The topics we have covered over the last 8 weeks focused on leveraging technology effectively. This looks different for all of us given our roles, students, resources, and districts. My role as a teacher-librarian is to provide instruction, support students' literacy and reading for pleasure, and create collaboration opportunities with teachers. Technology allows me to achieve these goals. The tools/artifacts I decided to share support students' literacy both in the classroom and for their own reading pleasure.
Sora is the student reading app from Overdrive Education. It provides students with access to ebooks and audiobooks that can be downloaded to their devices (Chromebooks) and or phones. Schools can set the number of ebooks students can check out and the length of the checkout. District libraries can share books between schools and/or help students borrow from public libraries. Teachers can assign books to be read and check on reading statistics. Students can highlight and take notes that can be downloaded as a PDF or to Google Drive. Here is a presentation on how to access our Sora App.
Newsela is an instructional content platform that publishes daily online articles on a range of topics and reading levels and integrated assessments. Newsela helps students develop critical nonfiction literacy skills. Teachers can engage each learner with up to date content, view metrics on student usage and performance, differentiate with 5 reading levels, including articles in Spanish are available as well for ELL, and search by standards.
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