As we begin to our Distance teaching experience, we at UELMA want to support our Members and Libraries at large. We will be collecting and adding items to this page throughout our time of #SocialDistance. None of this is in any particular order and I will add new items to the TOP! Please e-mail me any items to add and remember that there are still FERPA, HIPAA, ADA and Copyright laws (links below) to abide by – be smart out there. Lastly – We are sticking to libraries and books here. I assume/hope UCET will have technology support.
anything above the – was added 4/29
Events
- added 4/17
- Everywhere Bookfest-Starts May 1
- Google Applied Digital Skills April 24
- Sora Sweet Reads April 15 to July 31
Links for Librarians
- added 4/17
- Sharyn Manley’s site Great example of reading audio books and providing resources!
- Preparing for long term school closure
- Common Sense Education – https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/
- Want to clean up your records? Check out the BestMarc free trial
Links to more resources
- Wow is all I can say about this list Thank you Laura Hunter from UEN.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/ - And from the LOC
https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2020/03/for-teachers-identifying-books-for-live-and-recorded-storytimes-with-students/ - —
- THIS is awesome – https://ditchthattextbook.com/novel-hyperdocs
- Pernille Ripp – https://docs.google.com/document
- Amazing Resources – http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/
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- ALA – Town Hall March 24 – put it on your calendar – https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org
- Chris Haught’s list of Resources – the (library links are added below) https://sedcchris.com/resources-for-librarians/
Free Books
- Spreadsheet of free books. (Many are already listed below) https://docs.google.com/
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- Sora’s Big Read – https://biglibraryread.com/
- Big Timber – https://www.bigtimbermedia.com/distance-learning
- Follett Lightbox – https://cloud.k12edu.follett.com/lightbox-av2
- Audible is FREE – https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
- ABDO – digital books on illness. (clever!) – https://abdodigital.com
- Capstone has been offering free access to PebbleGo, PebbleGo Spanish, PebbleGo Next, and our Capstone Interactive eBooks. Educators can sign up for the free access here.
- TumbleBooks, a world leader in online children’s book databases, announced today it will make its family of online libraries available for free to all libraries until at least August 31! Send them an e-mail at info@tumblebooks.com with subject line Free TumbleBooks
- Unite for Literacy – pick a language and have the book read. – https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/
- Lightbox is giving free subscriptions as well – https://mailchi.mp/openlightbox.com/
- Junior Library Guild (JLG) is now free at home – https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/at-home
- Scholastic – https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/
Read-Alouds
- MacKids Streaming – https://static.macmillan.com/static/macmillanchildrens/mackids-streaming-schoolhouse/
- Magic Tree House – April 27 to May 22, weekly themed videos, crafts, games, reading challenges, recipes, trivia, and other activities tied to the series and its characters. Readers will also have access to videos of Osborne reading and answering questions from fans. https://www.magictreehouse.com/go/
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- Schedule of Read-Aloud @ the LivBits
- Pernille Ripp – https://docs.google.com/document
- Authors Everywhere – on Youtube! – https://www.youtube.com/
- Follett’s collection of Read Alouds – https://collections.follett
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- A large collection of author Read-Alouds many of them with writing prompts and advice https://www.katemessner.com/read-wonder
- Storyline Online – https://www.storylineonline.net/
- Children’s Authors doing Read-Alouds – https://www.weareteachers.com/
- Here is a list of Authors doing Read-Alouds themselves! Too many to list here separately – https://docs.google.com/document/
- Story time from Space – https://storytimefromspace.com/books
- The Best Read-Alouds on YouTube – https://www.weareteachers.com/read-alouds-on-youtube/
Fun. Yes we must have it.
- Find some FUN kahoots! https://create.kahoot.it/discover
- Breakout EDU – https://www.breakoutedu.com/
- Brain Breaks – https://www.weareteachers.com/brain-breaks-for-kids/
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- Our page of Virtual Museums – https://uelma.org/virtual-museums
- First lines re-written for Social Distance – https://lithub.com/the-first-lines-of-10-classic-novels-
- And, last lines – https://lithub.com/okay-now-the-last-lines-of-10-classic-novels
- Pinterest Library memes – https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/
Interesting links
- Survey of Academic Libraries – https://phys.org/news/
- Impact on Libraries goes beyond books – https://www.wired.com/
- Society of Children’s Book Writers – https://www.scbwi.org/
- Librarian Influencer response – https://www.laurasheneman.com/
- ALA Response- http://www.ala.org/advocacy/libraries-respond
- We are Both! Online and in Print! – https://www.insidehighered.com
- What the public library needs to know – https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory
- Librarians Continue to work – https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-03-17-how-librarians-continue-their-work-digitally
Copyright info from publishers.
Many authors are saying “Yes, read my book and record it”. BUT- most do not have that authority – They’re just fabulous people who want their books read. If you’re concerned about it here are some copyright information from the publishers.
- Reading Aloud and Fair Use Webinar – http://infojustice.org/
- SLJ All in one place – https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=publishers
- Tips from The Programming Librarian – https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/copyright-tips
- School Library Journal – https://www.slj.com/librarians-address-copyright-concern
- Penguin Random House – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/
- Little Brown – https://www.lbyr.com/little-brown-young-readers/
- Boyds Mills & Kane – https://boydsmillsandkane.com/permissions2020/
- Simon and Schuster – https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/online
- Macmillan – https://us.macmillan.com/macmillan-content-use-guidelines/
- HarperCollins had nothing on their website but SLJ did – https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/?detailStory
- Lerner – Get permission at https://rights-permissions.lernerbooks.com/