#LiteraryMM rules and news

In case you were wondering:

SCHS Literary March Madness!

#literarymm  

When? Monday March 13 - Thursday March 23

What?  The matchups will be posted daily on @schs_library Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, and  @schs.raptorlibrary on Facebook.

How? When you see a new pairing posted, vote for your favorite in the comments, reply on twitter or drop the name in the ballot box in the library! Each unique entry will be counted as a vote and the character with the most votes will be deemed the winner.

Schedule:

March 13&14,Mon/Tues = Sweet 16 (4 match-ups/day)

March 15-20, Wed-Tues = Elite Eight (1 match-up/day)

March 21-22,Tues-Weds = Final Four (1 match-up/day)

March 23rd, Thursday = CHAMPIONSHIP!

In the end- one stellar champion will be crowned 2017 as “literary royalty”!

Monday, 3!13 starts the Sweet 16 of March Literary Madness! 

The full bracket is upstairs on the bulletin board near the nest. 

You can also follow and VOTE @schs_library to vote on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram or @schs.library on Facebook.)

OR- Reply to this email with ONE book for each of the following matchups! 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL CONTENDERS!

Matchup #1 Perks of Being a Wallflower VS The Help.

Matchup #2 Great Gatsby VS The Girl on the Train.

Matchup #3 If I Stay VS Looking For Alaska.

Matchup #4 Attack on Titan VS The Book Thief. 

question? Mr G

Sweet 16 #LiteraryMM

Here is a quick picture of this year's SWEET 16 March #LiteraryMM Madness!

Feb 7 Tech Tuesday

Need a reading extension for your students? Chromebooks? 

Try: 

• Stack up app that categorizes time spent in research, online etc. (can be used as a feedback piece for you and your students)
• https://www.stackup.net/getting-started/
• Tracks time spent, reading level
• Can push out challenges for your students can give students a code by using stakcup.net
• You can specify the website or websites for them to read
• Students LOVE the competition, and relish the reading time
• What about setting differentiated challenges? Not sure.
• More data for kids in a way that makes sense

Jan 3, 2017- Tech Tuesday notes!

Here are some of the things we talked about!

Organization Help

Videos shared with air share in MacBook Air

• Store videos in folder, access in finder
• Use GDocs to write evaluation notes

Create a folder on your destktop, or My documents

• Continue to create a new folder system inside the folders

Article Clutter organizers

Mercury reader (trims ads and pictures of cluttered website)

• Great for printing or saving as PDF
• PDF can be shared with iPads and opened in iBooks

Tab Organizers

Get Toby

One Tab

CHROME

• Sign into chrome browser (upper right side with siloutlette icon)

Prizes:

- cord organizers for all!

Wise something - from Dan Kloster

Shannon and I learned how to move icons and create folders

Felicity added the IC Web page as icon to her home page using "add to home screen"

Jerry, Dan and I used "air drop" to share photos, files and notes

Jean Gurlue won the bluetooth wireless mouse- which turned out to be a lame prize. We can't get it to work.

Jamie V used her camera to do cool things!

Erick F and I were trying to manage our storage space and can't quite find the right answer we want to see- more free store when we have multiple machines on the same account! :)

More next time!

Fun with iPads

Here are some great apps and techniques we discussed at Tech Tuesday today...give them a try!

Note sharing/task sharing app:
Google Keep (android, chrome app or in browser)
GoTask
*With either account- sign in with your google account it information is shared across devices

Split keyboard to text easier

Activate camera and take photos from your lock screen (Jerry T says kids fill up his memory with this)

From the lock screen, slide up to activate iPad control center
to access AIR SHARE, lock screen, camera, timer, do not disturb, etc.

Set up do not disturb to you will not receive notifications/pop ups
Settings>Do Not Disturb>Scheduled     then set times to allow pop ups etc

St Vrain Digital Library
Install Overdrive app from absolute apps. Create an overdrive account, search libraries for
St. Vrain Valley School District, select Silver Creek Library
Once installed, click on St. Vrain Valley School District and log in with your citrix password

PS- if you need collaboration hours, make sure to write down time spent today!

Just for fun: