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#KYGoDigital Virtual Conference 2018

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Hello Everyone,
Last week, I was so excited to be a history-maker! I attended the first-ever #KYGoDigital virtual conference.

We used a Google Slides presentation to archive all the YouTube Live session links. Through technology, we were able to connect with keynote speakers and educators across the country. Here is my Google Doc of notes: https://tinyurl.com/KYGoDigital2018notes.

Enjoy the linked resources and the sites I curated with the Google Docs sheet I shared above; feel free to use as you see fit!

Adiós,

Sra. Tyler

PS: Fun Fact: “Sra.” is the Spanish abbreviation for “Señora” (“Mrs.”), “Señorita” (“Miss”), or the “unknown marital status” address of “Ms.”, according to different pages on SpanishDict.com, like this. #learnsomethingneweveryday

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

Tiny URL

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Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year! I hope 2015 is starting off wonderfully smooth and plesant for you. One of my most favorite Christmas presents was a fabulous iPad 4, from which I am actually typing this blog post using the Edublogs application! I am sill learning how to use it productively, so future posts will most likely detail any findings that may be of use.

In my last post, I gave you a link to the Google Drive account that contained the words “tiny url.” Now, I did not make that link by myself; I used a great website, as detailed below.

TinyURL.com is a fantastic website for working with URLs. It allows anyone to take a long and complicated URL and shorten it into something easily to type and remember. I believe this has wonderful classroom implications, since the links never expire. For example, if there is a video or website I want students to access at home, I can send them to a link I have generated through TinyURL, rather than having them type in a URL with several unrelated letters and numbers. How simple is that!

Please check out this awesome and free resource at http://tinyurl.com.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler