Author: Amanda
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What I’m Teaching This Week: Digital Learning Day
I am celebrating Digital Learning Day with my classes this week. It falls on February 27th, but I will be celebrating all week to ensure that my classes get in on all the fun. As I mentioned in a previous post, my students have been begging to play Gimkit. I broke down and spent about…
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Resource Roundup–Gimkit
When I attended the VSTE conference back in December, one of the many takeaways that I got from my sessions were new apps and websites. One of them, by far, is Gimkit. Gimkit reminds me of Kahoot or Quizlet Live. Students work at their own pace, answering questions on their individual devices. They are able…
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Working on a snow day… bookshelf progress
It snowed yesterday afternoon and they canceled school today. Twelve month employees were on a two hour delay, so I went in later this morning even though I didn’t have to. I took advantage of the building being open and went down to the library unseen. From there, I was able to get quite a…
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Dragging
I have been dragging here lately. I’m about as tired as one can get and still be functional. I have been working to get things straight, books shelved, and we’ve rearranged the library so I have done a good bit of cleaning throughout that process as well. I went home the other night and managed…
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App Review: Kodable
The first week back from winter break is coming to a close. In order to ease back into the week, we started using a new app in the library. 1st-5th grade students started using Kodable this week. I will get kindergarten on the Kodable train later… I knew I wouldn’t have the energy to help…
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2019: Year in Books
During 2019, I challenged myself to read 200 books. As a librarian who reads kid lit all the time, 200 books doesn’t seem like a lot since I can fly through a stack of picture books in thirty minutes and because of my job, they count! I didn’t meet my goal, however. Life got crazy…
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Librarian Influencers Podcast Interview: Fun Backup Plans Are Essential
Listen to my interview with Laura Sheneman here. [Sorry for the way late post… you can tell the end of the semester caught up with me! Here’s to being on top of things in the new year!]