NEW Library Media Pear Deck Templates Are Here!

Last week, I had so much fun using a few very special new templates with my 2nd grade friends from Tracy Ferguson's class on our Zoom connection.  

They loved being able to...

....respond and interact with one another through the Pear Deck slides focused around reading that we used from the...

Library Media Templates I created with my friends at Pear Deck. 

And today, on World Book Day, this is the perfect time to share them with all of you! 

At this link, you will find the Library Media Templates on the Pear Deck site. 

Once you download them to your Google Drive, you will be able to view, use and modify the Library Media Templates to use with your school community in person and through remote learning too.

The slides are focused around a variety of library media topics including...

 Reading Prompts like...

 ...sharing favorite books and how they make you feel,

favorite illustrators,

 book clubs and...

 ...even special events like, Poem In Your Pocket Day.

We created slides around the weekly PebbleGo Adventures I have been creating with Capstone that you can find here.

You can even customize these slides to tie in the specific PebbleGo Questions and Adventures for the day.

With research being a big part of what we do as librarians, we created some Research Prompts slides that...

 ..will encourage entire classrooms or individual students to brainstorm, define and formulate research topics and process.

And of course, we included Using the Media Center as a topic.

I love how we can even use these slides as conversations through remote learning as we think about the library in a different way through eBooks, eResources and other formats and practice.  

To see their responses and how happy they were to share, meant the world to them and to us, as educators.  We will definitely be using Pear Deck to engage, encourage and interact with our students again. 

And to have the new Library Media Pear Deck slides makes it so much fun and easy to bring these ideas and concepts to life.  

You will find the Library Media Pear Deck slides here, friends.  You can use them as they are or change and add things to them within Google Slides too. 

Have fun! 

Geography Fun Choice Board!

While collaborating with one of our 3rd grade teachers this week, I decided to pull together the resources we were finding focusing around geography into a new choice board. 

She is going to share this with all of the 3rd graders next week in their continuous learning plan to give them some choice of videos, interactive sites, games and even the BrainPop Make-a-Map site to learn more and freshen up on their knowledge around geography. 

You can find the Geography Fun Choice Board here.  Feel free to use it as is or make a copy to change it up too.

And here is the link to make a copy. 

My Distance Learning Diary....A Special New Series From Newsela

One thing I have been doing everyday is writing about this time and the experiences we are having as a family and those I am having as a teacher and librarian.  So, when my friends at Newsela asked me to be part of their new series, Distance Learning Diaries, I was really excited to share what what a typical week looks like in our home and within the different jobs that I do.

As shared by Newsela,

In our new series, Distance Learning Diaries, we are asking educators, school leaders and edtech experts to write about a “week-in-the-life” of their distance learning routines. These authors will generously share daily reflections on their challenges and successes with remote teaching, plus a few fun at-home anecdotes. Our first “Distance Learning Diary” is from Future Ready Librarian and Innovation Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media Shannon McClintock Miller. 

You will find my Distance Learning Diary here.  

I hope you enjoy reading what we have been up to at our home in West Des Moines, Iowa; how it looks for our son, Hagan, as a freshman learning remotely; what my job as a teacher librarian look like; and how I have been helping and collaborating with other librarians and educators around the world in my roles with Future Ready Librarians, Follett, Capstone, Buncee and others. 

And to get to the detailed view like this....

 ...of each day, you can go here.

Newsela would love to feature others so if you are interested, please let me know so I can pass your name onto them. 

You can also find a blank Distance Learning Diaries template here to create and fill out your own. 

I am really honored they asked me to share my week.  It was not only rewarding to share, but it was very therapeutic for me to have a place to share everyday. 

I hope you are having a wonderful and healthy week, friends.