley Alm, Isabella Frank, Alexandra Lynch, and Nick Slobodian, came in first place, reading a total of 43,734 pages. Each received a Kindle Fire. Q&A with Nick Aguina
Celebrate the Freedom to Read with the ILC during Banned Books Week, September 25-October 1. According to ALA.org, Banned Book Week "highlights the value of free and open access to information ... [and] draws national attention to the harms of censorship." During Do Something Cool on Friday, September 30, Ms. Doyle and Mrs. Kent will lead students in an activity about the list of most frequently challenged books and discuss the important role of intellectual freedom in the United States.
Throughout the year, you will be talking to your students about various aspects of the research process: choosing a topic, identifying and locating sources, conducting effective search strategies, evaluating sources, and using information responsibly.
In District 117, our students are fortunate to have access to Chromebooks and databases at each school. We want them to know about those resources and we want to instruct them on how to use them to solve information problems. Kellie and I wanted to remind you of two services that are available as you plan your research projects. If you are a NoodleTools user, this post applies to you. Over the summer, we transitioned to NoodleTools’s new single sign-on (SSO) authentication. This means that students and teachers, alike, will be able to use their Google username and password to access the program, which is most commonly used for developing Works Cited and Reference List pages for research assignments (but it has many other functions, too).
Summer is one of Kellie and my favorite times of the year. Students and staff members ask us for reading recommendations for the upcoming break. Whether you’re looking for a reading contest or some recommended summer reads, we have ideas that can be used for a variety of readers and/or age groups.
Britannica School is more than an online encyclopedia. See for yourself during our free trial.4/5/2016 Barb and I have been in the market for a new encyclopedia database since, oh, last year. We like to make sure we’re getting you the best stuff. Keith West suggested Britannica School—a product of Encyclopedia Britannica—after he learned from a colleague in his grad school class that it offered diverse content at varied reading levels appropriate for his special education students. It offers that and much more.
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