Library & Digital Resources

• 2021-22 IASL Award Books Order Reminder
• New Tech Ebooks
• 2021-22 IASL Award Audiobooks in Tales 2 Go
• Virtual Field Trips
• New Mackin VIA Admin
• Bloom's Taxonomy for Digital Learning

Here is the spreadsheet of the new ebooks and audiobooks added in March 2021. These titles were loaded to the elementary Mackin VIAs a couple of days ago.

• Doug unplugged - Yaccarino, Dan
• Hello! hello! - Cordell, Matthew
  
• Nerdy Birdy tweets - Reynolds, Aaron
  
• Technology tail - Cook, Julia
• When Charlie McButton lost power - Collins, Suzanne
  
• Unplugged - Antony, Steve
  
• If you give a mouse an iPhone - Droyd, Ann

Tales 2 Go already has 12 of the IASL Award titles. These are unlimited use audiobooks. Tales 2 Go will continue to work with publishers to add more titles (except for 14 titles not available in audiobook format).

You can listen, add to folders, and add your own notes in AEA Scout, https://scout.iowaaea.org. Example: log in to AEA Scout and then click Hey, Kiddo to go directly to the audiobook.

• Boy at the back of the class / Onjali Q. Rauf
• Downstairs girl / Stacey Lee
• Free lunch / Rex Ogle
• Hey, Kiddo / Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• Misunderstood shark / Ame Dyckman
• Ordinary hazards: A memoir / Nikki Grimes
• Rabbit listened / Cori Doerrfeld
• Unsung hero of Birdsong, USA / Brenda Woods
• Very impatient caterpillar / Ross Burach S
• Where the watermelons Grow / Cindy Baldwin
• Wildfire: A novel / Rodman Philbrick
• Wonderland: A novel / Barbara O'Connor

• Animals
• Biomes
• Landmarks
• Space
• Geography
• History
• Museums
• Miscellaneous

This short video is an overview of the new Mackin VIA admin console that includes usage statistics for your school. You might want to look at your school's usage through the COVID-19 lens and see if usage may be correlated with the different learning models your school experienced over the last few months. Here is a link to the School Librarian Role in Pandemic Learning Conditions and an article about the Iowa School Library Program Standards that might help you tell your story.

A couple of important notes:

• Because Heartland AEA provides access through a consortium, the Assignments feature is not available.
• Class Sets are "rented" by individual schools and are not part of the general Mackin VIA collection.

If you've forgotten your admin username/password and/or security answer, please contact Customer Service at 800.245.9540 or customerservice@mackin.com

On a related note, this survey from OverDrive shows the increase in ebook usage and how educators are using ebooks in their schools. Highlights include:

• 59% of teachers say they use ebooks in their classroom to support curriculum, including digital textbooks as well as electronic versions of popular fiction and nonfiction books

• 40% of administrators say their district has ebooks as a school library resource

• 33% of administrators say ebooks are a great resource for those who struggle with reading

Knowledge is the basis of the six cognitive processes: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.

Different types of knowledge used in cognition: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive.

Click here for the index to earlier issues from April 2019 to February 12, 2021.