Library & Digital Resources

• Paraeducator Class
• VOX: Digital Audio Picture Books
• New Articles in Pebble Go
• Pashto / Persian Books
• Newer Books for the School Teacher Librarian
• Take a Look at Creative Services Online
• AEA Scout Module Is Online

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Paraeducator Area of Concentration: Library, Media and Technology

Course #180304
Cost: $180
Dates: June 13, 15, 20, 22, 27 & 29, 2022 (8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Via Zoom + Online Work due by July 8, 2022

The fee to add an area of concentration to your paraeducator certificate through the Board of Educational Examiners is $25 once you complete a course.

A prerequisite for these courses is having completed and received the Paraeducator Generalist (Level I) certification.

VOX books are picture books with a digital audio player attached to the inside cover. Teachers can charge with a USB port. Students can use their own earbuds.

Heartland AEA has a small collection that we are piloting to see if there is a need for this type of collection. Each of these sets includes 4 or 5 audio picture books.

Would you check out some sets and try them with a few teachers and students? I would like to know how they are being used; if you see a need for this type of collection; whether the titles should be packaged and checked out individually or in a set. Susan Schrader

• Adventure 1 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0012)

• Adventure 2 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0013)

• Be yourself 1 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0005)

• Be yourself 2 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0006)

• Be yourself 3 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0007)

• Be yourself 4 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0008)

• Be yourself 5 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0009)

• Family 1 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0010)

• Family 2 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0011)

• Friends 1 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0014)

• Friends 2 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0015)

• Friends 3 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0016)

• Science 1 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0001)

• Science 2 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0002)

• Science 3 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0003)

• Science 4 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0004)

• Variety 1 audio picture book read-along set. (DB0017)

• Who invented the windshield wiper?
• When was the first home mailbox invented?
• Who popularized the potato chip?

There are dozens of new articles about important inventors and inventions, Ketanji Brown-Jackson and Madeline Albright. Spanish versions of the Ukraine, refugees, and Poland articles are now available. Click here for a list of the new articles.

While Persian and Pashto translations and read-alouds are available through AEA Scout, some teachers and consultants are also asking for a book collection.

We are starting a K-12 book collection in Pashto / Persian to support our new students. It might take some time to develop the collection as there are a limited number of translated titles. Our vendors have also indicated that delivery of many of the titles is 2+ months.

We hope to have a collection of 200 titles this summer or fall.

SUMMER DELIVERY: With most books probably arriving in the summer, we want to remind you that Heartland AEA delivers to district administration offices (and buildings with summer programs). We'll send lists of the books as they arrive this summer through the Heartland AEA teacher librarian listserv. You can order online and we'll deliver.

TITLES ON ORDER, SO FAR:

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Persian/English)

Farmer Duck (Persian/English)

Handa's Hen (Persian/English)

Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat, The (Persian/English)

Wibbly Woobly Tooth (Persian/English)

Grandma's Saturday Soup (Persian/English)

Harry Potter series (Persian)

TITLES WE THINK WE CAN GET:

A Series of Unfortunate Events series (Persian)

Hank Zipper series (Persian)

Amber Brown series (Persian)

365 Science Experiments: Find Out How Much Fun Science Can Be Through Hundreds of Fascinating Experiments (Persian)

Plants (Persian)

Shocking Electricity (Persian)

Hungry Animals (Persian)

I Wonder Why Volcanoes Blow Their Tops (Persian)

Five Senses (Persian)

Big Book of How (Persian)

Cambridge Coordinated Science: Chemistry (Persian)

Cambridge Coordinated Science: Biology (Persian)

Heroes of Civilization (Persian)

Thousand Splendid Suns (Persian)

Accident Nocturne (Persian)

OTHER LANGUAGES BOOK COLLECTIONS AT HEARTLAND AEA LIBRARY:

Spanish -- 698 titles

Arabic -- 38 titles

Russian -- 79 titles

Bosnian -- 103 titles

Chinese -- 24 titles

Vietnamese -- 20 titles

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Here are some of the latest arrivals in the Heartland AEA library. Online catalog is here.

• Books under fire: a hit list of banned and challenged children's books, 2nd ed. 2021 216p. Call#: 016 Sca
• Classroom management for school librarians. 2020 166p. Call#: 025.5 Wei
• Core values in school librarianship: responding with commitment and courage. 2021 185p. Call#: 025.4 Cor
• Developing digital detectives: essential lessons for discerning fact from fiction in the "fake news" era. 2021 226p. Call#: 306.4 LaG
• Enhancing teaching and learning, 4th ed.: a leadership guide for school librarians. 2020 267p. Call#: 027.8 Don
• 5 kinds of nonfiction: enriching reading and writing instruction with children's books. 2021 221p. Call#: 372.6 Ste
• Intellectual freedom issues in school libraries. 2021 217p. Call#: 025.1 Daw
• Learning centers for school libraries. 2021 246p. Call#: 025.5 Mad
• Librarian's guide to online searching: cultivating database skills for research and instruction, 6th ed. 2021 371p. Call#: 025.04 Bro
• Linking for learning, 4th ed. 2018 134p. Call#: 027.802 Ass
• Maximizing the impact of comics in your library: graphic novels, manga, and more. 2020 248p. Call#: 026.7 Pho
• Radical collaborations for learning: school librarians as change agents. 2020 127p. Call#: 027.8 Har
• Shared foundations: explore. 2022 173p. Call#: 027.802 Sea
• Shared foundations: include. 2022 228p. Call#: 027.802 Sti
• Shared foundations: inquire. 2020 186p. Call#: 027.802 Don
• Shared foundations: collaborate. 2020 145p. Call#: 027.802 Col
• Storytelling: art & technique, 5th ed. 2021 449p. Call#: 372.67 Del
• Teaching and learning in virtual environments: archives, museums, and libraries. 2016 246p. Call#: 371.33 Tea

• Don't ditch that tech: differentiated instruction in a digital world. 2019 154p. Call#: 371.39 Mil

• Ethics in a digital world: guiding students through society's biggest questions. 2021 165p. Call#: 305.235 Mat

• The immersive classroom: create customized learning experiences with AR/VR. 2021 128p. Call#: 305.2 Don

• Inclusive learning 365: edtech strategies for every day of the year. 2021 384p. Call#: 371.39 Bug

• Rev up robotics: real-world computational thinking in the K-8 classroom. 2020 172p. Call#: 371.33 Val

• Shake up learning: practical ideas to move learning from static to dynamic. 2018 169p. Call#: 371.102 Bel

We wanted to advertise the new AEA Scout cling for your laptop. Go to Creative Services Online (CSO) csonline.heartlandaea.org, log in with your school email and password, enter the keyword Scout. You can pay by PO, credit card or pcard.

You might want to take a few minutes and just browse CSO. It's a mini-version of Teachers Pay Teachers. Search science, math, primary source, or any other topic. Or, click Browse on the left.

One login. One search. One interface.

This module takes you through the AEA Scout functions and classroom applications. The module is meant for teacher librarians and teachers. Click here.

It features:

• standards correlations
• ideas for research
• ways to create text sets
• how to use AEA Scout to support the inquiry process
• how science teachers use it
• ELA supports
• accessibility features
• folders and curating resources
• persistent links and LMS
• sharing folder resources
• and more.

After you complete the module, you'll also be added to a Google Group. Members are encouraged to share lessons and activities. Members will also get information first about AEA Scout enhancements, folders of curated resources, and more.

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