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Work smarter, not harder

9/29/2016

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Q&A with Nick Aguina

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Nick, a special education teacher at Lakes, recently became a Google Certified Educator, Level 2. He has plans to continue to develop his Google know-how and to assist his District 117 colleagues with Google Apps for Education. In fact, he already has presented a Snack and Learn about Google Classroom at Lakes and has two more on the calendar for other Google topics. He also will be leading an ILC Do Something Cool in October. Read this Q&A to learn more about his certification experience as well as a few tips about Google Apps for Education.

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Banned Books Week

9/26/2016

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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.

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Discover Diigo

9/14/2016

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It’s 2016. It’s tough, I know, but we need to train ourselves to train our students to think and work even more digitally. Less paper.
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Diigo can help us with that. Diigo is a bookmarking tool with other functions to simplify the research process for students, including organizing, collaborating, and annotating. Our databases provide many of these same tools for articles students find within the database; Diigo, however, provides those tools for web resources. ​
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Research the D117 way

9/1/2016

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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.

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    Hannah Mueller
    Lakes ILC Director
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    Barb Mason
    Antioch ILC Director
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    • ILC Staff
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