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HARD TIMES…

WHAT TO DO?

What to do???

NUTS AND BOLTS

LOOK FOR

BARGAINS &FREEBIES HERE!!!

CUT BACK SOFTWARE??

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OTHER COST-CUTTING MEASURES

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Using DonorsChoose.org to help fill in collection gaps or obtain needed items has been a great opportunity for me. It is a wonderful resource that more teachers/librarians could be using. Here's the link: http://www.donorschoose.org

HERE’S ANOTHER SUGGESTION FROM A LISTSERV CONTRIBUTOR

BRASS TACKS

BRASS TACKS

DATABASES CUT???•LIBRARIES IN YOUR COMMUNITIES•IPL http://www.ipl.org/ A favorite of mine: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/•WIKIPEDIA• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_video_websites

•ONLINE PERIODICALS• Thanks mrdonn for this great list: http://themes.mrdonn.org/KidsMags.html

•Great School sites with links• Spring Branch ISD Library Resources:

http://library.springbranchisd.com/sbisd_library/Patrons/library_resources/links.htm

• Stetson Middle School Virtual Library…I have been a fan for over 10 years! • http://www.sldirectory.com/virtual.html• http://schoollibrarywebsites.wikispaces.com/

•Kathy Schrock: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/•Fact Monster: http://www.factmonster.com/•Advameg http://www.advameg.com/

SOFTWARE CUTS??•SUBSTITUTES FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE• OPEN OFFICE• GOOGLE DOCS• Remember to use any application to the fullest extent (ie. Word Art,

Drawing Tools, etc.)•DRAWING TOOLS—Available in any office suite• FREE APPS for iPads• FREE Online Drawing Resources

•FREE ONLINE RESOURCES• MIND MAPPING

• http://www.mindmapinspiration.com/• TIMELINES• http://www.starfall.com/• http://www.komando.com/• http://search.creativecommons.org/• http://www.curriki.org/

EQUIPMENT SHORTAGES?

•RUN THIN CLIENTS•USE THOSE OLD CLUNKERs•Use centers•Pair/group students•Do prep work on paper•Use digital projector •Use interactive whiteboard•iPads are cheaper than laptops• Cheap laptops may be better than laptops for your needs • RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY!!!

•Go low tech!• Hand drawn mindmaps, timelines, charts, etc.• Faux Facebook pages• 140 character writing activities• Storyboards by hand

• One Computer Classroom Lessons: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/links_grades_kindergarten_12/one_computer_classroom_lesson.htm• How to Thrive—Not Just Survive—In the One-Computer Classroom:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech092.shtml• Practical Tips for One Computer Classroom (still relevant despite age):

http://www.k12.hi.us/~skiyonag/Practical-Ideas.html• One-Computer Classroom: From Reward to Treasure:

http://ddl.nmsu.edu/teachers/onecomputer.html

LIMITED COMPUTERS?

WEBSITE EVALUATION ON A SHOESTRING— THANKS TO JACQUIE HENRY via LM_NET

Of course these activities are best done online. You could have them as stations and use as group assignments to maximize computer usage. Or YOU COULD save sites and use on computers that are not online (clunkers) or even print out. Yes this a substitute. But many of us ARE IN NEED RIGHT NOW!!!• Here are links to quick and dirty forms that require kids to analyze a site and

give it a grade. 16 pts and above, is a go. Below that and I require them to look further. There is one for elementary, middle school, and high school. http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/workshops.cfm?subpage=623219

• A research paper rubric...probably too much for middle school...but perhaps it could be modified. I used it to grade works cited lists before I retired in June. http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/files/WC%20RUBRIC%2010th%20Grade%20English%20Project.doc

• This is a really fun tutorial for evaluating websites. Don't let the fact that it was created for college students throw you. It is perfectly understandable for ms and above. http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/

• All the tutrials from Acadia Univ. are great.. Here are links to all of them. http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/

MOCK FACEBOOK PAGE

This activity has been mentioned many times in discussion boards. It could be useful for schools where Facebook is blocked. Students could even do the activity completely old-school, making the pages on paper rather than computer generated. Some people call these Fakebooks.

• Here is a popular website with some templates for this purpose: http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/

• Lea’s Classroom Blog has some good ideas and links at this site: http://hansengeorge.blogspot.com/2011/03/historicliterary-figure-facebook-page.html

140 Character Writing

Twitter’s limited character restriction has given rise to activities encouraging students to write creatively within the parameter.

• One idea is to write stories which students each having 140-character input. People often do this with groups, letting each member contribute one or more

• Another idea is to do stand-alone creations. • Here’s a great link with ideas:

http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom• Here’s a great idea from a former student, Laura Sisson: We did 140

character chapter summaries in my 1 computer library last year. The kids wrote them on slips with drawn avatars and we pasted them on poster board like a twitter feed.

TWITTER BULLETIN BOARD

BULLETIN BOARD IDEAS

• Simulate VoiceThread—put up picture and have kids put up reactions on sticky notes or cutouts. Connect them to the picture with yarn

• Simulate Pininterest—Have category on board and kids pin up contributions

• Hand drawn mindmaps are now an artform!• Blog with sticky notes• USE STICKY NOTES LIBERALLY!!!• Hand draw Wordles on paper• Have kids create original clip art. http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/clipartportal.html

I LOVE MINDMAPS!I love INSPIRATION but know that many schools do not have access or may find it dropped due to cost cutting. BUT there are great free online options:• Microsoft Office Tools have become so sophisticated that it is easy to use

them to make mindmaps. If you use Open Office (also free), it has these tools too.

• There are lots of free online mindmapping resources. Just do a Google search and see!I hesitate to give a list because there are so many, but I just came across a blog that is devoted completely to mindmapping:The Mindmapping Software Blog: http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/product-reviews/

• Here is another good source if you are looking around for software to try: Adrian Bruce's How to Create Mindmaps Using Free Software: http://www.adrianbruce.com/computers/mindmap/mindmap.htm

• Remember to search using both spellings, mindmap and mind map, and also graphic organizers.

BUT WAIT! YOU SAY…My students do not have enough computer access to use these resources. Plus they are all blocked by the (*&(^% FILTERS!!! The next slide is for you…

MAKE OLD SCHOOL MINDMAPS!To me, having students do maps by hand is good for lots of reasons. It teaches them the same organizational skills as the online tools, it encourages them to be even more creative without the canned graphics, and it improves motor skills. Here are some sites that got me so excited about doing mindmaps by hand. I believe you could just show some examples (depending on the ages of the students) and let them go. Evaluating and sharing their creations will be even more fun than those made by computer. Here are some sites for ideas:

Mind Map Art: http://www.mindmapart.com/ • Mind Map Inspiration (note this has nothing to do with the product):

http://www.mindmapinspiration.com/• Idea Maps Photostream by Jamie Nast:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7232141@N07/• If you do a search of Flikr you will find more mindmaps, both computer and hand

generated.• Additional searching will yield even more sites.

THIS COULD BE DONE OLD SCHOOL WITH PAPER AND MARKERS, ETC.

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FIGHT FEAR WITH INFORMATION POWER

FIGHT FEAR WITH INFORMATION POWER

THERE’S AN

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