MBAEA Media Newsletter

Iowa’s AEAs provide students, educators, and parents with no-cost access to high-quality, vetted digital resources, including ebooks, streaming videos, reference materials, and more!

Check out what is new for this year!

• Britannica ImageQuest (Prek-12) - Royalty-free images
• Core Concepts Science (7-12)- Videos, digital interactives, and experiments
• Gale In Context: High School (9-12)- Biographies, primary resources, multimedia, and critical essays
• PebbleGo & PebbleGo Next (Prek-5) - Articles that support literacy, critical thinking, and digital citizenship
• Power Knowledge Science (3-6)- Science fair projects, experiments, and interactive games

Check out our new and well-loved resources today!

Accessing the AEA digital resources is now easier than ever! If your district has signed up to use MBAEA OneClick powered by ClassLink, you can use your district email login to access the resources. That’s all — no more unique usernames and passwords!

Not signed up or have questions? Email Heather Whitman at hwhitman@mbaea.org.

I am very excited about the collaborative opportunities at Media Academy. I encourage teacher-librarians to share the overview with the curriculum director and administration and look forward to our first session on Oct. 25th.

Registration links are coming soon!

The AEAs purchased 15 new video titles in our AEA Digital Library resource. The examples below support student well-being.

Doug Unplugged (Gr. K-3 - 6 minutes)

Doug is a robot. His parents want him to be smart, so they plug him in each morning and start the information download. After a morning spent learning facts about the city, Doug suspects he could learn even more about it by going outside and exploring it. And so Doug...unplugs. What follows is an exciting day of adventure and discovery. Doug learns amazing things by doing, seeing, touching, listening, and interacting with a new friend.

Say Something (Gr. K-6 - 6 minutes)

Each of us, every day, has the chance to say something: with our actions, words, and voices. There are many ways to tell the world who you are... what you are thinking... and what you believe. And how you'll make it better. Narrated by the author, Peter H. Reynolds. Music By Sarah Hart. A co-production of Weston Woods Studios and FableVision, Inc

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets (Gr. 2-8 - 77 minutes)

Celebrates twenty famous poets from around the globe through original poems written in the poets' styles.

Understanding Social Anxiety (Gr. 7-12 - 13 minutes)

Social anxiety--the negative emotions and fear of ordinary social interactions--affects 40% of all US teens. A diverse group of on-camera teens presents the issues. Each explains their symptoms, discusses how social anxiety impacts their lives, and shares their coping strategies. A clinical psychologist provides professional insight. Viewers will understand how common social anxiety is, how it can cause teens to miss out on their lives, and where to seek help.

Learn360 provides Pre-K-12 videos, including interactive games and activities, audiobooks, children's stories, etc. Heather Wood, the teacher librarian at Bellevue, said she is always finding useful tools in Learn360.

• STEM Lessons

• Live & Interactive Virtual Field Trips

• 77 Pre-K-2 Learning Games

• 215 Pre-K-2 Math Activities

• 2235 Learning Songs

• 114 Pre-K-2 Children's Stories

Did you know that you can create interactive video quizzes too? It's easy to insert questions at specific points in a video and then share the quiz with students to increase engagement and assess progress! Find the Quiz icon on any video player page in the right-hand box, next to "Segments" and "Transcript."

Are you interested in receiving a monthly email that notifies you of the newest titles added to Learn360? In July, Learn360 added 78 PreK-12 titles.

Email Derek Herman, dherman@infobase.com, and ask him to add you to the latest titles notification email list.

The premium version of Pear Deck continues to be available to all educators courtesy of the Iowa AEAs. A Pear Deck session is the active presentation of a deck or vocabulary list that students/participants must join to view slides and respond to interactive questions. The responses collected are automatically saved within the sessions. While you can delete a slide deck or vocabulary list, it's impossible to delete a session.

Archival

Archiving sessions keeps the session pages organized and manageable. For those who used it extensively over the last two years, here are directions to clean up and archive your sessions to start the 2022-2023 school year.

Google Classroom Add-on

With the Pear Deck for Google Classroom Add-on, you can assign Pear Deck activities to your class, review coursework, provide individualized feedback, and access Pear Deck's Teacher Dashboard, all within Google Classroom.

To get started with this add-on, reach out to your IT department, requesting them to install the add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace. Once it has been deployed, check out the help article for a complete overview and how-to guide.

Now more than ever, students are creating videos and podcasts. Use Soundzabound audio content to eliminate copyright issues.

"The Soundzabound Music Library is the perfect solution for our High School A/V Production program. It is easy to use and takes our productions to the next level! The students love it because there is so much variety! I love it because it has eliminated copyright infringement issues! And...the customer service from Martha and her team is personal and top-notch!" --Robb Stephenson, Burkburnett High School, Burkburnett, Texas

These are a few videos modeling how schools across America incorporate its music.

• Addictions

• Character

• Texting & Driving

• Touring Valdosta Middle School

Energize literacy instruction with digital resources from TeachingBooks that connect readers to titles. Select the title of the 20-minute webinar for details. Watch for reminders before the webinar and a follow-up afterward.

• TeachingBooks Updates & New Features
  September 15, 1:00 CT
• Community Partnerships with TeachingBooks
  September 29, 1:00 CT
• Early Childhood Resources from TeachingBooks
  October 13, 1:00 CT
• Book Clubs & Reading Circles with TeachingBooks
  November 17, 1:00 CT
• Engage Readers with Graphic Novels & TeachingBooks Resources
  December 15, 1:00 CT

Teachingbook's archived webinars provide additional insight into various ways to utilize this tool.

We sent out first-semester digital resource usage stats to teacher librarians on August 26th for the full 21-22 school year. Please disregard the SNAP data, as we are working on removing this piece from your reports.

Lacy Christner

lchristner@mbaea.org

563-344-6462

We will be sending out Book of the Month flyers soon!

REVIEW SOME EXCELLENT FUTURE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

September

National Library Card Sign-up Month

National Prostate Health Month

National Suicide Awareness Month

September 5- Labor Day

September 11- National Grandparents Day

September 17- National CleanUp Day

September 18- Air Force Birthday

September 23- Native American Day

Mississippi Bend AEA provides a wide variety of instructional tools and resources for teachers and students supporting teaching and learning.

Email media-center-staff@aea9.k12.ia.us or call us at 563-344-6231 anytime for assistance with login credentials or other media-related questions.

Check out all our services here. We are here to support you!

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