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Presentation: School Library Tech 101 (September 2017)

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Hello Everyone,

I presented last month on technology tips and tools at my state annual library conference in a session called

Destiny, Symbaloo, and Weebly, Oh My! School Library Tech 101

I converted the PowerPoint presentation I made for the session into a PDF document, so you can see all the technological tidbits I shared at the conference.

Some of these technological tidbits I’ve blogged about previously.

The PDF document is available here. Inside, you’ll find links to YouTube videos  and help sheets I made for different tips about Follett Destiny, Symbaloo, Weebly, Outlook, OR Codes, and TinyURL.

This session provided brief overviews of and tips for working with such technology tools as Follett Destiny as a library management system, Symbaloo as a link collection tool, and Weebly as a communication tool. QR code creation and use will also be discussed as a library investigation tool for elementary school students. Participants were asked to bring devices that can access the Internet, download free applications, and take pictures, to experience fully this tech-rich session.

Personally speaking, I think the best tip for Follett Destiny is “Book Hospital as Patron,” which is also a YouTube video on my professional channel.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: Send Outlook Emails to Special Folder on Arrival

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Hello Everyone,

I like to free up my Outlook account’s inbox by having emails I know I can’t read every day go to a special folder automatically. For example, I love reading all the questions and answers on my state’s librarian email listserv; I can’t read them all every day, and there are around 20 or 30 emails some days…. so… I have learned to have Outlook send emails from specific senders (that is, everything coming from the listserv) sent on arrival to a special folder.

I made a help sheet to explain the process (here)!

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: Turn Off Outlook “Focused Inbox”

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Hello Everyone,

Don’t you dislike finding an important email on your Outlook account has gone to the “Other” inbox without you knowing it?

To fix this problem, I have made a help sheet to show how to turn off the “Focused Inbox” fuction recently added to Outlook. It’s available here.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: Mini-Books in MS Publisher

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Hello Everyone,

As part of my educational technology integration class this summer, I learned how to make 8-page mini-books in Microsoft Publisher.

Please watch the accompanying how-to video (below) or take a look at the help sheet (here)!

As the culminating project for the course, I was required to present a professional development to colleagues on a class topic, and I chose the process of creating mini-books in Publisher.

The professional development plan with its implementation reflection is here.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: QR Codes

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Hello Everyone,

Do you enjoy scanning the QR codes that just keep randomly popping out in grocery stores and restaurants? Has a colleague mentioned using QR codes in an activity with students, and you’re hesitant to ask how he or she made them?

Today’s “tech tidbit” gives you simple steps to making a QR code!

Follow the instructions of the help sheet (available here)!

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: YouTube Video Full-Screen Links

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Hello Everyone,

Would you like to have students access a YouTube video that is grade-level appropriate and enhances your lesson or unit content yet are afraid of what little eyes might see as vulgar comments or bizarre suggested sidebar videos?

No longer do we have to fear YouTube as an educationally inappropriate resource when we know it contains or we upload appropriate, valuable videos.

The answer lies in making full-screen links to the videos we want to share with students so there is no way they can see the comments or suggested sidebar videos.

How do we accomplish this? Take a look at the “Make a YouTube Full-Screen Link” help sheet I uploaded in Google Drive: http://tinyurl.com/readlearngrowtechtibits.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: How to Turn a Google Form “Off”

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Hello Everyone,

It is difficult to believe that Thanksgiving is next week, the elementary school year is almost half over, and I am two semesters away from my Master of Science in Library Media Education!

This semester I took an educational technology class that made me administer a Google Form to students as a pre- and post-assessment. Since implementation is over, I wanted to close the Form so students could not continue to answer the content-specific questions.

After reading an article retrieved through trusty Google, I have created a help sheet to answer the question: “How do I turn off a Google Form?”

The help sheet is available at this link or by going to the Read + Learn = Grow! Google Drive and clicking on the “Technological Tidbits” folder.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Technological Tidbit: Use Images to Make Social Media Buttons

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Hello Everyone,

Do you visit educator or personal blogs and long for those cool Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest buttons that come with pro accounts which make it so easy to network a blogger on other platforms?

Ta-da! I have found a way to make my own social media buttons while staying with my free Edublogs account.

On Flickr, I found free social media button images, which the uploader has graciously made available for personal use without demanding attribution; the Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube images I used can be at this link. I used my own personal cropped screenshot of the Google Drive image.

To learn how to create image links in Edublogs, please check out the “Use Images to Make Social Media Buttons” PDF help sheet I uploaded to Google Drive by visiting this link or clicking on the Google Drive image in the sidebar.

I hope this technological tidbit was helpful!

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler