August 2016 TL Announcements

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

--Clay P. Bedford

Think!

The Purpose-Based Library: Finding your path to survival, success, and growth --American Libraries

“The purpose-based library is not just about circulation, gate counts, and computer hours. It is about how you and your library affect people’s lives and therefore the community as a whole. This is your most significant competitive advantage over Amazon, Google, and Netflix.”

Consider the following questions as you read this article and post reflections to Comments:

• What is your library’s purpose?
• What are your library program’s competitive advantages?

Beginning-of-Year@BVSD

• Remember to run through the Beginning of Year list for Insignia.  

• To learn more about District licenced software including WeVideo, BrainPop, NoodleTools, and others, visit the Ed Tech Software page (bookmark it).

Welcome Aboard!

• Shauna Polson has joined the EdTech team as our newest Educational Technology Specialist. Read Shauna’s bio here.

• Please welcome Jessica West to our BVSD TL community. Jessica will be job sharing with Sarah Kirby at Heatherwood.

What to Know @BVSD this Month!

OverDrive Consortium Participation Deadline Extension - It’s not too late to join the BVSD OverDrive Consortium. Complete this form by EOD Sept. 15 and join the 14 BVSD schools that are building a shared ebook collection that will be available to all participating schools. If you have any questions or need clarification about this opportunity please email Zoe or Rae.


OverDrive Content Specialists will be on-site Sept. 7, 4 PM @ IT Copper, to provide an overview of the OverDrive platform, discuss content selection best practices, and take questions. This session is open to both current BVSD OverDrive Consortium members and those considering joining and want to learn more.

NoodleTools (NT) Single Sign On (SSO) is now operational. Please review ​How to access NoodleTools through Google Apps tutorial ​for detailed ​NT via Google Apps ​instructions​. Note the NT direct URL has changed so, please update any links you have to NT on library webpages or other documents with this address, https://my.noodletools.com/logon/gapps/landing/bvsd.org.

WeVideo is now available for grades 2-12. To learn more about WeVideo and how to access via SSO visit the WeVideo EdTech page.

In mid October Insignia will be providing us with a demonstration of their latest upgrade that will include HMTL5 support (allowing TLs to access Insignia’s Admin functions via Chrome/Chromebooks). Once we conclude that the upgrade is stable and seamlessly delivers HTML5 support we will release it to the TL community. Stay tuned...

• Customizing your OPAC - create a more relevant and branded search experience for your patrons.

• Map Editor and Locate It! - allows your patrons to see a map of your library, indicating where a certain book can be found.

• Projects in ILS and OPAC - allows you to create a collection of materials of all media types for patrons to use for projects.

Bi-Monthly Workshops

Thanks to all the TLs that have offered to host our Bi-Monthly Workshops. Hugely excited to tour these spaces which have all undergone extensive renovations and exemplify innovative learning spaces.

If you have already signed up to lead a workshop, thank you! If you want to lead a workshop but haven’t signed up please complete this form (still have open workshop slots). Bi-monthly workshops are just that, an opportunity to workshop an idea, project or lesson plan, goals, etc., with your peers, and tap the collective expertise and experience to think-out-loud and resolve an issue or bring an idea to fruition.

• September 13, Boulder High-- Parking at BHS can be very challenging so, please carpool to this meeting (seriously, carpool if at all possible)
• November 9, Whittier Elementary (yes, this is a Wednesday)
• January 10, Southern Hills Middle
• March 14, Sanchez Elementary
• May 9, Ed Center (End-of-Year Celebration)

Notes/Events/Resources:

• Dynamic Duo of Colleen and Aaron Graves, K-12 Media Specialists/Librarians are presenting a FREE webinar on, Makerspace Projects for School, Public and Academic Libraries September 15, 2016, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT.
• Coming Soon -- The Return of LIBinars! As soon as we have topic details and dates confirmed we will pass the schedule along to you. If you have an idea for a LIBinar please let us know by completing this form. Don’t forget you have on-demand access to previous LIBinars via the BVSD Ed Tech YouTube channel.  
• Digital Shift 2016 virtual conference, October 19, 2016, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
• If you are supporting teachers involved with National History Day be sure to tell them about Boulder Public Library’s (BPL) Research Rendezvous on Saturday Dec. 3 --click here for details.