MBAEA Monthly STEM Challenge
by Aaron Maurer
Are you up to the challenge? Looking for something different with students that is creative and fun? If so, check out the October Design a Circuit Challenge. Materials are available through our media center.
IdentAEA
New Single Sign-On
Ever find yourself struggling with username and passwords? THIS is a constant in my life! To ease this pain, AEA Professional Learning Online is working with a new provider to develop a more secure single sign-on authentication for teachers and students. It's called IdentAEA. It's being rolled out in stages and you'll start seeing it more in...
- AEA Scout
- AEA Professional Learning Registration
- Creative Services Online
- and other statewide systems
More information and updates can be found in this IdentAEA informational document.
New MBAEA Website Coming Soon!
Five of the nine AEAs have been working together to create websites with consistent information, look, and navigation. Our change is coming in the near future. Just a little reminder that you will need to update digital resources links on school and/or library websites.
Is there something missing on the media page that would help you or other users? If you have suggestions, send them my way!
research corner
I know you are very busy and getting caught up on the latest research around libraries may not be at the top of your list. Here is some recent-ish research on the importance of school libraries, teacher librarians, and reading for pleasure:
Dr. Stephen Krashen (et al) longitudinal literacy study May 2021; Using the PIRLS test, he found that school libraries and their collections were the main contributing factor, and made up for some of the negative effort of poverty.
What’s your pleasure? exploring the predictors of leisure reading for fiction and nonfiction (ResearchGate access) June 2021; The study found that reading enjoyment predicts better verbal abilities. Don't have ResearchGate? This Edutopia article from April summarizes the study and its finding related to the type of reading done
Enabling school librarians to serve as instructional leaders of multiple literacies; August 2021; Study goes over what is required for successful implementation of teacher librarian as instructional leader
Information provided Christine Sturgeon, media consultant at Prairie Lakes AEA.
Iowa Story Video Series
Last newsletter we shared the AEA Learning Online project Iowa Story which contains video vignette interviews with several Iowa K-12 teachers of many different curricular areas.
Hear from Kim Jorgensen, Kindergarten teacher at Webster Elementary in Urbandale, Iowa. Kim will share her 2020-21 journey during the pandemic, resources that she used with her students and more. Hear from her students as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECOB1H52A4
You can view all of the videos pre and during COVID at https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf/hear-from-iowa-teachers (preCOVID) and https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf/iowa-teaching-during-the-pandemic (during COVID)
If you are willing to tell you story or know someone who might be please contact Denise Krefting
(dkrefting@aealearningonline.org) or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org)
TeachingBooks Supports Your Role
Heather Wood, teacher librarian at Bellevue, demonstrated TeachingBooks with staff and the results were awesome. "Many of them were thrilled with how easy it was to use, how helpful it could be for them and all the resources!!! I am so excited that they are using it so much!!!"
Reach out if you are interested in professional development with your staff around this AEA resource or others. Consider sharing the resources below with selected professionals.
Looking for personalized outreach ideas for the different professionals in your learning community? Created with specific literacy needs in mind, our newly created collection of 2-minute videos build excitement and demonstrate how TeachingBooks supports specific roles. Simply share the videos with the appropriate audience.
Media Academy 2021-2022
Interested in media academy but cannot attend virtually or face to face during the school day? No worries as teachers can still take it for license renewal credit and/or access content. I am more than happy to meet outside media academy.
Registration has been extended until November 1st. Be sure to check out the syllabus for further details. For those of you attending, calendar invites are coming soon. Lunch and snacks are not provided.
- October 11, 2021
- November 30, 2021
- January 31, 2022
- March 28, 2022
Register here for license renewal credit or as a participant only.
Register here for graduate credit.
YouTube/Google Changes
- Youtube has retroactively changed any video marked "unlisted" that was uploaded before 2017 to "private". The end result is that those videos are no longer viewable when embedded or linked from your Google Classroom or LMS. The fix is, luckily, pretty easy if the teacher was the one that uploaded the video. Simply log into your Youtube account, go to your video manager, and change the setting back to "unlisted". At that same time, you can identify if the content in the video is intended for children or not. Which leads us to...
- Youtube has retroactively marked any video that did not have information about what age levels the video is appropriate already as a video only for those who are 18 years old. Teachers may have not realized this setting on videos they use or have uploaded. A teacher may be using a video and they are able to see it, but their students who are designated under the age of 18 by their Google account, will not. This went into effect September 1, 2021.
- Based on their district Google Apps set up, they may need to check and see that their staff are marked as over the age of 18 so that they can access Youtube videos that did not have the age setting on the video.
Credit to AEA Learning Online for this information.
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
OCTOBER
Black History MonthBreast Cancer Awareness Month
Head Start Awareness Month
LGBT History Month
National Bullying Prevention Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October 11th- Columbus Day
October 13th- U.S. Navy Birthday
October 15th- Boss's Day
October 31st- Halloween
MBAEA Media Center
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