ISTE19: Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Club with Schoology

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Thank you to everyone who joined me for my session on Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Clubs with Schoology at ISTE.

Learn how a literacy specialist, technology integration specialist, and middle school literacy literacy teachers used Schoology to create a digitally enhanced book club to share information about young adult books they were reading and how to grow their skills in using Schoology's multimedia features to make book clubs more engaging.

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Schoology 
Schoology is available in Enterprise and Basic (free) versions.  Schoology brings together the best K-12 learning management system with assessment management to improve student performance, foster collaboration, and personalize learning.





Flipgrid

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Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families in 180+ countries. Flipgrid is free for educators.









Padlet 

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Padlet allows you to make boards, documents, webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to.

Creating #BookSnaps With Markup On The iPad

Recently I had the opportunity to share the idea of using BookSnaps as an alternative to traditional reading logs for independent reading books.

*Image from Mosquitoland

BookSnaps allow students to quickly create shareable visual artifacts of applying close reading strategies while reading their independent reading books, make connections to the text, and share text snippets with classmates like a mini book talk by digitally annotating the text and saving the result as an image.

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The steps for creating BookSnaps with the Markup extension in the Photos app on the iPad are listed below. You can also grab a PDF of these steps here.

I'm always looking for more great examples of student-created BookSnaps. If you would like to share some great examples of your students' work, please send them my way.

*Mosquitoland by David Arnold

TIES18 Just Imagine: Join Me For A Workshop on Digitally Enhanced Literacy Classrooms

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I received notification today that I have been selected to present a preconference workshop for the 2018 TIES Conference!

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My preconference workshop will be about digitally enhanced literacy classrooms.

I'm hoping that some of you will join me for this professional development opportunity to explore a variety of iPad apps that can make your literacy instruction and students' experiences more engaging and impactful.