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Assignment Three:Using IT for Processing and Sharing: Connecting WithYour Coomunity This was a valuable lesson because it boosts us into our futures by allowing us to find our place for collaboration. I would like to see which associations everyone picked. Need some ideas for places to go to locate resources, try these suggestions from your class:

King County Library Homework Help @http://www.kcls.org/homework_help/ King County maintains pathfinders for many school subjects. They hire cheap labor, interns, to do this for the most part so do your own evaluating.

Internet Public Library [] Also maintained by student and volunteers. Some good ideas for resources. Evaluate them for inclusion into your assignment and future pathfinders.

Other schools also have websites that have pathfinders on them, don't they??? ~Teresa

This is one of my favorite homework center sites, it's the Multnomah Library Site: [] Diana

I also like the Snohomish County Library homework site: [] Diana

Yes, both of those are useful!! Thanks for adding them, Diana!!

Hey kids! I found this in my searches for librarian-y stuff for assignment #3, thought some might find it helpful/useful/interesting. http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/07/07/100-best-blogs-for-school-librarians/ This is the coolest article! It is about being a teacher librarian and has a follow up article on the top tips from teacher librarians. I saved this down. It has ideas for all areas including Assignment 3 with lists of teacher librarian communities. [] [] -Diana
 * Kristen Billings ||> 8:47am Jul 5 ||

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I feel like I need to start a wiki of all the resources I have learned about. I teach classes where these tools would be perfect for the content.-TuesD

For assignment 1, I listed a few teacher resources that I use constantly in my classroom. One is Reading Rockets, which has author interviews, lesson plans, and tons of other stuff. When we begin a new chapter book read aloud, I pull up the author interview from Reading Rockets for the kids to see the author and listen to how they got into writing. This kids love it! Jerry Spinelli talks about his dislexia and how it prevented him from writing throughout his childhood, it wasn't until he was in college that he got the help he need to actually write. My students thought this was really amazing. Another resource I use a ton is Promethean Planet for my Activboard. It has already made templates in every subject/grade level imaginable. You do have to test them out to make sure they work properly, but most often they are great. For assignment 3, I love exploring Pinterest...amazing site with millions of ideas for classroom organization, lesson plans, art projects, etc. Can't wait to explore more this summer!-Suzanne