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  • What I should be doing right now

    What should I be doing right now? I should be finishing the mad dash of book checkin, making sure my library helpers are scurrying to all of the classrooms that they need to hit that morning before it is time for them to go to their itinerant class. But instead I won’t see them again…

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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

    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

    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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  • 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!]

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