As I have been exploring different sites and articles for my classes this fall I have run across several interesting readings I thought I would share!
Five Ways Video Conferencing is Bringing Exciting Collaborative Interaction to Teaching and Learning -Describes some great ideas for using videoconferencing in your classroom and collaborating on a global scale!- Four Ways Collaborative Workspace Drives Innovation– Some ideas from some successful businesses to think about as you create spaces for students (and teachers!) to gather, share, and work together.
- Tales from a Loud Librarian: New School Year Begins with a Focus on Collaboration – A great post on how one school librarian promotes collaboration and how even sometimes we have to educate our colleagues.
- Remake Your Classroom Part 1: Planning for a Collaborative Learning Environment – This is Part 1 of what will be a three part video series from Edutopia that follows teacher at a middle school in San Francisco as he transforms his crowded classroom space to enable deeper learning.
- Collaborative Librarianship News – A great resource for articles from professional literature on various topics dealing with various types of library collaboration. Two that caught my eye were Ideas for Collaboration Between Public Libraries and K-12 Schools and Collaboration Between School Librarians and STEM Teachers.
I know I am always looking for great news ideas and resources to try – especially here during the exciting back to school time. What great resources have you stumbled across?
Thank you for including my blog talesfromaloudlibrarian.com in your post. It was fun to find it on your list. I just wrote a post on how I plan to encourage more reading in my library this year. It will be published on 8/24/2014.
Elizabeth
Thank you for sharing these resources, Melissa. I learned from School Library Monthly editor Deborah Levitov that the matrix I created to help educators align standards, inquiry, reading comprehension, and instruction is featured on the ABC-CLIO Web site. They are offering it to readers as a back-to-school resource. Access it from here (lower right): http://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited.aspx
Thanks for sharing Judi! This matrix is indeed another great resource and very useful!