Friends...We Hope You Can Join Us For Our FUN StickTogether Webinar Coming Up On April 11!

                  

Friends, we hope you can join us for our FUN StickTogether webinar coming up on April 11. 

As shared online...

Finding ways to enhance and support teaching and learning is so important for teachers and librarians. It not only makes learning engaging and meaningful, it brings fun to our learners too. In this special StickTogether webinar, learn how to create curricular connections using StickTogether and other digital resources such as eBooks, digital tools like PebbleGo Create, MERGE, Google Slides, Canva, The Achievery, WeVideo, DoInk and so much more.

Join Shannon McClintock Miller, Brianna Cua, and Heather Fox on April 11, 2023 at 4:00pm CST to learn how to create curricular connections with StickTogether and other digital resources.

All attendees will be given access to a very special Virtual Gallery! Three attendees will be entered to win an webinar exclusive Sticker Poster kit.

You can register for this FREE webinar here.  

The recording and resources will be sent out after the webinar to everyone who registers too. 

Meet Your Hosts

Shannon McClintock Miller serves as the District Teacher Librarian and Innovation Director at Van Meter Community School District in Iowa. She is also the Future Ready Librarians Spokesperson working with the Alliance of Excellent Education in Washington DC.  Shannon is an avid blogger at, The Library Voice, writing, speaking and consulting on librarianship, education and students around the world. You will find her on Twitter and Instagram at @shannonmmiller.

Brianna Cua is the owner of Engaged Media Solutions, a full-service digital marketing consulting company. She is also the Director of Digital Marketing and Brand Communications for StickTogether. You will find her on Twitter and Instagram at @BriannaMCua.

Heather Fox is the Elementary Librarian at Amana Elementary in Iowa.  She loves finding ways to inspire reading, creativity and learning with her library and throughout the school community.

Join Us For The Global Pixel Art Portrait Mural With Other Students & Communities From Around The World!

 

Friends, I am so excited to share a new global project with all of you. 

This time we will be creating a Global Pixel Art Portrait Mural with other students and communities from around the world.  

Our Global Pixel Art Portrait Mural will be part of the ISTELive Discovery Museum in Philadelphia in June 2023.

Earlier this year at my school, our students create amazing self portraits using the FREE StickTogether Pixel Art site. They were all unique and beautiful.  

When our students finished their Pixel Art portraits, I put them together in a community mural.  

These can be printed in color, 

completed with the square stickers from StickTogether, or...

...shared virtually.  You can read this post to see how we did this project with our 3rd graders.

Now, it is time for your students and community to be part of an even bigger project...The Global Pixel Art Portrait Mural.  

Using StickTogether's Pixel Art site, students will create their self portrait.  

The directions are easy. Let me tell you how this will work. 

1. Go to the StickTogether Pixel Art site here.  Instruct your students to put only their FIRST name and location. 

For example: Hagan from Van Meter, Iowa as you can see in the image above. This will be important as we put together the mural. 

2. Have students create their self portrait in the Pixel Art site. You will find it here.  It is free for everyone. 

SUPER IMPORTANT... Have student create their portraits in the VERTICAL format.  We want all of the portraits to line up nicely in the mural. 

I talk to the students about making the background interesting too.  It's amazing what they create. 

3. Once they have finished their pixel art portrait, have each student click Generate PDF's. 

This box pops up and they click on Confirm, which downloads two files onto their Chromebook. 

One is the pixel art in full color and the other...

...is the pixel art poster they fill in with the stickers. 

4. To make it easy to get these files from each student from their Chromebook, I created a Padlet and shared the link with them in their Google Classroom. 

Each student shared their two pixel art files to the Padlet. 

When they download from the Pixel Art site, their name is added to each file. This makes it really easy to identify the art on the Padlet and when they are printed off. The name is at the bottom as you can see in the image above. 

5. For our Global Pixel Art Portrait Mural, please send them digitally. This will be the best way to display them at the ISTE Conference and virtually with everyone. 

You can add them to our Global Pixel Art Portrait Padlet here.  I have already added our 1st and 2nd grade classes at Van Meter. You can also create your own Padlet (or other way to share) and add to details and any links to the Google Doc here.

6. One last thing, I would love to have you add your contact information to this Google Document if you would like to be part of the project. 

This will be help with communicating details and keeping all of the important information together in one place. 

I can't wait to see all of the amazing pixel art portraits from around the world.  This will be the perfect way to celebrate all of our students and their uniqueness wherever they are in the world. 

Please reach out to me at shannonmcclintockmiller@gmail.com if you have any questions. 

Celebrate The Month of the Military Child with these Special Virtual Stickerboards From Our Friends at StickTogether!

 

April is the Month of the Military Child.  

The United State Defense Department celebrates military children during the month of April. 

Each year, the Department of Defense joins national, state and local government, school, military serving organizations, companies and private citizens in celebrating military children.

You will find more information here. 

Our friend and StickTogether Ambassador Mason Nichols is an elementary school teacher at Fort Sam Houston ISD in Texas. FSHISD educates the children of active military personnel. The district is coterminous with the Army installation Fort Sam Houston, meaning it has the same boundaries as the installation.

During a recent conversation, Mason spoke about the Month of the Military Child. He then collaborated with StickTogether to create three Virtual Stickerboards to use with his kids at Fort Sam Houston ISD and to share with others working with military child around the country and world.

These include...

...which can be found online in the...

...April Virtual Stickerboard Gallery here. 

Everyone can create and use these Virtual Stickerboards for FREE with their students, teachers and community at school, in the library and even through special events celebrating the Month of the Military Child. 

We can't wait to see how you use these with your community too.