Digital Books

Here are some sources for digital books:

Overdrive 
Overdrive is a service offered by your public library.  You need a library card (any library that participates will do, as a RSU staff member you can get a free Rockland library card) and an Adobe account.  Overdrive provides access to eBooks as well as digital audio books.  There is a free overdrive app available from the apple app store and you can download it from app.overdrive.com.  Books are downloaded to your device (iPhone, iPad, androids, windows devices...). They will disappear after two weeks time.  You can create wish lists and place books on hold. Available titles include fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.  Use caution if using with students. Books can only be read by one person at a time.

Gutenberg LINK
The Gutenberg library is free.  It is mostly older books that are no longer copyright protected.  There are some worthy kids titles to consider including books by Beatrix Potter, Edith Nesbitt, Louisa May Alcott, J.M. Barrie, Frank L. Baum, Thornton Burgess, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, LM Montgomery, Johanna Spyri, and Robert Lois Stevenson. You can read these books online from your browser. You can also download a Gutenberg Project app from the app store. Multiple readers can read titles from the Gutenberg library at the same time so this would be a great place to look for books for reading groups.

About eBooks LINK

How to Embed a Google Doc

thinglink.com

Google Chrome is a browser that you can use regardless of whether you use a Mac or a PC.  If you login from multiple devices the same browsing history, apps, and extensions will be available to you.  Personalize your browser with backgrounds, apps and extensions.  

The image above shows some of the apps that you can download into Google Chrome.  Go to the Google Store for more options. Putting them in Chrome lets you launch them more quickly and easily.  Here are some I recommend:

Evernote

Pandora

Picasa

Amazon 1Button

Coloring Pages

Lucas' Whiteboard

Google Play

In the top right corner you can see some of the extensions that you can download from the Google Store. Here are some that I recommend:

The Pinterest Pin It Button

Google Mail Checker (displays the number of unopened mail)

Evernote Clearly (removes side bars)

Evernote Clipper (clips content to Evernote)

Pandora Sound Control (turns Pandora on and adjusts volume)

You Tube Options (removes advertising from You Tube)

AdBlocker (blocks out ads)

Black Menu for Google

Olympics Resources

The official Olympic website with information about athletes, countries, sports, and videos.  LINK

Olympic Games Mini Lesson from Scholastic LINK

Australian Olympic Committee LINK

Coloring Pages 1 LINK
Coloring Pages 2 LINK
Activity Pages (UK) LINK
Olympics Pinterest Page 1 LINK
Olympics Pinterest Page 2 LINK
Olympics Pinterest Page 3 LINK
Olympics Pinterest Page 4 LINK
Time Magazine for Kids LINK
NBC Learn Videos LINK
National Science Foundation, Science of Winter Olympics LINK
Enchanted Learning Olympics LINK
Teacher Pay Teacher Resources LINK

2014 Mascot Information LINK

Please preview all videos before you share them with your students and wait to mirror until the ads are finished.

December Resources

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree 

written by Gloria Houston and illustrated by Maine's own Barbara Cooney

Please email me to schedule a holiday story with your students.  I have a great personal collection that I would love to read to them.  You can schedule one or two stories ranging from 15 minutes to a half an hour.  I have something appropriate to every grade level!

Arts & Crafts Projects

Here is a link to my Pinterest page.

LINK

The following videos are from reputable sources but I recommend that you preview them in their entirety before you share them with your students.  You may also want to advance beyond the commercials before you mirror the video on your large screen.

Rick Steves European Christmas 

Rick Steves is host of a popular PBS travel show.

55 minutes, recommended for older students

LINK

To see a list of all of the videos that are in this playlist just click on the three bars in the top left corner.

We celebrate Halloween!

South students, armed with 12 new digital cameras, took almost 500 pictures of our Halloween activities.  We look forward to adding these pictures with student work to a new Halloween book for the library.  Thanks Fast Track for making this possible!