Teacher Librarian Days 2023

Two Geeky Teachers is always pleased to present at the Teaching with Primary Sources Teacher Librarian Days and this year it's great to be back in person with Critical Conversations! From poetry, to critical thinking in the classroom, from Artificial Intelligence to Endangered Chicano Murals of Colorado, there is something for everyone! 

Find our resources HERE and our presentation HERE. For quick links to one of the many resource pages we have created check out these links: 

One-Pagers with Resources: 

Mural Resources

Historic Preservation and Place-Based Learning

Using Planning in the Classroom

Collaborative Jamboard

Jamboard - crowdsourced ideas for the murals 

NCSS 2022 in Philadelphia!

We are in Philadelphia with The Library of Congress presenting on primary sources in a city that in and of itself is a primary source! 

We spent to day with the Library of Congress Consortium brushing shoulders with all of the wonderful people across the country who are working to promote and support the teaching with primary sources program. It was an inspirational day! 

Friday will find us presenting three sessions and sponsoring a few poster sessions! We hope to see and learn from all of you!

Warrior Spirit

Goosechase and Primary Sources

Museums and Digital Learning with Primary Sources

Colorado Gifted and Talented Conference 2022

We were excited to attend CAGT with our Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Team. We shared and presented several sessions during the conference and had a wonderful time learning and collaborating in an in person setting! We have a special place in our hearts for gifted and talented students. They are often overlooked because they seem to thrive in any setting but are we really meeting their instructional needs? These are questions that we have pondered and hope to continue to work on. We know that GT students need voice, choice, authentic audience and extensions to their learning. They don't need more busy work and in our sessions, we offered ideas and ways to organize and work with this amazing group of learners. 

Take Choice Boards to the Next Level
One Pager

15 Tech Tools To Use With Primary Sources 

TLD 2022 Teacher Librarian Days

We are so excited to be part of TLD 2022 again this year! The conference is online through WHOVA and we will be hosting a Goosechase game for prizes!  The Geeky Teachers are sharing several resources. 

Museums for Digital Learning

Find a mission highlighting this amazing new resource in Goosechase.  You will also find more information about this in the poster session tab in Whova for Teacher Librarian Days 2022. CLICK HERE to check out the site. Take a glance at our Quick Start One-Pager reference sheet RIGHT HERE to help get you started.

"The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Newfields Lab of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, the Field Museum, Chicago, and History Colorado, Denver developed MDL as a way for museums of all disciplines to leverage digitized museum collections to help K-12 educators and students.

These founding museums, along with a growing number of museums of all disciplines, regularly upload digitized objects and activity-filled resource kits. If we don’t have a resource kit you need, check back often. New museums continually join MDL and currently-participating museums add new resource kits often."

Jon Maclean and Home Waters
We have been working with Montana Jon Maclean Project and we can't wait to share Mr. Maclean with our TLD participants. His beautiful book highlights the importance of place, preservation and why it is such an important part of our lives. He is speaking Wednesday night and we will be there helping with the questions, chat and answers. We will follow up with this activity and discussion on Thursday morning during Morning Mojo.  We hope to see you there! CLICK HERE for the one-pager resource from the conference to help you dig into his work and the book by his father Norman Maclean as well A River Runs through It.

Padlet and Primary Sources
Padlet hosts multiple board types.  They each offer a different strength when it comes to utilizing primary sources in the classroom. We will explore 6 Padlet Wall types with examples and opportunities for you to try them. Join us Wednesday morning during Morning Mojo to discuss this versatile technology tool and its applications for learning. CLICK HERE for the one pager and to try some examples:

12 Books & Tech Tips - Day 12

 

12 Books - Day 12 In honor of the traditional Holiday song, the 12 Days of Christmas, we will celebrate books with 12 Books in 12 Days. Titles were recommended by school librarians throughout the country on the AASL Forum, best seller lists, best books of the year lists, and professional book reviews. As our 12 days rush by, we hope you find something worth reading as a holiday treat for yourself. For the Twelfth Book of Christmas, a Good Friend Gave to Me: The Master: The Long Run, and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick. In The Master, New York Times correspondent Christopher Clarey sits down with Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis. Roger Federer has often made it look astonishingly easy through the decades: carving backhands, gliding to forehands, leaping for overheads and, in his most gravity-defying act, remaining high on a  pedestal in a world of sports rightfully flooded with cynicism. But his path from temperamental, bleach-blond teenager with dubious style sense to one of the greatest, most self-possessed and elegant of competitors has been a long-running act of will, not destiny. He not only had a great gift. He had grit. Christopher Clarey, one of the top international sports writers working today, has covered Federer since the beginning of his professional career. Here, Clarey focuses on the pivotal people, places, and moments in Federer's long and rich career: reporting from South Africa, South America, the Middle East, four Grand Slam tournaments, and Federer's native Switzerland. It has been a journey like no other player's, rife with victories and a few crushing defeats, one that has redefined enduring excellence and made Federer a sentimental favorite worldwide. - from Barnes and Noble 12 Days of Tech Tips, Day 12: The 2021 EdTech Top 40 Every year, the EdTech Top 40 analyzes the digital tools accessed by the most students and educators across the United States via the internet. How many have you used?  Top 10:  1. Google Docs 2. Google Slides 3. YouTube 4. Google Drive 5. Google Forms (check out the new Mote upgrade HERE for forms)  6. Google Classroom 7. Kahoot!  8. Google Sites 9. Zoom 10. Google Sheets 11. Wikipedia Click HERE for the full report and to see the complete Top 40 list!  12 Days of Books and Tech Tools Lists:  Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9  Day 10  Day 11 May the Christmas season fill your home with joy, your heart with love and your life with laughter.

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