Ideas from Awesome School Librarians

Colleen Graves teaches coding, Scratch, Mozilla Popcorn Maker, Skype with game developers, MaKey MaKey at middle school. Also uses Videolicious, iMovie, Wix. Has a Wall of Shelfies (selfie with favorite book). "Make Monday Workshops"

Andy Plemmons: PreK use Storybird app, K use Chromville, use Google Earth to preview walking field trips, Flipgrid video discussion tool, about Mr. Plemmons:

"turned the media center froma place where kids consume content into a place where they can create content"

Michelle Colte: Hour of Code, Code.org, Poem in Your Pocket Day, Global Read Aloud, says:

"Coding is a language... one of the literacies. As an educator, my job is to promote digital literacy, informational literacy, and, of course, reading literacy."

-School Librarian of the Year awards, SLJ September 14. info