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**Session Five Agenda**
Today's Meet (our backchannel) Welcome Review May Session BigHugeLabs

Creating a Multimedia Presentation with Prezi (Susan)
**Prezi**  **Learn How to Use Prezi**

School Librarians As Support for Reading
Video: **Why Students Don’t Read What Is Assigned in Class** Shallow or Deep Reading?(Article by Bob Sprankle) A New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
 * Nancie Atwell's response to the NY Times article on the place of student choice in reading

Book Trailers
**Book Trailers for Readers** **SlimeKids Book Trailers** (School Library Media Kids) **Kids Book Trailers** (Find out how to create book trailers at the LiveBinder collection by Audrey Nay.) Book Trailers for K-12

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Reviews/Talk
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spaghetti Book Club (book reviews by kids for kids) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Curled Up With a Good Kid’s Book (board books, picture books, middle grades, young adult) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teen Reads(cool & new books, adult books, books on screen) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Talks Quick & Simple ( daily booktalk, podcasts, on books for grades K-12 by Nancy Keane)
 * Main page of Book Talks Quick & Simple

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Support for Reading
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thinkfinity (Search Thinkfinity for alternatives to the traditional book report.) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading Strategies Scaffolding Students' Interactions with Texts (Greece Central School District of New York offers strategies and resources for scaffolding students’ reading.) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teachers' Domain: Inspiring Middle School Literacy (Self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MAX Teaching with Reading and Writing: Materials (Find anticipation guides and other materials to help support reading in content areas)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creating a Class Wiki
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Wikispaces** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Help at Wikispaces** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (quick guide) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Getting Tricky with Wikis**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Resources
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nikki's What Book Should I Read Pinterest <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learn It in 5 (how-to videos for the technology classroom) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Random Name Selector <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Center for Teaching & Learning-Books Kids Recommend <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overdrive ( digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and other digital content) WebEnglish Teacher(K-12 English Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, videos, e-texts, technology integration, criticism, and classroom activities) Reading Rockets (According to the site, "Our goal is to bring the reading research to life — to spead the word about reading instruction and to present "what works" in a way that parents and educators can understand and use.")